Full res photos

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1miyc3Dioed8Ra_KmOoMQAJdpOkxXCsf0?fbclid=IwAR1F8P9jrWxh-DfcKRjHbQDUKzg7z2Fzw6BIscaIz7gfkpEE78Yi3NVxzDo

Some A1 internal private talks info

• A1 is not considered Sony flagship yet by all top management
• Camera had been conceived by old management part and supported by old time influencers and photo guys
• Input from video guys existed buy had been minimized as old management does not consider video much important to sales in this segment
• It had been conflict inside Sony because worst heat performance, smallest and up-down tilted screen prototype had been chosen by top guys. Only reason of choices had been for Sony to again beat their record margin. Best prototype had been around 35-45% more expensive to make, much better copper cooling inside, larger with bigger and fully tiltable screen.
• Camera can be sold in retail for $1999 and Sony will still get more than 30% margin, now consider the real margin
• In all major camera companies we have conflict between engineering and software from one side and horrible performing marketing, finance and top management from other side. Second side is not bothered much with falling sales and all they want is to fit small elite niches, because most of them already have nice parachutes and backup warm government jobs waiting for them.

it is the same old story:

first a new resolution with poor codec and poor subsampling and low fps, then a better codec, then a better subsampling, then more fps, then a new resolution with poor codec and poor subsampling and low fps, then a better codec, then a better subsampling, then more fps, then a new resolution with poor codec and poor subsampling and low fps, then a better codec, then a better subsampling, then more fps, ...

and a new camera for each new step...

how to deal with this old story?

if you have clients for 8k and can make money right now, so buy the camera, if you cannot make money with it right now so wait for a better 8k camera.

if you are a rich and eccentric person who likes to enjoy new technology so buy the camera and a very big 8k tv. you will see the reality much better than it realy is...

@Eno

Actually LSI most probably never make 422 or 444, as it all it needs is YCbCr and this is that being made, with Cb and Cr planes being kept at the resolution matching the actual sensor color resolution.

It is lot of optimizations of photo and video LSI chips, this one significantly saves energy.

@Eno

The internal 8K video is 4:2:0 only

This one has some point due to resolution and fact that we have Bayer sensor here.

@eno everyone sees things differently (I notice different colour perception between my left and right eyes), but here it is a matter of RGB values: three fram grabs, same environment, same actress, three skin colours ranging from yellow to pink, and none of them seems natural to me. And regarding the dynamic range: two daylight shots with almost black areas, for sure not the best way to showcase it!

Every footage i see, comes with heavy noise on shadows, beware of such high resolution if not propper prossesed.

4.3K 16-Bit Raw Video Output, S-Cinetone