**A Closer Look at the Sony A93: Early Hands-On Impressions**

I've had the opportunity to get hands-on with the Sony A93, one of the most highly anticipated cameras of the year. As a photographer and camera enthusiast, I was eager to put this camera through its paces and share my initial impressions.

**Limitations and Capabilities**

One thing that became apparent early on is that this camera has some limitations. For example, if you don't have the flash attached in high-speed sync or at least manual mode, you're capped out at 116,000 of a second, which may not be ideal for all shooting situations. However, it's worth noting that this is something I'll need to test further to fully understand its implications.

**Test Shot Feature**

There is a feature in the camera that allows you to take a test shot and measure the delay between firing the shutter and peak light performance. This is actually very handy and something I haven't tested yet, but it's been discussed among users. It's exciting to see this feature in action and how it can help with shooting certain types of scenes.

**Global Shutter: A Game Changer**

One of the most significant features of the Sony A93 is its global shutter. This technology has been discussed for years, and finally, a camera has arrived that incorporates it. As someone who's been critical of Nikon's dual C sensor configuration cameras without a physical shutter, I'm excited to see how this will play out. The absence of a physical shutter means no haptic feedback or tactile sensation when taking an image, which may take some getting used to for photographers accustomed to it.

**Beta Firmware and Pre-Order Considerations**

Since the A93 is still in beta firmware and won't be available until next year, I had to approach my review with caution. It's a complex camera with many features that will take time to fully understand and master. While high-speed shooting is certainly exciting, it's essential to consider whether you need this specific feature or if the camera has other limitations that may impact your workflow.

**Video Capabilities**

One area where I'm excited about the A93 is its potential for video capabilities. With a global shutter, we can say goodbye to jello shutter and capture smooth footage with reduced rolling shutter artifacts. However, it's essential to consider how this will impact cameras moving forward and what kind of applications it'll enable.

**Full Review and Hands-On Testing**

While I'd love to dive deeper into the A93's capabilities, my hands-on experience was limited due to the beta firmware and impending release date. I'll be waiting for the full review opportunity to come along, when I can share my in-depth impressions of this camera.

**Conclusion**

The Sony A93 is a game-changer in terms of global shutter technology, offering high-speed shooting capabilities that will undoubtedly appeal to certain photographers. However, it's essential to consider its limitations and how they may impact your workflow or specific shooting needs. As someone who's passionate about understanding the technical aspects of cameras, I'm excited to continue exploring this camera and sharing my findings with you.

