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Technical details of Sony’s rumored Alpha A99 have been overflowing. The actual camera, however, has been elusive until now. A press photo just spotted on Xitek (and passed along to Sony Alpha Rumors) is believed to be authentic and speaks volumes about Sony’s pro camera strategy: as shown, there’s no obvious space for an optical viewfinder, hinting that the company’s full-frame shooter is going with an OLED-based electronic eyepiece like that of its crop-frame A77 precursor. The image doesn’t show much more than that and a conspicuous orange ring to remind us that we’re gazing upon an Alpha, but it’s tough to ignore that more compact (and hopefully lighter) body. Whatever the cosmetics are like, rumors now assert that the 24.3-megapixel, translucent-mirrored A99’s early September release has been locked down to September 12th; if that’s true, it may give photographers as much reason to be happy that day as phone buyers.

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Update: Michael Yamashita, has asked us to remove the photo. The link to Instagram has been removed as well.

Sony’s A99 camera has yet to be revealed but so far we’ve heard some rumors about the camera, such as its alleged specs. More importantly we have yet to get a glimpse of the camera itself, and in a recent video (Update – it looks like the video was removed, possibly at the request of Sony?) of National Geographic photographer Michael Yamashita, the Sony A99 may very well have been spotted in his hands! Pictured in the screenshot above, we can clearly see Yamashita holding a camera and in an Instagram photo uploaded by the photographer, he was quoted as saying, “shooting for Sony”.

While this doesn’t necessarily mean that the camera in his hands belongs to the A99, some have noticed that the camera he is using looks different compared to the Sony A77 based on the hot shoe alone. The A77 uses the smaller Minolta Hot Shoe while if the specs are to be believed, the A99 will be utilizing a standard sized Hot Shoe. It seems like a bit of a stretch but what do you guys think? Are we looking at the A99 here?

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We’ve heard plenty of rumors surrounding the Sony A99 camera, and thanks to the folks at Sony Alpha Rumors, they have managed to get their hands on a list of specs that allegedly belong to the upcoming camera. These are the same specs that have also made their way into the hands on the folks at Photorumors, so at the very least they are consistent. As to whether they are accurate or not remains to be seen, but with a rumored announcement due on the 12^th of September, we guess we won’t have to wait too long to find out the truth. In the meantime if the A99 is camera you’ve been looking forward to or holding out for, check out the spec list below: (more…)

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DSLR cameras these days are pretty good at recording videos at pretty good quality. One of the episodes of the television series, House, was actually shot entirely using the Canon EOS 5D MK II, so we guess having good video capture features and specs for high-end DSLR cameras is almost to be expected these days. That being said, Chinese website Xirumo has posted some details of the video specs for the rumored Sony A99 DSLT camera, and based on what we’ve seen, they are pretty impressive if true! (more…)

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