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Others have explained why this happened. I just wanted to add: If you ever get to a point, where you need silent shooting / electronic shutter in sports photography, look for cameras with “stacked” sensors. Like the Sony A9, A9II, A9III and the A1 cameras. They have much faster readout, in the singl

The more significant difference is gonna be a stacked electronic shutter vs unstacked, where it can replace a mechanical shutter entirely. So that's your z8/z9, a1/a9, R3/R1. E-shutters like on the 850 and lower priced cameras will show distortions with fast moving objects like bats, golf clubs, pla

I needed a new body and wasn't very heavily invested in the Canon ecosystem anyway (only owned two lenses). At that time, I'd already been using a Sony RX100 point & shoot, and they had just released the second gen of their very well reviewed A7R. At that time, I wanted megapixels and full frame mir

The sony a9 iii is an incredible camera for sure, I think the very best camera you can have for it would be the sony a1 ii its about double the resolution which helps for birds in flight being able to crop in a bit more and still have a really good image when done. Another very good camera is the so

Sony shooter here. I am going to go out of the box with this suggestion as I took this road back in 2018 when I transitioned from a Canon 7Dmk2 to the Sony a7III for the mirrorless AF benefits. I was just getting started shooting professionally and couldn't afford GM glass but knew I mirrorless was

It’s a complex answer. I’m have a Sony A1 and it takes 8sec to run AI Denoise on my 3090 Nvidia GPU on a chunky desktop PC. It runs SUPER HOT (but never throttles) when it’s chugging the 50MP compressed files. AI Denoise leans towards cuda cores so a 5080 desktop will be pretty close. The laptop 508

Straight out of camera sure, but I’m positive you could make a better image with your wealth of experience on higher end gear. It would be odd if you couldn’t. I own an A1 and an X100VI. I shoot way more on my x100vi for obvious reasons. Doesn’t mean when I really want to go for that wow factor I do

I shoot industrial bands in small clubs who typically don't like any light, but a lot of stage fog. I don't care about the ISO up to 16000, I use AI denoising for it (DxO works the best for me). Modern cameras are ISO invariant anyway with one step around ISO 640. The silent mode is an issue with LE