PHOTOGRAPHY BLOG

What should we expect from a $3000 Sony Alpha 900? Can you imagine that is a 24.6 MP FF DSLR camera comes with some really impressive features and built quality? Just before that only the Canon 1Ds Mark III in the market offering 21MP resolution and asking more than double of the current price for a Sony Alpha 900.

Since Nikon released the D3, we have been focusing in the debates on higher ISO performance and pixel quality in the past year. The release of Sony Alpha 900 sets a new direction in the DSLR development - higher pixels inspiration. There are only very few people would have Sony Alpha 900 hand-on experience, based on some very limited image samples, Sony Alpha 900 is not particularly impressive in terms of image quality comparing with the Canon 1Ds Mark III, well, but it is a very usable camera … full article.

Since the release of D3 and D300, we realized and surprised a new strategy from Nikon. Both Cameras defined a new standard in features & performance, though both come with an effective pixels count of 12 MP, D3 and D300 are sitting a clear position in their own class.

About a year after that, Nikon released another FX body D700 and cropped body D90, and now we have the Nikon’s top DSLR cameras running in unified standard for the pixels count - 12 MP. Obviously, thats not by chance, it should be the Nikon’s schedule to rollout their own rules for the game…. full article.

See the latest gallery of Best Photos of the Month - July #2, 2008.