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Sony is on track to launch its first digital SLR (single-lens reflex) camera in the middle of this year, a company executive said Friday. more

[rasterbator]

Blah blah blah Sony blah blah blah digital bla blah.
Boycott this product, too.
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[dreyfus]

"Sony is hoping to eventually achieve a market share of around 20 percent of the digital SLR market, he said."
Well, let's imagine:
- The first Sony DSLR will be a big bang and carry a big name, such as ZW-1TC3PO-NSA; people ordering it online will receive everything from puppies to toasters.
- Masses and Pro's alike will move to embrace the all-new Memory Stick Duo Pro Siamese Twin Enhanced Turbo STS because they will appreciate it's universal capabilities (storage, tampoon, satisfaction).
- The shutter will be linked to RIAA, NSA, CIA and the Pope via satellite. A GPS-module will report your location to the forementioned agencies to enable immediate arrest in case you want to do something naughty (or think of it).
Sony... Die!
Cheers,
Dreyfus
OK, back to earth! I am a professional (live from it) photographer since 20 years. I would not touch anything that says Sony on it with tweezers.

[Machound]

Hey, I'm no Sony supporter ordinarily... but I love my 7.1 MP Cybershot DSC P-200 camera. At least I did unil I dropped it two months ago shattering the LCD. I entered a service request on Sony's web page and was astonished to find out this was an in-warranty repair, no questions asked. Well, they did have a box indicating the nature of the damage and I entered "cracked LCD". They didn't ask me to specify how it cracked.
On my behalf I will say the camera didn't take much of a drop to crack the LCD. It's a pocket camera, so I presume its fragility was inherent. Maybe it's a design flaw for the LCD to crack with a 2 foot fall -- I don't know. Certainly there was no sign of external damage after the drop. I would have paid for LCD replacement costs had Sony suggested it.
My camera arrived back two weeks later, free of charge & return postage paid. I'd definitely consider myself to be a happy Sony customer following this experience. Sony cameras are definitely worth looking at even if you don't like ano of their other products. I did my research for several weeks before purchasing this camera, reading lots of different forums and reviews. Every digital camera has its good and not-so-good points. By far the good outweights the bad.
I have no regrets about buying my Sony camera. Would I buy the same model three years from now? -- Probably not, but by then lots of things will have changed. The P200 offered the best features and performance-per-cost in a P&S camera at the time I bought it.
I'm not crazy about the higher price-per-GB of Memory Stick versus other media, but I only needed one stick for my purposes. The InfoLithium battery is first rate, even for someone who previously swore he'd never buy a camera with proprietary batteries. The Carl Zeiss lens is very nice.
Way to go Sony!

[what]

Will it come with Root Kit preinstalled or with anti-consumer copy protection preventing you from freely duplicating your digital photographs like other Sony products?

[neut]

Loved my DSC-505v ... just bought a DSC-828; can't wait to see what they bring to the dSLR market.
peace | neut

[ggallent]

"Will it come with Root Kit preinstalled or with anti-consumer copy protection preventing you from freely duplicating your digital photographs like other Sony products?"
Excellent!

[kelake]

"Will it come with Root Kit preinstalled or with anti-consumer copy protection preventing you from freely duplicating your digital photographs like other Sony products?"
No but it will automatically black out any photographs taken that inadvertently include a companies ad. image or product until you pay some ridiculous fee.

[Benny_Hill]

I wonder what the new name will be, will it be called "Sony Minolta Konica"?

[Nobody]

Heck, I don't care much about the rootkit (don't buy Sony music, use a Mac) but I would never touch a Sony camera with a 10-foot pole. Cybershots are terrible. Sony making an SLR? That takes some actual optical engineering. Sony capturing SLR market-share? Give me a break. This sounds like Creative's declaration of war on Apple.

[pikester42]

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Will it come with Root Kit preinstalled or with anti-consumer copy protection preventing you from freely duplicating your digital photographs like other Sony products?

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Either that or it will automatically add random graffiti to your pictures.

[what]

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RE: "Heck, I don't care much about the rootkit (don't buy Sony music, use a Mac)"

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...quite the contrary, the Sony/MediaMax copy protection on current cd's does affect Macs!
Here's the list:
http://sonybmg.com/m...max/titles.html

[Nobody]

If by "does affect," you mean there is a Mac application on the CD, which the user has to find, and deliberately run, then I guess that's true.
However, I have not heard of anyone actually running this application for other than spyware research purposes. In other words, no Mac user deliberately runs weird files on their audio CDs by mistake.