COMING SOON..!!! The NEW Sony Alpha A57

Sony Alpha A57 (pictured)

Due into the shops next month is the NEW Sony Alpha A57, Sony's replacement for the Sony Alpha A55. The Sony Alpha A57 will sit underneath the Sony Alpha A65 in Sony's range of Translucent Mirror Technology DSLR's. Viewing the specifications of this new camera, there is not much to really set it apart from the much loved Alpha A55. Its more along the same size of the A65, so will be larger than the A55. It has the same 16MP APS-C Exmor sensor. Yes, the frames-per-second has been increased to 12fps, but only if your in the new Tele-zoom Continuous Advance Priority AE mode- 10fps in normal shooting modes!!!! 


But its the increase in ISO capability which is most worrying, now having a selectable range from 100-16000 ISO. Sony state low-noise images, but what i think this will mean in practise is the camera capturing multiple images & processing multiple images for one shot. The digital viewfinder is higher resolution than that on the A55, but still maintains LCD technology at 1440k-dots- not the latest OLED technology used in the Sony Alpha A77. The Auto Focus Tracking system is improved for continuous shooting & HD Movie making. 


Interesting, is Sony's approach to increasing your ability to record Telephoto images with the A57. The A57 basically has an in-built Telephoto Converter, but in layman terms its just digital zoom!!! It can crop at 1.4x (reduces pixels to 8.4MP) & 2x (reducing pixels to 4MP). This means that if you had a 300mm lens on the A57, including the cameras natural 1.5x magnification due to the APS-C sized sensor used- you would be able to photograph at an equivalent of 900mm at 4MP. A new function on the A57 is 'Auto Portrait Framing' mode where the camera refines the your composition, trimming your pictures for a more tightly framed Portraits. 


Even though it means saying goodbye to an old friend, there is no doubt that the NEW Sony Alpha A57 will be a spectacular camera.  

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