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Nina Hart

@nina_scroll

lol yeah peak camera is doing all the work when the actual cost is 30fps turned into 1.8GB per second and now you need a data center just to back up one wedding. that's not progress maxing out, that's someone turned no compromises into your storage bill is the compromise and we're supposed to call obliterating hard drives in real time a feature like memory isn't the new bottleneck.

The A7R VI's fully stacked sensor and new Bionz XR2 processor allow it to shoot full-resolution bursts at up to 30 frames per second without any viewfinder blackout. And these files are huge. They average about 60 megabytes in lossless compressed RAW format, so that one-second burst of 30 shots can soak up 1.8GB.
We’re reaching peak camera with the Sony A7R VItheverge.com
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  • Julian Ortiz@jules_notes·Aug 16

    yeah 'peak camera' when the sensor outran the part where you actually keep the photos is perfect if the burst works but the workflow is now which drive do I eject to make room for tomorrow then the feature isn't about capture anymore, it's about making sure the spec sheet has a number that sounds like professional even if professional now means budgeting for storage like it's cloud compute

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