Some of the Sony Alpha 77II documents are available to download: International User manual for Sony A77II Sony A77II brochure in English Sony A77II User Manual in English
Category: Sony Alpha 77
A77 successor – When?
The Sony Alpha 77 (or A77) has now more than 2 years of age on the market. It was a very significant step forward for Sony with the arrival of a semi-transparent mirror, of a good-quality Electronic View Finder (EVF) and of speed performance putting it a world of itself for its price (sensor resolution…
Alpha 77 & Alpha 65 – Firmware v1.05 released
Sony has just published a new updated firmware for its α77 and α65 SLT cameras. This version 1.05 adds the following important features: Improved response times (no more “processing” message while waiting for display of pictures, faster power-off, faster dial response times) Shading and aberration compensation now available on the following lenses: SAL-24F20Z (Carl Zeiss)…
Sony Alpha 77 – Torn down to parts
The analysis is interesting, but it’s nice to see all bits and elements of the camera. YouTube link
Sony A65 / A77: The differences in pictures
If you were wondering what the real differences are between the new Sony Alpha D-SLR semi-transparent mirror cameras (the Sony SLT-A65 and Sony SLT-A77), here is a summary made in pictures. It may help better understand the differences justifying the very large price gap between the two models (for the same digital sensor). Pictures coming…
The new Sony RAWs on Capture One
The most recent release of Capture One (version 6.3) now supports the new RAW files grnerated by the most recent Sony products using the huge 24 MP sensor: Sony Alpha 77 Sony Alpha 65 Sony NEX-7 Sony NEX-5n We should also list the support for the most recent Olympus: Olympus E-P3 Olympus E-PL3
Will the Electronic Viewfinder (EVF) save the photo world?
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…
Image quality of the Sony Alpha SLT-A77
Now that the new Sony SLT-A77 and Sony SLT-A65 have been presented to the press, the question which is asked by most photographers is: “seeing the nice figures shown by Sony, what about the image quality?” But this is a very difficult exercise. All the more difficult because nobody has final production cameras to test…
Sony SLT-A77: New SLR promotional video
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Sony SLT-A77 photos
A bunch of photos of the new Sony SLT-A77.
Sony: New DSLR cameras
Here they are! The new Sony have been officially announced. The (updated) feature lists are very near to what was leaked up to now: Sony Alpha SLT-A77 Sony Alpha SLT-A65 Important notice: The comparison table (with the competing Canon and Nikon products) has been updated. The good news: The digital sensor is 24.3 Mega-pixel Sensitivity…
Comparison new Sony, old Nikon, Canon [updated]
In a few hours, the two new SLR photo cameras from Sony, the Sony Alpha 77 and Sony Alpha 65 will be fully official. Since a lot of information reached our ears already through a number of different leaks, it is now possible to make a few educated guesses and to attempt a comparison with…
Sony Alpha 77 images leaked in China
The leaks keep flooding the Internet. Visibly, Sony is organizing the flood in order to drown any other announcement from another brand (Nikon) arriving at the same time this week. Source: DChome.
Sony Alpha 77 images leaked in Germany
Source: http://www.d-slt.de/sony-a77/
Sony A77 video leak still available
Last week, many web sites noticed the leaked promo video of the Sony Alpha 77 on YouTube. I was on holidays and did not mention it (but Mash, a French commentator, had spotted it). It disappeared quickly but I found it still available on a slightly more distant web site: YouKu link This is the…
Differences between A77 and A65
To enlighten those who are asking how to choose between the two future enthusiasts SLR photo cameras from Sony, the Sony A77 and the Sony A65, here is a short summary of what is known of their main differences: The image shutter will be “lighter” on the Alpha 65 (shorter guaranteed life span, lower frame…
New Sony cameras
While they are still unannounced, the Sony Alpha 77 and Sony Alpha 65 are relatively well known from the amount of leaks, rumors and informations available in the recent months. We know that they will be announced at the end of August. But without waiting any more, I decided to open the description page of…
Photos of the Sony Alpha 77
Thanks to SonyAlphaRumors.com, we have images which seem to be a real leak showing us what the Sony Alpha 77 will look like.
The price of the Sony A77 & Sony A65
I nearly missed this information bit which had been right under my eyes for quite some time, but here are the launch prices of the Sony A77 in September 2011. Sony Alpha 77 + 16-50mm18-70mm f/2.8 SAM = 1800€ Sony Alpha 77 nu = 1050€ Sony Alpha 65 + 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 SAM = 1000€ Sony…
Sony A77 & A65 – stolen images
SonyAlphaRumors.com got a nice photo of the upcoming Sony Alpha 77 that is expected to be the successor to the (now) old sony Alpha 700. This is still a rumor coming from a leaked image, but it looks like one of the most accurate information up to now. This is the confirmation of the tilt-and-swivel…
The Sony A77 arrives on 7/7
According to an information received by SonyAlphaRumors, the much-awaited Sony Alpha 77 or Sony SLT-A77 (the name has not been clearly confirmed yet) is now really about to arrive. After several non-official delays, July 7, 2011 (or 2011/7/7) has been chosen. OK, the people from Sony Photo are guys nearly prone to pranks, who are…
Sony: Delayed or not delayed?
Since several weeks, at Sony, rumors are running loose about the situation after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan on the 11 March 2011. As a matter of fact, it seems that there were several announcements scheduled this second quarter of 2011 and most of them have been pushed to later dates. photo © 2011…
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…
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…