I pre-ordered mine as well and am thinking if I should sell my A9 or A7RIV. Probably will be keeping the RIV for the pixel counts. Also been wondering if I should keep some of my lenses. The 70-200mm, being an older lens, could its AF keep up with 30FPS? Waiting for Sony to release the list of A1 compatible lenses. Also have the 135GM, which sort of makes most other lens in that focal range lesser.

I am also a photojournalist. Do I need the A1 for my work? Probably not, but it sure makes my work more fun! :)

I didn't phrase it properly. The "blackout" effect on ML's EVF's is more like a slideshow, especially when the camera is capable of shooting at high FPS.

On mirrorless cameras with EVF's (electronic viewfinders), the image on the EVF comes continuously from the CCD sensor. After you take a picture, the info from the sensor needs to be read out first into a buffer before a new picture gets fed to the EVF again. The fraction of a second that it takes results in your EVF blacking out for that duration.

Now suppose you are shooting in continuous mode trying to follow a fast moving bird or race car, those blackouts in between shots could be very distracting, making it hard to move the camera to follow the action. The Canon R5 could shoot at 20fps with very little blackout, making it the best in currently available models. The Sony A1 is claiming 30FPS without any blackout, which is groundbreaking, as is the 30FPS frame rate. Combined that with the silent shooting using the electronic shutter, you can understand why sports and wildlife photographers are so excited about this camera.

I ordered one. The cost is relative. People who are less well-off as I am would buy $50,000 cars. I am happy with my Prius and Hyundai Electric cars.

This is a game-changer of a camera. It can replace an A9, a A7S3 and a A7R4 with one camera. The specs are mind-boggling.

There are more people buying this camera than you think. The B&H website crashed this morning at 10am when preorders started.

The Nikon Z lenses are the Z system's best selling point. They are truly superb.

I wish once and for all folks would stop bashing anything that is made in China or Thailand or whichever other country. If these people had the opportunity to visit some of these factories, they would see many of them are state-of-the-arts ISO 9001-certified facilities capable of manufacturing top notch products.

We did the same thing regarding Japanese products in the decades after WWII. Look what that has gotten us?

Have people complained about the quality of iPhones? Or solar panels? Almost of them are made in China.

Yes, there are plenty of little factories in China making cheap t-shirts and other low-tech products. But if we think China, Thailand, Vietnam or Taiwan (Taiwan has been producing hi-tech equipment for decades before mainland China) are not capable of making world class equipment, we'll soon have no manufacturing left in this country.

I think it's more like what's missing. The back of the head is supposed to be covered with gray feathers, not just two tufts on the sides. It's missing feathers.

Or maybe it's the reincarnation of Princess Leia.

The second picture has more pixels in it, as could be seen if you look at the downloads and expanding them. the second pic's ship is much bigger than the first pic, meaning the total number of pixels has increased significantly - probably something that the editing program did in its output function.

1st pic: 2304x1536 pixels = 3,538,944 total pixels
2nd pic: 4342x2895 pixels = 12,570,090 total pixels

Besides the fact that the 2nd pic has 4x the number of total pixels. There are much more details in the picture, especially contrast and resolution, all adding to more information that needed to be encoded into the jpeg file.

Wow. That's a big file to work with.

Just curious, what camera are you using that produces 1GB images?

If it's struggling with A7R II files, it definitely will have major delays working with R IV files.

One advantage of shooting BIF's with the R IV is with 61MP, you can crop severely and still get a decent picture.

I have the A9 and the A7R IV. The uncompressed raw file for the IV (61 MP) is something like 120MB in size. Even the compressed version is over 60 MB. It means from ingest to editing to output, it takes a lot more time to process such big files. Moving the exposure lever could mean a few seconds before the screen preview could be updated. Some users also had to upgrade their computers to get more RAM or computing power.

I love the image quality of the camera, but I also have 32GB of RAM in my PC. And still my workflow is hampered because of the sheer size of the files.

Somebody just did!

This is my backup gimbel to my Wimberley. It is not as silky smooth and quiet as my Wimberley, but it doesn't cost $600 new either.

It is in very good condition, with just a few scrape marks. For more details, check out the B&H listing:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1500864-REG/movo_photo_gh800_carbon_fiber_professional_gimbal.html/?ap=y&ap=y&smp=y&smp=y&lsft=BI%3A514&gclid=Cj0KCQiAzZL-BRDnARIsAPCJs73uSK2p-ILgbpPdgFcqptozs5HiHDZ8pRHIi6OwVFNkW3Q2Pjo-kfgaAqPrEALw_wcB

It retails for $200 new, get it here for just $75 including shipping and PayPal fee. This is part of my decision to drastically downsize my photography equipment.