Monthly Archives: July 2006

Noticed that the photographic website Cameratown.com has announced it will be awarding a Sony A100 as the top prize in in its 13 week give away program. Seems like an attractive site, with reviews, tutorials, manuals and firmware updates for many digital cameras. That includes numerous Minolta updates. (Great to know that old Minolta firmware [...]

Sony of Japan has an interesting Flash presentation entitled Tahiti meets α (Alpha A100). Most of the Flash info is in Japanese, but there is enough English that you can tell which lenses were used, although I don’t know who the photographer is. You’ll have to click around a bit until you find the right [...]

Last time we looked at all the reasons why a 6MP dSLR makes no sense for Sony in 2007. The ringer in this scenario, however, is that Sony isn’t producing dSLRs in a vacuum. Any Alpha dSLR that Sony produces will face heavy competition, not only from Nikon and Canon, but from a host of [...]

As promised, I want to continue exploring the the notion that A100 just might be Sony’s low-end dSLR, rather than the mid-range digital SLR many people expect it to be. In an earlier post I tossed around the idea that the A100 might be Sony’s low-end model. My contention was that introducing a new 6MP [...]