Category: Sony

  • New flexible cobra flash at Sony

    Sony just announced a long list of accessories for the Alpha SLR and SLT series. The most interesting one is certainly the new cobra external flash (fully orientable), HVL-F43AM. Main features: Guide Number: 43 (ISO 100) Bounce Flash: Click positions: up (30° / 45° / 60° / 75° / 90° / 120° / 150°); down…

  • Discontinued Sony cameras

    Discontinued Sony cameras

    Messages from all over the world are announcing that Sony is currently discontinuing a number of SLR cameras: Sony Alpha 580 (from Singapore and other) Sony Alpha SLT 33 The most common interpretation of such news is that Sony is preparing a large number of official launches in the coming weeks. Most probably they will…

  • New reviews listed

    New reviews listed

    I just added a large quantity of camera reviews in all the SLR camera pages. About 15 of them, in all languages starting with English of course, but also in French and in Spanish. Most of them are for the Sony Alpha 55. Many reviewers have been attracted to this innovative photo camera.

  • Sony NEX7?

    According to SonyAlphaRumors, there should soon be a Sony NEX-7. But they can’t give any indication of the specs.

  • All Sony SLR with semi-transparent mirrors

    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…

  • Sony A77 buttons

    Sony A77 buttons

    With the active help of the various readers participating to the discussion/analysis of the transparent prototype presented by Sony in Yokohama, for the Sony Alpha SLT-A77, and the active support of Sébastien who created the representations, here is our common analysis of the probable role of each of the buttons of the Sony A77. Thanks,…

  • The proto A77 got chickenpox

    The proto A77 got chickenpox

    Really! Look at these photos from DC.Watch. We can see all faces of the prototype shown by Sony in Yokohama and it’s quite obvious that there are more buttons on this camera body than on any other Sony SLR photo camera. I would even be ready to open a competition to assign features to all…

  • Sony booth at Yokohama

    Sony booth at Yokohama

    CP+ Sony’s Booth – Sony Alpha Advance Model, Sony’s 2011 Camera Line-up and other Prototype. from SpacePigTV on Vimeo. Source: AkihabaraNews.com

  • Transparent Sony SLT-A77 (Updated)

    Sony does not promise that this is exactly the Sony Alpha SLT A77 (successor to the current Sony Alpha 700), they merely tell us that this is a mid-range SLT photo camera expected in 2011. However, this is quite exactly the description of the Sony SLT-A77: As a matter of fact, at the CP+ show…