(SR2) Sony camera roadmap by Gustav :)

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We just found this post inside the dpreview forum:
Gustav (Kingfisher on Photoclubalpha, ijsvogel on Dyxun), from the Netherlands) has long impressed me with his astute and well-informed predictions about future Alpha cameras….he is in contact with fairly high-ranking Sony Alpha European officials, so when he makes predictions he speaks with some level of authority. He was largely on the money with regard to the A550, for example.

And “Gustav” made following predictions:

A450
Sony will introduce an A450 and many p&s cameras at CES.

The A700 successor
Sony will then introduce the “amazing” A7xx in May–reserving the 700 level, as Minolta did, for ground-breaking technology.

Lenses
Sprinkled throughout the year, Sony will introduce as many as ten new lenses, including several that will help to position some of the new Alphas as excellent journalist, sports, action, wildlife cameras, and several to help fill out other gaps. Some of them will be optimized for video.

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Japanese DSLR sales ranking of the whole year 2009!

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So here we are. it is the end of the year and we have the Japanese DSLR sales rankings from January 1 to December 24!

P.S.: Click on the camera name to see the product in Amazon.

Ranking Camera Market Share
1 Canon EOS Rebel T1i / EOS Kiss X3 15.9
2 Canon Digital Rebel XSi / EOS Kiss X2 13.2
3 Nikon D90 9.1
4 Nikon D5000 6.6
5 Nikon D60 5.4
6 Nikon D40 5.1
7 Panasonic G1 4.2
8 Canon 50D 3.5
9 Olympus E-P1 3.0
10 Panasonic GF1 2.7
11 Pentax K-m 2.5
12 Sony A300 2.2
13 Canon 5DII 2.1
14 Nikon D3000 1.8
15 Sony A350 1.8
16 Pentax K-x 1.8
17 Canon 7D 1.6
18 Canon 1000D 1.6
19 Panasonic GH1 1.6
20 Olympus E-520 1.3

source: bcnranking.jp

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a little bit of everything…

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Sony Alpha 500 DSLR Unbox

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SONY partnering RealD for 3-D Technology, Home 3-D Home (source: akihabaranews.com)
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Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-WX1 Digital Camera Review (source: buy-n-shoot)
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Sony A550 versus Pentac K-x Pentax K-7 Canon 7D and Nikon D300s 6400 ISO comparison (source: dpreview forum)
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Christmas amazon sales: Most sold compact cameras in amazon (Sony cybershot on place 11)
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Amazon US: Sony Alpha A230 with 18-55mm Lens for $399!

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The Sony News summary…

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In case you missed some of our news we made a summary of all our latest articles!

Sony A550:

Unboxing the Sony Alpha A550 DSLR: ferdzdecena.com
Sony A550 Review at Photographybay
A550 HDR shots (dpreview forum)
Sony Alpha 550 review at digitalkamera.de
Sony Alpha 550 review at dpreview!

Sony A500:
Sony Alpha A500, Nikon D5000, and Canon EOS Rebel T1i comparison (alphamountworld)
Sony Alpha DSLR A500 Review (alphamountworld)
DxO tests the Sony A500 and Sony A550!

General
Adobe software updates (Now with Sony A500 / A550 / A850 support)
A very good translation of the recent Interview with Toru Katsumoto, Gen. Dir. of Alpha Division has been made by a dpreview forum user.
Sony Fullframe versus APS-C image quality (source: dpreview forum)
Sony Offers Trade-in Program

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About us…

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Our website is very young, we are only 3 months old. It is time you learn something about us!

First, we decided to make this project because of three reasons:

1) We missed a place where we can read daily news, rumors and reviews about Sony Alpha cameras.

2) We have very good Sony rumor sources (and time will proove it)

3) We believe that in 2010 Sony will launch awesome new products.

We have many ideas on how to improve our website. Right now we are working on it.

Our goals are:

– To make it easy for you (and why not…for us) to get access to all most important news through this website!

– To improve the quality of our rumors

– To learn from your suggestions and critics and improve the website from day to day.

How can you help us? Send us all the interesting news you find around the web. You can use the form on the right sidebar or write us directly at sonyalpharumors@gmail.com. If you want to send a rumor use the form to keep you anonymously (or use a fake gmail account).

We really want to make a big step forward with our website. And we hope you will enjoy it ;)

Andrea and the SonyAlphaRumors team.

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