Alpha 910 — Full-Frame Camera Bodies Compared | alpha910.com

Alpha 910 — Full-Frame Camera Bodies Compared | alpha910.com

Global Shutter and Rolling Shutter

A global shutter reads the whole sensor at once; a rolling shutter reads it row by row and skews what moves.

Sony describes the Alpha 9 III as the world's first camera with a global shutter full-frame image sensor.

The read-out happens for the entire sensor in one go, which removes rolling-shutter distortion from stills and from video.

Fast subjects are where the difference shows: bats, balls and splashes cross the frame while a rolling shutter is still reading, and each row holds a different instant.

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Flash work changes as well, because synchronization is possible at shutter speeds up to 1/80,000 second on this body.

The same sensor allows blackout-free continuous shooting at 120 fps with full AF/AE tracking, so the viewfinder does not go dark between frames.

Which of these figures you can quote side by side is the subject of the specification reading page.

  • Whole-sensor read-out: no skew in stills
  • Whole-sensor read-out: no skew in video
  • Flash synchronization up to 1/80,000 s
  • Blackout-free burst at 120 fps with AF/AE

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