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Sony Alpha a850

  • Launched: August 2009
  • Type: Digital SLR
  • Sensor size: Full frame, 35.9 x 24mm
  • Resolution: 24.6 megapixels
  • Lenses: Sony a mount
  • Key features: None
  • Links: Press releaseProduct page
Summary: The cheaper and newer of Sony's two full-frame digital SLRs. It has the same 24-megapixel full-frame sensor but a reduced maximum shooting speed of 3fps rather than 5fps.

    Olympus E-450

    • Launched: August 2009
    • Type: Digital SLR
    • Sensor size: Four Thirds, 17.3 x 13mm
    • Resolution: 10 megapixels
    • Lenses: Four Thirds
    • Key features: None
    • Links: Press releaseProduct page
    Summary: Super-compact Four Thirds SLR with great layout and design but hampered by an older 10-megapixel MOS sensor. The only digital SLR to use a classic rectangular design and barely larger than an SLR style hybrid.