The new Sony a9 III has arrived at CineD headquarters and we were eager to run it through our lab tests – after all, it is the first Sony Alpha camera with a global shutter sensor. Until now, global shutter sensors were notorious for having less dynamic range. Well, times are a’ changin … Global shutter sensors have been around for a while, but so far they have been hampered by the fact that dynamic range was significantly lower than what their CMOS counterparts showed. RED was the first company that seemed to have cracked this paradigm with their RED KOMODO 6K global shutter camera (see our lab test here) which performed very well in our dynamic range testing. Now, Sony has introduced a full frame 6K global shutter sensor in their recent a9 III. Please head over to our article here covering the specs and what is new in terms of body and ergonomics. In essence, it provides 4K video oversampled from 6K in full frame or Super 35 mode for frame rates of 24 – 120 frames per second without any crop. The new Sony a9 III in our CineD lab. Image credit: CineD So, without further ado let’s jump right into the results. Again, my dear colleague Florian Milz helped to shoot this test and also provided the IMATEST analytics – thank you, Florian! For obvious reasons there is no rolling shutter section for this global shutter camera, so next up is dynamic range measurement using our...
Published By: CineD - Monday, 4 March, 2024