The changing field of professional cameras

[Derrel]

The Sony A77 professional camera is not going to displace my iPhone 4 professional camera...the iPhone 4 is amazing...backside-illuminated sensor...instant uploading to Flickr, Facebook, e-mail, or my own FTP site and the newspaper's FTP site...address book...shoots Hi-definition 720P video...has over 500,000 applications available for it, plays music, has voice command control, GPS navigation assistance, Facebook mobile, a web browser, calculator,stopwatch,dual-time alarm clock,iSHRED guitar app,AND THE PICTURES LOOK JUST LIKE THE ONES OUT OF THE SONY A77!!!

I love my professional iPhone 4!!!

 

[unpopular]

your mom is a fanboy.

 

[usayit]

Hey... Leave Leica out of this...

Everyone knows that Leica Fanboys don't exist..

 

[unpopular]

Contax 4eva!

 

[thereyougo!4]

The Sony A77 professional camera is not going to displace my iPhone 4 professional camera...the iPhone 4 is amazing...backside-illuminated sensor...instant uploading to Flickr, Facebook, e-mail, or my own FTP site and the newspaper's FTP site...address book...shoots Hi-definition 720P video...has over 500,000 applications available for it, plays music, has voice command control, GPS navigation assistance, Facebook mobile, a web browser, calculator,stopwatch,dual-time alarm clock,iSHRED guitar app,AND THE PICTURES LOOK JUST LIKE THE ONES OUT OF THE SONY A77!!!

I love my professional iPhone 4!!!

Dont forget that it has inbuilt HDR!

 

[Crollo]

The Sony A77 professional camera is not going to displace my iPhone 4 professional camera...the iPhone 4 is amazing...backside-illuminated sensor...instant uploading to Flickr, Facebook, e-mail, or my own FTP site and the newspaper's FTP site...address book...shoots Hi-definition 720P video...has over 500,000 applications available for it, plays music, has voice command control, GPS navigation assistance, Facebook mobile, a web browser, calculator,stopwatch,dual-time alarm clock,iSHRED guitar app,AND THE PICTURES LOOK JUST LIKE THE ONES OUT OF THE SONY A77!!!

I love my professional iPhone 4!!!

Dont forget that it has inbuilt HDR!

And built-in HDR!

 

[unpopular]

but will it blend?

 

[skieur]

The Sony is not marketed as a pro camera, it's listed as being more in the enthusiast/semi-pro line. It's build is nowhere near the solid quality of either the Nikon or the Canons you are trying to compare them to. Take that Sony out in one rainstorm and you may soon notice why the others are "Pro" cameras with their weather resistant sealing.



The image quality comparisons don't match up well once you get up into the ISOs over 1600. You also lose some of it's functions when you start getting up into the higher frame rates, like live view. Here's one quote on the image quality from an online review about the image quality.. " At ISO 1600 and above, the destructive effects of the A77's noise reduction setting become more apparent and it is obvious that at ISO 3200 and 6400, the A77 isn't producing 24MP' worth of actual resolution "

It is a good camera, but it's not anywhere near the Nikon and Canon pro class cameras.

The Sony A77 is dust and weather sealed as in both body, dials and lens and I have not seen any posts of problems with it in a rainstorm. It is also heftier than the other models with a magnesium alloy body

With photos side by side at ISO 1600 and ISO 3200, print was sharper on the Sony A77, than on the Canon 5D MarkII. Go to imaging-resource and check out the back of the book in the photo.

skieur

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Yet it is not proven in the studio, the A55 is a dog in the studio A77 could be as bad

The A77 is much better than the A55, but I would use medium format in a studio.

skieur

 

[skieur]

The Sony A77 professional camera is not going to displace my iPhone 4 professional camera...the iPhone 4 is amazing...backside-illuminated sensor...instant uploading to Flickr, Facebook, e-mail, or my own FTP site and the newspaper's FTP site...address book...shoots Hi-definition 720P video...has over 500,000 applications available for it, plays music, has voice command control, GPS navigation assistance, Facebook mobile, a web browser, calculator,stopwatch,dual-time alarm clock,iSHRED guitar app,AND THE PICTURES LOOK JUST LIKE THE ONES OUT OF THE SONY A77!!!

I love my professional iPhone 4!!!

Then they must look like the ones out of your Nikons and the Canon IDS Mark III. So perhaps you should replace your Nikon with an iPhone 4.

skieur

 

[skieur]

Hey... Leave Leica out of this...

Everyone knows that Leica Fanboys don't exist..

Sure, they do. Some are on this forum.

skieur

 

[skieur]

your mom is a fanboy.

No. My mom is a fangirl for none of the 3 mentioned.

skieur

 

[usayit]

Sure, they do. Some are on this forum.

skieur

I was being facetious... :er:

 

[skieur]

I love my professional iPhone 4!!!

Somehow, I am not at all surprised. I wondered what you were using.

skieur

 

[Derrel]

I love my professional iPhone 4!!!

Somehow, I am not at all surprised. I wondered what you were using.

skieur

I get a lot of people asking me, "So, you shoot the new Sony A77, right? I mean, your pics have that Sony "look"." When I tell them it's the iPhone 4, they just nod and say, "Wow, that iPhone is impressive!!!"

 

[skieur]

In sports photography a 1/10 second lag is HUGE. Positively HUGE. Unworkably long and slow...You obviously are not familiar with how shooting sports actually happens in the real world.A viewfinder that lags behind the subject by 1/10 of a second is a joke.

Well, since neither the Canon 1DS Mark III and the Nikon D3S cannot come close to this speed in full resolution, it is hardly a joke, unless the joke is on the slower Nikon and Canon cameras mentioned.skieur

What's the point of the speed if you miss the shot or the focus?

If you miss the shot, it is your own fault. The autofocus on the Sony is sufficiently fast that you will NOT miss the focus even in movie mode unlike other cameras.

skieu