Sony Changes How Digital Shutters Work

Sony has a new camera body out with a “Global Shutter”
Meaning the whole thing goes at once instead of a slit that travels across the sensor.

So What’s it mean?
No rolling shutter effect at any speed.
Shutter speed up to 1/80,000 (!) Faster than a strobe! And a time adjust so it can sync with a strobe at that, or slower, speeds.
Super high continuous frame rates.
It does all sorts of other tricks that are new to most typical mirror-less SLRs.

It gives up MPs - 24.6Mp, vs lots more in other high end bodies.
And it has crappy higher ISO performance.
Oh and the body costs 6K$.

Still they are going to sell a bunch to action photogs.
All the Best,
Jeff
Here’s a vid…

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Global shutter sensors aren’t new (they are used a lot in industrial applications), neither is the camera (was announced in November 2023). But nice to have a global shutter sensor in this camera format.

Interesting how camera technology is still evolving. I am still getting used to mirrorless.

Sammy - I didn’t think about that. Makes sense for high speed work.

I’m still stuck in the mirror slap world.
Too old and invested in lenses to change now.
My old bodies will do everything I need.
All the Best,
Jeff

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So, more like an old leaf shutter (inside a lens)…

Same. I might switch over for something like a Z9, but that’s not a leap I’m going to make at that price.
Maybe in another 5 to ten years. My camera isn’t my moneymaker, and none of this new stuff is making any of my photos any worse (I’m perfectly capable of that on my own. tyvm).

Sounds awesome! I always wanted to shoot sony mirrorless but im broke. Time to stick with my nikon Dslr.

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Amazingly… I still drag out my very old Canon AE1 from time to time. For what it is it still is easy to use and takes great photos.
I do drool over some of the new tech though. I wish I could justify the expense.

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It’s nothing like a leaf shutter. It’s purely electronic.

Most mirrorless cameras, as well as all phone cameras have an electronic shutter mode where it just scans the sensor without physically blocking any light to take a picture, but it scans one line at a time and takes a few milliseconds to complete the process so each line actually represents a different moment in time. That results in distortions of moving subjects and scanlines when there’s flickering light in the scene. Some of us exploit that to check for PWM in flashlight reviews.

A global shutter reads the whole sensor at once.

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… maybe I should have said more like an electronic leaf shutter. It doesn’t scan across the image/sensor.

I think a global shutter is really best thought of as its own unique thing, but it’s like a leaf shutter in that there is no scanning.

Wait till you guys mess with SPAD cameras.

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Need me one of these!

Fancy tech! Nice seeing some innovation in the pretty boring CMOS-dominated world as of late, between Sonys global shutter and Canons SPADs.

Aaand I’m out.

I’m hoping for a modern 20 mpx full frame BSI sensor for low light photography, but that’s pretty naive.

It is just a first one of its kind, give it several years, and all issues will be resolved.
I was doing a closet clean up few days ago, and found my old 35mm zenit et, a steam locomotive of photography. and it only took 30-35 years.

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As far as I’m aware it’s only lagging ~1 maybe 2 CMOS generations behind. Not like it’s back to 2010 sensor performance.

Wow! Those go way back to the 70’s. Pextax screw in lens mount?

Yes, 42mm threads, with apperniture pin. Mine was made in 90s, but they came out in 70s, and were produced with very little changes for decades. Mine is like in new condition, everything works, including build in light meter. have 2 lenses besides the one it came with, a fisheye, and a 200mm.

We sold a lot of them as an entry-level 35 SLR camera in the 70’s.