ILCE-1
Sony ILCE-1 Alpha 1 Mirrorless Camera
Advanced BIONZ XR engine boosts speed by up to 8x40
30fps continuous shooting with AF/AE tracking
Movie making with 8K 30p and 4K 120p
Wide AF coverage with 759-point phase-detection and 425-point contrast detection AF points
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Product Highlights
- 50.1 megapixel Exmor RS™ image sensor: The α1 features a full-frame stacked back-illuminated CMOS Exmor RS™ sensor with 50.1 effective megapixels and integrated memory.
- Advanced BIONZ XR engine boosts speed by up to 8x: The α1 features a revised system architecture with greatly enhanced processing performance from image capture through all signal processing stages.
- Continuous shooting at up to 30 fps: High speed readout from the 50.1-megapixel image sensor and a large buffer memory make it possible to shoot up to approximately 165 full-frame JPEG images or 155 full-frame compressed RAW images at up to 30 frames per second with the electronic shutter while maintaining full AF and AE tracking performance.
- Up to 120 calculations per second for smooth AF/AE tracking: The high sensor readout speed of the α1 allows up to 120 AF/AE calculations per second at the focal plane, even while shooting continuously at up to 30 fps. Complex, erratic subject motion is tracked with higher precision than ever, and exposure can be automatically adjusted even through sudden brightness changes.
- Silent, vibration-free electronic shutter: The electronic shutter operates silently, without mechanical noise that can be disruptive when shooting sports or events in a quiet environment.
Specifications
Upgraded from the SONY A7Riii which is a brilliant camera, but having tried a couple of A1 cameras from friends decided to splash out and go for it. Jaw dropping, amazing, fabulous, love it. I use with the Sony 55 prime, 85 prime, 16-35 and the new 70-200 markII.
Great camera and I do love it, but recently it screwed me over. I needed to use my new camera on a feature film I was working on.. but guess what, it doesn't shoot true 24fps.
Also the having to format your memory card to jump between 'NTSC' & 'PAL' is archaic.
I bought this camera a few month ago and I am surprised with the result and the increase of pixels is welcome
I bought the A1 in preference to Canon R5 because of the great 200-600 lens, 30fps, 8k and 4k video modes that can record for long periods of time without overheating. It fits in my camera bag easily with x1.4 extender and my RX10 iv. The viewfinder is excellent. The button customisation makes it very easy to change focus modes, go to manual focus, switch to crop mode and switch between human,animal and bird eye AF. I am getting shots that I would not have got with my DSLR.
What a superb camera (and for that money so it should be) but unlike some products it does exactly what it says on the box very easily
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