{"id":1606,"date":"2008-01-11T00:09:38","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T22:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/11\/sony-alpha-200-to-replace-ageing-alpha-100\/"},"modified":"2008-01-15T18:09:40","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T16:09:40","slug":"sony-alpha-200-to-replace-ageing-alpha-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/11\/sony-alpha-200-to-replace-ageing-alpha-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Alpha 200, to replace ageing Alpha 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/alpha200_1.jpg' alt='Sony Alpha 200 face avant' align=\"right\"\/>During quite some time people have been speaking of Sony Alpha 200 as the name of the new high-level prosumer digital SLR camera. But when Sony presented it, the name was Sony Alpha 700. We should have been listening a little more to the rumour. The Alpha 200 name was actually real, but it was describing the new replacement for the entry level.<\/p>\n<p>The Alpha 100 is dead, long live the Alpha 200!<\/p>\n<p>Technical charact\u00e9ristics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10.2 Mega-Pixel APS-C sensor (x1.5 coefficient)<\/li>\n<li>100 &#8211; 3200 ISO sensitivity<\/li>\n<li>9 sensor AF. The central one is a cross (more precise), 1.7 faster than Alpha 100<\/li>\n<li>3 frames per sec (on 6 images)<\/li>\n<li>Image recording: Raw and JPEG<\/li>\n<li>2.7&#8243; LCD screen of 230000 pixels<\/li>\n<li>Sensor cleaning by vibration &#038; antistatic treatment of the reflex chamber<\/li>\n<li>Memory cards: Compact Flash type I\/II (with optional MemoryStick Duo adapter)<\/li>\n<li>131 x 98.5 x 71 mm<\/li>\n<li>532g<\/li>\n<li>Kit 18-70 mm f3.5-5.6 for 700 US$<\/li>\n<li>Kit 18-70 mm f3.5-5.6 + 75-300 mm f4.5-5.6 for 900 US$<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><img src='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/alpha200_2.jpg' alt='Sony Alpha 200 face arri\u00e8re' \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is not Earth-shattering, but the camera will be a strong technical contender with a really nice price. It should be able to set the pace for the competition. The Alpha 200 will replace usefully the Alpha 100 which was still a good camera but was perceived as a bit old now.<\/p>\n<p>Current owners of the Alpha 100 will not run to buy the new Sony Alpha 200 (except if they spotted the increased sensitivity ISO range), but this is a camera which will strengthen the market share of Sony just where most buyers are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During quite some time people have been speaking of Sony Alpha 200 as the name of the new high-level prosumer digital SLR camera. But when Sony presented it, the name was Sony Alpha 700. We should have been listening a little more to the rumour. The Alpha 200 name was actually real, but it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[181,182,171,175,2260],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alpha","tag-alpha-200","tag-camera","tag-digital-camera","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}