Sony Alpha 400 – YLovePhoto https://www.ylovephoto.com/en Intrigued by photography Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:58:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 All Sony SLR with semi-transparent mirrors https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2011/02/24/all-sony-slr-with-semi-transparent-mirrors/ Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:35:34 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=9647 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:
Sony Alpha 99
This is not the Sony Alpha 99 (but the Sony Alpha 900)

  • 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 nearly parallel direction, knowing that Sony decided not to announce a new Full Frame SLR camera this year (but only in 2012), it is interesting to notice the information provided by SonyAlphaRumours and telling us that Sony determined its strategy for the year 2011. For the most significant part, Sony forecasts a complete stop of manufacturing for the Sony Alpha 850 whose stocks will plummet quickly. On the opposite, the elder brother (more endowed too) Sony Alpha 900 will see its price drop progressively at the current 850 level, to boost sales, avoid leaving too much room to the competition and empty the stocks before the arrival of an Alpha 99.

]]> First touchscreen SLR camera? https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2009/02/23/first-touchscreen-slr-camera/ Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:31:35 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=1669 What do you think about this? There are already several point-and-shoot compact cameras using LCD touchscreens for all or part of the user interface. But, to this day, none of the major SLR camera manufacturers did try this on a them while it would be relatively easy to push this into a design budget for an expensive camera like SLRs. Nothing at Nikon, nothing at Canon, nothing at Sony, …

Who will be the first to bring this innovation? And I really think it is inevitable that it will come soon on our reflex cameras. Even if only because it reduces the number of needed buttons and it brings a certain flavor of technical progress that should appeal to most of the camera enthusiasts buying SLR cameras (just think about the unrelenting success of video modes which should -as a matter of fact- only be considered as anecdotal on a photo camera).

I think that it’s possible to list the best candidates for this:

  • Low- to mid-range camera at Sony, like a Sony Alpha 400
  • Entry-level camera at Nikon, like a Nikon D65
  • Lowest price cameras at Samsung and Pentax, Pentax K3000, Samsung GX-3000 (and maybe even a mid-range option for these brands are striving to distinguish themselves technically from the market leaders)
  • A complement to Panasonic DMC-G1 under the name of DMC-G2 or DMC-G3

This is all mere observation of technolody presence among the compact models (such point-and-shoot cameras like the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T77, the Nikon S60 Coolpix, the Samsung NV34HD or the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX580). And there is more reality to these remarks than to most predictions about the launch of presumed major products at the next PMA fair in Las Vegas.

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