If you want to know the contents of the new Sony Alpha 230, 330 and 380, here is the information leaked during an update of the Russian version of a Sony web site.
What we learn:
- New ergonomics: Thinner hand-grip, new shutter release button, nicer LCD color interface (with a choice of 4 colour themes)
- The Sony Alpha 380 will have a 14.2 MP sensor (no information for the other ones, but I’d guess they will have the existing 10.1 MP sensor with minor improvements)
- The Sony Alpha 380 will go up to 3200 ISO sensitivity
- The Sony Alpha 330 and Sony Alpha 380 will have a tiltable LCD screen (but not full tilt-and-swivel)
- The Sony Alpha 230 will have an in-body help mode accessible from the LCD screen to provide support of basic functions to beginners
- Apparently no video mode, but only an HDMI HD TV output (right from the Alpha 230)
- Astonishing “smart teleconverter” mode on the Alpha 330 (and probably the Sony Alpha 380, too): “digital zoom” or “electronic zoom” which gives an additionnal x1.4 or x2 at the press of a button (to go further than the optical zoom, but at the expense of image resolution)
Thanks to PhotoClubAlpha and its Google-translated screen copy.