Sony – α58 – DSLR camera with interchangeable lenses

Sony - α58 - DSLR camera with interchangeable lenses

Sony is going to release the DSLR camera with interchangeable lenses “α58″ on August 9. The camera won’t be sold alone – It will be only available as a lens kit:

– “α58″ Double Zoom Lens Kit SLT-A58Y (SAL18552+SAL55200-2)
– “α58″ High-power Zoom lens Kit SLT-A58M (SAL18135)

“α58″ adapted Exmor APS HD CMOS image sensor, image processor BIONZ, and OLED Tru-Finder with 100% frame coverage. Also, to make you easy to bring a moving object into focus, it has “Lock-On AF” functionality that recognizes the size of the object, “Translucent Mirror Technology” and “15-Point AF with 3 Cross-Type Sensors”.

Image sensor: APS-C size (23.2 x 15.4mm), Exmor APS HD CMOS Sensor
Pixels: 20.1 million effective pixels, 20.4 million total pixels
Monitor: 6.7cm (2.7inch) TFT, 460,000 dot
Size: 128.6 x 95.5 x 77.7mm
Weight: 492g (only a body part)

Sony Alpha A99 poses for someone else’s camera, no optical viewfinder in sight

Sony Alpha A99 poses for another camera, no optical viewfinder in sight

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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