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\nYes, the Sony Alpha 200 has been announced, as the successor to the A100.<\/p>\n
\nYes, the Sony Alpha 200 has been announced, as the successor to the A100.<\/p>\n
Differences:<\/p>\n
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\nI love the top view design.<\/p>\n
Personally, I prefer its design to the A100. There is a more streamlined design especially on the top, where it takes on the handlebar-shape of the A700. There’s no more silly A100 dial on the left; the ISO button returns, and you can see a silver O-ring like the A700 for future weather-sealed lenses.<\/p>\n
The only thing I find kinda tacky is how they wrapped “10.2 megapixels” along the AF\/MF switch.<\/p>\n
You can try the A200 and A700 at the Sony Alpha Roadshow!<\/b><\/p>\n
When<\/b>: 10.00AM – 10.00PM, 9th – 13th January 2008
\nWhere<\/b>: Centre Concourse, Mid Valley Megamall<\/p>\n
There’s also the Sony 300mm F2.8G SSM<\/b>, which isn’t spotted in shops anywhere!<\/p>\n
There are also contests – Alpha owners can enter a competition and win the Sony 16-105mm F3.5-5.6 DT, while those without can win a Sony H3.<\/p>\n
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\nAlso up and coming is the Sony Carl Zeiss 24-70mm F2.8 ZA with T* coating and Super Sonic Motor! This will be the Sony A900’s standard lens (or whatever they want to call their full-frame camera). To get this range on APS-C you’d need a 16-45mm F2.8.<\/p>\n
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\nThere’s also a leaked picture of a possible Live View swivel-screen Sony. The Fn button, directional keypad and vertical grip match those seen on the A200. There’s also a Live View button on the top-right corner! The vertical grip on the A200 is called the VG-B30AM (and not the VG-B20AM… which hints that the vertical grip was meant for something called an A300.)<\/p>\n
Thus, we can guess that there will be a Live View swivel-screen Sony A300. It’s not using the A700’s VG-C70AM vertical grip so it has less buttons and thus, is less advanced than the A700.<\/p>\n
Also, check out this video – Santana Featuring Chad Kroeger – Into The Night<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n An unidentified camera, which seems to have the A100’s interface, may be another new development from Sony – it can trigger a flash without the pop-up flash being raised!<\/p>\n You can spot the camera at 1:46-1:56. It fires flashes magically! AMAZING!<\/p>\n I don’t quite like Chad Kroeger, or any of Santana’s rather bland recent stuff, but I felt a glimmer of hope when he did a rock-and-roll solo at 2:11. Though, sadly, that’s just rock-and-roll, nothing… Santana.<\/p>\n And now for some sad news.<\/p>\n Herbert Keppler, the former publisher of Modern Photography and Popular Photography (as well as being on the Minolta team when they developed the quick-release iTTL hotshoe) passed away on the 4th of January.<\/p>\n