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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Adam Juniper

Is Sony A1 II the "first" camera with object recognition? My camera can already do that, and it can fly too!

Sony A1 II with caption 2024 and DJI Inspire 2 in flight with caption 2016.

When you're a drone expert, sometimes you forget just how far behind real cameras can get. After all, my camera can fly. Beat that! 😀 Seriously – as a Sony shooter content to sit with the distinctly mid-table A7 III – I was genuinely surprised about the excitement surrounding the arrival of the new top-tier Sony A1 II and the "big new feature" that is AI object recognition.

I held it in my hands for only a few precious moments, because reviewing it is best left to my colleagues but – as I helped capture a clip from our TikTok so reviews editor Gareth could appear in shot – I realised that drones had been doing something

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