Magnus Wedberg schrieb:
>>> 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?
>
> I think you understand that I was criticizing what I see as pointless
> development, when there are significantly more important
> features/firmware issues to be adressed -- for example, in my opinion,
> the a700 has better noise characteristics.

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 wondering a bit about noise characteristics. The pixel density (pitch)
should be a bit lower in the alpha 900 as they scale resolution by 1.9... where
the geometric (areal) difference is 2.25 (or, linearly, 1.4 pixel increase on
1.5 length growth), so unless the on-sensor pixel borders are wider, it should
have better noise characteristics even in crop mode, let alone proper
downsampling on the PC.

> But then again I didn't buy the a900 (soooo close though) so I'm just in
> armchair mode. :-) *petting white cat*

At least "blast away" wasn't an issue when I tried the alpha 900 at the
Photokina fair in Köln (Cologne/Germany) last year. I don't own one myself
either (nor the 850).

> It's rather "OMG we missed the video/live view boat completely here,
> what can we do that isn't limited by sensor/processing hardware".

Ah well. Live View is really useful with a tilt/swivel display on some occasions
(over the head or close to the ground) - but such displays have their own
constraints WRT viewfinder/ocular and overall camera geometry.