REMINDER: Sony will anounce the new A55 and A33 translucent cameras on August 24th!
As you may remember few months ago Sony signed an agreement with Epson to Transfer to Sony Certain Epson Business Assets Relating to Small- and Medium-Sized TFT Liquid Crystal (Source: Epson). According to our sources the new translucent cameras should use a 1.44 megapixel (OLED???) EVF with built-in virtual horizon!
There are two main advantage of using the Translucent+EVF combination:.
1) Phase detection works for stills and video
2) Full time Live View (no mirror blackouts)
Reminder (SR = Sonyrumor):
SR1=probably fake rumor
SR2=rumor from unkown sources
SR3=50% chance it is correct
SR4=rumor from known sources
SR5=almost certainly correct!
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“2 million megapixel”
What the heck does that mean? How many pixels x how many pixels for example?
Hopefully EVF for NEX(if the rumors turn out to be true) will be as good as this one and not as expensive as the EVF for PEN.
That’s a good move for Sony – It seems that they understand they need to make EVF as strong as or even more appealing than OVF somehow. I don’t know the detailed specs, but I’m sure they realize that resolution beyond the limit of human perception and instant response are just a start – It will be interesting to see what they add to bring die-hard OVF users over to EVF. Will this do be enough? I’m interested to see how all of this turns out.
The word “Pellix” is Canon’s camera name for their Pellicle cameras. Besides, if the mirror in Sony models is moveable, it’s not even a pellicle then. Use the word translucent.
That should be one heck of a viewfinder, best one yet probably!
On a side note, 2 million megapixel would mean two million million pixels. Don’t think that’s accurate.
Wow… 2MPX? That’s really great! 😀 Make me something like that, with the virtual horizon, only in size of A550 and I’m sold! 😀
Good that Sony understood the need of good EVF. 🙂
Very impressive!, Sony have done a great job.
Pretty amazing if true.
Sounds good
these things are gonna sell like hotcakes!
well never get so excited until someone recently reviewed it and proof it is good … otherwise will just get disappoint on this on that fast
i just hope they’ll give us more videocontrols than just aperature. we’ll need iso and shutter just like the T2i
if that’s true, it would be excellent for A55 for sure.
HOWEVER…
Sony has a habit to cripple basic functions from its product so much that it got bad review instead of excellent product. NEX: redundant GUI. A550: no DOF preview, no MLU, no Noise reduction OFF, limited Auto ISO range, etc. A230,A330,A380: bad grip.
Sigh.
wonder how is continue focusing perform when capturing movie ?
I dont understand? 2 megapxil is just HD or am I missing something here?
1920*1080 = 2073600 px
Does it has in-body motor? Will video AF only works with SSM/SAM lens? If they can make (aperture control) work with A55/33, then there is no reason why NEX A-mount adapter can’t work as well.
@acerlim: I rather bet it has an excellent performance.
They didn´t have time for the A7xx, now we know why !! 😀
Because of the no-mirror-slap design, Canon’s old Pellix film cameras had some of the quietest shutter sounds ever in a DSLR. I wonder how the Sonys will sound…
They could end up being quieter than the mirrorless cameras (with their louder leaf shutters) which could be very useful for discreet shooting indoors.
@hanugro: It has, most certainly.
You only need to brighten the image up in PS, then you will see the knob:
http://media.share.ovi.com/m1/s/2370/1f3fce86d662477f9a73f4ed056f4c5d.jpg
=)
720p 60 fps, and I think Sony has a sale
@admin: Sure that the liveview feed does not come from the main sensor? I think there is a mistake here…
seb.
seb. XD you are also here?
re:
It is not the sensor that creates the image for the viewfinder. That means less noise (because of sensor heading) and less power consumption.
IMHO – you are not correct. The main benefit of the translucent camera is that the main sensor is creating the image for the EVF. This allows using the high-ISO capabilities of modern sensors to provide bright, noise-free and rapidly refreshing image in the EVF even at dim light, even at darkness.
I really hope that Sony’s implementation is build on main sensor LV via EVF. There should not be any overheating problem since the eye-detector will disable EVF imaging every time we pull-off our eyes from the EVF.
Having a secondary, sensor for EVF only – IMHO ruins all the beauty and many advantages of EVF concept.
@erwinkfoto:
Of course… anything that can keep from work…
Just chose a different nick because the SUF-name is also my ebay-name, i’d rather not have it disclosed on this international site…
BTW, eigentlich könnwa uns ja auch auf Deutsch schreiben…
Beste Grüße
seb.
ZeevK – I doubt the DSLR would be that much efficient to disperse sensor heat in the moments you check the photos on main LCD. Most likely it’d end up with constant high temperature of sensor leading to very very high noise levels (curious note here: If you freeze sensor it’ll produce nearly noiseless images even at highest sensitivity.)
If NEX don’t need secondary sensor, why in A55 it will be implemented?
1.4 megapix = 970x1450pix because APSC ratio is 2:3 (FullHD anyway is 5:9)
It should be very good EVF, such amount of pixels was used for 19″ monitors. New Nikon 3100 LCD has only 0,23M.
@Sky_walker
First, the sensor is 16MP on APS-C, so a lot less density of electronics per area than in compact cameras. That should lead to less heating than on already known designs. Maybe there are heat-pipes as well to cool it off (just guessing).
Secondly, the main sensor can be off when the rear screen is off and no-one looking through the viewfinder (Eye-Start-Sensor).
On the third hand ;-), an always-on state of the sensor has to be taken in consideration for the video-mode anyway. As the CMOS consumes much less electricity than CCD, the heating should not be a bigger problem than on the previous CCD designs.
@Ledgars:
There will be no secondary sensor implemented in the a55 (as far as we all know).
Does anyone know the approximate physical dimensions of the EVF? I think the longest dimension is certainly less than an inch. However, for estimation, lets assume that the longest dimension was as large as an inch and if we used LEdgars estimate of 1450pix in that longest dimension, obviously, that would give us 1450 PPI. That is remarkable!
For what it’s worth, a company called Kopin develops stamp-sized LCDs with ultra-high pixel density (> 1600 per inch). Also, I think I saw that Kopin may have even developed one in excess of 2000 PPI.
So, this range of resolution is plausible and, if true, very good for Sony.
1.44 million dot = 480K pixel * 3 dots per pixel
480K pixels = 800×600
Basically the same resolution as the Panasonic G1 et al or the Olympus external EVF in other words. Not that I’d complain too much; those are both nice viewfinders.
@erwinkfoto Good if they do. We can safely say that in-body motor future is safe. I am traveling right now and can’t access photo software.
@david – You bring up a good point – I wonder if they meant 1.44 million subpixel “dots” or 1.44 million pixels? I’ve recently learned that in OLED industry vernacular, a pixel is made up of multiple red subpixels, blue subpixels, green subpixels … it’s a little different than the way we talk about pixels in a imaging sensor. That is, as you alluded, a pixel in a imaging sensor is one photosensitive photo-diode with one color filter, (plus the necessary transistors etc)
So, it’s not entirely clear if the rumor was talking about 1.44 million subpixel ‘dots’ as it says in the title or “1.44 megapixel” as it says in the paragraph.
After thinking about this a bit, I think you may be correct – They probably meant 1.44 million subpixel units and used the informal term of ‘dot’ in their correspondence with Andrea. It’s hard to tell until we can see real (non-rumor) information.