{"id":1463,"date":"2010-10-22T12:49:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T12:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2010-10-22T12:49:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T12:49:13","slug":"the-sony-alpha-580","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1463","title":{"rendered":"The Sony Alpha 580!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/a580p2.jpg\"><br \/>\nSo I tried the Sony Alpha DSLR-A580 &#8211; the less famous cousin of the Sony Alpha SLT-A55V. Its sibling, the A560, was delayed to 2011. It has a real nice grip to it, with a nice embossed mode dial.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/a580p1.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe firmware is interestingly, Version 1.11.<\/p>\n<p>In the menu you can choose Contrast Detect AF or Phase Detect AF to be used in Focus Check Live View.<\/p>\n<p>In the A550, it was called Manual Focus Check Live View. Now that the camera <b>can<\/b> focus in main-sensor Live View (which is what Manual Focus Check Live View is, really) it had to change its name.<\/p>\n<p>Phase Detect requires that the mirror drop back down so it can direct light to the Phase Detect AF sensors in the bottom of the camera.<\/p>\n<p>Contrast Detect just uses the main sensor Live View to focus, albeit a lot, lot slower. At least the mirror does not move.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5Of7zv5EXBY?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5Of7zv5EXBY?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I recorded a video to show this.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, there is no autofocus in video! You cannot manually focus and get a focus confirmation either! (The A55 and its sibling, the A33, show focus confirmation because its phase detect AF sensors are still seeing the view.)<\/p>\n<p>A lot has been improved or brought back, but in essence it&#8217;s still an old concept, based on the SLR idea. Translucent mirrors like on the SLT-A33 and SLT-A55, however, are an interesting way to tackle the limitations of the SLR focusing\/viewing design!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I tried the Sony Alpha DSLR-A580 &#8211; the less famous cousin of the Sony Alpha SLT-A55V. Its sibling, the A560, was delayed to 2011. It has a real nice grip to it, with a nice embossed mode dial. The firmware is interestingly, Version 1.11. In the menu you can choose Contrast Detect AF or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}