Is your name beta? New Sony Alpha dSLRs surface

Edvarcl Heng | May 23, 2007

While media attention was fixated by the launch of the Wi-Fi-enabled Cyber-shot G1, Sony quietly placed two new Alpha camera bodies on showcase at PMA. Based on information from Sony Asia, the two as-yet-unnamed prototypes will be positioned higher than the current Alpha 100 and will both feature the BIONZ image-processing engine and Sony's CCD-shift Super SteadyShot optical stabilization system.

Editors' note:

This story has been updated with official pictures from Sony. The name of this camera still remains unnamed.

Along with the bodies, eight concept lenses designed for the Alpha system will also be on display including:

Large aperture standard zoom
Telephoto zoom
Large aperture wide-angle zoom
Super telephoto fixed
Telephoto fixed
Wide angle fixed
Large aperture wide-angle fixed

Though product information was still sketchy at press time, one of the two camera bodies is projected to go on sale within the calendar year as well as five lenses, including the 24-70mm/F2.8, 70-300mm/F4.5-5.6 and the DT18-250mm/F3.5-6.3.

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