Sony made several “end of life” announcements for the Alpha series of DSLR. Two entry-level, the Alpha 290 and Alpha 390 are clearly replaced with the Alpha 35 and Alpha 55. The Alpha 850 is leaving the shelves -as it was expected from a long time- with a progressive price reduction of the Sony Alpha…
Category: Sony Alpha 850
Best Sony SLR lenses for wildlife photo
When Sony first entered the SLR market in 2006, not many people were sure it would be a successful move for a company with a no significant reputation outside of the compact point-n-shoot world of cameras. However, they drew a bold ace by buying the assets of Konica-Minolta (essentially all SLR photography assets for Minolta).…
New firmware for Sony Alpha 850/900: Tomorrow Now confirmed
photo © 2010 yellowcloud | more info (via: Wylio) Update: This is now confirmed and the firmware can be downloaded freely. According to SonyAlphaRumors.com, Sony will present tomorrow a new version of the firmware for the Sony Alpha 850 and 900 SLR Full Frame photo cameras. It should bring: Faster Autofocus Maximum exposure compensation range:…
24MP/FF for Nikon and Sony
photo credit: Edur8 There is currently a Full Frame digital sensor being developed by Sony. Or more precisely, Sony currently works on a 24 mega-pixel technology in the Full Frame form factor (FX in the Nikon local language) and the two applications actually forecast are at Nikon for building the Nikon D800 and at Sony…
Nikon D800: Possible features
Today, the leaks have been collected by our friends of Reportages Photo and they may allow us to discover some of the features of the next Nikon D800 (some believe that it will replace the existing Nikon D700, FX Full Frame photo camera famous for its excellent sensitivity coming from using a reasonably low resolution…
Photokina 2010: Sony reborn
2010 is decidedly a critical year for Sony: Nearly all the photography product portfolio is going to be renewed and many innovations are coming to sustain this. Even better, at the end of September, the Photokina fair in Köln, Germany, will allow Sony to announce and present several key products defining this rebirth, this jump…
Camera Raw 5.6 is here
Ready to celebrate the arrival of 2009 Beaujolais Nouveau, a new version of the RAW conversion utility from Adobe is here: Camera Raw 5.6. It supports a whole lot of recent cameras: Canon EOS 7D Canon PowerShot G11 Canon PowerShot S90 Leaf Aptus II 5 Mamiya DM22, DM28, DM33, DM56, M18, M22, M31 Nikon D3s…
End of year coupons and offers
Since this is time for the end of the year and its high sales of electronic gadgets and photographic gear, here also comes the time for cashbacks, sales and promotions. The photography market will not forget this in these recession times and there are many offers and promotions or bundles. Among the offers I tried…
Official Sony Alpha 850
Now it’s official! Sony released information about the Sony Alpha 850, it’s second Full Frame digital SLR camera. Now, the price is right. Below 2000€, the body is essentially the same as the Sony Alpha 900 (including the excellent 24 mega-pixel Full Frame sensor with its in-body image stabilization). The designers reduced significantly the costs…
Prices of the new Sony cameras
Collected from the German computeruniverse.net web site: DSLR-A500 body only: 649 Euro DSLR-A500L with 3,5-5,6/18-55 mm: 749 Euro DSLR-A500Y with 3,5-5,6/18-55 mm + 4,5-5,6/55-200 mm: 949 Euro DSLR-A550 body only: 749 Euro DSLR-A550L with 3,5-5,6/18-55 mm: 849 Euro DSLR-A550Y with 3,5-5,6/18-55 mm + 4,5-5,6/55-200 mm: 1049 Euro DSLR-A850 body only: 1999 Euro DSLR-A850Q with 2,8/28-75…
Sony Alpha 500, now!
They’re here! A German site, DigitalKamera, started spilling the beans before the official date (or is it the official hour?). So, Sony is really about to launch (as expected) the following DSLR cameras: Sony Alpha 500 Sony Alpha 550 Sony Alpha 850 Among the most important or most notable news, I would immediately mention: The…
News expected this week
We are told that this Fall is a great time for news on the SLR market. I let you judge by yourself: Canon: one announcement would be a definite possibility to replace the Canon 1D Mk III with a Canon 1D Mk IV and maybe also a Canon EOS 7D whose top cover and a…
New cameras spotted all around
There is a bizarre rush for visibility in the online shops all around the web. I start to feel that most of them are actual fakes. Let’s check this: Several (accidental?) leaks from Sony web sites, showing Sony Alpha 500, 550, 850 (and possibly Alpha 750, but this one may be a counter-fire). A German…
New Sony Alpha, on August 25
Sony Taiwan just sent a few invitations to the local press to present new products in the Sony Alpha series. The announcement will be done on August 25 (maybe a little earlier or a little later everywhere else in the world). Everybody expects to see the presentation of the Sony Alpha 850 and maybe also…
Price of the Sony Alpha 850
A German photo retailer web site, Fotobrenner, has listed the Alpha 850. This could be in preparation for the upcoming launch of the new DSLR from Sony. But there is a more interesting information: a price. 1.999,00€ would be the street price for the Sony Alpha 850. This is more probably a very serious information…
Sony Alpha 700, this is the end
Surprise on the Sony Japan web site: The Sony Alpha 700 is no longer listed as a consumer SLR camera between the Sony Alpha 380 and Sony Alpha 900. This can normally be considered as the sign of its imminent disappearance in favor of a new camera. Or several ones…
Sony Alpha names
A new leak at Sony Style (from the USA, this time) confirms (this is no longer a surprise) the arrival of the new following cameras: Sony Alpha 500 Sony Alpha 550 Sony Alpha 850 Apart from the Sony Alpha 850 already well known from a User Manual leaked on a Sony Hong Kong web site…
Sony Alpha 850, the user manual
Download the Sony Alpha 850 User Manual copy here. The original is still on the Sony HK web site, but this is VERY slow download.
Sony Alpha 850, in details
It seems that this has been a leak from the Hong-Kong Sony web site: The full Sony Alpha 850 user manual available for download during a few hours. It is a small Sony Alpha 900 with features like: 24,6 MP with Full Frame 35mm sensor Sensitivity: ISO 100-6400 A-to-D conversion with 6000 amplifiers (to reduce…
Possible leak of the Sony Alpha 850
Thanks to Dyxum forums, we know that there is a very strong possibility of seeing a new Sony photo camera under the name of Sony Alpha 850. The camera registration system on Sony Style has been shortly showing the following option for registering Sony cameras: Actually, there is currently no DSLRA850 in Sony line of…