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The Summer edition of Photoworld magazine is now available on-line in two forms – through our YUDU subscription, and through the Photoclubalpha website membership subscription. This will be our last quarterly, as over the last few years the website had taken over as a more practical vehicle for news and comment. In place of the . . . → Read More: Summer Photoworld – our final quarterly Share this:It’s a funny word to use, because the mirrors involved are transparent and not translucent (which implies passing light but not in an image-forming manner). Translucent means semi-opaque, letting light through in the way that an opal perspex sheet or Kodatrace foil does. Transparent means something you can see through. But now, thanks to the . . . → Read More: Four new Alphas – and two ‘translucent’ Share this: 4 comments - (Comments are closed)  Cameras (DSLR), News, Uncategorized  33, 55, A33, A55, AF, Alpha, camera, cameras, digital, DSLT, equipment, launch, Minolta, mirror, pellicle, photography, SLR, SLT, Sony, translucent Sony is expanding its line-up of over 30 A-mount lenses with new models that will appeal to seasoned photographers and those new to DSLR cameras alike – a 35mm f/1.8 DT (APS-C) SAM, an 85mm f/2.8 full frame SAM, and the long-awaited 24mm f/2 Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 24mm f/2 for full frame with . . . → Read More: CZ 24mm + 35mm and 85mm SAM lenses arrive Share this:SONY puts two 10.2 megapixel consumer digicams on the market in September 2009 using the back-illuminated Exmor R sensor. This CMOS sensor architecture takes the ‘sandwich’ which forms the light-sensitive pixel wells, and reverses it so that the side previously used for connections now faces the image-forming light. This change allows more light to be . . . → Read More: Exmor R hits the High Street – new Cyber-shots Share this: Comments are closed Uncategorized 720p, back-illuminated CMOS, Carl Zeiss, Cyber-shot, digital, HD, HDTV, imaging, lens, sensor, Sony G, Sweep Panorama, Twilight, video Gustav Kiburg has done an extensive test between these two lenses, posted in a Dyxum.com forum thread: http://www.dyxum.com/dforum/comparision-test-sony-70-400-vsminolta-400mm-f4_topic46212.html It’s well worth checking out. – DK Share this:Like Mike Johnston writing in The On-Line Photographer, I’m aware that any attempt to line up one or more cameras and show comparison images or make judgements is on to a loser from the start. And any webmaster who puts an external link in the first half dozen words of a new post is losing . . . → Read More: Sony Alpha 900 and Nikon D3X raw file noise comparison Share this: 21 comments - (Comments are closed) Uncategorized A900, Alpha 900, comnversion, comparison, D3X, ISO, Nikon, Nikon D3X, noise, performance, raw, review, sensor, Sony, Sony A900, Sony Alpha 900, test Following the review on dPreview – more than anywhere else – Sony’s extremely poor JPEG engine with its associated wide radius chroma blur and strong luminance smoothing noise reduction has proved to be a dog well capable of biting its master. Definitely a dog, anyway. But this performance is not what the camera can really . . . → Read More: The Alpha 900 as a high ISO body Share this: 6 comments - (Comments are closed) Cameras (DSLR), DK's ramblings, Lenses - Alpha Mount, Uncategorized 3200, 6400, 900, A900, Alpha, high ISO, Nikon D3, noise, Sony, Sony Alpha 900 Here, for some light relief, is an Alpha 700 + 24-105mm Minolta D documentary on the press dinner thrown for journalists from all the countries of the European region when they gathered in Edinburgh for the Alpha 900 launch! . . . → Read More: Alpha 900 launch: gala dinner Edinburgh Share this:TODAY Sony’s Alpha 900 was unveiled to European journalists at a press conference held in the Caledonian Hilton Hotel, in the very heart of historic Edinburgh shadowed by the Castle and looking out over the west end of Princes Street gardens. The price for the body only will be £2,100 inc VAT from Sony Style . . . → Read More: The Alpha 900 arrives Share this: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 Share this: 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 |
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