Sony A9 Review

Introduction

The Sony A9 is the company's new flagship full-frame compact system camera for professionals. Aimed predominantly at sports, action and event photographers, the new Sony A9 can shoot continuously at 20fps for up to 241 RAW / 362 JPEG images with no blackout between frames, and has a whopping 693 focal plane phase detection AF points that cover approximately 93% of the frame. It also features the World’s first full-frame stacked CMOS sensor offering a resolution of 24.2 megapixels, built-in 5-axis optical image stabilization providing up to 5 steps faster shutter speed of correction, an ISO range of 100-1200 that is expandable to 50-204800, 4K video recording which uses full pixel readout without pixel binning to collect 6K of information, the latest BIONZ X processor, a top shutter speed of 1/32,000 sec, uncompressed 14-bit RAW files, a Quad-VGA OLED Tru-Finder with approximately 3,686k dots and a magnification of 0.78x, a weather-resistant magnesium alloy design, an all-new battery with 2.2x the capacity of previous Sony full-frame models, an Ethernet port for file transfer, dual SD card slots, and built-in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and NFC compatibility. The Sony A9 retails for approximately £4,500 / $4,500.