THE SONY A9III----This one Feature changes Flash Photography FOREVER! 

I shoot live theatre, often under LED light, and global shutter has always been the holy grail, enabling silent shooting with no banding from LED flicker. This is truly revolutionary.

I like how he has to collect himself and in real time translate his brain jumping for joy into words that other human beings can understand. The excitement pushes through in the video, and I just had to acknowledge that I get the excitement (as much as I can without actually having shot with it).

Before you needed a Hasselblad camera to sync at 1/2000 (or 1/4000 in the case of the X2D) now a Sony camera can do 1/80000. The Sony A9 may have a max dynamic range issue, and clearly, it will be challenging to do water blur on sunny days without an ND filter but this seems to be the future. It's just revolutionary. And then there is an AF system, the best Viewfinder in the industry for a long shoot, faster and as blackout-free as the Nikon but with almost 3 times the resolution and faster refresh rate. There is nothing like it. not going to move to Sony I don't need such performance and have legacy Nikon glass that is just fine. I also love the PF lenses, but dude, is Sony ahead of the curve.

You are right, this is a huge game changer, With my ELB500 flashes I can shoot out on sone really cool location and I can totally shut off the sun and create studio lighting on the top of a mountain at high noon. It's like moving a location into a a giant studio! I have already been doing this with the Sony a1, but now with the a9iii the efficiency is increadible and I can repace 3,000 and 6,000 watt packs and generators with ELB500 battery powered packs. There is even micro second timing control in the a9iii to really maximize your flash lighting efficiency.

Its so amazing its even hard to understand. Sony is just killed the game with this camera. Amazing.

People are going to learn what flash duration is quickly.

Global shutter...no more freaking HSS, no more wasted light, that's huge huge step up, seriously, i'm surprised that SONY released something like this, that's change a lot with strobes...And at the end of video i see Manny your lack of words, i have had the same jaw dropped when i read ''Global Shutter'' at Sony conference edit: now i need $5999 to the next summer

I've always wanted a hasselblad for this reason ! Can't wait to drop the ND filters for portraits !

Dayum, noice!!

That's a true game changer.

Getting back into photography and forgot I was subscribed to you channel 💪🏾💯 this just popped up on my phone lol

The flash duration of that flash on full power is 2.8ms which is equivalent to around 1/350th. You can't use the flash at 1/80000th at any power you like, but still much better than before tho.

I’m writing this to you because you have used Sony equipment extensively. I’m using A7R5 along with Sony flash HVL-F60RM2 Sony FA-WRC1M Wireless Radio Commander. When I connect either of these units and turn them on. I started seeing a considerable lag when pressing the shutter and the shot being captured. Precisely, press shutter half way, EVF goes dark, appears to be looking for focus, and then the shot is captured. There is a delay. Turn the units off, no delay. I have searched around internet, forums, youtube and have not found a definite answer. I have come across some suggestions and have applied some of these but no solution. Thank you in advance for taking the time and addressing this issue.

Yeah it's crazy

1/80,000 of a second? I get the camera operates at the speed of light but that's ridiculous! Especially all of us who are used to a max speed of 1/8000 of a second. This means you can use high speed lenses in sunlight and never need a ND filter. Heck this almost makes shooting in the afternoon "as the worst light" also irrelevant. This is a game changer most of us have no idea how much. Its truly the greatest light capturing box ever made.

Wowwwww (manny at sony presentation voice). Sports is a niche that I'm not fully invested into, but the global shutter is intriguing for handheld and edgy stuff like music videos. Adobe enhance audio would revive that audio in a minute

The flash going of right at the end of the video (and looking really ugly in the footage) really hammers home the point 😂 Also that's why I think this camera will be popular with videographers as well as photographers.

Truly amazing. Seriously. RIP, Canon and Nikon...

1/80,000 second?! 🤯 Unreal!

Gamechanger 1000%

How does this change / affect people who use strobes to capture images at the speed of the light (not the shutter) and cut out the ambient light (NOT using HSS or ND Filters) In things like indoor arenas? Any idea?

The other benefit of the fast shutter is shooting outdoors in harsh lighting with super wide apertures. Sometimes with event photography you don’t have a choice… capture the moment as it happens. Stopping down or ND has always been the solution, but now it’s nice that the option is there to shoot wide open if it’s needed.

Bruh I thought that was a typo on the product announcement 😅

Nice to see some new sensor tech, but in real life, little to no advantage over stacked sensor.

