Sony A9 Review

This high-performing Sony camera changes the rules for sports photography

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The A9’s continuous shooting performance is genuinely awesome. Individually, the frame rate, buffer capacity and zero viewfinder blackout are impressive – but when you put them together, the shooting experience is transformed.

For our shots of gymnasts, staged by Sony, the Zone mode was very effective because the movement of the subjects was predictable. For our own experiments, with faster, more erratic subjects, the Wide mode was just as effective, finding our subject and following it doggedly. 

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