Although the blog site has been inactive for a few days (8 now apparently), the members of the South Carolina Photography Guild would like to wish a Happy and belated 4th of July to any and all visitors. One of our members has uploaded fireworks pictures to their gallery, can can be viewed here: fireworks show
In other news, the photo industry has been all abuzz as of lately on the new Olympus Evolt 330 which features a live preview screen (a feature common to the Point-and-Shoot crowd), which is entirely new to the DSLR family of cameras. Reviews abound in photo magazines galore, including Popular Photography (which gave it the review of the year), PCPhoto, Shutterbug, and others. What has fallen under the mainstream publication radar though, and of more interest here, is the latest release from Sony (which took over the camera operations for Konica Minolta), the DSLR A-100. What makes this so interesting is the fact that the camera fits all lenses previously released by KM, and also sports a 10 Megapixel sensor. This is quite amazing given the entry-level cost of the body and kit lens (under $1000). The latest issue of PC Photo does a great review on the camera. One of the better online reviews is available at a popular photography site called DP Review (www.dpreview.com), and that can be found here: DP Review of the Sony A100
Jason | 09-Jul-06 at 9:18 pm | Permalink
As a follow-up to this, the mainstream media is making me eat my words as the latest issue of Popular Photography has the Sony A-100 gracing it’s cover, and a full write-up on the inside singing the praises, and suggesting it will give both the Canon offerings of the Rebel XT and it’s big brother, the 20D a run for it’s money, as well as the similarly equipped Nikon D200, but at $800 less than the Nikon counterpart, with the added feature of onboard IS. Anyway, a great article and lots of other stuff in the latest of Popular Photography….on newsstands today!