**Final Thoughts**

I'd love to hear from readers – what are your thoughts on the Sony A93? Do you have any questions about its capabilities or limitations? Let me know in the comments below, and I'll do my best to address them. Until then, stay tuned for a full review of the A93 when it becomes available, and don't forget to hit that subscribe button for more camera-related content.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome back everyone we're going to do something just a little bit different in this video so last week I went to New York and I got to preview the new Sony A9 3 and typically the way that works is you get to preview a product and then you give a first impressions video this camera is very different so Sony have essentially made the first Global shutter full-frame cameras which is pretty amazing and the reason I didn't put the video out immediately is because I wanted to think a little bit about this so we're going to do something a little bit different in this video I'm going to rewind I'm going to play the stuff that I filmed in New York and then we're going to come back because I had the camera and I can show you all the cool stuff on it and then we'll come back to present day Ted and I will talk about some of my first impressions cuz I think it's a very important camera and there's a lot to unpack here so let's go back a week to New York City all right welcome back everyone it has been a while since we've done a good hotel room video but I am in New York City tonight Sony has been gracious enough to invite me up here to take a first look at the brand new a93 this is a extraordinarily significant camera in pretty much the history of camera making and that's what I want to talk a little bit about in this video I spent most of the day shooting on this done a lot of burst rate shooting a lot of sports types of things and I've also done some candid and just kind of standard shooting as well and I want to talk about the significance of what we have now which is essentially well it's not essentially it is a global shutter this is something that we've been waiting for for years in digital photography and if you're not familiar with what a global shutter is now a global shutter means that every pixel on the sensor fires exactly at the same time when you press the shutter button this is very different than the standard that we have in most digital cameras today which we call a camos sensor the seos sensor is pretty good but the way that it works is it actually scans so it goes left to right line by line top to bottom and it does it very quickly but the result is is because they're not firing in unison if there's any Motion in your image at all if you're doing video it is prone to Rolling shutter or the Jello effect we sometimes refer to this as there's other limitations too usually you have a flash sync speed of around 1/ 1200th of a second some cameras go up to 1/ 1250th of a second now one of the greatest Innovations in the last 20 years I think was when Sony developed the stack seos sensor so essentially you had two layers there was a memory layer on that sensor which was able to offset some of that and it gave you the ability to shoot like 20 frames a second it reduced the jell shutter The Rolling shutter greatly that was a seriously good Innovation that's what drives a lot of cameras today on the highend the global shutter is next level and I think this is something that probably is one of those Innovations in photography that is going to change cameras forever it just is and so what I want to do is break this down a little bit and talk about what this means for you as a photographer or even if you're shooting video so with still shooting this means that you get shutter speeds up to 1 80,000 of a second the other key thing here is that you do get flash sync at all shutter speed speed so you can shoot flash and I have some images that I did where you can shoot a portrait where somebody's back lit by the sun you see that in the top of the frame and I use just Sony's basic flash which isn't a very expensive flash used it in manual mode to figure out how I wanted my exposure to lay out but it gets results another great thing about global shutters that if you're shooting sports Wildlife things that move quickly you can now shoot up to 120 frames per second blackout free and by the way the viewfinder in here is the 9 million dot it's amazing it's really good and it's such a cool experience to shoot with this now I will say this and Sony did some changes on this camera that I think are going to be very beneficial for photographers who do shoot high speeds you don't always want to shoot 120 frames a second you're going to come back and with a card filled up in fact I filled up an 80 gigabyte card today and I'm not really looking forward to going through those images tomorrow but the fact is you can do it so the reality is is that you probably don't want to shoot 120 frames a second all the time you might be shooting slower you might want something as as slow as let's say 10 or 20 frames a second which is fine we now have a custom function button on the front of the camera right under where your fingers are going to be on the grip and when you the way this comes initially you can set it up to do anything but the way it defaults is this is actually going to give you a temporary burst speed while you're holding that that button down of 120 frames a second so if you're shooting something at 20 frames a second 30 frames a second and you need that short burst you anticipate it coming you can just hold that down and you were at 120 frames a second and it's pretty amazing so the A9 has always been build is the sports camera because it has the high-s speeed burst rate shooting speed so it makes sense for sports and Wildlife photographers to be interested in this camera 24 megapixels is usually enough for that type of work but I would actually argue that this is the camera that is going to really bridge that gap between still Shooters and video Shooters cuz the video in here is absolutely outstanding we can now shoot