Is it ironic when a rumored camera gets a pre-release photoshoot of its own? If so, the new Sony A33 and A55 Pellix DSLRs are steeped in it, because a few photos have just broken cover over at Photo ...

It's not just the A580 and A560 that Sony is unveiling today; the company also has a pair of new DSLRs using its Translucent Mirror Technology, the 16.2-megapixel A55 and 14.2-megapixel A33, to show ...

A really good measure of the strength of a technology company is how well it does things that can’t be done. Sony, confronted with a vexing glitch of DSLR video, dipped into a bag of old and new ...

Sony have today launched two brand new additions to their Alpha range of DSLR cameras that use a new technology known as Translucent Mirror tech. Translucent Mirror technology allows the new A55 and ...

The first step in taking a photo is to point the camera in the right direction. But to know what that right direction is, you need a viewfinder. The problem with designing a viewfinder is that the ...

These two new models are Sony’s very first digital cameras to employ Translucent Mirror Technology, which uses a fixed, translucent mirror that ‘splits’ the optical pathway between the main image ...

When it made up the term “S.L.R.,” the technology terminology industry was not operating at its peak creative powers. An S.L.R. is one of those big, black, professional-style cameras. They do things ...

Plenty of DSLRs put a limit on how long video clips can be. Canon’s 7D and Rebel T2i cap out at 12-minutes and even the current king of video DSLRs, the 5D Mark II, maxes out at 29:59 or when the file ...

DxO Labs quantifies how much light is lost to Sony's A33 and A55 cameras' transparent mirror. The sensors are still competitive, though. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Most photographers, pro and amateur, are quite rightly terrified to fish around inside their digital cameras. Whereas little could go wrong with a film camera that couldn't be fixed with a huff of ...

Building on the acclaimed a33 and a55 models, the a35 camera with Sony's Translucent Mirror Technology allows responsive, accurate continuous autofocus – whether shooting high-speed still photos or ...

All right. Sony’s A55 camera adopts a new spin on a decades-old photographic idea: the mirror is translucent. It splits light between the focusing sensor and the image sensor — all the time. The ...