Sony Alpha DSLR A850 / α850 landed in Malaysia

Couple weeks ago, I was asked by a friend of mine to come out and test drive the all new Sony Alpha A850. The moment I saw the A850 ... it strucked me! ... WTF?! A900?!

Apparently the "ALL NEW" Sony Alpha A850 is sharing the same magnesium alloy body frame with its big brother A900 therefore its not strange if you would identify a Sony Alpha A850 as A900 as well.

From the top, Dial, shutter release, ISO, LCD, Drive butons

Closeup of the top right side of the Alpha A850

Alpha A850 with a VG-C90AM (A900) vertical battery grip.

DOF switch

Joystick

Identical GUI with those in Alpha A900

Setting Display on Hi-Res LCD

CF and Memory stick slot

Cover open

Camwhoring with the Alpha A850

Being the first few to actually play with the Alpha A850 in Malaysia, I often asked by fellows alpha users what do I think about the new Alpha A850 ... to which I answered "Alpha A850 is a 3fps Alpha A900" the truth is of coz not as simple as that but its as close as it gets.

If you wanna know what kinda specs this Alpha A850 carries simply google for the sopecs of Alpha A900 and minus the 100% viewfinder counverage, 5 fps and replace them with 98% viewfinder coverage, 3fps and you get yourself a Alpha A850!

But Why A850? since A850 is almost 98% of a A900? What is A850 purpose of existance?

Lemme explains this with an equation ..... the first equation is ...

A850 = 98% A900

Retail price for A900 & A850 in Malaysia is :

A900 Retail $ @ RM8,999 (100%)

A850 Retail $ @ RM6,999 (77%)

Hence the conclusion is .... with Alpha a850 you will be paying 77% (RM6,999) to get a DSLR (Alpha a850) thats suppose to be worth 98% (RM8,819) of an Alpha A900!

In other words .... Its freaking CHEAP! The most value for money full frame DSLR in the market by far!

So now you should know the reason behind Alpha A850 existance. Great news for those photographers whom wanted upgrade to full frame DSLR! No better time than now!

Looks like sony is serious about increasing their market share in the FF category ... :)

Fierce Singapore Ahlian Bashing Ahbeng Boyfriend's Balls in Public

This morning I was reading this article in The Star which wrote about how one Singapore Ahbeng kena weck in the balls by his Ahlian Gerpren in Publis and the whole incident were recorded by a passerby and later uploaded to the internet!

Woman caught on video hitting boyfriend’s private parts

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Then it crossed my mind ... eh mch! I just watched this video yesday only!!! Then I dig dig and finally found the video!!!

Nah! here izzit!

I really pity the Ahbeng la! I watch the video i also pain ... I derno why he so steady can stand there like dem cool lidat and continue let her weck, slap with high heels, grab his balls and get the kick the shit outta him!!! Then it crossed my mind ... maybe this Ahbeng no balls wan?! AH! that exprens why he no pain when kena weck!!!

This Ahlian dem fierce ok? If you got this kinda GF then God bless you la!!!

If you is Ahbeng and you been suffering this kinda treatment from your gf ... worry not!!! Send me your videos taken while your gf abuse lu and I will help u get justice!!!! Dun shy shy!!! I can make u fehmes wan!!! KAKAKAKAKAA!!!

To all Ahlians watching this video .... dun so FIERCE CAN?!!!

• Related Post : How Singaporean Reacts to the High-heel Ahlian Weck Ahbeng balls Incident?

Demo Videos Sony Alpha a500/a550

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Dont say I dont warn you of the consequences of watching all the below videos ok? Your wallet might suffer deep deep injuries wan!!!

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Sony Alpha a500/a550 overview demo video ... the poison is deep in this one!!!




How to use the NEW Manual focus feature with Live View! Very good feature for Macro Photographer!!



Splendid New Auto Focus feature that tracks your subject once its locked! Plus New GUI of Sony Alpha a500/a550


Someone please lock me up and keep my wallet + credit cardsss for me pulezzz!!!!

RON95 mushrooming in Petrol Stesen liow

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If both plesidern n Vice presidern also erected by the citizens/members wan ... why the plesidern got pahwer to sack the vice presidern wan? The presidern do lidis means he treat those who erected the Vice Presidern during the erecsien all doesnt exist one izzit? Lidis kalo then who got the rights to sack the presidern? kakaka mch lidis also can!!!

Between sex scandal lapuk (which is like super duper old news ledi) and kolapsyen of billions of RM .... which one more teruk ar? (quote curik from fb)

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This morning go taruk petrol ... see see got the new RON95 ciplak petrol ledi wor! I thot Sept 1st only start wan? also now no more itu not very powderfool mia Vroom Vroom V pahwer ledi!