an slog 3 there's s cin tone we have more profiles available we can also shoot up to 120 frames per second of video with no rolling shutter which is absolutely amazing this is about a 5x slowdown when you use the snq modes and you can do this without any crop at all and this is very unusual for cameras now because camos sensors it has to do with the readout speed of that sensor the way it's scanning you can only get so much speed before it just doesn't work so the solution is is to crop in on the image so you get an apsc picture per se well this one you don't have to worry about any of that you can certainly shoot it as an apsc camera and you can crop that way and but that would be by choice you're not doing it because it's a technical limit ation that's something that is very key to this camera so I think the video output is just unbelievably good with this and I I don't it's going to make this appeal to more people that are not just Sports and Wildlife Ste Shooters this is going to be a really versatile setup and it's pretty amazing another thing that you're going to notice about this camera is Sony have done probably one of the biggest redesigns of just the ergonomics on any camera that I've seen now if you look at the lineage of all of the full-frame marless cameras that Sony has done they stick to the same body design for a while and then they start to make slight changes and it's interesting if you go all the way back to the A7 the original or the a7s the first a7r they are radically different this one had a lot of thought has been put into the ergonomic design on this and on the grip side of the camera the top plate has been redesigned it fits better in your hand it's a deeper grip I mentioned the custom function button that falls under your fingers too it is a much better design this is something that I really like it's been something I've shot on all day it's very comfortable another thing that this camera features that I really really like I already talked about the 9.1 million. evf which is awesome but the rear screen is the flip out variety that also you can flip around and you can use like a non-flip screen as well it's the same one that we've saw on the A7 R5 it's one that I really like it kind of splits the difference and people who are in one camp or the other well it's the best for both so that's something that's a really nice addition to this as well and another thing that's really interesting about this camera is the drive selection dial you have all your modes but then there's this asterisk is this something I had to ask about and one of the things that I'm dealing with on this camera is this is very early firmware this camera is not due to come out until next spring so we're still a ways away and I'm not sure whether it's in here or not or whether I just couldn't find it but when you set it to the asteris it's a way of changing your drive selection from being on the top so if you're photographer you're Shooting Sports and you want to switch between your speed modes a lot uh that's something that you can actually set to the asterisk and now you can do it in the menu system so I don't know whether it's in the function menu I need to get some clarity on that but that is forthcoming and that's actually a really nicely thought out detail one of my favorite features on the a93 believe it or not was not so much the burst rate shooting but it's the precapture function which we finally have on a Sony camera so this enables me if I'm shooting at really high frame rates if I don't push the trigger and I just miss something it is able to capture up to a second of pre-burst shooting before that it keeps in memory and then writes to the card so you don't accidentally miss the shot it's one of those features that I never thought was going to be really important to me but when I was doing burst rate shooting speeds today it's something that really helps sometimes you're just a little bit behind on reacting to something and to have that information and have those images written to the card pretty much means you're not going to miss your shot it's very cool okay so back to the present now and I've had an entire week now so I've been able to download all of my images go through them and I want to talk about image quality I want to talk about this camera now this is a sports camera that Sony have put together so it can shoot up to 120 frames per second which is very impressive however you do fill up cards really quickly and you end up with a lot of images and this is one thing that I don't particularly like about high-speed shooting but I have gone through and I want to share some of my first impressions with you so the first thing I want to address is the base ISO of this camera it is 250 which is pretty high for a base ISO typically cameras come in around 100 or sometimes even 64 ISO this one is 250 Sony are a little bit mysterious as to why they haven't really gone on record is stating um they've stated that the image quality is excellent and going through these images it is pretty good I will say that at 250 you would expect it to be a little cleaner in certain circumstances this this is really all relative and it's hard to actually address because I don't have access to see the raw files nobody does and when you have JPEG files that probably is a little bit of noise suppression that's going on and they're being cleaned up having said that if you're a sports photographer and you're going to probably be shooting JPEG and not raw it is pretty impressive in terms of image quality and you can see that in these images my guess is that it has to do with the sensitivity on that Global sensor and so if the sensitivity is less than let's say something that's backside illuminated or even the dual stack seos you know the technology that we have today this is new tech and it is very possible that they're just having to push that in camera so the base ISO is just going to be kind of High having said that for a sports camera you're probably not going to be shooting lower than 250 so it probably is okay and again we'll have to wait