Tag: 700
Shiny Video Preview: Sony α700, α350 and α200 D-SLRs
This morning I went down to the Sony Alpha exhibition, where climber and photographer Mike Robertson’s photos from his UK tower-scaling stunts are on show to the general public as of tomorrow.
He may’ve taken them on the α700 D-SLR, but at £999, perhaps you and I better look at the α200 and α350 instead, which are all shown…
Sony unveils α700 digital SLR camera
Sony has announced its new α700 digital SLR, aimed at serious photo enthusiasts and semi-professionals.
It features a 12.24 megapixel (effective) Exmor CMOS sensor, which, according to the press release, “utilises cultivated CCD imaging and original Column A/D conversion technologies to deliver high-speed and high-picture quality”. Right…
Apparently this means that analogue-to-digital conversion uses dedicated converters located close to each element array on the sensor itself, reducing noise, and further complemented by on-chip noise reduction after digitisation.
Sony’s BIONZ processing engine then performs further RAW noise reduction, before compression and encoding.