Since Economy no good now ... so think also no think i terus hantam the RON95 into my cheap car tank la!

Last time one week I kena taruk 40+ petrol mia ... this time 38 oni ... did i just travelled a lot lesser last week or this petrol memang so cheap?

Taruk cheap petrol edi also no notice got any reduce in pahwer also leh! lidis kalo RON95 memang can use wan!

So better use RON95 n with the saved $ get free Watan meen with fat fat mia charsiew!!!!

LENG AH!!!

Sony Alpha DSLR A500 / α500 Unofficial Specifications

Personally, i think that more photographer especially the beginners actually looking forward to the release of Sony Alpha A500 more than Alpha A850 itself. Reason being Alpha A850 is a scale down Alpha A900 full frame camera (unless you already own a complete range of Full Frame lens ... else you will have to get rid of all your APSC lenses and start hunting all over again for full frame lenses.) wherelse Sony Alpha A500 is still an APS-C camera that comes with very-very "advance" features.

Plus the fact that, you cant deny that the Sony Alpha A230 and Alpha A330 somewhat did not fill out the gap left by Alpha A200 and A300 respectively. Alpha A700 on the other hand were discountinued and the only excitements left for the existing Sony Alpha DSLR users is on the Alpha A500 & A550 for the time being.

So what can we expect from the all new Alpha A500? Lemme give u a list ...

1. New housing ... some says that the size of the new Sony Alpha A500/a550 is almost similar to Alpha A200/A300 but i beg to differs. Take a look at the "on-off" switch located above the jog-dial in the above photo and also the grip, it looks nothing like the A200/A300 housing. My take is this new Sony A500/a550 will be slightly bigger than A200/A300 ... but the truth is, we just gotta wait and see if this assumptions of mine is correct or not.
2. Live view, this feature is gonna be made available in both Alpha A550/A500 models, some even says that the Alpha A500/A550 comes with face detection features ... hmm face detection ... isnt that child play? Why do a DSLR photographer need face detection? And ... Will the live view be using the same additional crappy sensor like Alpha A300/A330 or otherwise? no information on that yet.
3. Improved C-MOS sensor ... there is a very high percentage of chances that the new Alpha A500 will be using the same/improved version of CMOS sensor as the Alpha A700 @ 12megapixels. ISO were pushed up till 12,800 instead of 6,400 on the Alpha A700. Noise handling should be showing significant improvements for Sony to push the ISO to that level. Cant wait to test what this barger can do in low light conditions!
4. Altho there isnt much official indications about the retail price for this new Alpha A500 yet but there are speculations that the new Alpha A550 is just a little bit more expensive than the newly launched A330/A380 ... if thats the case then existing Sony DSLR users really have something to look forward to!
5. No more bling bling two tone/brown color matching #$%$!! on the Alpha A500 series ... *phew!*
6. The battery used will be the same as those used in Alpha A200,A300,A350,A700 and A900 which is the NP-FM500H, existing users with extra batteries will be able to use them on their new Alpha A500.
7. 5 fps, this feature previously only available on the Alpha A700 and Alpha A900 but now made available on the new Alpha A500/A550. Its not a must have features coz unless you take sports photos for a living or else how often would you need 5fps?
8. Storage wise ... some claimed that the new storage will be like what Alpha A230 and A330 has become, SD card and Hd duo ... but my hopes is high that the Alpha A500 will retain the usage of CF card in its body. CF card is alot more reliable compares to SD ina whole.
9. 3" tilt-able screen just like the existing Alpha A330.
10. I do not foresee the availibility of video recording feature in the new Alpha A550 DSLR, maybe on the higher end/future model but definitely not on Alpha A500/A550 nor A850.
11. Buttons layout, since the Alpha A500 will be using a housing, i would expect changes on the buttons layout and well as GUI. Since there is none photos available on the Alpha A500 "back/behind" therefore I could only assume and hope that it do not follow the path of the Alpha A230/A330 buttons concepts. I prefer to have a dedicated button for each job function.
12. Built in flash GN12 with adi feature and customisable flash power till 1/32, such feature only available in the Alpha A700 currently.
13. In Camera programs and functions is also expected to see dramatical improvements over the Alpha A700/A300 series.
14. The Sony Alpha A500/A550 will probably be available in Malaysia by the end of October 2009.

After reading all that, you probably knew why the Alpha A550 is actually more anticipated than the Alpha A850. As far as I m concerned .... I m sold! Hopefully my wallet will be able to take that kinda damages!!!

Are you impressed yet?!! Cant wait to get my hands on the actual unit for a full review!

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