Hi! My name is Mine Kasapoğlu and I am a sports photographer.
I travel around the world and I take photos of elite athletes.
I have been using the Sony α9 for two years now.
It’s a revolutionary camera,
it’s the best camera out there for sports by far.
Its technology and innovation at its best.
The α9 firmware update version 5
just makes the camera a whole brand-new experience,
it’s almost like having a new camera.
The firmware has over 20 features
but the one that really spoke to me was the real time AF tracking.
It recognises subjects with artificial intelligence
using distance, shapes, colour
and it won’t lose the subject no matter what.
It’s really something I’ve never seen before
One thing that’s really cool is when I’m shooting below or above and
I’m using the screen,
I can actually activate the real time tracking
just with touching the screen and selecting the focus points.
In sports photography our number one concern is to get something in focus.
It realises, it identifies a person, and even if they turn around,
they know it’s still a person and then they wait for her to turn back
and you still get the eye autofocus.
So, it pretty much decides itself what’s the best auto focus,
and this is really amazing for me because
I don’t want to think about focusing when I’m shooting.
I just want to focus on the shot and the composition and the feeling
and I just want to go around and do my images.
This is just amazing because as a sports photographer
we are photographing people and usually you want the eye in focus,
so to have this feature really changes the game.
It knows if you’re shooting a person, it goes to the eye automatically.
You don’t have to push an extra button so it’s always in there built in
and of course, you can turn it off if you want.
On top of this you have an option to pick between left or right eye or auto,
and auto will pick the closer eye to you, to the camera
and this is also really nice that you have so much control over this feature.
So, she’s running towards me, the camera captures the eye,
recognises the subject and is not letting go.
Oh, this is amazing
There’s not a single image out of focus.
I mean, if you showed this to me a few years ago, I wouldn’t believe this.
Us sports photographers, we use FTP
to send our images super-fast all around the world.
Usually we need to always do this from our laptop,
we need to download or images, select and then send them by FTP.
Now with this new firmware update, we can actually send magazine quality images
without opening up our laptop.
This gives us a lot of extra time to shoot more.
With the imaging edge transfer and tagging add on,
you can really transfer your photos directly to your smartphone
you can tag and transfer.
So, you can actually put in your tags and captions,
you can resize, you can crop and you can send via FTP
from your phone to your client and you’re done.
You don’t have to open a laptop; you don’t have to lose any time
and you can keep on shooting.
This will change the sports photography world
I feel like α9 was holding the world record by far
for being the best sports camera out there right now,
and with this new firmware they just beat their own world record.
And that to me is really, really inspiring.
This firmware update is such a good surprise,
because you don’t usually find something that’s the best on the market
try to get that much better.
This is one of the reasons why I am just so happy to be a part of the Sony family.
They value our work and our passion, and they feed us with the best technology.
I love this tagline that says ‘when dreams meet technology’
I have a dream that I want to capture moments of athletes,
I want to capture emotions; I want to capture their hard work.
I want to capture their most important moments and show the world.