Every now and then a new camera wows the world of photography, and the launch of the Sony A9 III was one of those moments. So is the buzz around the fastest-ever camera justified? After an extended time with the camera for this in-depth review, the answer to that question is complicated, but all things considered it’s a solid yes.
With the A9 III Sony has upped the bar by some margin for high-performance photography for sports and wildlife. A new kind of sensor with ‘global shutter’ unleashes a number of class-leading features, and crucially eliminates the ‘rolling shutter’ distortion in photos and video that you can get with the electronic sensors used in general to enable top performance in most other cameras.
