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Sony has sent out emails from My Sony EU support telling owners of NEX cameras that a new firmware upgrade is available. However, the email refers to the upgrade to v03 issued on October 14th 2010. Sorry folks! Update: I’m told by a Sony exec that they were ‘testing a new email system’! Share this:It’s 2.13am in Scotland, and I can’t possibly handle the volume of press material which has just flooded in from Sony at the CES show in Las Vegas. Exmor-R is really rolled out in force – back-illuminated CMOS sensors all round. Simulataneous still capture during video without interruption has arrived in the consumer cameras, both . . . → Read More: Sony launch new consumer technology Share this:Here’s an article on our sister website, dPhotoexpert, which may interest Photoclubalpha readers who shoot for libraries or on-line stock sites: 30 key points about stock photography | dPhotoexpert. Share this:This video was made on December 23rd using the Alpha 55 (AVCHD recording) hand held, with SS enabled, and the Carl Zeiss 16-80mm zoom. This video has been uploaded in full 1080p HD and can be viewed at high resolution if you have a fast enough connection. The soundtrack is a classical guitar piece I . . . → Read More: Alpha 55 1080p HD video – snow in Scotland Share this: 2 comments - (Comments are closed)  Cameras (DSLR), DK's ramblings, HD Video, Lenses - Alpha Mount  16-80mm, Alpha 55, Carl Zeiss, CZ, guitar, movie, music, video Once I had a quarterplate hand-and-stand camera, vintage 1920s. Attached to the front standard was a small reflex viewfinder, giving a miniature composition you could use at waist or chest level. On the same standard was a folding wire frame, with a companion eye-sighting window flipping up from the side of the body. This gave . . . → Read More: The Alpha 580 – a three-way view Share this: 19 comments - (Comments are closed) Cameras (DSLR), DK's ramblings, Equipment Reviews, HD Video, Lenses - Alpha Mount 560, 580, A580, Alpha, Alpha 580, camera, David KIlpatrick, DSLR, photoclubalpha, report, review, Sony, test 
It’s taken me a long time to get round to writing a review of the Alpha 55. You don’t get to use a new type of camera very often, and this camera blends elements which have all been used before in a completely new way. This review is pretty from the point of view . . . → Read More: Alpha 55 – in depth pros and cons Share this: 51 comments - (Comments are closed) Cameras (DSLR), DK's ramblings, Equipment Reviews 55, A55, Alpha, report, review, Sony I’ve finally got round to trying a ‘proper’ videocast – perhaps the first of regular short demonstrations – with the Alpha 55 offering me HD filming while demonstrating the NEX-5. And I can use the NEX-5 to film stuff about the Alpha 55. A Canon 60D helped, though its inability to refocus during filming (which . . . → Read More: HD videocast – NEX adaptors and odd lenses Share this: 11 comments - (Comments are closed) Cameras (DSLR), DK's ramblings, HD Video, Lenses - Alpha Mount, Lenses - SR/MC/MD, NEX System adaptors, Alpha, lens, NEX, Sony, video Sony today announced upgrades and a road map which will keep NEX E-system adopters more than happy – especially those who have added NEX to their Alpha outfit. Diehard Alpha purists will be less delighted. At the photokina press conference, a two-year rollout of additional NEX lenses was announced including a fast Carl Zeiss wide-angle, . . . → Read More: Sony affirms NEX future – and SLT path for Alpha Share this: 4 comments - (Comments are closed) Cameras (DSLR), DK's ramblings, News, NEX System A33, A55, Alpha, DSLR, firmware, lenses, NEX, SLT, Sony, translucent, video, Zeiss Samsung and Sony are set for a battle royal over the next couple of years. At photokina, Samsung’s Monday 20th press conference made great store of ‘all our own work’ – that everything in the NX100 was sourced within Samsung. From the floor, a question far cheekier than I would have dared ask – ‘Are . . . → Read More: Battle lines drawn at photokina Share this:Sometimes earlier this year, early Spring I think, I had a vivid and detailed dream during a slow waking-up hour. It was the kind of dream which feels rational not random. I knew what I was doing in it – in control! This time, I described the dream to my wife and son; he knows . . . → Read More: A dream of the future – and past Share this: 5 comments - (Comments are closed) Cameras (DSLR), DK's ramblings 3D, alignment, dream, environment, geometry, Google, GPS, image coordinates, keypoint, landmark, mapping, Microsoft, positional data, reality, reconstruction, surveillance, timeline, virtual earth, VR, walkthrough |
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