Comments on: A230, A330 and A380 available for pre-order; will ship in July

By: wooden model submarines

wooden model submarines — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:55:25 +0000

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By: B Gibson

B Gibson — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:01:21 +0000

On ebay there is a vertical grip available for the 230 and 330 alpha. The seller is called camplus which is out of China. The average price i have seen is $97.00

to $110.00. It is said to hold three batteries but only two batteries can be used at one time. Also there is an IR remote that comes with the grip with a IR

sensor on front and back of the grip. The seller’s store states that shooting time is expanded greatly using the two batteries together. There appears to be the ability to connect an ac power cord according to other sellers stores but not for sure on this. There is an ir wireles remote that controls the grip via a sensor on the front and back of the grip. There ae no other fancy functions available on this vertical grip. I hope this will be helpful to anyone with a a230 or a330 camera.

By: Stephen Handley

Stephen Handley — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:55:25 +0000

Bought my Sony A330 Sony Camera from Jessops, who at the time advertised as an optional extra a vertical battery grip for this camera, but after much emails and talking with Sony, it was soon apparent that there was no such thing has a vertical battery grip for the Sony A330, I informed Jessops and they purely agreed with me and took the optional extra off their web site, but this didnt help me

By: Zach

Zach — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:25:00 +0000

I use an A700, and you CANNOT use both the Memory Stick and CF slots at once.

You can have a card in both, but must manually pick which slot you want to be currently active. It doesn’t automatically toggle once one card fills up, or anything like that.

By: John Feinberg

John Feinberg — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:24:40 +0000

I think the reason there was a demand for a vertical grip for the a100 was that it was the only Sony DSLR available at the time. I agree with Sony in that there will probably be very little demand for a vertical grip for these camera models. People that will want the vertical grip would likely purchase the a700 or a900 instead.

I was under the impression that the memory card slots in the a700 could only be used one at a time. You have to navigate to the appropriate menu, and select which card slot is active. If both can be active at once, I’d like to know how it can be done!

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:15:42 +0000

Any suggestions that this new UI might be made available to the older models i.e. A200 via a software update of some kind?