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Getting Ready?
      #675262 - 06/07/2008 17:01

Sony's website is showing two new dSLRs, the Flagship and the Advanced Amateur. The former is clearly full frame but what about the other. There may be a clue in the lens it is shown wearing, it appears to be the Sony G 1.4 35mm - which has full frame coverage.

Does this suggest two full frame cameras? Perhaps the flagship as a fully fledged professional camera to compete against the Nikon D3x and the Canon 1Ds3 and the other to take on the Nikon D700 and the Canon 5D2.


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Roger_Provins
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Re: Getting Ready? [Re: LargeFormat]
      #675270 - 06/07/2008 17:28

Can't find any mention ... do you have a link please?

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Re: Getting Ready? [Re: Roger_Provins]
      #675304 - 06/07/2008 19:14

I may be getting over-excited about this but here is the ink:

http://news.sel.sony.com/en/image_library
/consumer/digital_imaging/digital_cameras
/dslr/detail?asset_id=30326

The thing is that the vertical grip is identical to the one shown on the "flagship". It looks a bit like the a700 but that's shown separately on the Sony images site.

You will need to join up the URL I couldn't post it in one go, I think there is a restriction on its length and I'm going to be told off by the mods


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Gordon_McGeachie
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Re: Getting Ready? [Re: LargeFormat]
      #675305 - 06/07/2008 19:14

you can shorten long links using http://tinyurl.com

your link now looks like this

http://tinyurl.com/6kdtn7

hope you dont mind

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Re: Getting Ready? [Re: Gordon_McGeachie]
      #675306 - 06/07/2008 19:20

Quote:

hope you dont mind



On the contrary I'm most grateful.

Reverting to the original post I think I'm being silly and it is the a700 although why Sony is showing it like that after all this time?


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Roger_Provins
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Re: Getting Ready? [Re: LargeFormat]
      #675311 - 06/07/2008 19:36

That's the a700 before it was officially announced. I've checked it against my a700 and grip and it's identical in every way except the lack of the a700 name.

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Photoclubalpha
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Re: Getting Ready? [Re: Roger_Provins]
      #681494 - 22/07/2008 01:46

All these images have been there for a long time. The A700, 24-70mm and 70-300mm have all been released and the 16-35mm and 70-400mm (looking rather different to the protoypes) are soon on the way. The Advanced Amateur model is of course the A700, and the flagship - much changed - is the A900.

David


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