sony digital cameras
Sony DSLR-A450 Digital SLR Camera Announced
January 13, 2010
At the same time as Sony announced the A845 Walkman they also gave us news of the newest addition to the ‘a’ range of DSLR cameras – the A450. Selling itself as an ‘all round model’ this aims itself at that step between the amateur and the professional, or ‘advanced’ as Sony so patronisingly put it, either way this is definitely a step up from the Sony CyberShot compact digital camera range!
But in all fairness even at first glance it does look fairly, as they put it, advanced. It boasts a 14.2 megapixel Exmor CMOS sensor (I’ll admit to not knowing what’s special about an ‘Exmor’ sensor, but it sounds good!) and a BIONZ processor which has proved effective in the past and allows for well detailed shots as well as impressively quick continuous shots, but we’ll come to that later.
Firstly we’ll have a look at the lens and screen – but not before I’ve pointed out the annoying trend for Sony to name their camera’s, MP3 players and the like with irritating ‘product key’ type names – they are dead hard to remember when you have to deal with 5 or 6 of them. What’s wrong with good old fashioned names?
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February 20, 2009
If I didn’t know any better I’d think that the Sony’s CyberShot department haven’t heard of the recession we are in – I’ve been away for two days and in that time Sony have managed to add five more digital cameras to their already expansive range.
Attempting to muscle their way into an increasingly saturated digital camera market is the CyberShot H20, S930, W270, T900 and the T90 all of which were released yesterday by Sony, and we thought we should have a look at these new additions and what they have to offer the market.
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