until we can see the raw files till we can really pick this apart and see how far you can push the images on this camera in terms of light sensitivity but my first impressions are that at 250 I feel like it's probably not as clean as other cameras this is just a guess until I'm able to compare them but the camera does seem to catch up so when you're up at 6,400 ISO it does seem to be comparable to seos so whatever is happening in the processing side of this camera is certainly very good now again I was pretty Limited in the shooting situations that I was in as I had very limited time with this camera but all in all I think the color looks just fine I think the images look beautiful and one thing that I want to say that is a testament to Sony lenses particularly that new 300 mm that came out Sony actually sent that to me and I had it for a few days before I went to New York and it rained the entire time here so I didn't get to shoot on it much when it was here with me but I did shoot on it some in New York and it is impressive all of the modern Sony lenses are extremely good and sometimes when you zoom in on these files and this is only a 24 megapixel camera when you zoom in and you can see like in this image the sand that's coming off of the volleyball player's hand or probably the ball uh it is amazing the resolution that these These are capable of another thing that I want to address is Flash sync and so one thing that's really cool is this camera is capable of shutter speeds there's no shutter in the camera it's all electronic but the shutter will fire at a shutter speed of 180,000 of a second which is very impressive and it will technically flash sync all the way up to 180,000 of a second and however there is a big difference between using a high-speed sync flash that's on camera versus Studio strobes I did notice there are some limitations to this camera so for instance if you didn't have the flash attached in high-speed sync or at least manual that you actually were capped out at 116,000 of a second and again this is something I'll have to test want to actually have a camera and I can put it through more Paces than just having it for a few hours uh so this will be interesting to be seen now there is a mode in the camera where you can do a test shot and it will measure the delay uh between firing the shutter and then when your Peak light performance comes up and so that's actually very handy and again it's something I haven't tested it's just something that was talked about so that's something I'm really excited about to see so one thing that's very interesting is since I've been to New York and I had hands on with the camera you know I've been wanting to do this video and it's just like trying to think through it we have a camera that is very early released this doesn't come out for the next 5 months or so which makes it kind of hard because I do know that it's very beta firmware that we were shooting with and it just makes it very difficult because this is a complex camera we're talking about a global shutter this is something that we've been talking about since the early camos cameras for a long time and even the last 10 years I can remember this is something that a lot of people talk about or how close are we to having a global shutter once that comes out that's going to change everything I think all of those things are true and that's why I wanted to be very careful about what I was saying in this video and I think it's for most most cameras it's easy to get into the hype cycle and throw a video up and talk about the features you like because it's a camera and a system that you're familiar with and Global shutter is something that is very new I will say this that I feel like Sony from what I can tell so far I can't read the raw files I haven't had extensive time with the camera I think they've done an awesome job with this I think it's going to be really good is it going to be a game changer absolutely but one thing you have to remember is we're on generation one this is the very first camera with a global shutter on it very interesting to me though is where we're going to be in the next 5 years when we have more than one camera that has a global shutter when you start to see this on multiple models and then also from a technology perspective what we're able to do with it and I think that's a little bit of a hump I mean I've been very critical with Nikon when they've done their stack dual C sensor uh configuration cameras so the z9 the Z8 that you don't have a physical shutter anymore and the same holds true with Sony and so In fairness that's something I've been critical about because as a photographer you're so used to that haptic feedback of feeling when the shutter goes down as a photographer you know you've taken the image and that's something that is not on any of these cameras you've got the Cartoon Camera noise or you have complete silence there is visual indicators but that's just something as a photographer that I'm used to and it's something that I've been pretty critical about I know not everybody agrees but that's the way I see it and I think it's also worth noting that when I get asked by friends do you recommend should I pre-order an a93 and I always say it depends it depends on what you need if you need high-speed shooting absolutely I mean that's what this camera is designed for and the global shutter is exciting if you need the high shutter speeds of 180,000 of a second I mean that's awesome generally for Flash photography you don't um so it becomes a little bit of a special use case and I think it'll be interesting to see what we're able to do with global shutter obviously video is going to benefit because we're going to get rid of jello shutter completely but how is this going to impact cameras moving forward and that's what's interesting to me and I would love to know what you guys think this is a subject I will Explore More and when I get a Hands-On in some more time with the a93 which I can't wait to do cuz I really am really excited about this then I'll share my Impressions with you then also