And so, on the 2nd of October 2007, I went to the Sony Alpha 700 launch in Renaissance Hotel Kuala Lumpur. One of my works also made it to a 20×30″ print! My portrait was taken by Azrul K. Abdullah. This picture however was taken by KJ.
I love it when people go, “How’d he do that?”
The shot was from the Incubus Tribute gig at Jamasia.
One of the many displays; I did not get a good look at them…
…until it was pointed out that there was the unreleased Sony 70-300mm F4.5-5.6G SSM lens! Note the focus hold button, distance window and focus limiter (with, oddly, a Manual Focus option.)
This is meant to be the faster, high-quality optics version of the Sony 75-300mm F4.5-5.6. The G designation specifies a Minolta/Sony lens of high grade, quite like the L lenses of Canon.
Shot from one of the Sony PhotoTVs. My Sony A100 was too contrasty to capture the tonality that the TV showed!
Regretfully, I did not pixel peep at the HDMI-ready TV. I should’ve! It would supposedly allow you to view a photo like a large print up close.
And then it was revealed what was powering the TVs; a single A700! George the Sony Alpha product manager then used his (supplied) Sony A700 remote control to go through the menus. It was on slideshow mode all this while!
Did I tell you my dad works for Konica Minolta? When KM sold their camera technology to Sony, the company gave out the remaining stock to the employees 🙂
grr..more Sony porn! 😛 that white lens costs 10k, aintit?
Canon Freak: That’s the recommended retail price; the street price is much, much lower.
Matthew: Yes you did! And you got an A2 for it! Excellent bridge camera that was.
hmmmmmmmmm nice picture of u!
eh tak ajak me lahh… hehe…
the interesting specimen: Thanks! (Dammit, I was hoping you meant to refer to a picture in the post before this.)
Lex: The RSVP list was done ages ago! Couldn’t just bring anybody to crash it.
Hey albert!
its been a long while since I caught up with your blog.
Azrul’s name caught my eye.. hehe.. he’s my cousin! =P I kinda watched in awe when he was still in high school with some really old cams…
Christina who comes by Malaysia and doesn’t say hello: HELLO!
Wow, that’s a weird far connection. Yeah, I went to his studio and was in awe, too.