Test scene Our test scene is designed to simulate a variety of textures, colors and detail types you'll encounter in the real world. It also has two illumination modes to see the effect of different lighting conditions.

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The 50MP, 'stacked' BSI-CMOS sensor in the Sony a1 is among the most advanced imaging sensors you can find today. It's capable of incredibly fast read-out despite that massive resolution, and we were curious how it compares against other options on the market. Take a tour of our studio scene above; we'll have our own thorough analysis once we complete our full review.

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We also took a look at how the a1 samples its sensor to produce 8K and 4K footage. See how it compares against the Canon EOS R5, the only other 'consumer-level' camera that can capture 8K video.

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