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Sony DSC-H50 announced
Sony has announced the 9MP Cyber-Shot DSC-H50. See:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0802/08022502sonyh50.asp Cheers, David |
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Sony DSC-H50 announced
David J Taylor wrote:
Sony has announced the 9MP Cyber-Shot DSC-H50. See: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0802/08022502sonyh50.asp Looks rather like an R2! The spec suggests serious engineering attention to image quality issues. Be interesting to see how good that fairly long zoom turns out to be, and how wide the probable wide angle extension lens will go. -- Chris Malcolm DoD #205 IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK [http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/] |
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Sony DSC-H50 announced
Chris Malcolm wrote:
David J Taylor wrote: Sony has announced the 9MP Cyber-Shot DSC-H50. See: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0802/08022502sonyh50.asp Looks rather like an R2! The spec suggests serious engineering attention to image quality issues. Be interesting to see how good that fairly long zoom turns out to be, and how wide the probable wide angle extension lens will go. Yes, it will be interesting to see the reviews, but the image quality from a "1/2.3-inch" sensor is bound to be limited at best. And ISO 3200? Leica/Panasonic have produced similar lenses in the past, so reasonable quality /should/ be achievable. Who would have thought 4 aspheric elements in a consumer lens a few years back? Cheers, David |
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Sony DSC-H50 announced
David J Taylor wrote:
Chris Malcolm wrote: David J Taylor wrote: Sony has announced the 9MP Cyber-Shot DSC-H50. See: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0802/08022502sonyh50.asp Looks rather like an R2! The spec suggests serious engineering attention to image quality issues. Be interesting to see how good that fairly long zoom turns out to be, and how wide the probable wide angle extension lens will go. Yes, it will be interesting to see the reviews, but the image quality from a "1/2.3-inch" sensor is bound to be limited at best. And ISO 3200? It's a shame that an APS-c sized sensor wasn't used, then it would be the defacto R2. Sigma makes an 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 zoom that is fairly compact (about 65mm dia by 80mm long when zoomed right out), so I don't see why Sony could not use the old Minolta crew to cobble together a similar decent lens for a new R1 styled EVF camera. Leica/Panasonic have produced similar lenses in the past, so reasonable quality /should/ be achievable. Who would have thought 4 aspheric elements in a consumer lens a few years back? That sort of thing happens all the time, what was considered top-line & second-to-none a short time ago might now considered below obsolete and useless. |
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