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Sony A6000 with Zeiss 50mm F1.4 on Speed Booster Buy the new Sony A6000 on eBay Pre-order the new Sony A6000 for $648 at B&H The Sony A6000 is the best Sony consumer camera yet for video. A Nikon D5300 in a mirrorless body, with far more features, the image quality is closer to the FS700 in 1080p than to a NEX 7 or A5000. The pristine sharp EVF, a magnified…

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According to Imaging Resource the new video mode of the new Sony RX10 with 1″ sensor is a big step forwards. The RX10’s sensor reads out the entire 5472 x 3080 frame at 60fps sending the maximum amount of raw video data to the image processor. The new Bionz X processor is designed to take the 5K video stream (for the first time). The advantage is that Bionz X can intelligently downsample and…

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NEX-Hack.com now open A huge thank you to all EOSHD readers who have donated to the NEX hacking project. The interest in the NEX and Alpha hacks has been HUGE! Therefore I’ve decided the project lead by Someone1.00 deserves its own site at NEX-Hack.com You can login with your own existing EOSHD forum username and password. And if you haven’t already donated please do so now! The more donations, the…

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The official announcement of the A77 is due this week. This is a camera that significantly outperforms the current video DSLR top guns Canon 7D and GH2 in every department. If you are going to shift systems your Canon or GH2 compatible lenses (and even Nikon) will be paperweights on the Alpha because of the long flange distance of the mount. Also Sony’s lens range isn’t exactly huge and third…

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Every wondered how the Sony Alpha series delivers a live view image from a very small sensor in the viewfinder housing without cropping, mimicking the field of view of the main CMOS, while enabling super fast phase detect AF at the same time? (Deep breath). Well, it seems Panasonic did wonder this, and plan to bring such innovations to a range of lenses previously not fully compatible with mirror-less bodies.…

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