It’s not going to be long before we see the Alpha 900, and some cameras are known to be out there on trial in the hands of Sony staff and pre-release testers. I am not one, so rest assured, this is not a leak! What can you expect from the Alpha 900’s full-frame prism finder? . . . → Read More: Alpha 900 – finder and frames
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 20 comments - (Comments are closed)  Cameras (DSLR), DK's ramblings, Photo Techniques, Uncategorized  A700, A900, Alpha 700, Alpha 900, Canon, CMOS, framing, full frame, IMX021, Nikon D3, Nikon D3X, Nikon D700, prism, readout, screen, sensor, shutter, Sony, SSS, stabilisation, viewfinder, windowed Alan Hess is the author of a new field guide to using the Sony Alpha 700, published by Wileys, with 281 pages and the usual contents covering basic photographic techniques as well as the camera’s operation. The cost of the guide is 16 Euros by mail order from Research & Markets of Dublin website; the . . . → Read More: Field Guide for Alpha 700 Share this:Now that there are five Sony Alpha DSLR bodies in circulation, with many owners of the original 2006 Alpha 100 considering a replacement, the differences between this ur-Alpha and the 2007-8 generation of Alpha 700, 200, 300 and 350 need examining. . . . → Read More: Which Sony Alpha? Share this: 4 comments - (Comments are closed) Cameras (DSLR), DK's ramblings, Equipment Reviews A100, A200, A300, A350, A700, Alpha 100, Alpha 700, camera, choice, decision, DSLR, report, review, SLR, Sony Moving a DSLR – preferably without vertical grip because of the further imbalance created – to portrait format shooting on a small tripod ballhead produces an unstable arrangement where the head is stressed. The camera may sag unless the head is tightened, and if the lens is heavy, it may also unscrew itself from the . . . → Read More: A quick vertical bracket for DSLRs Share this: 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Accessories - 3rd party, DK's ramblings, Equipment Reviews A100, A200, A300, A350, A700, adapt, Alpha 100, Alpha 700, DSLR, L-bracket, mount, portrait, Sony, tripod, vertical There’s a lot of controversy right now about whether or not the image structure of the Alpha 700 files at very high ISO – mainly 3200 and 6400 – is as clean as raw processed results from other comparable cameras like the Canon 40D (does not offer ISO 6400), the Olympus E-3 (does not offer . . . → Read More: A700, 6400 ISO, seven raw processors Share this: 5 comments - (Comments are closed) Cameras (DSLR), DK's ramblings, Software Reviews .ARW2, .cARW, 4.2, A700, ACR, Adobe Camera Raw, Alpha 700, ARW, conversion, converter, cRAW, extract, plug-in, raw, Sony Apple’s Aperture 2.0 is a tedious program to test, with all its creation of ‘projects’ and ‘libraries’, ‘albums’, ‘vaults’ and nonstandard GUI, and it isn’t fast in processing files or passing them to Photoshop (which it does in 16-bit form, just another step to reverse before saving as far as I’m concerned). However, it’s handling . . . → Read More: Apple Aperture 2.0 processes A700 raw Share this:NOT everyone will want the live view offered by the A300 and A350 – it does turn out to be more or less as we suggested, a secondary optical path adjacent to the eyepiece inside the prism housing. I’ll explain here exactly what the implications are, and why a future model – let’s call it . . . → Read More: How the live view A300 and A350 will work Share this:In mid 2007, rumours of a 14.8 megapixel Sony sensor came from the usual Far Eastern ‘inside’ sources. As a full-frame Alpha model (the so-called 900) had been previewed at PMA 2007, it was possible this megapixel count related to full frame, or near-full frame. It now looks as if it may have been a . . . → Read More: The A300, A350, A750? Share this:After reading Andrea Nivini’s article in Italian Tutti Fotografi, December 2007, which launches an attack on Adobe’s Camera Raw plug-in and its handling of many camera types – but specifically, the Sony Alpha 700 – I decided to check out whether the December 5th release, ACR 4.3.1, fixed the problems. . . . → Read More: ACR 4.3.1 hasn’t solved A700 high ISO mush problems Share this: 7 comments - (Comments are closed) Cameras (DSLR), Software Reviews, Troubleshooting, Uncategorized A700, ACR, Adobe, Alpha, Alpha 700, Aperture, Bayer, camera, Capture One, conversion, DCRaw, DxO, Iridient, Lightroom, LightZone, Phase One, Photoshop, raw, Raw Developer, Raw Therapee, RawPhotoProcessor, RPP, SilkyPix, Sony |
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