Tag: DSLR
CES 2008: Sony promotes the α200 as the affordable DSLR
Sony hopes to tempt more of us away from the compacts and into the world of the DSLR with the Sony α200.
Sony unveils α700 digital SLR camera
Sony has announced its new α700 digital SLR, aimed at serious photo enthusiasts and semi-professionals.
It features a 12.24 megapixel (effective) Exmor CMOS sensor, which, according to the press release, “utilises cultivated CCD imaging and original Column A/D conversion technologies to deliver high-speed and high-picture quality”. Right…
Apparently this means that analogue-to-digital conversion uses dedicated converters located close to each element array on the sensor itself, reducing noise, and further complemented by on-chip noise reduction after digitisation.
Sony’s BIONZ processing engine then performs further RAW noise reduction, before compression and encoding.
The Pentax K100D Super – tweaked budget DSLR
Selling for only $600 when it launches in America this August, Pentax’s new entry-level DSLR could be the one to go for if you want a camera with a bit more power than the billions of identikit digital snappers out there.
One minute preview: Nikon's entry-level DSLR the D40
This one may seem a little weird: Nikon has launched a camera that actually seems to have gone backwards technologically speaking. The D50 is its current entry level camera, but now there's the D40, a smaller, cheaper version designed to…
