New Sony DSLR on September 10th

#1 fxk

Hmmm... Now, not only does Canon not have the only FF DSLRs, the most DSLRs, but the max megapixels has been taken from them as well. Poor, poor Canon. Whatever shall they do?

7:35 pm - Thursday, September 4, 2008

#2 Keith

Keith said:

At best Sony is a copy cat and even then while having bought out another company for its itellectual knowledge of slr size it took them well over a year to come out with a 35 Dig. camera body.

While Sony will come out with a FF someone will eventual show them that if they would not develop a 35 plain old digital camera they will.

The R1 was the success route and they sneezed and then they fell on their faces.

The -SLR is old technology. A DSLR with a 18-200mm lens is a copy-cat 35mm film camera that saw its end.

What I wanted is to leave film behind with a 36-24 sensor digital. We did not want a floppy mirror.

Well, lets wait and see what is to come, the one surprise though will be a DSLR FF well under $2000. If it is under the 2K frame then I hope they sell it for real worth $1000-1500 at top limits.

We know that since slr is old technology the overheads (costs) have been met we are now talking about reruns.

My sales experience was not in photo sales but rather computer hardware and chemical controlls, "yes I did software but it was not something I wanted to do, thats for the younger generation".

Since I have some upset, let me say this, I am retired and I know that a new chip is new for just a few weeks and once the captured audience has bought and the sales points met the price drops like a lead ballon and profits are easier to come by.

I am waiting to see the hype and product

I am looking at both the Sony FF and hopefully Pentax and will buy this fall or early Spring.

1:21 pm - Friday, September 5, 2008

#3 CARL HAMILTON

that's right , SONY , give Canon a serving of its own medicine . brisk competition spurs fresh technological developments , not to mention promoting competitive marketing initiatives .

7:09 pm - Friday, September 5, 2008

#4 Mike

Way to go Sony! Kick some Canon and Nikon ass! Just watch the old-school photo snobs line up to criticise. I'll be buying one, though.

11:10 pm - Friday, September 5, 2008

#5 at keith

Keith, what on earth did you smoke? Man, not a single of those sentences make sense. Is that google translator?

"While Sony will come out with a FF someone will eventual show them that if they would not develop a 35 plain old digital camera they will."

??? Sony came out with FF yes... so someone will what? show what? who will? nokia will make 35mm cameras? 35mm plain _old_ cameras?

"What I wanted is to leave film behind with a 36-24 sensor digital. We did not want a floppy mirror."

So you wanted a FF sensor, right... what does that have to do with a... errmm... "floppy" mirror?

"My sales experience was not in photo sales"

Thankfully, since I'd doubt you'd sell a single camera, if you speak the same way.

3:51 am - Saturday, September 6, 2008

#6 Mustafa Ajlan Abudak-Turkey

Poor Canon...?

That is an absurd poor wish to to dream for. Carry on.. carry on...

Wait some more.. You will see the ultimate answer.

1:42 am - Sunday, September 7, 2008

#7 Adrian

When Sony purchased the rights to konica minolta technology is provided a lifeline for people who had invested heavily in minolta lense technology, so that was great. I think Sony's cotinued inovation and pushing the technology envelop can only be a good thing. I think it is a shame they have not built in the ability to shoot to more than one memory card at the same time thus giving backup to professional photogrpahers. I personally would like to see more pro cameras with this feature.

5:55 am - Sunday, September 7, 2008

#8 york

Let's see how many Pros buy Canon and Nikon or a SONY. We may see it on next Olympics............

2:29 pm - Monday, September 8, 2008

#9 Tim

I guess Keith had a bad experience. If Sony is a copy cat than all camera manufacturers have been copy cats since the 35mm format came out.

8:51 pm - Monday, September 8, 2008

#10 notme

Adrian, yes. My worry with Sony is that each market they enter, they kill competition using their money. And after competition is gone, they rise prices, break compatibility when they please... sony's marketing ways are scary.

I also worry about Pentax. They have such good gear, but they have such small share of the market. I hope they grow, they can compete nicely with anybody. It's just the name that is more known at sony for the newbs.

7:48 pm - Wednesday, September 10, 2008

#11 Keith

Keith said:

If you have no Idea about my comment about floppy mirrors (clue in to an old concept that should have been redundant years ago but is still alive and useless) don't answer with stupidity.

Smart remarks show a sign of ignorance of a question or lack of knowledge of the question.

This site will perish because it seemingly has only you to entertain us with nonsense.

Keith

10:58 pm - Saturday, September 13, 2008

#12 Kaith

Keith, if you cared making those points clear it'd maybe make sense. Your writing in the original post doesn't make much of that (and thus the comment).

by not wanting a floppy mirror means you didn't want an slr that still featured a moving mirror?

and sorry, but the sentence

"someone will eventual show them that if they would not develop a 35 plain old digital camera they will"

doesn't make much sense to me. Maybe it does for the better trained eyes. Does it mean that Sony needs to develop a 35mm digital camera? because I'd say this one is. or was it hypothetical and needed a would?

Your writing in your last comment shows that you do have better skills at writing when you want, so rather than babbling about the lack of my knowledge, you could have answered the questions.

I was serious about google translator question.

"Smart remarks show a sign of ignorance of a question or lack of knowledge of the question."

If that were to be true, the remark would not have been smart. It's called Reductio ad absurdum.

Now please, if you show us your real complaints with better explanations would help.

8:29 am - Sunday, September 14, 2008