Comments on: Sony A900 and Zeiss Lens Updates

By: WhiteSites

WhiteSites — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:36:34 +0000

Bishan,
For nightshots you need to slow down your shutter and or have a really fast lense. Normally in night shots auto model wont’ get it done. If you are trying to get shots of people ( like in a nightclub ), and still want to preserve the ambient light, you need to drag your shutter.

To do this set your camera into Shutter prioriety mode. Adjust your shutter to 1/4 second or so. Then take a picture of the person with the flash. The flash will freeze the action of the person, and the long exposure will help to capture all the background light.

By: Bishan

Bishan — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:10:08 +0000

I have recently taken Sony A900….. It’s a wonderful camera in daylight…..
but in night i could not get good pictures …. can anyone tell me what would the reason…… what would be the best setting for night pictures……

By: Graeme Pettit

Graeme Pettit — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:29:34 +0000

I watched, waited in eager anticipation for the A900 and avoided buying all the intermediate updates from my A100. I’ve now had the A900 in hand – and what a brick it is. Mightily impressed by what I found, and with cash in pocket, I asked a simple question – lens compatability with my existing sony fit – answer – yes, they fit, but EVERY one vignettes severely.

So, if you are running Sigma (and possibly other) lenses on your earlier Axxx series, try these out on the camera before you upgrade, otherwise, you are in for a rude awakening.

This has severely delayed my upgrade until such time as the range of lenses I require increase in available range, and come down in price. As much as I would love the A900, I would lose too much if I chopped in my extant system.

I gather some makes where a similar vignetting occurs, the solution is an in camea automatic crop. Seems Sony hasn’t – well, neither the dealer nor I could find anything which would help.

The A900 is great, but not an upgrade option for earlier A series users – more a complete system change – and if Ive got to go that route, I will probably buy something with broader lens availability and general support from third party manufacturers.

By: BeachRider

BeachRider — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:28:51 +0000

I have an A700. The CMOS sensor has more exposure latitude than older ones. Faster memory sticks are already coming out for the memory-stick-camcorders that are starting to come out.
I think that it is just a matter of Sony’s follow through on the iconic SLR-market.

By: Web Designer

Web Designer — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:50:26 +0000

I already own an a100 and thus far I am very impressed. I like the menu and operation far more than the Cannons. Live view on a full frame DSLR will be awesome. Might be the new camera of choice for the papparatzi. Just think if you don’t have to put your eye behind the view finder to take good shots of unwilling celebrities. The only thing that might make this camera better is if they were to support 2 or 3 memory cards in an Raid Array for faster shooting. The only thing the cannons will have on this will be speed. As last I read can only shoot 3 frames / second.

By: jerry

jerry — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:43:59 +0000

$2000?? gogo

By: tommy

tommy — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:31:38 +0000

I had a dream…. One camera, I saw it, was the one below 2000 and was called Sony Alpha 900, 24 MP, nice stuff, adn them the other one, whose name was not like 9 or anything similar, was well above $5000 and had tent-like-shaped hood over the true, special glass-made pentaprism, 36 MP and the photo quality similar to those old reputable 6×6 6×9 cameras with good optics.

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Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:27:53 +0000

[...] PhotographyBay will aus – wie immer unzuverlässiger Quelle – erfahren haben, dass Sonys neue DSLR mit Vollformat-Sensor – alpha 900 – bereits Ende September bis Anfang Oktober 2008 verfügbar sein soll. D.h. es ist nicht zu befürchten, dass die Kleinbild-DSLR zwar im August angekündigt wird aber erst zu Weihnachten gekauft werden kann. [...]