Category: Sony

  • Sony NEX lens roadmap (E-mount)

    Sony NEX lens roadmap (E-mount)

    Quite interesting: Sony Japan published a roadmap of the future lenses for the NEX line-up. Even in Japanese, it is quite easy to discover what is being prepared for the next two years:

  • Sony opens the NEX lens specification

    Sony opens the NEX lens specification

    Sony has announced officially and publicly that they are going to completely share the specifications for NEX series lenses. It will become possible for third-party lens manufacturers to create optical products for the Sony NEX hybrid mirror-less photo cameras. Here is very good news for the Sony customers. But it’s even better when we read…

  • Sony A77 details

    Sony A77 details

    Appeared for a short time on the dutch forum fotomateforum.net, here are the possibles/probables features of the future Sony Alpha 77 (or SLR-A77): APS-C 23.6 x 15.6 mm 24.4 Mp (Effective) EXMOR CMOS backlit sensor Continuous shooting at 16 fps Sensitivity: ISO 100-204800 Autofocus: 51 focus points (15 cross-type sensors) Micro Adjustment for Sony, Minolta…

  • Sony NEX in 2011

    I heard indirectly that a new NEX camera will be presented by Sony. As always, it will be an ultra-compact photo camera but with an APS-C digital photo sensor installed in it. Apparently, it would hold a 16.7 MP sensor (already seen in the Sony Alpha SLT-A55). I think that it could be named NEX-4.…

  • Sony Alpha 77 viewfinder

    Sony Alpha 77 viewfinder

    A small information about the future Sony Alpha 77: If we know that it will include an electronic viewfinder (EVF) since the revelations from the Sony marketing, we were still lacking some technical details. I just learned that this electronic viewfinder should be based on an OLED display with the exceptional contrast of at least…

  • News for the Sony A77

    The interview that Mark Weir, Senior Manager of Technology and Marketing at Sony Electronics, gave to Imaging Resource is choke full of relatively precise informations about what will be the Alpha 77 (forecasted successor to the Sony Alpha 700, as high-end for the APS-C sensor SLR photo cameras for Sony). You may read it all,…

  • Sony Alpha 77: Improved EVF

    Sony Alpha 77: Improved EVF

    Still, nobody knows if Sony will name Alpha 750 or Alpha 77 its new SLR camera, but the rumor wind in the alleys of the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas that Sony a definitely chosen the semi-transparent mirror (SLT / Pellix) technology and an electronic viewfinder (EVF). If the viewfinders of the Sony…

  • Sony Alpha 99

    The revelation by AmateurPhotographeur of the very serious possibility that Sony will extend the application of its electronic viewfinder (EVF) and semi-transparent mirror technology (SLT / Pellix) to the pro cameras of its SLR range reveals that the future replacement of the Sony Alpha 900 will hold the nice (!) name of Sony Alpha SLT-A99,…

  • Sony: SLT for all in 2011

    Here comes an interesting remark from AmateurPhotographeur which lead us to read gain the photographs already available of the future 500mm f/4 APO G SSM from Sony. This pro-tele-prime lens announced a year ago by Sony includes a small DMF button whose meaning should be Direct Manual Focus. The use of this button would be…