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shutter. It eliminates rolling shutter distortion entirely, so there are no more skewed verticals. It also allows flash sync at any shutter speed – a true revelation. And there is no awful colour banding when shooting under fluorescent lights. This is a huge leap for sports, action and professional imaging where precision is critical. 7 Eye AF in medium format Autofocus in medium format used to lag behind, and since longer lenses and higher resolution meant focusing was even more critical, old-school contrast detect AF was a problem. Cameras like the Fujifilm GFX100 II and Hasselblad X2D 100C now use clever on-sensor phase detection and AI to include eye AF. This makes these high-resolution systems far more usable for portraits and moving subjects, bridging the gap with full-frame performance. 8 Open gate video Social media is all about vertical video, while longer-form content such as YouTube is based on the traditional widescreen shape. So, you have to decide what you’re shooting before you press record. Open gate recording changes that. By using the full sensor area, it offers maximum flexibility
for reframing during post-processing, and allows creators to shoot once and deliver multiple aspect ratios for social use, as well as more traditional cinema- style footage. 9 Stacked sensors Mirrorless cameras used to lag behind DSLRs when shooting fast action as the viewfinder was always slightly behind the action. This was a nightmare for panning, for example. Stacked sensors dramatically increase readout speed by separating processing layers. Cameras like the Sony A1 pioneered this to offer not only faster burst shooting, reduced rolling shutter and improved autofocus – but also give a view like a DSLR. It’s one of the biggest performance leaps in modern camera design. 10 Camera as computer If you want to back up your memory card to an external SSD in the field, you’ve always needed a laptop. Now you don’t, thanks to tech pioneered on the Panasonic Lumix S1 II. Plugging in an external SSD to its USB-C port enables direct transfer from the images and videos on your CFexpress cards to external SSDs. No laptop needed. It makes the camera a portable data hub, ideal for travel and location work.
TECH IT EASY Innovations to improve your life include internal Raw video (above), recording to USB-C (right) and incredible image
stabilisation (below right)
We’re not talking about incremental upgrades but tech tweaks that move the needle which you may have missed
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