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Vamos a ver si con unos cuantos mensajes subliminales conseguimos aclararnos un poco.
- Precio y disponibilidad: La compañía ha anunciado que la cámara llegará al mercado en noviembre de 2019 con un precio de cuerpo base de 5.400€, que no dista mucho del precio al que salió la Alfa 9.
- Los precios en Trumplandia son estos: Sony a9 II ($4,498) vs. Sony a9 ($3,498)
- Ninguna de las WEB’s habituales hace una descripción completa de sus especificaciones.
Ahora debe ser el agudo lector el que valore si esta renovación es puramente estética de cada a los JJOO, o es que realmente resulta imposible mejorar una cámara así.
- Una pista: el palabro más repetido en todas las WEB’s es “ergonomía mejorada”, ¿ captáis la idea ?
Bueno, pues ya está. Os dejo con unos cuantos enlaces y listo.
- Dpreview: presentación
- Dpreview: ¿ vale la pena ?
- Imaging Resource
- Photography Blog
- Photo Rumors: pequeña comparación
- B&H: no tan pequeña comparación
- Casanovafoto Blog
- Xatakafoto
- Albedo Media
- Photolari
- WEB de Sony
- Ken Rockwell
Como hoy no os he puesto las versiones google (porque son muchos enlaces) me siento un poco obligado a poneros esta nota del traductor en plan resumen ejecutivo y consejero matrimonial:
- Si tienes la Alfa 9, quédate tranquilo y no hagas nada.
- Si la tienes y quieres una cámara Pro mirrorless, se abren dos posibilidades.
- Si el dinero no es problema, ves a por la A9 II
- Si no te sobra, ves a por una A9 baratita.
Venga, va, por poner algo pongo lo que cuenta el bueno de Ken Rockwell:
New since A9
Camera settings files can be saved, recalled and reloaded from memory cards.
Voice recorder. Sony’s «Imaging Edge» app additionally adds voice-to-text translation and magic caption embedding to the image files, or just use the sound files created in-camera for each shot.
New mechanical shutter now runs a little quieter and at up to 10 FPS, versus the 5 FPS of the old Sony A9. It’s now rated to a half-million cycles.(The electronic shutter still goes to the same 20 FPS as the old Sony A9.)
Gigabit 1000BASE-T Ethernet, which was hot stuff back when my Dual 450MHZ Power Mac debuted with it back in 2000.
Same AF hardware as the old Sony A9, with improved firmware. The same minor improvements should come to the Old Sony A9 as well – in any case either one defines today’s state-of-the-art. Ditto for Sony’s claim of «better» high-ISO noise reduction; camera makers are always claiming «new and improved» for invisible changes in firmware.
New USB-C 3.2 connector, and the old micro-USB connector stays as well.
If you’re good with apps, you can set it up with FTP to get your chosen (or all) shots to wherever they need to go by magic.
Hot shoe adds digital audio interface for use with the ECM-B1M digital shotgun mic or XLR-K3M XLR adapter & mic kit.
Slightly different grip shape, also works with the Sony VG-C4EM Vertical Grip.
Same battery, but now rated 500 (690) shots versus 480 (650) shots with the finder (or rear LCD).
Same controls in the same places, with slightly different button, rear nubbin and dial designs.
Better moisture sealing, adding seals to the card and connector doors which are unsealed on the old A9.
$1,000 more expensive.
Good
Magnificent electronic finder: always big, bright, sharp and wonderful in any light. Super-bright in daylight, and dims perfectly indoors and at night.
Two card slots.
Hybrid AF system uses phase-detection for speed and contrast detection for ultimate precision and accuracy.
Battery life seems almost unlimited (up to 5,000 shots or more) running bursts at 20 FPS with the silent shutter.
Solid mostly metal construction.
Even the regular mechanical shutter only moves at the ends of exposures. There’s never any need for a special vibration-free mode; it always works this way. Suck on that, LEICA!
Excellent high ISO performance.
Facial recognition works well, but only after you find it and turn it on.
In-finder 2-axis level works great for keeping horizons and vertical lines as they should be.
In-camera, as-shot automatic lens vignetting, lateral chromatic aberration and distortion correction.
Almost any lens of any brand or age can be adapted to work – but with no lens corrections.
Stereo microphone built-in.
3.5mm powered mic and headphone jacks.
Can extract stills from video, in-camera after it’s shot. In other words, shoot 4K video and you can pull-out 8MP stills shot at 30 FPS.
Bluetooth & NFC.
Bad
If you set the A9 to record to two cards for backup as I do, and then remove one card or one gets full, the A9 stopped shooting. It should just shoot to either card that has space, not leave you dead in the water. Hopefully the A9 II has fixed this.
Missing
Silent electronic shutter is a game-changer, but won’t work with flash. Flash sync speed is still only 1/250.
No built-in flash.
No auto brightness control for the rear LCD (but great auto brightness control for the electronic finder).
No GPS.
No shutter speed dial.
No ISO dial.
No square, 4:5 or 4:3 crops; 16:9 only.
No more 0.5 second image auto review option, just 2, 5 or 10 seconds — but who cares since you are seeing everything live through the incredible real-time finder?
Touch screen lets you select movie focus areas, but doesn’t work for setting the camera in the menu screens.
No multi-frame noise reduction (just set a slower ISO and make a longer exposure for the same effect).
No swept panoramas (an iPhone does this better anyway).
