The
Sony Alpha 900
What Does 24 Megapixels Look Like, and Why Would You Need It?
by George Schaub
First
off, you won’t see any images with this piece. The reason
is that when I first got to shoot with the camera in August, Sony
made me sign a blood oath that no images from the preproduction
sample could be published. Understandable, I guess, as they wanted
to be sure to tweak any problems before the camera hit the street,
and wanted to be sure that I, and the rest of the press given
this initial glimpse of the camera, wouldn’t make any judgments
prior to their final adjustments, if any. And, there was no Raw
converter available, from Sony or anyone else, so all I got to
examine were my JPEGs. Indeed, showing you examples in this venue
would result in images on your monitor that for all intents and
purposes would not look much different than those produced by
a good 8 megapixel camera. Rest assured that by the time you read
this we will have a release sample in test, and will publish our
findings in Shutterbug as soon as those tests are done. And specs
for the camera are available on our News Desk.
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