Sony Alpha A700 Pro dSLR - 12 Megapixels, 5fps with DT 16-105mm F3.5-5.6 Kit Lens

ShaolinTiger posted this at 6:28 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2007 —

Ah finally, the details for the new higher level Alpha are out. It looks like quite a formidable creature.

What a lot of announcements lately with the Canon and Nikon offerings, Sony comes up soon after.

Sony Alpha A700

  • 12.2 Megapixel CMOS
  • New AF Sensor
  • Faster Focusing
  • High Speed Shutter
  • Anti-blur
  • Pentaprism Viewfinder
  • Weather sealed
  • 3″ LCD
  • HD 1080 Output
  • Wireless Remote Included
  • New Kit Lens DT 16-105mm F3.5-5.6 with Internal Focus

Like the A100, the new camera still wears its Konica Minolta heritage very much on its sleeve, and when you start to look a little more closely at the specification it’s obvious that there’s still an awful lot of Konica Minolta DNA in the A700. This is hardly surprising given that the circumstances behind its development.

And, just as the A100 was obviously based on - and designed to be a successor to - the KM 5D, the A700 follows on from the 7D, and - despite lots of Sony touches and an attractive new design - 7D users are likely to find using the new model reassuringly familiar.

Albert has a good post about it here too:

The New Sony Alpha 700!

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5 Comments »

Comment by nazlihaffiz

September 6, 2007 @ 7:58 pm


interesting specs.. but still ugly like the A100.. hehehe

Comment by Albert Ng

September 7, 2007 @ 2:18 pm


Thanks for the post!

Interestingly, I think the AF/MF button gives (almost instantaneous) full-time manual focusing to every lens, the same way SuperSteadyShot gives optical stabilization to every lens. Similiarly the Dynax 7-like dual cross-type sensor and strong focus motor gives almost AF-S/USM like performance to every lens.

I wonder why almost no shots of the camera feature the 16-105mm though. I’m guessing that people would opt for a cheaper package (the Dynax 7 with Minolta 24-105mm F3.5-4.5 didn’t catch on as well as the Dynax 7 with Minolta 28-80mm F3.5-5.6… which I guess explains why a Canon 30D would come with a low-spec 18-55mm F3.5-5.6.)

Comment by ShaolinTiger

September 7, 2007 @ 5:48 pm


nazlihaffiz: Thankfully not many people buy cameras according to their looks.

Albert Ng: No probs. Yah pretty sweet specs, the AF/MF button is a very nice addition. I did notice that too, I wondered why they shot it with the 50mm and not the new lens. The only thing I could think of is that the lens isn’t ready yet but the body is, and with all the recent announcements they wanted to get their news out too. And yeah I guess most people would opt for body only and get a better lens.

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