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Re: [Minolta] Re: a900 thoughts

Am 10.11.2009, 17:40 Uhr, schrieb Magnus Wedberg <mw@...>:

> sybersitizen wrote, On 2009-11-10 17:20:
>> I think the main hype point is that you can tweak settings while
>> looking at the 'preview' (which is not really a preview at all, just an
>> image in a buffer) and the changes will be depicted onscreen. Eh...
>>
>
> Yeah, I understand the concept, just not the reason for it. Such a
> system would have been great when shooting film -- especially slides --
> but today, tweaking every frame like that? I'd rather just blast away.

You can still do that, no?

Perhaps it's a half-baked or misunderstood and time-shifted version of the
"post-process RAW to JPEG" feature that other brands (ISTR Nikon and
Pentax) offer.

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Matthias Andree



Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:20 am

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Tested all my lenses on an a900 tonight. Only had one non-full frame piece of glass (the Minolta/Tamron 11-18mm), which vignettes like crazy at 11mm. There...
Keven Fedirko
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I think I just saw A900 in Lozeau in Montreal for $2799 (last week). Ramin...
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... I'm a bit disappointed that the virtual preview seems to disable the exposure lock (I have it set to hold the values) - what is the point of that. It...
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... Isn't it also impossible to save the "preview" itself, if that happened to be the perfect timed shot? That is a biggie to me. Frankly I don't see much...
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I think the main hype point is that you can tweak settings while looking at the 'preview' (which is not really a preview at all, just an image in a buffer) and...
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... Yeah, I understand the concept, just not the reason for it. Such a system would have been great when shooting film -- especially slides -- but today,...
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Nov 10, 2009
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... You can still do that, no? Perhaps it's a half-baked or misunderstood and time-shifted version of the "post-process RAW to JPEG" feature that other brands...
Matthias Andree
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... I think you understand that I was criticizing what I see as pointless development, when there are significantly more important features/firmware issues to...
Magnus Wedberg
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... Sure it's not a high priority item, but still I'd like to see this and perhaps adjustable in-camera RAW->JPEG post processing in the alpha 700, too. I'm...
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... That is entirely correct -- but in practice, noise on the a900 looks very much like a700 noise PRE the v4 firmware update. Downsampling the a900 image to...
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... The official word from what I've been able to read is, that there is no way to save it, it is "low rez" anyway (even if you could save it). Myself, not...
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