Some first glimpses of the Sony A900 out in the wild, with what looks to be a Zeiss 16-35mm lens with internal zoom.

No pop-up flash either…

So, I guess we can take this out of the rumor category now?

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Just a few more days now, but Sony is already hitting the photo rags with the advertisements, this one from National Geographic.

The specifications as listed:

24.6 megapixel full frame Exmor CMOS sensor Dual BIONZ image processing engine Intelligent preview 100% viewfinder, 0.74x magnification 3.0″ 921k dot hybrid LCD 9 point center ..read more

We said it before, and we weren’t joking.

Sony’s camera, a new member of its “alpha” family of cameras, will be shown at a company event that is scheduled to take place in Tokyo on Wednesday.

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There’s no question that the Sony A900 (it of 24 megapixel on a full frame sensor fame) is coming very soon, but exactly how soon is yet to be determined. As we’ve pointed out before the expected announcement date is September 10. But ..read more

Or at least that’s what I’m hearing…

The announcement is early next month, the first 900’s ship early October

from the forums…

I’ll just remind readers in all likelyhood (this rumor aside) September’s Photokina will bring us a 24 megapixel, full frame, pro body camera from ..read more

24.8 megapixels and full frame

Gee, I go to NYC for a couple of days and all hell breaks loose. It seems like only a couple of days ago I said something about how the Sony sensor announcement might anticipate an A900 announcement at ..read more