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Some news from the site and from the digital photography world.
A couple of days ago, Sony has announced its second full frame DSLR: the Alpha 850 (A850). It is a "simplified" version of the topline A900 : it employes the same CMOS sensor with... 24.6 megapixels, 3 inches LCD with 921'000 pixels, in-camera image stabilization and same image processors (named "Dual Bionz").
The main simplification are:
- slower burst shooting of 3 frames per second (5 fps in A-900);
- no infrared port;
- 98% of scene coverage through the viewfinder (100% in A-900).
The new full frame camera will have an initial price of $ 2000 (same price in euro...) and should be available from next month of September.
- Referenced brands in this article: Sony
A couple of days ago, Sony announced two new DSLR models: Alpha 500 (A500) and Alpha 550 (A550).
The Alpha 500 employs a new Exmor™ CMOS sensor (like Canon that always used CMOS sensor in DSLR) and enhances live view mode with Face Detection and the possibility of having a focus confirmation when in manual focus.
- Referenced brands in this article: Sony
A couple of days ago, Sony announced new DSLR model Alpha 550 (A550), together with Alpha 550.
The new models employs a new Exmor™ CMOS sensor (like Canon that always used CMOS sensor in DSLR) and enhances live view mode with Face Detection and the possibility of having a focus confirmation when in manual focus.
- Referenced brands in this article: Sony
Leica has announced the pricing for its new DSLR, the S2 that should ship from end of September: around 23'000 $ for the body only (!).
The camera will be a bit bigger than a Canon EOS 5D or a Nikon D700 and it will be weather and dust sealed (given the price it is mandatory in my opinion), with a big 30x45 mm sensor (more than 50% bigger than full frame sensors!) packing an incredible 37.5 Megapixels but, given the size of the sensor, we expect very good dynamic range (12 stops according to Leica) and extremely low noise.
Together with the camera, two fixed focal lenses for that format will be introduced: 70 mm f2.5 (around 4'500 $) and 180 mm f3.5 (around 6'400 $), while two other ones are expected by Christmas (120 mm f2.5 and 35 mm f2.5, same price range...).
Good quality but quite expensive.
- Referenced brands in this article: Leica
Adobe has announced that next major upgrade of Lightroom as well as next major upgrade of Photoshop will no longer support Power PC platforms on Macintosh. Only Intel based PC will be supported (both Windows and Mac Os).
This choice is to focus development on more new platforms (like native 64 bits) more than keeping "legacy" support, like Power PC, whose latest PC models date back 4 years ago, a time that in the IT world seems to be quite long.
- Referenced brands in this article: Adobe
Toshiba announced world's first 64GB SDXC memory card, compliant to the new SD standard version 3 and available spring of 2010.
The new standard version 3.00, UHS104, introduces ultra-fast read and write speeds up to 35 MB/s of write speed and up to 60 MB/s of read speed.
This speed will be particularly useful for high defintion video recording on DSLR cameras.