This is the Improv Photography Podcast episode number 221. Hey everybody and welcome back to the improved photography podcast.

I'm your host Jim Harmer and today I'm joined by Jeff Harmon and Brent Bergerm.

Hey guys.

Hello. That was nice, unison. It really gets a little shot

of adrenaline in for us. Well the big news around the photography industry this week was the Sony A9.

This is Sony's full-frame mirror list super high-end camera that is supposed to compete with

the Nikon D4S, the Canon 1DX.

This is the high end of them.

And so I'm going to quickly kind of introduce the camera

and then I want to kind of hear what you guys have to say about it.

So it's 24 megapixel, 20 frames a second,

blackout free viewfinder as you're shooting those 20 frames a second. Almost 700

autofocus points, hello. Five-axis image stabilization. This is a

Canon E. F. Mount. It It's e full-frame mount. It has a electronic shutter up to 1.32,000th of a second and battery life is not so great at 480 shots and it has 4K output. So it looks

really impressive but honestly if you compare this to other models like just the specs. I'm not saying it's the same thing at all. I'm just saying just the specs

compare this to the Fuji XT2 which only costs 1500 Compare this

camera, to the Fuji X T2, which only cost $1,500,

compared to this camera, which cost $4,500. The Fuji X,2 has 24.3 megapixel, so actually slightly, slightly higher in megapixel count.

It shoots 14 frames a second instead of the 20 on this one that's 4,500.

I, it doesn't have 700 autofocus points,

but when you get above 200 autofocus points,

like does it matter anymore, right?

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