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I’m kinda sad…

When there were just the rumours, I was pretty sure the A77 was going to be my new camera.
And was I excited about it!
Now I think I won’t buy this camera after all, and they’ve not even begun to sell it yet.
It’s not so much the High-ISO issue everyone yammers about. I can live very good with ISO-1600 max.

What is really gonna be stopping me from buying is the video capability.
From what I’ve seen on the net, the videos shot in 1080p have horrible moiré and aliasing effects (seen the video with the boats in greece? funny coloured water and zig-zag boat rails!)
They want to sell this camera for about 1300€, I’ve heard?!?!

And there’s the NTSC/PAL issue I’ve already complained about (I still don’t see why they aren’t able to make all options available while my father’s 150€ compact cam can, well okay, not 60p/50p, but you can at least film under US and EU light without flickering).

Well, maybe after five years with Sony it’s time to give the others a chance.
It’s even more sad when I think about that I’d probably be friends with the new EVF. Hmm…maybe I’ll wait and see if they get it right with their next Alpha? But that’s what I said when the A55 came out…Damn! SONY!

not link to any manuals ??

Concerning a65 bracketing
Previously I have seen info about a65 AE bracketing equal to older entry level cameras, i.e. +/- 0,3 or 0,7 EV in 3 frames.
But here it states “Bracket: Cont., Bracket: Single, with 1/3 EV, 1/2 EV, 2/3 EV, 2.0 EV, 3.0 EV increments, 3 or 5 frames (2.0 EV, 3.0 EV: only 3 frames)”
That sounds better.
But I wonder what is correct since this PDF has text frames with arrows towards the AE Bracketing and Flash Bracketing rows. But these text frames are empty for me, and when I printed the brochure the frames were not present on paper.
Can anyone see text there? Does anyone know what the a65 bracketing performance actually is?

http://www.sony.de/product/dsb-nex-5/nex-5nk

nex 5n available in germany!

The a77 looks awesome. The body is beautiful. The first tests coming through are more than acceptable.

Out of curiosity, I looked at some of the buried meta data inside the A65 and A77 pdf brochures. I wanted to know if I was looking at an image taken by the camera that was being advertised.

Verdict: Most of the time.

It appears they actually used those two cameras for most of the images for the large on-location type of images inside the brochures. Interestingly, they called them SLT-A01 and SLT-A02. I noticed they tweaked the firmware during the location shoots. In addition to those two cameras, they used other cameras, including a SLT-55V. However, not all were images were Sony cameras, for example they used a medium format camera and a P 45+ back for almost all of the studio shots of the A65 and A77 cameras. I seem to recall this or another PhaseOne back being used for some earlier Sony alpha brochures, too. Perhaps, it’s the preference of the product photographer they hired.

The graphic arts / marketing team developing the A65 brochure bought at least one stock image. That is, the image captioned “A65 XGA OLED Tru-Finder” at the bottom of page 8, is really an image by photographer Takeshi Hirayama, shot using his Nikon D700.

However, besides the studio shots, most of the images in the brochures were taken with Sony cameras, and the larger ones all seem to be A65 or A77.

The GPS seemed to work. So I learned that when they took these in June and July they had location-shoots in northern Japan in the Hokkaido Prefecture. For example, the pano image on page 22 of the A77 brochure was taken at the Northern Horse Park in Tomakomai, Hokkaido.

The other location, primarily for the A65 images, was in and around Manhattan, for example from Hoboken, NJ and around Highland Falls, NY for some of the river shots.

So, the good news is they eat their own cooking. That is, as far as I can tell, they actually used preproduction A65s and A77s for most of the important brochure images.