so we'll do a full review later on and the camera doesn't come out for a while so we'll see how soon that is but uh drop me a comment if you got any questions and I'll see you guys in the next video Until then laterwelcome back everyone we're going to do something just a little bit different in this video so last week I went to New York and I got to preview the new Sony A9 3 and typically the way that works is you get to preview a product and then you give a first impressions video this camera is very different so Sony have essentially made the first Global shutter full-frame cameras which is pretty amazing and the reason I didn't put the video out immediately is because I wanted to think a little bit about this so we're going to do something a little bit different in this video I'm going to rewind I'm going to play the stuff that I filmed in New York and then we're going to come back because I had the camera and I can show you all the cool stuff on it and then we'll come back to present day Ted and I will talk about some of my first impressions cuz I think it's a very important camera and there's a lot to unpack here so let's go back a week to New York City all right welcome back everyone it has been a while since we've done a good hotel room video but I am in New York City tonight Sony has been gracious enough to invite me up here to take a first look at the brand new a93 this is a extraordinarily significant camera in pretty much the history of camera making and that's what I want to talk a little bit about in this video I spent most of the day shooting on this done a lot of burst rate shooting a lot of sports types of things and I've also done some candid and just kind of standard shooting as well and I want to talk about the significance of what we have now which is essentially well it's not essentially it is a global shutter this is something that we've been waiting for for years in digital photography and if you're not familiar with what a global shutter is now a global shutter means that every pixel on the sensor fires exactly at the same time when you press the shutter button this is very different than the standard that we have in most digital cameras today which we call a camos sensor the seos sensor is pretty good but the way that it works is it actually scans so it goes left to right line by line top to bottom and it does it very quickly but the result is is because they're not firing in unison if there's any Motion in your image at all if you're doing video it is prone to Rolling shutter or the Jello effect we sometimes refer to this as there's other limitations too usually you have a flash sync speed of around 1/ 1200th of a second some cameras go up to 1/ 1250th of a second now one of the greatest Innovations in the last 20 years I think was when Sony developed the stack seos sensor so essentially you had two layers there was a memory layer on that sensor which was able to offset some of that and it gave you the ability to shoot like 20 frames a second it reduced the jell shutter The Rolling shutter greatly that was a seriously good Innovation that's what drives a lot of cameras today on the highend the global shutter is next level and I think this is something that probably is one of those Innovations in photography that is going to change cameras forever it just is and so what I want to do is break this down a little bit and talk about what this means for you as a photographer or even if you're shooting video so with still shooting this means that you get shutter speeds up to 1 80,000 of a second the other key thing here is that you do get flash sync at all shutter speed speed so you can shoot flash and I have some images that I did where you can shoot a portrait where somebody's back lit by the sun you see that in the top of the frame and I use just Sony's basic flash which isn't a very expensive flash used it in manual mode to figure out how I wanted my exposure to lay out but it gets results another great thing about global shutters that if you're shooting sports Wildlife things that move quickly you can now shoot up to 120 frames per second blackout free and by the way the viewfinder in here is the 9 million dot it's amazing it's really good and it's such a cool experience to shoot with this now I will say this and Sony did some changes on this camera that I think are going to be very beneficial for photographers who do shoot high speeds you don't always want to shoot 120 frames a second you're going to come back and with a card filled up in fact I filled up an 80 gigabyte card today and I'm not really looking forward to going through those images tomorrow but the fact is you can do it so the reality is is that you probably don't want to shoot 120 frames a second all the time you might be shooting slower you might want something as as slow as let's say 10 or 20 frames a second which is fine we now have a custom function button on the front of the camera right under where your fingers are going to be on the grip and when you the way this comes initially you can set it up to do anything but the way it defaults is this is actually going to give you a temporary burst speed while you're holding that that button down of 120 frames a second so if you're shooting something at 20 frames a second 30 frames a second and you need that short burst you anticipate it coming you can just hold that down and you were at 120 frames a second and it's pretty amazing so the A9 has always been build is the sports camera because it has the high-s speeed burst rate shooting speed so it makes sense for sports and Wildlife photographers to be interested in this camera 24 megapixels is usually enough for that type of work but I would actually argue that this is the camera that is going to really bridge that gap between still Shooters and video Shooters cuz the video in here is absolutely outstanding we can now shoot an slog 3 there's s cin tone we have more profiles available we can also shoot up to 120 frames per second of video with no rolling shutter which is absolutely amazing this is about a 5x slowdown when you use the snq