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[RichV]

Gee, Henry - upon reading the title of your post I thought that you were going to say something good about "the camera doesn't make the photograph!"

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Rich

http://philosurfer.zenfolio.com/

 

[Henry Richardson]

so ... everybody's loving Sony, now?

Too soon to get overly excited, but a little bit is okay. These are still just rumors, right? Is there a link to a Sony announcement? We'll know by the end of August if this rumor is true. Then when we see the actual cameras we will find out whether Sony botched it again by leaving out important stuff, poor implementation, bugs, etc. Remember, we are talking about Sony here. Anyway, I have my fingers crossed.

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Henry Richardson
http://www.bakubo.com

 

[fjbyrne]

so ... everybody's loving Sony, now?

Not enough info to form an opinion. They look to be releasing some interesting video-enabled cameras but I am mostly interested in the A7XX myself. If it is a true successor to the A700 - equal or better ergonomics and all existing features plus new ones I might just hop back on the bandwagon.

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Rick

 

[TrojMacReady]

EVF-1.44M 1.1X magnification 95%

I thought an EVF pretty much always displays 100%. I wonder if this 95% spec is accurate?

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Henry Richardson
http://www.bakubo.com

I noticed that too and it made me reconsider having any faith in the rumour as a whole.

 

[Kenneth B]

so ... everybody's loving Sony, now?

If they put and Focus Adjustment maybe

That's for the A7XX body. Yes it's done in FW but it cost money to develop the code and it is a feature used to diferentiate the lines.

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Kenneth Berntsen

 

[Kenneth B]

so ... everybody's loving Sony, now?

Too soon to get overly excited, but a little bit is okay. These are still just rumors, right? Is there a link to a Sony announcement? We'll know by the end of August if this rumor is true. Then when we see the actual cameras we will find out whether Sony botched it again by leaving out important stuff, poor implementation, bugs, etc. Remember, we are talking about Sony here. Anyway, I have my fingers crossed.

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Henry Richardson

I can't remember a camera Sony released with a bug. Just features that every one wanted for free. There was the bad ergonomic design of the 330 group of cams. So that was the only botched job I can think of. Mostly unreasonable expectations of A700 features in an A200 body from the members of this board.
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Kenneth Berntsen

 

[madecov]

so ... everybody's loving Sony, now?

Not enough info to form an opinion. They look to be releasing some interesting video-enabled cameras but I am mostly interested in the A7XX myself. If it is a true successor to the A700 - equal or better ergonomics and all existing features plus new ones I might just hop back on the bandwagon.

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Rick

Exactly. The initial "mock" body of the A-7XX shown had almost no hard buttons on the back.

I hope Sony keeps at least the same buttons and functions of the A-700 and possibly adds some.
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In god we trust, all others are suspects

 

[Klipsen]

Also, the models which sell well will tell Sony what works and what doesn't, helping shape the direction they go in.

I'm not sure I'd like them to use the least common denominator when they decide.

 

[mugen]

Exactly. The initial "mock" body of the A-7XX shown had almost no hard buttons on the back.

I hope Sony keeps at least the same buttons and functions of the A-700 and possibly adds some.

If the 4 new cameras look like the camera on the left there are not much buttons

 

[Klipsen]

EVF-1.44M 1.1X magnification 95%

I thought an EVF pretty much always displays 100%. I wonder if this 95% spec is accurate?

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Henry Richardson
http://www.bakubo.com

I noticed that too and it made me reconsider having any faith in the rumour as a whole.

It's because the EVF on Sony's cameras uses a secondary sensor located in the pentamirror housing, and since the OVF only shows around 95 %, so does the EVF.

When using the main sensor for input (mirror up), then the EVF should show 100 %.

 

[Jens_G]

There's absolutely no reason that the EVF must be 100%.

Come to think of it, if the cams still use some kind of prism \ secondary mirror before the sensor that goes to the EVF, the 95% coverage might be due to size constraints.

Regardless, the 1.1x magnification sounds awesome.

 

[Documensony]

I'm not sure having so many models and different models is a good thing.

It tends to lift the overall market share of a brand - but it wlll be more difficult for any single model to hit the sales charts.

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Documensony
'Spontaneity is enabled by rigorous practice'

 

[Documensony]

Interesting that they are dropping the A-500 and A-550? ,whats that tell us ;-)

That it's time for updated models with video.

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Documensony
'Spontaneity is enabled by rigorous practice'

 

[madecov]

Exactly. The initial "mock" body of the A-7XX shown had almost no hard buttons on the back.

I hope Sony keeps at least the same buttons and functions of the A-700 and possibly adds some.

If the 4 new cameras look like the camera on the left there are not much buttons

Someone had posted a photo of the rear of the presumed A-7XX mockup (reflection). It only had two buttons, maybe three. If Sony stays with that there will be a lot of unhappy folks.
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In god we trust, all others are suspects

 

[Henry Richardson]

It's because the EVF on Sony's cameras uses a secondary sensor located in the pentamirror housing, and since the OVF only shows around 95 %, so does the EVF.

When using the main sensor for input (mirror up), then the EVF should show 100 %.

Oh, the pellicle mirror goes up? Is that another rumor about these cameras which are also rumors?

Why is there even a pentamirror in an EVF camera? Or, do you just mean the place where a pentamirror would be if it was an OVF camera?

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Henry Richardson
http://www.bakubo.com

 

[Henry Richardson]

There's absolutely no reason that the EVF must be 100%.

Already making excuses for Sony and the cameras are still only rumors.

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Henry Richardson
http://www.bakubo.com

 

[Documensony]

There's absolutely no reason that the EVF must be 100%.

Already making excuses for Sony and the cameras are still only rumors.

Excuse ... where? Not in the post you answer here. Get your perceptions right, Henry

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Documensony
'Spontaneity is enabled by rigorous practice'

 

[mugen]

Someone had posted a photo of the rear of the presumed A-7XX mockup (reflection). It only had two buttons, maybe three. If Sony stays with that there will be a lot of unhappy folks.

Here is the back of A7xx

 

[Lucas_]

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IMHO those pellix/EVF cameras will also be a "test bed" to evaluate the acceptance of EVF x OVF. It's a reasonably high-res EVF with 1.44M, let's see at what refresh rate - should be about 60fps.

... Lucas
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Always having fun with photography ...

Starting a new gallery: http://lucaspix.smugmug.com/

 

[ck3]

It's because the EVF on Sony's cameras uses a secondary sensor located in the pentamirror housing, and since the OVF only shows around 95 %, so does the EVF.

No, the pellicle cameras do not use a secondary image sensor - they are main sensor LV only (according to the patent). The AF sensor is located in the (former) prism housing.