http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/ Engadget Comments for More pics of Sony's new Alpha DSLRs surface http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/Apr 8th 2008 11:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.sony-alpha.org]]>Jun 16th 2008 10:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/May 17th 2007 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/
Every time I see a pointless, meritless, douchy, self-indulgent comment, I remind myself that these people don't need our resentment, but our pity and help... and then I smile.]]>May 17th 2007 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/May 17th 2007 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/May 17th 2007 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/May 17th 2007 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/
8 is more then enough, IMHO, if you REALLY need more (landscapes, extra-large prints), why not look at the full-frame cameras (Canon EOS 5D springs to mind - it is THE ultimate low-light DSLR in my opinion, plus it's hard to beat in terms of real resolution). Or, good'ol medium format.]]>May 18th 2007 7:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/
The advantage the Pentax and the Sony have over the "big dogs" is this built-in stabilization. Every lens you have, no matter how cheap, is stabilized. Like I said, you have to pay big bucks to get lenses that are stabilized from the other manufacturers.]]>May 17th 2007 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/May 17th 2007 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/
You may smile when you look at your d200 but I smile whenever I have to change a setting.

IS is IS no matter the lens or cam but I'll take mine built into the cam. All the lenses with it do different is make a boatload of money for the manufacturer. I have 22 year old lenses which now have IS capability. Instant upgrade.

Once you add the Grip those become some very hot looking cameras. And you KNOW that pentaprism viewfinder in the high end model is going to be good.]]>May 18th 2007 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/May 17th 2007 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/May 17th 2007 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/May 17th 2007 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/May 17th 2007 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/May 17th 2007 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/With pentax you barely get 1 stop vs at least 2.5 for apha. Please go to the store and test it yourself. It is much more superior than pentax.

Alpha with Zeiss 16-80 lens is the most potent DSLR in the sub $1800 range. Nikon and Canon has nothing to come even close. 16-80 is measured the sharpes zoom ever produced!]]>May 17th 2007 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/
Credit where it's due of course, all are making decent DSLRs now. With Olympus about to introduce their in-body stabilised cam, too - so there should be even more incentive for Nikon & Co to move that way, IMO.
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Canon have heaps of IS primes.

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p.s. what "heap" of Canon stabilized primes are you talking about?? ]]>May 18th 2007 12:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/
Second, while you might get IS in the body, neither the Pentax or the Sony offer the low-noise capability of the Canon or Nikon, so it's probably a wash. I can push the ISO my XTi up and hand hold it just fine w/o an IS lense and be perfectly happy w/ the image quality. Add an IS lense and push the ISO and the Sony or the Pentax just isn't gonna keep up.

Unless one of these new Sony's really jumps forward quality wise, you also have nowhere to go w/ the Sony (yet, maybe later) or the lense collection you have or build from scrath. I always know that I can upgrade to a much better Canon body w/ a 30D or the upcoming 40D, same goes for Nikon owners.

No thanks, I'll keep my XTi.]]>May 18th 2007 12:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/May 18th 2007 2:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/
Anyway. I will have to disagree on the noise reduction issue, or at least from the standpoint that I'd be willing to give up what the Canon or Nikon do in this area in exchange for an Alpha w/ IS in the body. Why, as an amateur/photo-hobbyist, would I want the extra work of dealing with noise in post processing if I don't have to...when I can get a perfectly good image (from a noise standpoint) with little to no post-processing.

Again, no thanks. Just my .02.

Sorry about the IS/USM confusion, just wasn't thinking clearly at the time.

Chris]]>May 18th 2007 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/
It's obvious that Sony can mnake good ccd chips. My Minolta 7D is on the par with the 20D as far as little noise wise. And let's not forget thier ccd chip in Nikon.

Sony has the ability to do what Canon can do and more, now that they are making their own cameras now. Bottomline, you under estimate Sony. You Canon geeks read as bad as the MAC users. ]]>May 18th 2007 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/
No one else has anything even close to these long lenses quality. I love Sony, and if they can come up with anything close for wildlife you can count me in. Gotta be longer than 300mm. Hope the sony reps take notice and run with it!]]>May 19th 2007 3:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/May 18th 2007 1:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/I've never seen Minolta full window displays in Taipei before, but now Sony is gearing up and already photo stores are filling whole windows with only Sony, and they just have one body at the moment. Sony is going to be seen ... and bought ...]]>May 18th 2007 2:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/
Take a look at these crops (Sony Alpha A-100, Nikon D80, Canon 400D @ ISO 1600) -
http://videomax.ru/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=25875

I'd go with 400d if i had to choose between these three (but I'm much happier with my 20D anyway :) )]]>May 18th 2007 7:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/
I used to be skeptical about Digital Photography as I began my earlier years with film (as did many others), but the Alpha A100 proved my doubts unfounded!

I have never felt so liberated!


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1. Hand holding shots in lower light. Either body or lense based IS benefits here.

2. Image stabilization on long zoom/telephoto. Only lense based IS benefits here, unless I'm mistaken about how IS works on the Alpha/K10D. You guys don't get the benefit of IS to compose your shot, because it's not thru the lense, it's built into the image sensor, which occurs after the mirror is up.

Anyway, just another thought I have. Depends on what you really need IS for. If it's for composing those far away shots w/ a long lense that makes your framing jump all over creation, then the body based IS is not as useful.

Chris]]>May 18th 2007 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/May 18th 2007 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/
The only Alpha available now is the current one. These new Alphas will be awesome, and will be more expensive (wish I knew how much), but my guess is it won't be anywhere nere $4K. Yeah, if money is no object, you can have what you want. But if you're a wedding shooter like me, and you'd rather carry $5k in equipment around instead of $10K (I banked the other 5K), then your best bang for the buck will be with something like the Sony. I assure you, your clients won't know the difference, full frame or not. I've NEVER had a client ask me what camera I shoot with, or anything technical about my equipment. My pics speak for themselves.]]>May 18th 2007 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/
And last time I checked, 5D was something like 2700-2800, not 4k.

P.S. Good luck to Sony, I wish they bring the competition to the full-frame market.]]>May 18th 2007 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/May 18th 2007 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/May 18th 2007 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/May 18th 2007 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/Get ideal results for field work on wilderness and nature assignments with the SAL-500F80. To reduce blur, this lens takes advantage of Sony’s Super SteadyShot® image stabilization system.

No time to type but thats a 500 mm lens.
]]>May 20th 2007 12:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/May 22nd 2007 12:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/sigh]]>Jun 11th 2007 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/Jun 25th 2007 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/17/more-pics-of-sonys-new-alpha-dslrs-surface/Aug 31st 2007 10:57AM