Sony announced its forthcoming "flagship" Alpha-branded SLR on Thursday at the Photo Marketing Association trade show in Las Vegas.
Its chief defining feature so far is its use of a 24.8-megapixel sensor that's unusually large--the size of a full frame of 35mm film. That move makes Sony only the third digital SLR (single-lens reflex) maker, along with Canon and more recently Nikon, to aim for that part of the market. Sony's flagship is geared toward advanced amateurs, but Sony hopes professional photographers will like it, too. The camera is scheduled to go on sale later this year.
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- They won't give you anywhere near the frames per second of the Red, but these BetterLight large format backs will do up to 10,200 x 13,600 pixels native (138,720,000), with full RGB data at each pixel... (Read the rest)
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 I love their a100 model... HypnoToad72 | 02/01/08 |
| (NT) Does that come with a rootkit? Jack-Booted EULA | 02/01/08 |
 If you really want to go crazy CobraA1 | 02/01/08 |
 Or go crazier... johnay | 02/04/08 |
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