Cotty wrote: > On 23/3/08, Sandy Harris, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> News is out about the FF Sony A900 with 25MP. Competitively brilliant >> by making a smaller camera with an add on vertical grip. Looks like >> Sony is quite serious about being the third major player in digital >> photography. > > <http://masterchong.com/v2/sony-alpha/pie02008-sony-showcased-sony-alpha- > dslr-a900.html> > > That's a very big camera. But well-featured and full-frame. Sony make > first rate broadcast TV cameras - I wouldn't buy anything else - but > breaking into the pro stills market will be very difficult. Based on my > experience, and if I was shooting pro stills, I'd give it a punt - but > the lens choice would be the show-stopper. If they made it in Nikon, > Canon, or even Pentax mount, well - that's different.
Perhaps what Sony is hoping for is to make sales of packages that include both still and video cameras. *You* wouldn't buy such a package, but corporate clients with technically ignorant purchasing departments might. It wouldn't surprise me at all if Sony started working that angle aggressively. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
