Sony Alpha A100 DSLR Interview

Digital Camera Info have published an interview with Sony on the new Sony Alpha Digital SLR DSLR-A100 - it features a 10.2 megapixel sensor with anti-shake, now called Sony Steadyshot, an anti-dust sensor, dynamic range optimisation image processing, a 2.5" screen with 230,000 pixels, and a Minolta lens mount. Price is expected to be $899 body only or $999 with kit lens, with the camera becoming available next month.

"As you know, there are two different selectable levels of DRO: there’s DRO standard and then there is DRO advanced. DRO standard is primarily manipulation of Gamma, it’s not exclusively manipulation of gamma but it’s primarily that. It covers the entire image, and its primary purpose is to recover or extract shadow detail. DRO advanced can extract detail from the shadowed areas, but it performs the analysis on an area by area basis and it also manipulates additional parameters so it is able to recover the shadow detail, as well as the highlight detail, without affecting the entire image."