Category: Sony

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 Alpha 77 / Sony A77

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.…

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 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…

Minolta APO white lenses

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:…

Sony video: “This is not a dysfunction”

Exclusive Sony France interview for YLovePhoto.com Today, I’ve got a rather detailed talk with Édouard Schmitt, Sony France Alpha Product Manager, who helped me go over the current situation created by the announcement made by Sony a few days ago when they revealed that the digital sensor of the Alpha SLT-A33 and Alpha SLT-A55 could…

Sony A560/A580 User manual

Download Sony A560/A580 user manual

Always trying to help the YLovePhoto.com visitors, here are the user/operator manuals I could find on the Internet for the Sony Alpha 560 and the Sony Alpha 580. English: Sony A560/A580 User Manual Français : Manuel utilisateur des Sony A560/A580 (rien encore pour le moment) Deutsch: Sony A560/A580 Benutzerhandbuch (Noch nichts gefunden) If you found…