modes and you can do this without any crop at all and this is very unusual for cameras now because camos sensors it has to do with the readout speed of that sensor the way it's scanning you can only get so much speed before it just doesn't work so the solution is is to crop in on the image so you get an apsc picture per se well this one you don't have to worry about any of that you can certainly shoot it as an apsc camera and you can crop that way and but that would be by choice you're not doing it because it's a technical limit ation that's something that is very key to this camera so I think the video output is just unbelievably good with this and I I don't it's going to make this appeal to more people that are not just Sports and Wildlife Ste Shooters this is going to be a really versatile setup and it's pretty amazing another thing that you're going to notice about this camera is Sony have done probably one of the biggest redesigns of just the ergonomics on any camera that I've seen now if you look at the lineage of all of the full-frame marless cameras that Sony has done they stick to the same body design for a while and then they start to make slight changes and it's interesting if you go all the way back to the A7 the original or the a7s the first a7r they are radically different this one had a lot of thought has been put into the ergonomic design on this and on the grip side of the camera the top plate has been redesigned it fits better in your hand it's a deeper grip I mentioned the custom function button that falls under your fingers too it is a much better design this is something that I really like it's been something I've shot on all day it's very comfortable another thing that this camera features that I really really like I already talked about the 9.1 million. evf which is awesome but the rear screen is the flip out variety that also you can flip around and you can use like a non-flip screen as well it's the same one that we've saw on the A7 R5 it's one that I really like it kind of splits the difference and people who are in one camp or the other well it's the best for both so that's something that's a really nice addition to this as well and another thing that's really interesting about this camera is the drive selection dial you have all your modes but then there's this asterisk is this something I had to ask about and one of the things that I'm dealing with on this camera is this is very early firmware this camera is not due to come out until next spring so we're still a ways away and I'm not sure whether it's in here or not or whether I just couldn't find it but when you set it to the asteris it's a way of changing your drive selection from being on the top so if you're photographer you're Shooting Sports and you want to switch between your speed modes a lot uh that's something that you can actually set to the asterisk and now you can do it in the menu system so I don't know whether it's in the function menu I need to get some clarity on that but that is forthcoming and that's actually a really nicely thought out detail one of my favorite features on the a93 believe it or not was not so much the burst rate shooting but it's the precapture function which we finally have on a Sony camera so this enables me if I'm shooting at really high frame rates if I don't push the trigger and I just miss something it is able to capture up to a second of pre-burst shooting before that it keeps in memory and then writes to the card so you don't accidentally miss the shot it's one of those features that I never thought was going to be really important to me but when I was doing burst rate shooting speeds today it's something that really helps sometimes you're just a little bit behind on reacting to something and to have that information and have those images written to the card pretty much means you're not going to miss your shot it's very cool okay so back to the present now and I've had an entire week now so I've been able to download all of my images go through them and I want to talk about image quality I want to talk about this camera now this is a sports camera that Sony have put together so it can shoot up to 120 frames per second which is very impressive however you do fill up cards really quickly and you end up with a lot of images and this is one thing that I don't particularly like about high-speed shooting but I have gone through and I want to share some of my first impressions with you so the first thing I want to address is the base ISO of this camera it is 250 which is pretty high for a base ISO typically cameras come in around 100 or sometimes even 64 ISO this one is 250 Sony are a little bit mysterious as to why they haven't really gone on record is stating um they've stated that the image quality is excellent and going through these images it is pretty good I will say that at 250 you would expect it to be a little cleaner in certain circumstances this this is really all relative and it's hard to actually address because I don't have access to see the raw files nobody does and when you have JPEG files that probably is a little bit of noise suppression that's going on and they're being cleaned up having said that if you're a sports photographer and you're going to probably be shooting JPEG and not raw it is pretty impressive in terms of image quality and you can see that in these images my guess is that it has to do with the sensitivity on that Global sensor and so if the sensitivity is less than let's say something that's backside illuminated or even the dual stack seos you know the technology that we have today this is new tech and it is very possible that they're just having to push that in camera so the base ISO is just going to be kind of High having said that for a sports camera you're probably not going to be shooting lower than 250 so it probably is okay and again we'll have to wait until we can see the raw files till we can really pick this apart and see how far you can push the images on this camera in terms of light sensitivity but my first impressions are that at 250 I feel like it's probably