Sony introduces its long-anticipated ILCs that incorporate a first-for-digital translucent-mirror system, optimized for video capture and burst shooting. I've been reviewing hardware and software, ...

World's First Translucent Mirror Technology Enabling Simultaneous Auto Focus and Capture in an Interchangeable Lens Digital Camera Sony announced the 14.2-megapixel SLT-A33 Alpha DSLR camera with Sony ...

Though video recording has become commonplace among SLRs since the Nikon D90 first introduced the feature in 2008, Sony has been late to the party, introducing video-free dSLRs as recently as June of ...

The A33 is different and, despite its infancy, successfully innovative. Technology that pushes the boundaries is always a good thing and moves preconceptions forward. If using an optical viewfinder is ...

If you've suffered a missed photo opportunity due to the short time your digital SLR takes to get its mirror out of the way, then Sony reckons it has the answer. The mirror inside the new α33 and α55 ...

Working behind the scenes to produce more mumbo-jumbo jargon, the Translucent Mirror Technology is shorthand for being able to track fast-moving subjects with “extra precision.” Two camera models with ...

More and more interchangeable lens cameras are going mirrorless these days, but for this pair of cameras, Sony didn’t nix the mirror all together. Instead, they made it fixed and translucent so that ...

These two new models are Sony’s very first digital cameras to employ Translucent Mirror Technology, which uses a fixed, translucent mirror that ‘splits’ the optical pathway between the main image ...

It's not just the A580 and A560 that Sony is unveiling today; the company also has a pair of new DSLRs using its Translucent Mirror Technology, the 16.2-megapixel A55 and 14.2-megapixel A33, to show ...

Alpha featuring translucent mirror technology for faster reaction times and live previews Neither a compact nor a digital SLR in its purest sense, though outwardly resembling the latter, the 14.2 ...

Part of a new generation of cameras, the SLT-A55 is truly innovative. The 10fps continuous shooting is incredibly good and far outclasses the next nearest DSLR in this department, not to mention ...

Sony’s SLT-A33 offers most of the features of the SLT-A55V that we reviewed in August but the sensor’s resolution is reduced to 14.2 megapixels (effective), its burst speeds and power management are ...