Canon’s NEW sensor: 24 STOPS of DR + Sony, Nikon & Fuji Rumors

Tony Northrup covers the latest photography news, including Canon's new sensor that gets 24 stops of Dynamic range, the new Nikon 85mm f/1.2 and 26mm f/2.8, the leaked Fujifilm X-S20, the new Sony 500mm f4 and 300mm f/2.8 lenses, and Sony's new APS-C speed booster.

0:00 Introduction
0:24 Squarespace Promo
1:06 Nikon 85mm f/1.2
1:23 Nikon 26mm f/2.8
1:31 Canon’s new sensor
9:03 Fujifilm X-S20 LEAKED
9:28 Sony 500mm f/4
10:04 Sony Speed Booster
14:17 Squarespace Promo

[soringuleac]

Interested in the Sony speedbooster, but let's see the price and test videos.

[greggeis]

I’m a full frame Sony shooter. I think the speed booster would be interesting I might consider it so I could use an APSC both for a travel camera or a second body and still get to use my full frame lenses and get most of the look out of them.

[productions]

Would the Sony speed booster make my a74 able to do 4k60 without the crop?

[dizmatt]

can we please have a shout-out for today's "whip off the glasses in a serious way" which is even more dynamic than usual!!!

[synura]

A speedbooster with retrofocus design should be optically possible. The issue is image quality. Wide angle lens image quality did improve with the switch to mirrorless and the shorter flange distance. That is going to be hard to maintain with this speedbooster. There is likely to be a compromise somewhere: either the Sony speedbooster is limited to longer lenses, or image quality will suffer for wide angle lenses. Or the image will be inverted (intermediate image projection; though software can fix that).

[Chris-xets]

The sensor would be awful for images. Changing the shutterspeed for regions of the image will also change the image blur for these regions.
With stacked sensors and more die space per pixel there are better methods to increase the dynamic range. For proper computational photography we need way faster readouts anyway.

[maxmayer]

13:20 speedbooster, also known as focal reducers, have been around for ages. At least in astrophotography. I guess they were previously not produced that much because it is difficult to make a universal one that fits with all focal lengths and optical designs. The shortened flange distance of the mirrorless camera enables an intersection of the light path, that would have been prohibited by the mirrorbox on DSLR’s. The advent of electronic image correction in-Camera may have something to do with these product now being able to perform similar to a full frame with a matching lens. Besides, the whole purpose of using a smaller sensor format is to keep your gear slim and lenses light. Matching a full frame lens to an APS-C camera plus focal reducer in the middle is bound to be an imbalanced kit. I also doubt the image quality will always be like with a matching system component that was designed for the purpose. But it is a way to buy and more effectively use full frame lenses when planning to upgrade the camera to full frame at some point.

[GinoFoto]

The question is, whether it would be possible to focus to infinity with such speed-booster.

[MatthewPlate]

24 stops or DR? Is this for video as well?

[errol]

I almost got the lucadapter speedbooster booster for my pocket 6k but didn't like what it was doing to the colors. There was also ir pollution in the video reviews. I went with a used anamorphic adapter for for half the price. It still pulls me out of crop a bit with the horizontal stretch and I'm able to do anamorphic. Too much goes into balancing color and it is expensive doing so. I didn't go from an A7S one, (4K 8 bit ProRes HQ w/Ninja, ) to the P6K, (6K 12bit Q0 BRAW, ) to still worry about good colors.

[mcarlkv]

with the sony sppedbooster, dos that mean i can take a full frame lens from the fx6 and put it on the fx30?

[pwolkowicki]

Fuji had a better idea with EXR, but they should also ad an option of different timing like 1st and 2nd courtain in flash photography, not only just a different gain.

[og]

Do teleconverters change the minimum focusing distance? If so then a speedbooster wouldn’t let you focus to infinity

[DrClumber]

If that Sony FF to APS-C converter exists I might have to get the new version of the A6x00 (presumably A7x00?) really hope they announce that this year.

[angelamaloney]

If a speed booster came out like this, I would suddenly be tempted to buy the fx30.

[TheLDunn]

I use a Kipon speed booster to convert Pentax 67 lenses to GFX mount.

Interesting that Sony are potentially looking at doing a speed booster for E mount to E mount though

[dominey]

The new Canon sensor sounds analogous to what Apple has been doing with ProRAW / computational exposure blending, but more integrated into the camera hardware. Perhaps Canon (and others) might incorporate ProRAW (instead of their proprietary RAW formats, which no one likes) because it's an open standard.

[myblujl]

Im an A6600 shooter. This speed booster may also show Sony's commitment to APSC format! The A6X00 line has been stagnate for years, and rumor has it that a new APSC camera in that like is in the works. I really hope so! I love the APSC format since I dont want to haul around (or pay for) chunky full frame glass.

[davegrenier]

Moving the lens away from the sensor causes infinity focus to shorten, losing the ability to focus distant objects. A teleconverter obviously overcomes this problem with its optics. The speed booster would cause the same focusing problem, but the solution must be more complicated due to the fact that it's doing the opposite of the teleconverter, concentrating the lens' light cone rather than spreading it. So the easy-to-design device (the teleconverter) was made first and the more difficult device (the speed booster) has only been made now that there's a real purpose for it (smaller format sensors on cameras that accept full-format lenses). Just speculating, I'd be interested in seeing a video on the technical aspects of the two devices, how they differ and how they solve the infinity focus problem.

[MrJcalais]

Well the increased dynamic range should make it easier to take moon shots with foreground.?