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…
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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…
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…
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
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
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…
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…
Sony A77 details
Appeared for a short time on the dutch forum fotomateforum.net, here are the possibles/probables features of the future Sony Alpha 77 (or SLR-A77): APS-C 23.6 x 15.6 mm 24.4 Mp (Effective) EXMOR CMOS backlit sensor Continuous shooting at 16 fps Sensitivity: ISO 100-204800 Autofocus: 51 focus points (15 cross-type sensors) Micro Adjustment for Sony, Minolta…
Sony Alpha 77 viewfinder
A small information about the future Sony Alpha 77: If we know that it will include an electronic viewfinder (EVF) since the revelations from the Sony marketing, we were still lacking some technical details. I just learned that this electronic viewfinder should be based on an OLED display with the exceptional contrast of at least…
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: 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…
Sony presents its future A77 or A7xx
Sony chose the just-opened Photokina fair of Köln (Germany) to tell us much more about its future activities in the Alpha line of DSLR photo cameras. the main part, of course, concerns the future replacement of the Alpha 700. We learned a few key points: It will be a camera based upon the semi-transparent mirror…
Sony A77: Latest news rumors
Everybody expects that Sony will soon replace the Sony Alpha 700, the expert SLR camera of the Alpha line. However, it seems more and more unlikely that it will be presented at the Photokina fair of Köln, Germany on Monday. According to most comments and rumours, Sony will have a prototype under a glass dome…
Little Sony news
There are a few little sounds that come from people who know about Sony. First, and this is no longer a rumour, Sony has delayed the availability of the Sony Alpha 560 until beginning of 2011. The exact date seems a bit unclear (January or later?) and the reason is still unknown (production/manufacturing issues or…
Sony: A toast to absent friends!
When they presented the new Sony Alpha 560 and Sony Alpha 580, yesterday, Sony published a family photo for the two Alpha and NEX ranges. Nobody is missing. But two products are obviously absent: The Sony Alpha 700 has been removed completely from the photo. There no longer is any 500mm f/8 mirror tele-lens (which…
Sony A750, 16MP
The echoing sound of a conversation that I just transcribe here: The next Sony Alpha 750 (or at least, what will be the successor to the Alpha 700) will receive a new Sony EXMOR 16 mega-pixel digital sensor, able to also shoot 1080p videos at 30 frames/s. Presentation in Photokina 2010, or a few days…
Photokina 2010: Sony reborn
2010 is decidedly a critical year for Sony: Nearly all the photography product portfolio is going to be renewed and many innovations are coming to sustain this. Even better, at the end of September, the Photokina fair in Köln, Germany, will allow Sony to announce and present several key products defining this rebirth, this jump…
Sony news and predictions
It’s clear that this time of the year, we are hearing a lot about Sony. But this is only the beginning and I will take some time to come back on the recent events and what is coming in the news for the manufacturer of the Alpha line of SLR photo cameras. After the launch…