Johnnie Behiri shoots professional work on Sony A99 - sample videos and review

[Andrew Reid]

Ike007 simplifies too much but his main point is actually right. A very good fast prime shot wide open, if it is extremely sharp, really helps a camera which has poor resolution and a ton of aliasing. It is the deep depth of field wide angle shots where these cameras fall down, not so much the shallow DOF stuff. 5D Mark III is a different camera altogether with the 135mm F2L for example. But at 24mm F8, focused at infinity it sucks.

[ike007]

One example on how an A99 should be used.
[url="https://vimeo.com/52031763"]https://vimeo.com/52031763[/url]
Although we could always look for ways of generating moire and aliasing if we like spend our time doing that, but that is just an exercise that will not put bread on the table, unless we run one of those cameras testing sites, of course. ;)
cheers every one.

[kirk]

Thanks for that inspiring link!! Good to see such a passionate photographer in search of the essential ingredient for good images... light.

[jgharding]

There seems to be a consensus among the companies: separate the still camera and video markets! The DSLR boom was an accident, and they would like to reverse it a little, or at least delay it to make more money. Sony and Canon have both held back video in still cameras so as to create and protect lines of more expensive camcorders.

Having used the C300 and FS700 quite a bit recently, both have wonderful, wonderful image quality and are remarkably consistent. The latter is a bit of a pig ergonomically, but the final image is just great, especially considering the bit rate.

A similar image is easily possible with the hardware in the still bodies, as we all know, but there are plenty of lies peddled to pretend otherwise. Like the famous "5D MKiii can't have a clean out because of the hardware" shortly followed by "it's coming in a firmware update". Only Nikon competition forced their hand here.

It's such a shame they're determined to squeeze every penny out of the old tech rather than innovate. If only the upstarts like BMD could be more reliable in terms of manufacturing, we'd have a challenger. But it's competition that forces innovation, and if you can't actually deliver a product on time, leading to a lack of confidence about support, overall quality assurance and repairs, you aren't competition to people like Canon and Sony, who can churn em out on time, working and in bulk.

Hopefully Canon and Sony won't settle into the same symbiotic, practically innovation-less relationship that Canon and Nikon have, where they take baby steps in perfect synchronisation. That'd be a real shame.