Here’s a good review by Ephotozine on the Sony A700 which rates it quite .
It writes: “There’s no doubt about it, Sony have pulled out the stops on the A700, it’s a fast, well-built camera with plenty of photographic features for the enthusiast. The handling is good and would have been better overall than [...]

Finally Sony has announced their mid range Alpha model called the A700. Actually the replacement for the Konica Minolta 7D and it will be interesting if it the new A700 puts Sony up there with the big boys. How will this camera compete against competition such as the Canon 40D, Nikon D300, Pentax K10D and [...]

Although the current focus is on the impending release of the Canon 40D, there is another competitor lurking in the bush. No it’s not Nikon, Olympus or even Fuji film, its Sony.
Remember - Sony makes the sensor for Nikon DSLR and they are about to introduce 3 new models to compete against the likes of [...]

Here is an interesting article from www.asahi.com about Nikon surpassing Canon with a larger market share in Digital SLR cameras within Japan during January to June 2007. This came about by a strong push mainly with the release of the Nikon D40.
It is interesting to see how strong Nikon is these days and it must [...]

It looks like Sony is investing heavily in its sensor production facility in Japan. According to the press release, Sony Corporation announced that it would invest approximately 60 billion JPY in Sony Semiconductor Kyushu Corporation’s Kumamoto Technology Centre (Kumamoto TEC) Fab 2 facility, to extend clean room facilities by 5,000m² and reinforce image sensor fabrication [...]

According to Reuters, the Sony Play Station 3 (PS3) and the recall of laptop batteries has been blamed for Sony not hitting forecast profits; however the company does claim that the future is looking good. Although it may add to the bottom line, the launch of the new Sony DSLR’s may help help push up [...]

I’m not sure how long before Sony will announce the release of the next generation Alphas’. That’s right, there seems to be two new upcoming models. Does this mean Double the Trouble for Canon and Nikon?
Anyhow, the two new models will be categorized as follows:
1. A High End Amateur Model - This model is [...]

A review by CNET in the UK about a camera combat between the Camera phones, a digital compact camera and a digital DSLR has to be the worst review I have ever read. In fact the review is more like a primary school project and I think this is where it is aimed.
In this [...]

Here are some interesting facts for 2006 for digital cameras. According to Reuters, Canon has topped the market share in global digital camera shipments in 2006, however South Korea’s Samsung Electronics jumped up the ranks to 5th place from 9th a year ago. Nikon is ranked 6th in the world.
Tokyo-based Canon shipped 19.7 million digital [...]

According to the latest report by BCN which is market research firm constantly monitoring POS data from 2,680 stores operated by 23 contracted major retailing companies. Nikon has the number 1 market share in Japan.
Nikon has claimed 47% of the DSLR market in Japan during December 2006. The increased market share was attributed to [...]