Introduction
And you thought the megapixel wars were over! Earlier this year Sony announced it had designed a full-frame 24-megapixel imaging device and officially stated a camera featuring this chip would arrive later in 2008. Well, that time is here. Sony officially took the wraps off the alpha DSLR-A900, a 24.6-megapixel digital single lens reflex camera for a cool three grand (body only). It arrives in stores come November.
You may think $3K for a digicam is steep but put it into perspective—the full-frame 21.1-megapixel Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III costs $7,999. What a deal! Yes, we know there are 50-megapixel sensors out there (Hasselblad has them) but that baby is a tidy $50,000 and is for studio pros only.