DO 1/8000 can be achieved at any power from the flash without banding? Or only at full or half power.

hey manny whats a good on flash camera from sony for my a 7iv as a begginer ?

sony is always a game changer

Now all we need is the A1 II

Welp time to sell everything lolol

Will the unlimited flash sync be limited to on camera flashes ?…

I think continuous light is on its way to being more of a thing for stills.

Manny, does it have the next generation CFEXPRESS Type A Gen 4 cards?

Reportedly, the α9 III's maximum shutter speed, 1/80 000 second, lacks continuous autofocus, whereas the maximum with it is 1/16 000 second, which, as seemingly as a downside of the global shutter, is lower than α9 II's, 1/32 000 second [Patrick Murphy-Racey, upload 5iGVZtROjhA, timestamp 1 min 59 sec, _PM-R TV_ @ RU-vid, 7 Nov 2023].

I'm never going to be able to afford this camera anyways 😭 but I'd sure love to.

Did anyone noticed redesigned new grip ? Sony is finally improving ergonomics. I think it's time for me to sell all my current gear. Not that I can afford A9 III but because Sony is doing such a great job that other companies seem to stagnate in comparison.

what am I missing ? 1/80,000 way shorter duration than most flashes set to 1/128 power ... what is that possibly good for ? Flashes at full power have a t.5 duration of about 1/1,000 second ... therefore you can't use full power at higher shutter speeds ... it's complicated because flash duration is not alway consistant ... but the general idea is ;intensity over time = exposure

I use cactus v611 trasnmitter with power sync with any flash. and I can shoot at maximum speed with any camera without any loss o power)) game changer for who? clearly it helps in flash photography, but game changer means you have never seen or used flash before.

Maximum shutter speed is 1/16000 only for aperture greater than f1.8.......I use f1.4 so this feature is useless for me and I can only use upto 1/16000

And now a body with > 45 megapixel and I‘m set

and this is ver 1.0...

Makes sense - a single full-power flash is relatively long (eg Profoto B10 @250W: 1/1,300 sec till light power reduces to 50%). So with a very fast shutter speed, you can cut a small slice of the full energy of a single flash, and don't even need HSS (which technically is a burst of many small flashes). Provided there is no rolling shutter - which seems the main innovation here.

See you using wandrd backpack. 😂

meh still the same crappy body and let's be real any high end mirorless got VERY fast sensor readout speed already so it's not a groundbreaking feature at all. Back in the day it was really the Graal due to the slow ass sensor readout speed but nowadays not so much

Gimmick no?

I didn’t realize how bad all these Influencers and Camera reviews are until not one of you mentioned ISO starts at 250. Like bro thanks for not keeping it real anymore just to be apart of the invitation. ISO Vlog 3 starts at 2000 80,000 shutter speed.

My Sony A7R V can so such high fast flash too.

1/80 000 !!!??? Not 1/8000

Overrated but still interesting as it will be nice to see global shutters in all cameras soon.

I don't know why Sony gives out features that are basically useless and many people pay for those useless features and you tubers like yourself get excited about it.

Sheesh, that focus point overlay on the ear's model and not the eye doesn't look great with all the Sony's talk about human estimation pose and AI autofocus. I know it's a minor thing but $6000 it's a lot and some improvements in that AI area would've been welcomed as the a7rv was the first one to implement that technology.

Hi Manny, can the A9 III also sync up to 1/8000 with external flashes? On the official Sony website, they write it is able to sync at up to 1/500 with external flashes. With a base iso of 250, that would not be revolutionary

So, with the A9III you're basically limited by the duration of the flash, which changes on each power setting. If you used a shutter speed faster than the flash duration, you wouldn't get the full power of the flash at that power setting.

Maybe my understanding of flash is wrong all this time but at 1/80,000s wouldn’t that diminish flash power so much that it isn’t useable since flash power is correlated with flash duration?

