The BBC used IR RED, thermal imaging and Sony A7S cameras to get night shots for Planet Earth 2

The BBC is renowned for its stunning wildlife sequences. Every time they release a new wildlife series, especially one narrated by David Attenborough, the visuals are stunning. We are shown wildlife in a way we’ve never seen before. They use or invent technology that hadn’t even existed just a few years earlier. They really are on […]

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Here Is What A Sony A7S Looks Like After Dipping In Lava

If you thought that the Sony A7S was weather proof think again. It obviously can’t cope even with the simplest of Lava streams. Photographer Amanda Stevens was demoing some products at Samy’s Camera in Pasadena CA. She spotted this bitten-to-death camera. [luckily, this is not her camera]. As part of the store’s effort to convince customers to purchase an […]

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This Hack Claims to Add Internal 4K To The Sony A7S. We’re Skeptical

What if Sony’s camera has so much more power internally than what they expose? We have seen Canon cameras getting a performance boost via hacked custom firmware – Magic Lantern, so the idea is not unthinkable. Now, youtube user Nabil Fathi claims to have hacked the Sony A7S to record 4K internally, along with providing higher bitrate […]

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