Sony: 36mp 12FPS FF?

With Nikon's exclusivity rights on the D800 sensor this does seem to fall somewhat in line with when Sony can use it, so I wouldn't be surprised.

It's all very impressive but when people had problems with the D800 filesize I'm not sure people are gonna be very happy with this - shooting at 900mb/s will be a huge pain. If you can shoot small raw files then that might help but I've always thought one of the noise advantages of the D800 was that you could downsample very well from that huge file - shooting lower MP won't help this. If you keep shooting full size raw then you'll end up either needing 128Gb cards or you'll constantly be chimping and deleting photos to make room. And then you have the 30% light loss from the SLT design weakening this as a sports proposition even further.

Then again, the D800 sensor is fantastic so the noise likely won't be a real world problem and as a general camera I'm sure it will be great, you can trust Sony to keep improving the EVF tech until it starts beating optical viewfinders etc. Cost will likely be very high as Sony's flagship (I don't see them releasing a D4/1DX competitor any time soon), but I'm not sure that's a going to be a huge issue to most potential buyers as either they're in the system already or they're jumping in ship for reasons other than price - sony lenses aren't cheap.
 
Does MRAW not just resize the raw file? If it can downsample in camera that would be great.

Hmm it could definitely be great for video, but then stabilisation only works to a certain extent. The shortcomings of DSLR video are pretty much all still there and phase-detect AF isn't that big a deal to most people shooting video seriously.

Particularly with the 5D2 and 5D3 around, I'm not sure it'll catch on much with videographers, though the cost may have some role to play as if it presents a better video proposition than the Canon system and videographers used to using piddly (Super 35 or smaller) sensor camcorders are considering getting into DSLR/T video, not least as Sony has far greater market presence in video work than it does in stills stuff, or Canon does in video. (Yes the 5D2 is a video legend, but that was really by default as being the only 35mm 1080p-capable camera around, whereas Sony's position in the market has been fought for and earned)
 
Hmm, I guess it depends on how the resizing works, i.e. does it average 4 pixels into 1, or does it take 1 pixel from 4, and throw the rest away. If it's the latter, I wouldn't want to be using mraw personally.

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Meant to say wouldn't.
 
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Pahaha regardless of those sources I'd be very surprised if a 36MP SLT didn't come, just maybe not due for announcement yet. They almost certainly made the D800 sensor with a 1 year exclusive rights deal to Nikon and they wouldn't back out of using that sensor.
 
Ksanti said:
Wouldn't the latter mean a way bigger load on the Cpu and render 12 fps impossible?
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I meant to say wouldn't.
If the resizing averages 4 pixels into 1, then those 4 pixels become 1 clean(er) pixel. If you throw away the other 3 instead, you don't really improve the appearance with making it smaller.

If you compare the video ISO performance of the 5diii and D800, you will see that unlike stills, the 5diii does allot better in ISO over the D800.
I think I read somewhere that the D800's downsizing just involves reading less lines on the sensor to get 1080p, thus is simply discards a large number of pixels.
 
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