not as clean as other cameras this is just a guess until I'm able to compare them but the camera does seem to catch up so when you're up at 6,400 ISO it does seem to be comparable to seos so whatever is happening in the processing side of this camera is certainly very good now again I was pretty Limited in the shooting situations that I was in as I had very limited time with this camera but all in all I think the color looks just fine I think the images look beautiful and one thing that I want to say that is a testament to Sony lenses particularly that new 300 mm that came out Sony actually sent that to me and I had it for a few days before I went to New York and it rained the entire time here so I didn't get to shoot on it much when it was here with me but I did shoot on it some in New York and it is impressive all of the modern Sony lenses are extremely good and sometimes when you zoom in on these files and this is only a 24 megapixel camera when you zoom in and you can see like in this image the sand that's coming off of the volleyball player's hand or probably the ball uh it is amazing the resolution that these These are capable of another thing that I want to address is Flash sync and so one thing that's really cool is this camera is capable of shutter speeds there's no shutter in the camera it's all electronic but the shutter will fire at a shutter speed of 180,000 of a second which is very impressive and it will technically flash sync all the way up to 180,000 of a second and however there is a big difference between using a high-speed sync flash that's on camera versus Studio strobes I did notice there are some limitations to this camera so for instance if you didn't have the flash attached in high-speed sync or at least manual that you actually were capped out at 116,000 of a second and again this is something I'll have to test want to actually have a camera and I can put it through more Paces than just having it for a few hours uh so this will be interesting to be seen now there is a mode in the camera where you can do a test shot and it will measure the delay uh between firing the shutter and then when your Peak light performance comes up and so that's actually very handy and again it's something I haven't tested it's just something that was talked about so that's something I'm really excited about to see so one thing that's very interesting is since I've been to New York and I had hands on with the camera you know I've been wanting to do this video and it's just like trying to think through it we have a camera that is very early released this doesn't come out for the next 5 months or so which makes it kind of hard because I do know that it's very beta firmware that we were shooting with and it just makes it very difficult because this is a complex camera we're talking about a global shutter this is something that we've been talking about since the early camos cameras for a long time and even the last 10 years I can remember this is something that a lot of people talk about or how close are we to having a global shutter once that comes out that's going to change everything I think all of those things are true and that's why I wanted to be very careful about what I was saying in this video and I think it's for most most cameras it's easy to get into the hype cycle and throw a video up and talk about the features you like because it's a camera and a system that you're familiar with and Global shutter is something that is very new I will say this that I feel like Sony from what I can tell so far I can't read the raw files I haven't had extensive time with the camera I think they've done an awesome job with this I think it's going to be really good is it going to be a game changer absolutely but one thing you have to remember is we're on generation one this is the very first camera with a global shutter on it very interesting to me though is where we're going to be in the next 5 years when we have more than one camera that has a global shutter when you start to see this on multiple models and then also from a technology perspective what we're able to do with it and I think that's a little bit of a hump I mean I've been very critical with Nikon when they've done their stack dual C sensor uh configuration cameras so the z9 the Z8 that you don't have a physical shutter anymore and the same holds true with Sony and so In fairness that's something I've been critical about because as a photographer you're so used to that haptic feedback of feeling when the shutter goes down as a photographer you know you've taken the image and that's something that is not on any of these cameras you've got the Cartoon Camera noise or you have complete silence there is visual indicators but that's just something as a photographer that I'm used to and it's something that I've been pretty critical about I know not everybody agrees but that's the way I see it and I think it's also worth noting that when I get asked by friends do you recommend should I pre-order an a93 and I always say it depends it depends on what you need if you need high-speed shooting absolutely I mean that's what this camera is designed for and the global shutter is exciting if you need the high shutter speeds of 180,000 of a second I mean that's awesome generally for Flash photography you don't um so it becomes a little bit of a special use case and I think it'll be interesting to see what we're able to do with global shutter obviously video is going to benefit because we're going to get rid of jello shutter completely but how is this going to impact cameras moving forward and that's what's interesting to me and I would love to know what you guys think this is a subject I will Explore More and when I get a Hands-On in some more time with the a93 which I can't wait to do cuz I really am really excited about this then I'll share my Impressions with you then also so we'll do a full review later on and the camera doesn't come out for a while so we'll see how soon that is but uh drop me a comment if you got any questions and I'll see you guys in the next video Until then later\n"