Excerpt: With a full-frame, 35mm sensor and 26 megapixels to its name, the Sony A900 (DSLR-A900) digital SLR camera is a super-heavyweight when it comes to churning out huge
Pros: Comfortable to use, manual controls for metering and focus modes, fast, full-frame sensor, huge resolution
Summary: Sony tell us that this is not their professional camera. It is intended for the well-heeled amateur who is either a fan of the brand or has some legacy Minolta lenses in...
Pros: The resolving power of this camera/lens combination is simply breathtaking. What it means in every day use is that images can be cropped down to small sections and sti...
Cons: The camera/lens combination is heavy. Do cameras really need to have such mass in order to be indestructible? High ISO images are not as clean as from the Nikon and Ca...
Excerpt: Sony claim to have cemented their place in the digital SLR market with the Alpha 900 and while they’ve got a long way to go before they take any serious stranglehold on
Excerpt: In its new flagship DSLR, the A900, Sony has eschewed gimmicks like live view and video recording and instead focused upon producing a camera with real appeal to
Conclusion: Sony's top-of-the-range DSLR may defy convention in its design and feature set, but its capture performance is closer to great white hope than white elephant.
Excerpt: I had just returned from a month-long trip checking out the top technology at IFA in Berlin and the World Expo in Shanghai when I heard that I had become editor of Tone.
Summary: With overall solid performances from both the A900 and A850, Sony has made a powerful entrance into the full frame realm. I think the A850 and its $2000 price tag would
Excerpt: Last week Sony delivered on its promise to launch a full-frame DSLR. A prototype of the mysterious new camera was first shown at the PMA trade show at the beginning of...