Category Archives: Press releases

Nikkei: “Sony is soon going to release a cheap, mid-level mirrorless camera”

It looks like Sony will be introducing a midrange APS-C camera soon. Yesterday the Japanese website Nikkei reported that Sony is soon going to release a new, cheap, mid-level mirrorless camera and today Photorumors did the same. Maybe this will be the Sony a6700 and the a7000 will come at a later date. We will see soon […]

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Sony EU is Offering an Additional 12 Months on Top of Their Standard Warranty

Products purchased in Europe generally come with a 2-year warranty, but now Sony is offering an additional year if you register your product within 60 days of purchase on their website. Offer ends 31st January 2020 – product purchase must be by this date. Product registration and activation of your one year extended warranty must […]

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Sony CES 2019 Livestream Starts at 8:00PM EST

Sony’s CES 2019 presentation will start at 8:00 PM EST and I will be live blogging below for those late to the broadcast. We expect some 8k TV’s to be announced and maybe some details about 8k cameras or the Sony a7SIII. If they announce a lot of 8k stuff it would be leapfrogging Panasonic […]

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Sony CES Be Alpha Event January 8th

If you’re attending CES this year or around the area you can go to Sony’s Be Alpha event on January 8th at 7:30PM PST. If you’re not going to be around we will hopefully be able to host a live stream here for the event via Sony. This event will likely be the first time Sony shows off […]

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DPReview: Sony New Year’s Resolutions

DPReview put together a wishlist article about what they would like to see from each manufacturer in 2019. Noticeably absent from their list is fix Sony’s menus. While the current Sony menus are clearer than in the past they could still use some work in my opinion. Sony should also enter the medium format market sooner rather […]

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Sony IMX607 Sensor

DeviceSpecifications has some documents for a new rumored Sony sensor for smartphones. It is a 1/8-inch 38MP sensor which could lead to substantial improvements in smartphone photography. The new sensor will have some interesting features beyond resolution: Quad Pixel Phase Detect AF (QP2DAF) Ambient Light Sensor (ALS) 24fps speed at full resolution Dual sensor synchronization […]

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