Ok, this is getting old im afraid, youtube is getting FLOODED with this kind of messages, and yes.. this is huge but not as you all tell it. You forgeting Flash T0,1 duration time, basically the amount of time your flash needs to pump its output. And thanks to Profoto and their OBSESSION with TTL most flashes nowadays have a shit T0,1 time at full power that is arround 1/300s now doesnt matter your global shutter goes to infinite and beyond, if the flash takes longer to pop the energy. Said that.. This is the next best thing, but wont be a perfect sincronization without power loss AT ALL. Even if they made very fast flashes at full power ( wich there arent ) Radio triggers will still be a limitation on sync as none goes beyond 1/2000 of a second ( the profoto ones even got worst ). IF This changes anything is it makes a BIG dent on medium format leaf shutter systems, as this is been the main benefit for a long time. I need to get my hands on a sony a9 III asap and do some testing against my X2d from hasselblad and see to what extent this new global shutter gets more practical light or just the same as the limitation is on the flashes and not the shutters atm. Compared to any DSLR it will be a difference similar to leaf shutter is, wich is 3-4 stops and thats huge.. now they need to bring it to a better sensor than 24mpx if they want to appeal to us comercial photographers.

Outstanding Sony! Going to sell all my old cameras to upgrade my firmware by buying the latest camera 😅.

Sony is absolutely killing it, pushing the envelope like always. The only concern is if there is a major dynamic range drop because of the global shutter. I'm going to guess there is a decent one and it'll be like 11 - 12 stops .

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imo Rotolight for mobile use and powerful LED like the Nanlite FS and Forza series in studio are the wave of the future… not flash aways

What flash is that? Sony HVL-F60RM2? It seems that not even all Sony flashes work with the global shutter all the way to 1/80000. My third party flashes and older Sony flashes would still need to go into HSS beyond 1/500.

The whole ISO starting at 250 isn't inspirational... see if they fix that. Also, no clue on the dynamic range..

You seem at a loss for words! Like you don't even believe it!!!

you are choking on your words, did you know even without the high shutter speed, that rain shot CAN BE DONE just with the flash speed ?? its an OLD TRICK. The flash duration can freese those rain drops. the real test is outdoor with bright sun light. To date, SONY own admission there is no flash that can powerful enough. THAT IS WHY all their promo materials are shoot at sunset.

To 95% of shooters this means absolutely nothing.

Most flashes don't have that short of a flash duration...

Canon u are now on the clock for the r5 mark 2 and r1 Cameras lol they better revamp those cameras coming

super sir.....!

what a lot of flash photographers don't think about is this.. flash duration. When you're in studio and staying within a sync speed of 1/200, you're at the mercy of your flash duration. A Godox AD600PRO only gives you a 1/200 flash duration at full power, whereas a Profoto Pro 11 gives you a 1/3000 flash duration at an output of 600Ws. Now w this camera, it doesn't matter if your flash duration sucks, you can shoot at a high shutter speed (1/3000 or higher is usually needed for freezing motion) AND still have the power in your strobes to push light through a big mod and get you F/10 at ISO 100. This really is a game changer!!

Global shutter! Awesome! Thank you Sony! So expect Canon and Nikon to follow suit and introduce global shutter cameras for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Yes this is big deal, but the example shown was rather not practical or useful to explain why. With normal sync speeds of lets say 1/200th of a second in mechanical shutters you are limited to the strobes power in outdoor full sun. So a 500W light is having a hard time even at full power too far from your subject at f-8-f11 to bring the exposure of the outdoors down. However now, instead of shooting at F9 you can shoot a Profoto b10 (*with its t.5: 1/50,000 to 1/1300 Sec time at full power) at around 1/1000th at f4/5.6 in similar lighting or be able to use bigger modifiers or move your flash further away, or even shoot wide open and reduce the flash power a bit to lengthen the t.5 time.

0:12 sound is ok Manny .... with my eyes closed, it feels like i am in the men's room at the basketball game after lots of beer.

Manny is right, this camera changes flash forever

The next, in A9 IV, is going to be Universal shutter! (/joke)

Manny does the video crop in or is it full frame as well

I have the A7R5. Yawn….😂

Great video thanks for sharing. I do have one question since it can sync at any shutter speed and you don't have to use high speed sync on the flash, does that mean that you don't loose any power on the flash? Could you shoot say 1/4000 shutter speed at your flash FULL power? If so t hat is truly a game changer for photographers that shoot flash.

Sounds like its a daylight camera, with iso 250 being the base. I was excited but the dynamic range is compromised.

You see how Sony does it Nikon? They innovate instead of copying and catching up!!!

We've entered a new paradigm, the 4th one. 1) SLR 2) DLSR 3) mirrorless 4) global shutter

For macro photography that would be interesting for catching bee's in flight or other fast moving insects.