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Packed with innovative technology, this Sony camera could change photography as we know it forever, says James Artaius

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The Sony A9 III is, hands down, the most advanced camera ever made. While it isn’t yet being referred to as the company’s flagship, the A9 series has traditionally occupied that position. And as mighty as the Sony A1 is, its specs honestly look kind of quaint compared to the Sony A9

III. The best sports cameras are the launchpad for manufacturers’ bleeding-edge technology, but I have never seen a camera with as much earth-shatteringly futuristic tech as the Sony A9 III. Terms like ‘game changer’ are banded about liberally these days, but this is a camera that could transform the way we use cameras.

With headlines including the world’s first full-frame global shutter image sensor, 120fps continuous shooting at full resolution

(24.5MP) jpeg and RAW, and the ability to shoot with a shutter speed of 1/80,000 sec, this is a camera made of pure photographic muscle. For those who haven’t come across the concept of a global shutter, essentially it exposes whole frames on the sensor at the same time – rather than line-by-line, scanning left-to-right or from top-to-bottom, the way traditional sensors do. The result is that rolling shutter – the phenomenon where non-horizontal straight lines (whether they’re golf clubs, baseball bats, telegraph poles or buildings) appear warped and distorted when shot at high electronic speed – is eliminated.