When the Sony FX9 arrived at the CineD headquarters earlier this year, we were eager to run it through our lab test procedures. But when we reviewed the first results from the lab test, we reached out to selected industry experts. Read on why… You might have wondered why we have not published a lab test of the new Sony FX9 yet, although my colleague Nino already bought one in January 2020. Well, we did the lab test as early as January – but the results using the internal codec made us wonder what is going on here. Was the firmware/image not final yet? Would there be an update soon? So we reached out to Sony and some selected industry experts and shared all our findings and measurements with them. The initial replies and subsequent conversations were not leading to further insights. Sony stated that they have their established ways to measure sensor performance and if CineD does their own lab tests then fine, it is what it is. In addition, nothing hinted at a new firmware or any kind of image improvements arriving anytime soon – and we learned in April already that a the 2.0 FW release would happen only later this year in October, after originally being announced for “summer 2020” when the camera was released last year. (Sony recently announced another 3.0 firmware update without giving a release date, with a few more additional features: S700PTP Remote Protocol, Center Scan mode for Super 16mm lenses, and...
Published By: CineD - Wednesday, 9 September, 2020