a300 (Swivel-Screen/Liveview), a350 confirmed

Is this thread growing fast!!!!

bharnois wrote: For my part I'm really glad I now have the A700. If I'd waited then I'd be tempted by one these 'lesser' cameras. If SONY wants their share then we'll need the '500 and '900 and that will cover the bases and allow it to happen. Maybe they could skip the '500 if they had to but the '900 is a 'must do'.

Its no good saying "must do" now, in the hope Sony are listening, with two days to go... either there's something in the cabinet or there's not!

I only realize now that the A-300K is not a kit with A-300 + kit lens.

Weird but well...

GX-20's RRP is L700.

simple fact, that the thread has been moved here, shows, that the new cameras don't even deserve a new sub forum :))

Edited by m.b. - 28 January 2008 at 21:47

macrophoto wrote: We know that the development costs ( incl. tooling) for a new sensors is very expensive and everybody aims at economy of scale.

Yes, but economies of scale work the other way, too ... put two different sensors in what's basically the same camera and you have two different models for the cost of sensor development.

macrophoto wrote: Sony seems to produce 5 sensors for brand new products: ccd 10 mp

That's an update of an old sensor and presumably Sony has made money selling it to Nikon and Pentax.

macrophoto wrote: , ccd 14 mp,

New, if true, probably same technology as 10.2 so not a lot of research.

macrophoto wrote: cmos 12 mp, cmos 12 mp (FF in the D3)

Do we know that Sony produces the sensor for the D3 ? In any event, Nikon designed the sensor and if not manufacturing it themselves, is paying Sony to manufacture it. I'm sure their chip division is happy to take on any new work !

macrophoto wrote: and cmos 20+ mp FF for A900

Guess if you want enough models to compete with everyone else, you need the sensors to differentiate them; at least, unlike Canon, Sony is able to sell sensors to competitors (of course, without those sales, they wouldn't have the kind of production that Canon does).

beline wrote: Kiklop wasn't saying anything about the A900, just that their experience with noise issues will be valuable knowledge for the A900. If it has been established that Kiklop knows something, I must have missed it, and if he does, from the phrasing of that post, and what I have not found on th image servers, I would say the A900 is still in development, not to be released at PMA. "sony will have some experiences in noise reduction that may after all be useful knowledge for a900 .. they will need this kind of experience" "will," "may," "will." (my emphasis) If it's been established that Kiklop knows something he can't tell us, I think he has. These are future tense, and not immediate future tense. "they will need this kind of experience" when developing the A900. Is what I heard. If the A900 were already developed, it would have read more like "sony has some experiences in noise reduction that provided useful knowledge for a900." That, with missing images, leads me to believe no A900 for PMA.

Hmmm... the way I would read Kiklops hint,

Kiklop wrote: Even i have found something positive in it; sony will have some experiences in noise reduction that may after all be useful knowledge for a900 .. they will need this kind of experience

would be: he knows a900 will have a huge load of mp's stacked on it's sensor!