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Sony A55: Hands On

Goodbye Canon, going back to Sony. I am selling my 7D & getting this - for me, it's that good!

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what about video duration ?

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29 mins...

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I wonder if this EVF system be incorporated into the 850-900 cameras?

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This is certainly not "translucent" image technology! Translucent material lets light through, but like frosted glass, you cannot see images through it. What Sony is using is a "pellicle mirror," a meter which is semi-transparent, reflecting some light to the viewfinder and allowing the rest to go through to the sensor behind.

Pop's editor is almost certainly too young to remember that almost the very same system was used by Canon for its "Pellix" SLRs built in the late 1960s. But I'm old enough to have tried one and been amazed that it worked, but sorry that the viewfinder was too dark.

What was new 40 years ago circled around and is new today.

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That was 40 yrs...now we have the internet, emails, iphone and I am pretty sure, what was too dark 40 yrs ago has been corrected with a new kind of "Pellix" SLRs!

Proof? Look at the glowing HANDS ON reviews all over the web by experts. I haven't heard any of them saying "viewfinder was too dark."

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@1960s was old school

The Pellix didn't fail because of the 'dark viewfinder', but because of dust and whatever ending up on the semitransparent mirror at every lens change.....

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A fixed beam splitter rather than a flipping mirror will certainly dim both the viewfinder and the image sensor; but I think that's where EVF comes in to save the day; It does not need much light and acts as a amplifier, so the fixed beam splitter only needs to take away a very small amount of light from the path to imaging sensor. This is what you dont have 40 years ago.

New technologies do make dreams come true, often in a way not what was imagined years ago, but the end result is what matters.

A friend told me that he had a dream of making a compass without using magnet when he was a child, now 40 years later he realized that the GPS is in a way, a compass without magnet.

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lol, chimping

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Goodbye Canon, going back to Sony. I am selling my 7D & getting this - for me, it's that good!

0 Good Comment? yes no

what about video duration ?

0 Good Comment? yes no

29 mins...

0 Good Comment? yes no

I wonder if this EVF system be incorporated into the 850-900 cameras?

0 Good Comment? yes no

This is certainly not "translucent" image technology! Translucent material lets light through, but like frosted glass, you cannot see images through it. What Sony is using is a "pellicle mirror," a meter which is semi-transparent, reflecting some light to the viewfinder and allowing the rest to go through to the sensor behind.

Pop's editor is almost certainly too young to remember that almost the very same system was used by Canon for its "Pellix" SLRs built in the late 1960s. But I'm old enough to have tried one and been amazed that it worked, but sorry that the viewfinder was too dark.

What was new 40 years ago circled around and is new today.

0 Good Comment? yes no

That was 40 yrs...now we have the internet, emails, iphone and I am pretty sure, what was too dark 40 yrs ago has been corrected with a new kind of "Pellix" SLRs!

Proof? Look at the glowing HANDS ON reviews all over the web by experts. I haven't heard any of them saying "viewfinder was too dark."

0 Good Comment? yes no

@1960s was old school

The Pellix didn't fail because of the 'dark viewfinder', but because of dust and whatever ending up on the semitransparent mirror at every lens change.....

0 Good Comment? yes no

A fixed beam splitter rather than a flipping mirror will certainly dim both the viewfinder and the image sensor; but I think that's where EVF comes in to save the day; It does not need much light and acts as a amplifier, so the fixed beam splitter only needs to take away a very small amount of light from the path to imaging sensor. This is what you dont have 40 years ago.

New technologies do make dreams come true, often in a way not what was imagined years ago, but the end result is what matters.

A friend told me that he had a dream of making a compass without using magnet when he was a child, now 40 years later he realized that the GPS is in a way, a compass without magnet.

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lol, chimping

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