The Sony Alpha 900 according to DP Review is a “serious DSLR” in contrast to how Sony has approached the compact digital camera market, creating cameras constructed with elements of cell phones and PSP’s. The Alpha 900 scored a “Highly Recommended” rating from DP Review. The review though positive overall did find fault in the camera. DP Review states that the camera’s image quality drops significantly at higher ISO’s, “stunning results at up to ISO 400 (and is fine at ISO 800-1600 as long as you’re not printing posters)”. The Camera’s two major features are a full frame image sensor and a powerful image stabilization system.
The camera is now available.

Sony has just announced its latest Cyber-shot DSC-T2 which features to help those who can’t seem to organize their photos. First off the camera has 4 Gigbytes of internal storage space allowing tons of shooting sans memory card. The unit can hold up to 40,000 images at VGA quality and a thousand at the highest quality.

The camera features the ability to store images in specific folders, which should end the cluttered feel of going through your cameras memory files.

The camera itself features capabilities which one would expect to find on a digital point-and-shoot, which includes face recognition, 3x optical zoom, and a host of other features like video capture. The camera is being marketed as a stocking stuffer with a December release date with a $350 price tag.

Via DPReview

One of the great things about digital photography is the huge number of options available for sharing photos. Sony has added a very functional way to do so in High Definition. The Sony HDMS-S1D Digital Photo Album allows for HDMI output to HD televisions. The unit features an 80-gigabyte hard drive with the ability to import photos via CD, DVD, USB, and Ethernet. The unit features software, which enables you to sort and organize photos, create slide shows with preloaded audio files or gives you the option to upload your own tunes. All of this for $400 retail. Great idea, although I would wait for the price to drop before I picked one up.

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Sony is making a big investment in the research and development of sensors for digital cameras. The investment is around 60 billion Japanese Yen, and the plan is going to be implemented from the 2007 to 2009. So we should see some more powerful image sensors coming from Sony in the coming years.

Via DP Review

DP Review recently took a look at the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H7. The review was less than stellar. The H7 is the economy model of the series and does not offer the bells and whistles featured on the H9, which can be had for $75 difference. Also the review points out that the camera does not perform well in the creation of large prints!

“So, whilst the H7 does come in at a surprisingly low price for a camera with this level of specification, it’s hard to see why anyone wouldn’t pay the extra for the H9 unless they were on a seriously tight budget.

Putting aside the ‘is it worth saving $75′ issue the H7 has all the faults – and most of the good stuff – that we covered in length in the H9 review. The extra wideangle capability is still welcome, and the sheer versatility and creative potential of the 31-465mm range cannot be overstated. It offers an incredibly powerful feature set at a bargain price, and is, for the most part, capable of producing decent results for the average user (producing small prints) with point and shoot simplicity.

To put it another way, if you want a genuinely affordable big zoom camera for snapping the family that you can leave on ‘full auto’ all the time – and you rarely print your pictures bigger than 6×4 inches – the H7 is (at as little as $350 online) certainly worth a closer look.

But if you’ve got more exacting image quality standards, want to enlarge more or want to actually use all those advanced features I suspect that, like us, you’re going to find the H7 disappointing. At least the H9 has a great screen to take your mind off the fiddly controls and less-than-stellar results; the H7 is what it is – a budget model that, unfortunately, performs like one.”