{"id":1678,"date":"2008-01-30T21:40:37","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T19:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/30\/sony-alpha-900-248-mega-pixels-in-full-frame-in-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-01-30T21:47:54","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T19:47:54","slug":"sony-alpha-900-248-mega-pixels-in-full-frame-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/30\/sony-alpha-900-248-mega-pixels-in-full-frame-in-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Alpha 900: 24.8 mega-pixels in Full Frame in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok! Sony did not disclose this in so many words yet, but it&#8217;s become quite clear. Let&#8217;s review the facts and the rumours:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fact: Last year, Sony showed a mockup of a future Digital SLR camera tagged as &#8220;flagship&#8221;. Rumour: The enormous size of the pentaprism of the viewfinder shown lets people wonder whether Sony will make it a camera with a big Full Frame (after Canon and then Nikon).<\/li>\n<li>Rumour: The high-end &#8220;flagship&#8221; camera should be named <em>Sony Alpha 900<\/em> to keep the naming conventions of the pro-line of late Minolta brand.<\/li>\n<li>Fact: Sony announces today that they have developped a Full-Frame sensor of 24.81MP resolution with a set of very good features for superlative image quality. The chip will be shipping in industrial quantities before the end of 2008.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><img src='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/sony_35mm_24_megapixel_cmos_sensor.jpg' alt='Sony Full Frame 24 mega-pixel sensor'><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/nouveau_sony_pma.jpeg' title='Nouveau Sony Alpha \u00e0 la PMA'><img src='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/nouveau_sony_pma.thumbnail.jpeg' alt='Nouveau Sony Alpha \u00e0 la PMA' align=\"right\"><\/a>The logical conclusion: Sony will use this new sensor in its flagship camera. It will be named <em>Alpha 900<\/em>. It will have 24,9 mega-pixel resolution, continuous shooting at 6 or 6.3 frames per second, 12 bit pixel management, optional capture of a window leading to lower resolution upon request (maybe with even faster continuous shooting). The <em>Sony Alpha 900<\/em> will be available in 2008 (using the full production of the sensor).<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that seems less certain seems to be the name, because this one relies only on hearsay.<\/p>\n<p>Sources for the sensor specification: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photographyblog.com\/index.php\/weblog\/comments\/sony_24_megapixel_35mm_cmos_sensor\/\">PhotographyBlog<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/news\/0801\/08013001sony35mmcmossensor.asp\">DPreview<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok! Sony did not disclose this in so many words yet, but it&#8217;s become quite clear. Let&#8217;s review the facts and the rumours: Fact: Last year, Sony showed a mockup of a future Digital SLR camera tagged as &#8220;flagship&#8221;. Rumour: The enormous size of the pentaprism of the viewfinder shown lets people wonder whether Sony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,34],"tags":[370,236,2265],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo","category-tech","tag-ff","tag-full-frame","tag-sony-alpha-900"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","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=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}