With the release of the Sony A1, a camera company pushed the boundaries of sync speed for the first time since I've been a photographer. When I started photography ISO 400 looked like a bag of processed dog food, and now I can get useable images when shooting 128x (7 stops / ISO 51,200) higher. So how is it that it took 15 years to push the mechanical sync limit a measly stop?This same camera is the first to sync it's electronic shutter with flash. Previously, cameras couldn't do... more