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They claim this increase in area gives them one full stop extra DR, but its just a claim. However, even if remains true in production, they will use this advantage to make even smaller pixel and keep the same DR as current sensors. They're working on pixels smaller than the wavelength they're supposed to absorb!

Sorry thats not how it works. All these developments are about increasing the full well capacity, which is very low in small sensors, and decrease noise, which is relatively high in small sensors, to extend the DR, maybe 1/3 of a stop. Here is the formula: 20*log(full well capacity÷noise). You can play with this to estimate how much room to improve is still there. Capacity is already capped at 3500 electron per one um². And noise is already very low. A1 is at 1.8e now. The only way to extend DR by several stops in conventional CMOS sensor is multi exposure solutions. Nikon is playing with a dual layer idea, but its on photo diode section, not electronics. They want to place a CMY layer on top of RGB layer, then set the upper layer exposure differently from the lower layer exposure.

These rumors have no reliable source, but.. Sony A1 also uses sigma delta ADC and consumes almost 2.8W at 44fps, 14bit.

It benefits mostly smartphone sensors, with increasing the photo diode area. This area is already large in big sensors, even 60mp big sensors.

And you have no source for that.

Its bitrates at 12:1 is ideal for me, but does RED let them use it? I mean if they let Nikon do it, everybody else is going to ask their green light. If this raw is edit-friendly as intoPIX claims, RED would feel threatened. We think a giant like RED shouldn't be worried about hybrid camera market, but they don't think like us.

https://www.nikon-image.com/products/mirrorless/lineup/z_9/features04.html

Ok, I want this RAW, RIGHT NOW! High Efficiency raw size is LESS than size of high quality Jpeg!

They have licensed the raw technology from a company called intoPIX. Its kinda a surprise, because their new raw technology announced just one month ago! Here is what they call TICO-RAW: https://www.intopix.com/tico-raw

Waveform monitor comes with firmware update.

who would have thought the first still camera maker that introduce internal Prores HQ and Prores RAW will be the same company everybody were saying "not serious about video", and not those companies that have been in Cinema camera business for decades.

Of course there is. Your camera is blind to the events happening "between the frames".

And you only cover 3% of a second with that combination of fps and shutter speed.

120 fps is probably a 2x2 binned raw converted to HEIF. Nikon has done that before; their binned raws in D850 were soft, had some artifacts (only visible when zoomed in), but were clean in high ISO. Enough quality for social media. What most people forget about capturing the right moment with speay and pray is the shutter speed. If you need 1/1000s to freeze a moving subject, even at 120fps you only get 120s of one milliseconds. So you only cover 12% of a second!

But you can blame Sony for this spec wars. Now everybody is trying to deliver just higher numbers.

I doubt thats "internally".

Read out speed is 4ms. Slightly faster than A1.

It can't be useful for any pro project, but many pros would love to use it. At least somebody is thinking out of the box in the industry.

I tested cinematic mode and it was better than I expected and instantly realized 98% of the users have no idea how to extract the most of its creative potential.

You read too much into it. Apple as corporation is addicted to high profit margins, so they have to sell expensive iPhones. But they're struggling to convince people they still need to spend $1200 on a phone, while Chinese brands with half the price can do 90% of the job. Apple is facing the same problem Japanese camera makers has been faced for years: the "good enough" dilemma. The only thing that will force me to upgrade my flagship Chinese smartphone, is a dead battery! And I'm not alone in this. And by the way, adding Prores to codec options of a phone, is not innovation. While I understand the decision, its sign of a big failure of this industry that couldn't finally implement a solution optimized for mobile devices. We have super powerful SoCs consuming only 3 watts in a hour, but have to use an ancient codec designed for ancient ASICs.

I want to be a troll for a moment and comment RIP Sony, but I resist.

Most of us are not doing any Hollywood level project.. my mic is always 20 cm away from my camera.. how much noise may I get in that distance? However, have you checked Tascam TM-250U mic? The output is already digital in this case. You can plug it to your mac, to your iPhone, to your Android phone.. but not your mirrorless camera! https://tascam.com/us/product/tm-250u/feature

They even could create an open standard for USB mic input, but didn't. XLR is really ancient for this "mobility and convenient" world.

If the only option is copying this huge Sony mechanism.. I'm afraid its not practical for mirrorless still camera.

Their user base is still far bigger than Sony. Its not about Sony users selling all their gears and switch. Its about keeping their own customers who are not doing video seriously...yet.