A200 Based Flip screen DSLR - Main Discussion

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For the sake of organization and ease of access, please keep all rumors and discussion of the new flip-screen camera in this thread until they are announced.

What we know so far from the rumors and images are that it looks like the A200 body with some minor modifications to accommodate the swivel screen. The vertical grip is also identical in the images to the A200 grip which has a "3" in the model number.

I would guess that the specs are 90% similar to the A200 but some other MP figures have been thrown around on the Chinese/Taiwan forums which were the source of the initial images.



Sources:
Chinese Forum

Minolta Club Italy forum (this appears to be the original source of the new photos)

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Edited by ankit - 09 January 2008 at 00:08

Wow i got a bit excited then! But if you look at the top right, the button there, does not correspond with the button shown on the official release photos. Surely sony would have mentioned a slip screen also. Oh well.

My guess is that the a300, which also uses the same grip as the a200, also has almost the same feature set, but instead of a pentamirror viewfinder and 2.7" LCD, it has a EVF and flip-out 2.7" LCD.

Very interesting images in that thread. Yes, that is the flip screen, but is that from the camera in the first post (which I am assuming is what has been dubbed the A900).

Interesting times ahead

I don't know why they can't make a side flip ala Olympus E-3 and the Panasonic L10; it's obvious that side flipping is not legally proprietary.

Flip out screens would work for low grass macro and uh... upskirting, if this camera is the silent killer.

ADub128 wrote: I just checked DPReview and the Sony Cybershot DSC H9 has a flip screen too, so both KM and Sony have had experience with this.

That degree of movement would be fine for me. BTW, for anyone else it's shownhere

I wouldn't want it to replace the OVF, but I would find that useful for a lot of low-level macro flower shots I take. If it was a 920k display with 10x magnification on LV, that would really help with macro focusing.

Are we going to be the first one (from Canon, Nikon, Sony) to have flip screen in (lets call it A300) dSLR?

If yes, that would make me very happy about it because I read a lot "A700 has no live View".... And if, it seems like il will, A300 have LV and flip screen, it will make it a lot more sensible that what Canon/Nikon did...

I really don't miss LV... And I think I'll never will. But for studio and macro shooters, who puts their cameras very low at tripods, LV is blessing but only if You can flip the screen up to see it without hurting back :)

And one more thing... I think that that way of fliping is just enough. No need to flip it side way. It would make it slower to open and close back... And easier to damage. No point to close it at all so... The way it is showed is the best solution for dSLR :D

Sony... GREAT JOB!!!!!