Since my review of the Sony SLT-A77 hit the screens of many Digital Photography School visitors it’s obvious the company has pressed the right buttons for people wanting to lift their photo game. Now we have ‘son of’ … a model similar in many respects, at a lower price, but with many of the A77′s [...]
If this is the way it’s going, I’m all for it: smaller, interchangeable lens cameras, with decently-sized sensors and sophisticated image processing internals. Panasonic and Sony seem to be waging the war with their Micro Four Thirds models and this is another missile hurled at (IMHO) the oversize DSLRS, with or without flipping mirrors! The [...]
This is a big gun in a small package. Considering the sensor has been ported from the A65 and A77 you would expect a fairly zinging performance and you’re not wrong! The interchangeable lens, magnesium alloy bodied NEX-7 would also seem to gain from the absence of a partially-silvered mirror in the light path. However, [...]
]This camera seems to tick quite a few boxes: the CMOS sensor captures an effective 16.1 million pixels; the Nikkor lens has a 14x range, equating to 25-350mm in a 35 SLR lens; it’s very compact and pocketable, at only 33mm depth with lens withdrawn. The maximum image size is 4608×3456 pixels or, 39x29cm as [...]
They’re all looking pretty much of a muchness. Peas in a pod. Hard to tell one from the other: mirrorless, interchangeable lens cameras. Sony’s NEX approach broke from cover soon after Olympus and Sony had got going with their Micro Four Thirds models. It soon achieved some notice and not a little notoriety because of [...]
Cute as pie. Cheap as chips. Well, on the latter count: nearly. I’m still figuring out why Olympus has launched virtually the same camera in three different guises that this Micro Four Thirds system gear encloses. It beats me! Look around the DPS site and you’ll see my recent views of the E-P3 and Lite [...]
If you’re dithering between a mirrorless and a DSLR camera for serious, down-to-earth photography, this one from Nikon fits exactly that role. Sure, the lens is fixed but it is a Nikkor that equates to 28-200mm as a 35 SLR equivalent: a 7.1x enlargement in fact. Very cleverly, Nikon has also installed an optical viewfinder: [...]
As with their mirrorless camera, it has now taken Nikon a while to push its waterproof boat, sorry — camera — into the stream – and very welcome it is with some departures from the crowd. The Nikon AW100 review camera had a blue face plate but it is also available in camouflage, orange and [...]
Having extensively used 10x and 35x compact digizoom cameras over the last year or so, I would say the former is a little short … and the latter a little too long for comfortable and successful leisure shooting. So this model – the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ150 – with a 24x zoom comes in, as with [...]
In recent months it was obvious that Sony and Panasonic had left the upper end DSLR to others … such as Nikon and Canon. Until now! And this one is a big mother… the Sony SLT-A77! Loaded with battery, card and the supplied f2/16-50 SSM lens the camera weighed in at 1.3kg, thanks to the [...]
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