With the first expert photo cameras from Sony equipped with electronic viewfinders, the question is more and more often asked whether this is a technological opportunity that the old photo pricks prefer to ignore or an approximate solution aimed only at low-demand customers. As a matter of fact, truth lies somewhere in between those two…
Category: Sony Alpha 99
Sony Alpha 99: A dream
PhotoRumors has just produced a set of features for a future Alpha 99 (or A99). Obviously, this looks like a dream camera, but it is probably only this as they accept (not even rating its credibility). Translucent mirror 36.9 Megapixel 3MOS Exmor sensor (No Bayer filter) ISO 100-102400 extendable to 204800 and 409600 12 frames per…
This is the end for the Sony a290, a390 & a850
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…
All Sony SLR with semi-transparent mirrors
QueSabesDe.com obtained an extraordinarily bold statement from Sony: All future Sony SLR cameras will be using the semi-transparent mirror technology (so, very probably with Electronic View Finders) and this applies to: All APS-C SLR cameras All Full Frame SLR cameras Gee! This is going to influence the future of the Sony Alpha line. In a…
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…