Category: Sony Alpha 500

Camera Raw 5.6 is here

Ready to celebrate the arrival of 2009 Beaujolais Nouveau, a new version of the RAW conversion utility from Adobe is here: Camera Raw 5.6. It supports a whole lot of recent cameras: Canon EOS 7D Canon PowerShot G11 Canon PowerShot S90 Leaf Aptus II 5 Mamiya DM22, DM28, DM33, DM56, M18, M22, M31 Nikon D3s…

End of year coupons and offers

Since this is time for the end of the year and its high sales of electronic gadgets and photographic gear, here also comes the time for cashbacks, sales and promotions. The photography market will not forget this in these recession times and there are many offers and promotions or bundles. Among the offers I tried…

Prices of the new Sony cameras

Collected from the German computeruniverse.net web site: DSLR-A500 body only: 649 Euro DSLR-A500L with 3,5-5,6/18-55 mm: 749 Euro DSLR-A500Y with 3,5-5,6/18-55 mm + 4,5-5,6/55-200 mm: 949 Euro DSLR-A550 body only: 749 Euro DSLR-A550L with 3,5-5,6/18-55 mm: 849 Euro DSLR-A550Y with 3,5-5,6/18-55 mm + 4,5-5,6/55-200 mm: 1049 Euro DSLR-A850 body only: 1999 Euro DSLR-A850Q with 2,8/28-75…

New cameras spotted all around

There is a bizarre rush for visibility in the online shops all around the web. I start to feel that most of them are actual fakes. Let’s check this: Several (accidental?) leaks from Sony web sites, showing Sony Alpha 500, 550, 850 (and possibly Alpha 750, but this one may be a counter-fire). A German…

Upcoming Sony Alpha 800

PhotoRumors is telling us about an anonymous leak describing a possible new Sony Alpha 800 with the following features: 16.2 MP full frame sensor EXMOR R (new technology) 100-25600 ISO 8 frame/sec SSI, same a900 OVF, new AF system, GPS and WiFi built-in 3.5″ LCD display Pop-up flash Flash sync: 1/500s Camera level 23 AF sensors…