{"id":20825,"date":"2022-10-22T16:34:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T20:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=20825"},"modified":"2022-10-22T16:34:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T20:34:28","slug":"22oct2022-ocf-update-sony-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/22\/22oct2022-ocf-update-sony-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"22OCT2022 – OCF Update – Sony Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Politics has been so all consuming lately that I haven’t had a chance to write about anything else.\u00a0 But in the last month or so there’s been a lot of buzz about Sony’s imminent release of their latest update of the high resolution camera, the A7R V.\u00a0 When I’m interested in breathless reporting I go to sonyalpharumors.com<\/a> and listen as Andrea tells us confusing and sometimes inconsistent things about the future.<\/p>\n

The Sony A7R cameras are very nice pieces of kit and using them for macro is a very attractive proposition with their 61 megapixel sensors and other high resolution accoutrements.\u00a0 But 61 megapixels is a little bit more than I think I need.\u00a0 Plus the price tag is now coming in above $4,000.\u00a0 And for a man of my limited means that’s beginning to seem high.\u00a0 Plus I do a sort of mixed landscape, macro, walk-around photography that seems to play to the Sony A7 IV all-around camera sweet spot.\u00a0\u00a0So let’s just say that my interest in the Sony A7 V hullabaloo is more on the academic side.<\/p>\n

But what did intrigue me was the talk about AI based autofocus.\u00a0 And here’s why.\u00a0 I’ve been hearing and reading from various sides that phone cameras are catching up with dedicated professional cameras.\u00a0 And the reason given for this is that phone cameras have highly intelligent algorithms that provide very precise autofocus and excellent sharpening and color representation.\u00a0 And that as we reach the limits of what lenses and mechanical devices can do for optical focusing and image stabilization it will be this advanced artificial intelligence that will render phones as the future of photography.<\/p>\n

Now, currently I don’t think things are really all that simple.\u00a0 In fact I’ve spoken to some photographers who have very good phone cameras and they say that although they get very nice shots from their phones, they wouldn’t put one of these files up against a full frame landscape shot as a source for a large print or even as a basis for a cropped photo.\u00a0 Apparently there is a bit of surface magic going on that doesn’t stand up to close scrutiny.<\/p>\n

But that being said, I am positive that adding a strong algorithm to a very good camera like any of the various Sony A7, A9 or A1 cameras would be a very useful and fruitful step.\u00a0 For things like birds in flight and sports tracking it would be a step in the right direction.\u00a0 Just like the eye-AF function was a game changer for good focus, having a program with many times the speed of human reflexes concentrating on evaluating the auto focus and recognizing the changes to the image and anticipating the expected changes to the focus result would improve results greatly.\u00a0 Even for something like fast moving insect macro photography, having the latest algorithm to optimize the changes in focus point would provide a much higher rate of success in something that has a very short time window.\u00a0 I could imagine that specialized algorithms might be available for individual subjects like birds in flight or hovering hummingbirds or even butterflies on flowers.<\/p>\n

As you can see I’ve let my imagination run away with me but I’m sure there are sports photographers salivating over the idea of an algorithm specifically formulated for football wide receivers running for catches down the side line.\u00a0 Or how about one specially formulated for NBA stars pretending to be fouled to obtain a penalty shot?<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’m intrigued by just what AI may have in store for us in the future.\u00a0 One thing I hope is that a lot of it might be available as a firmware update to our already very capable cameras.\u00a0 But honestly I’m not very aware of exactly what capability my camera’s “Bionz-XR image processor has.\u00a0 It may be a genius or a dolt.\u00a0 So I’ll have to wait and see.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile my present camera has been doing a splendid job of taking all the pictures I ask of it.\u00a0 At this point I have no need of an upgrade.\u00a0 All I ever watch nowadays is the new lens info.\u00a0 And even that is sort of a reflex.<\/p>\n

So I’ll just see where everything goes and enjoy photography for what it is.\u00a0 Fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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