Sony Releases New Full-frame Mirrorless Camera

Sony has announced the arrival of its new fullframe mirrorless Alpha 1 camera. The Alpha 1 comes with 50.1-megapixel fullframe stacked Exmor RS image sensor. The image sensor is built with integral memory and paired with an upgraded BIONZ XR imaging processing engine.

The 9.44 million dot OLED Quad-XGA electronic viewfinder features up to 240 fps refresh rate. The camera offers 8K 30p 10-bit 4:2:0 XAVC HS recording with 8.6K oversampling. It is also capable of 4K 120p / 60p 10-bit 4:2:2 recording. The Real-time Eye AF reportedly improves detection performance by 30% over the previous system to ensure accurate, reliable detection, even when the subject’s face looks away. It also employs high-level subject recognition technology to provide Real-time Eye AF for birds. The Alpha 1 also features AI-based Real-time Tracking that maintains accurate focus.

The camera features S-Cinetone, the same colour matrix that produces the FX9 and FX6 colour and skin tones. The S-Log3 gamma curve makes it possible to achieve 15+ stops of dynamic range, while the S-Gamut3 and S-Gamut3 Cine colour gamut settings make it easy to match Alpha 1 footage with video shot on Venice cinema camera, FX9 and other professional cinema cameras. It delivers up to 5.5-step shutter speed advantage. Sony claims that the high-speed readout from the new image sensor makes it possible to reduce rolling shutter by up to 1.5 times when shooting stills, compared to the Alpha 9 II. It also offers silent anti-flicker continuous shooting with an electronic shutter, which operates silently, without mechanical noise and is vibration-free. The camera boasts of a flash sync speed of 1/400 sec.

The Alpha 1 offers several features for fast, reliable file transfers. Its builtin wireless LAN allows communication on 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands with dual antennas. It also has a built-in 1000BASE-T LAN connector for high-speed, stable data transfers, including remote shooting. FTPS (File Transfer over SSL/TLS) is supported, allowing SSL or TLS encryption for increased data security. The camera comes with two media slots that both support UHS-I and UHS-II SDXC/SDHC cards, as well as new CFexpress Type-A cards for higher overall capacity and faster read/write speeds.

The new Alpha 1 full-frame mirrorless camera is available across all Sony Centers, Alpha Flagship stores, Sony official online store and major electronic stores across India at an MRP of INR 559,990.