The Sony A900 digital SLR camera is one of the most anticipated in recent memory rank. The first company showed the first version of its flagship product, next to the Photo Marketing Association trade show in the spring of 2007 and subsequent years show Sony unveiled some details on the sensor and the image stabilization mechanism that use it. With the Alpha A900 with 35 mm full-frame size of the image sensor from Sony is part of an exclusive club. So far, only four companies have full-frame DSLR available. Among them, two - Contax and Kodak - Digital SLR market completely abandoned.
Sony has a head to head races with the two industry giants photo - Canon and Nikon. Each competitor has two full-format digital SLR - a model of mid-range to about $ 3000 MSRP, and a professional model for double or triple time. Sony has more agitated, the status quo from the flagship product prices seem about the same mid-range models of its competitors, but provides a specification that is located somewhere between the mid-range competitors and Pro models - and in some cases, such as resolution of the sensor's field, in fact, the Sony Alpha A900 has a huge 24.6 megapixel resolution, full frame Exmor CMOS image sensor -. the highest resolution sensor 35mm SLR announcing all. Data from the high resolution imager, the Sony DSLR-A900 uses dual BIONZ image processor, allowing the shooting of five frames per second up to 11 JPEG or RAW images 13 can be treated.
The sensor is mounted on a movable plate, which allows the camera image stabilization, as SteadyShot INSIDE label attached. This is another world first for a full digital SLR, and it is not nothing when you consider that the mechanism by displacement of the sensor has to do with the extra weight of a full-frame sensor to consider. To see the different reflex to have this feature displacement sensor on the stabilization of all the sensors significantly smaller harvest of 1.6 times. Sony has taken the challenge of designing a new system more powerful sensor shift, and the rate of the Alpha DSLR-A900 also good for 2.5 to 4 stops of improvement.
The Sony DSLR-A900 body is composed of five main sections built of magnesium alloy and includes a reduction in sealing against the ingress of moisture between body parts and different buttons and buttons. The Sony A900 is equipped with a Sony Alpha lens mount, which also accepts Konica Minolta and glass. A large pentaprism is mounted above the lens dictates the camera body is cleverly visual aesthetics and a very large and bright viewfinder with a magnification of 0.74 x Optical TTL. The back features a large 3-inch 921,600 LCD with points, which is VGA (640 x 480) pixels with three points R, G and B pixels. This is only used for the examination, as well as menus and status display, the Sony Alpha DSLR-A900 does not offer Live View functionality. There is also a small status LCD above, the number of remaining shots and battery life, and gives basic exposure variables.
The Sony Alpha A900 features ISO sensitivity from 200 to 3200 equivalent, but it is scalable from 100 to 6400 ISO. The range of exposure times of 30 to 1 / 8000 second, plus a bulb setting, and x-sync is 1 / 250 of a second (or 1 / 200 second when SteadyShot is active). The dosage is achieved by a 40-segment honeycomb-sensor, and you can choose how to center-weighted or spot. Development is carried out with permission from AA to nine points autofocus system with two-stage central cross sensor 2.8, and there are also ten other AF points of light placed next to the main AF. There is no flash in the Sony A900, design, instead of being triggered by a shoe and PC flash sync terminal for external flash and lighting configurations offer.
The Sony Alpha DSLR-A900 is equipped with double-flash-card slots, and can then save the images on both CompactFlash Type I or Type II cards (including Microdrives) or Memory Stick Duo. The Sony A900 is powered by a single NP-FM500H InfoLithium battery that is designed for approximately 880 shots per charge on CIPA testing standards. Connectivity options include both a USB 2.0 High Speed connection to PC, and both standard and high definition video. For standard definition, there is no PAL / NTSC selectable output composite video, and has a high definition HDMI.
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Sony has a head to head races with the two industry giants photo - Canon and Nikon. Each competitor has two full-format digital SLR - a model of mid-range to about $ 3000 MSRP, and a professional model for double or triple time. Sony has more agitated, the status quo from the flagship product prices seem about the same mid-range models of its competitors, but provides a specification that is located somewhere between the mid-range competitors and Pro models - and in some cases, such as resolution of the sensor's field, in fact, the Sony Alpha A900 has a huge 24.6 megapixel resolution, full frame Exmor CMOS image sensor -. the highest resolution sensor 35mm SLR announcing all. Data from the high resolution imager, the Sony DSLR-A900 uses dual BIONZ image processor, allowing the shooting of five frames per second up to 11 JPEG or RAW images 13 can be treated.
The sensor is mounted on a movable plate, which allows the camera image stabilization, as SteadyShot INSIDE label attached. This is another world first for a full digital SLR, and it is not nothing when you consider that the mechanism by displacement of the sensor has to do with the extra weight of a full-frame sensor to consider. To see the different reflex to have this feature displacement sensor on the stabilization of all the sensors significantly smaller harvest of 1.6 times. Sony has taken the challenge of designing a new system more powerful sensor shift, and the rate of the Alpha DSLR-A900 also good for 2.5 to 4 stops of improvement.
The Sony DSLR-A900 body is composed of five main sections built of magnesium alloy and includes a reduction in sealing against the ingress of moisture between body parts and different buttons and buttons. The Sony A900 is equipped with a Sony Alpha lens mount, which also accepts Konica Minolta and glass. A large pentaprism is mounted above the lens dictates the camera body is cleverly visual aesthetics and a very large and bright viewfinder with a magnification of 0.74 x Optical TTL. The back features a large 3-inch 921,600 LCD with points, which is VGA (640 x 480) pixels with three points R, G and B pixels. This is only used for the examination, as well as menus and status display, the Sony Alpha DSLR-A900 does not offer Live View functionality. There is also a small status LCD above, the number of remaining shots and battery life, and gives basic exposure variables.
The Sony Alpha A900 features ISO sensitivity from 200 to 3200 equivalent, but it is scalable from 100 to 6400 ISO. The range of exposure times of 30 to 1 / 8000 second, plus a bulb setting, and x-sync is 1 / 250 of a second (or 1 / 200 second when SteadyShot is active). The dosage is achieved by a 40-segment honeycomb-sensor, and you can choose how to center-weighted or spot. Development is carried out with permission from AA to nine points autofocus system with two-stage central cross sensor 2.8, and there are also ten other AF points of light placed next to the main AF. There is no flash in the Sony A900, design, instead of being triggered by a shoe and PC flash sync terminal for external flash and lighting configurations offer.
The Sony Alpha DSLR-A900 is equipped with double-flash-card slots, and can then save the images on both CompactFlash Type I or Type II cards (including Microdrives) or Memory Stick Duo. The Sony A900 is powered by a single NP-FM500H InfoLithium battery that is designed for approximately 880 shots per charge on CIPA testing standards. Connectivity options include both a USB 2.0 High Speed connection to PC, and both standard and high definition video. For standard definition, there is no PAL / NTSC selectable output composite video, and has a high definition HDMI.