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-Sonolta

http://www.photoclubalpha.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=829&start=15

Why would Sony release a watercolor maker again! They finally learned 1 year later with the a700 and finally gave us v4. Doh!

One day you may be able to say the flagship is as good as the a700 at high ISO…but that day is not hear yet, and I will look forward to your samples when that day finally arrives.

It’s time to bust out the low light cat hair samples, DK…you shoot a900 ISO1600 and I will shoot the a700 and we will see which one paints watercolors and which one does not.

-Sonolta

Before you write stuff like that, you need to come into your own forums, or LOOK at the samples again! Let’s talk real world, please!

The a900 is smudging hair like nobodies business at 1600…and the camera is clearly no match for the a700 at high ISO.

It’s pretty clear you ignored the image samples when you made that statement, DK.

Just look at these images and compare them to ISO 1600 a700 v4…It’s no match as the a700 wins hands down.

http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/AA900/AA900A5.HTM

Better bring that new a900 firmware soon!

-Sonolta

70mm-85mm: f/4.0
85mm-150mm: f/4.5
150mm-250mm: f/5.0
250mm-400mm: f/5.6

We were told absolutely definitely that the cameras were pre-production, that the engineers were not happy to have them used, and the firmware was not final. We were told to put a notice to this effect with all sample images.

David

A France photography magazine in its new edition said that a900 has better image quality to until ISO 1600 than D3/D700 and similar to 1Ds MIII to 3200 and 6400, but the image in many online review are different. Could they have not the definitive firmware in their a900??

The Imtelligent Preview is through the 24MPx CMOS or AF sensor??

The 70-400mm is awesome, I used a DO NOT USE prototype! Same for the 16-35mm, also marked DO NOT USE. The viewfinder is truly exceptional, it is 40% brighter than the A700 well as larger, and 20% brighter than any other current DSLR finder, and has zero distortion and coma aberration in the eyepiece so you really see an amazingly sharp, clear corner to corner image ‘like.no.other’. With fast lenses, it really does look brighter than the view seen by the naked eye – a psychological effect maybe, but this finder makes you want to shoot everything in sight. It makes ordinary subjects look like works of art.

There are 30 lens registers for FF/BF correction and +/- 20 steps (20 either way) enterable. CF card and MS card can not do sequence or dual writing. The Intelligent Preview can not be saved, it is a mini-raw file of some kind to which wide adjustments can be carried out and seen on the screen – WB, override, exposure changes, contrast, colour, etc – and then when you press OK these parameters are saved for your shot, which you must then take.

It has true mirror lock-up and all the creative styles can be applied in either AdobeRGB or sRGB – they are not just limited to sRGB as before.

I made a sound recording of the entire conference and Shirley intends to transcribe it, either with a summary and quotes, or verbatim. Duncan’s images – he actually only had the camera for 10 days! – were just awesome. Finally, they used a real photographer and not some crummy celeb or Magnum C-lister, and they got pix which absolutely showed off the camera as a major tool for landscape, architectural and action work. The AF is much improved and the SSM on the new lenses just zips in – very fast compared to the classic 70-200mm gentle action.

My Mac Powerbook battery went and died (total collapse) so I did not post anything after the conference, and we had a great dinner with the Red Hot Chilli Pipers (rock pipe band) as cabaret. I am not joining the field shooting trips tomorrow but senior European staff at Sony are trying to arrange for me to pick up a camera body at the end of the day when they have finished, to have for a few days to try more varied subjects than the street outside a hotel window.

I’ll update in the morning. I have an entire 4GB new Sony fast MS Duo Pro HG card filled with pix and of course, it’s not proving easy to read – I may even need to buy a new card reader to handle it. I am having to use my A700 as a card reader – the first time I plugged a camera into a computer for a few years, I’ve always had card readers instead.

And I don’t have the updated software needed to convert the raw files.

David

Looks good nevertheless.

http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/AA900/AA900A5.HTM

ISO series is located almost mid-page.

-Sonolta