Originally posted by surfar You have made a major investment,keep us informed as to the + and - that you find,please.
I might start a seperate thread about it. The A9 is simply a speed demon. With the electonic shutter and the camera set to 20fps I take 4 frames just by pressing the button for a split second. On the K-1 set to high I could still take a single frame just by being quick on the shutter button. With the A9 I can't do that. I might be able to with more practice, but with the drive set to high it is hard to take a quick single shot.
The body is heavier and feels more dense thna my A7II. The buttons and dials have more feedback when you make adjustments. The menu options are endless and I need to spend a lot more time diving in and learning the setup. EVF is very, very good. When i rented it I set it up like my A7II for the sake of familiarity, but the A9 has a much more robust feature set that I need to learn to really take advantage of what the camera can do.
I see a lot of people pick up a mirrorless camera and try to use it like a DSLR and they get frustratied. I did that at first. You have to setup mirrorless cameras to do what they do best. They have technology that you have to use or there is no point. The A9 has facial recognition so I can program the bride into the camera memory and if she is anywhere in the scene it will focus on her face. Not only will it automatically focus on her face it will meter for her face if I have that setup so the brides face is always in focus and properly exposed. I can worry about composition and not deal with the whole focus/lock meter and recompose. Even with using the A7II for a couple of years, I think I will have a long learning curve with the A9. So far I'm very pleased with the high ISO performance. The DR and detail is not as good as the K-1 when pixel peeping, but it is still very good and better than any thing Canon makes. The OOC JPEGs even at 6400 are surprisingly good.