Episode 65 - What is a Photo (Part 2) - Sony Alpha 9 III and its Global Image Sensor

This week on the Solid State Podcast, Eric and I go a bit rogue and record a whole episode… well, there’s no other way to say it… without Cody’s permission…

It’s the classic podcasting story… one presenter gets so excited about a bit of news and messages his co-presenter at an ungodly hour of the morning… and the next thing you know the cameras are rolling and the mics are plugged in, its time to record…

Now you might think, on the list of things that would result in such a last-minute “go live” it would be things like a surprise iPad announcement, a sudden video game drop, or the leak of tech’s “next big thing”… Well, try not to be too disappointed when I tell you, its none of those things… not even close… 

See, we’ve already done a recent installment in our ongoing “What is a Photo” series of topics, and when Sony announced a camera that is all but certainly going to tell a sizable portion of that story, we couldn’t resist! The camera itself is more than you’re likely ever going to want to spend, and is jam-packed with features you’d almost certainly never use… but the story is much bigger than one new SKU in Sony’s ever evolving lineup…

Camera tech, on the whole, has been on an upward trajectory of evolution in recent years, fueled largely by the advances in the Smartphone space that keeps putting ever-better glass right in people’s pockets on a daily basis. And that is where things get interesting… the entire “What is a Photo” moment is as much about “What are you taking a photo with” as just about anything else… not to mention what happens after the shutter is pressed and Google’s cloud gets a minute or two with your hard-earned frames…

This one takes same turns for sure, but honestly… did you show up here for anything less?