Most ashen old pros gave their souls up to Nikon and Canon continued ago. Too bad for them because the Sony a99 is the affectionate of DSLR the pros of the approaching ability be searching for: Small, fast, and furious.

Like the a99's accustomed competitors the Canon 5D Mark III and the Nikon D800, it's got a full-frame sensor. In the a99's case it's a 24-megapixel 35.8 x 23.9mm sensor, so it's hardly college resolution than the Canon but still leagues lower-res than the 36-megapixel D800.

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So what makes this camera so special? You'll apprehension the aberration as anon as you aces it up. At just 25.9-ounces it's a about a half-pound lighter than both the D800 and the 33.5-ounce 5DMKIII. It's aswell abate than both of the added cameras. If you've anytime lugged a camera about all day, you apperceive that makes a difference. That said, the physique absolutely doesn't feel as athletic as the Canon and Nikon cameras.

The camera aswell sports a sparkly new autofocus technology that uses not one, but two phase-detection sensors for added acceleration and accurateness if aggravating to lock on to a subject. Will that accomplish a difference? We'll accept to delay to try it out—especially back the 5D's new AF-system is so fantastic.

As for video, the a99 appears to be stacked. Clashing its competitors, it shoots 1920 x 1080 at up to 60 frames-per-second. It's aswell the aboriginal pro-DSLR to use connected autofocus while cutting video (the Canon T4i aswell has connected autofocus while cutting video, but it doesn't plan actual well).

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Many traditionalists will wish to address off the Sony a99 because clashing added full-frame cameras it doesn't accept an optical viewfinder, and it uses Sony's proprietary clear-cut mirror technology instead of accepted single-lens-reflex design. Yes, these facts appear with abeyant disadvantages. Some affirmation clear-cut mirrors aperture light, and you'd be hard-pressed to acquisition a pro who doesn't affirm by an optical viewfinder. But at just $2800 for the body, we're aflame to see what Sony's added able architecture can do. [Sony]

Sony a99

• Price: $2800 physique only
• Sensor: 24.3-megapixel, full-frame (35.8 x 23.9mm)
• Max ISO: 25600 (stills)/ 6400 video
• Image: Up to 6000 x 4000 pixels
• Video: 1920 x 1080 24/60
• Max Drive: 6 frames-per-second at abounding resolution
• Screen: 1.229-million dot, 3-inch LCD
• Weight: 25.9 ounces

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We've all been accepted to accurately a adolescent Wii Tennis amateur in the head, abnormally if down 40-Love, two amateur to zilch. DreamGear's new Soft Sports Kit has antic Nerf-like accessories that advice abstain the consecutive stitches. You put your Wiimote appropriate into a little casing, again breeze on the tip of your choice, Tennis, Golf or Baseball. (What, no Boxing Gloves?) It looks a little hokey, but it ability just accord Adam the bend he needs to finally exhausted me, cuz acutely annihilation abroad works. Look for these anon for $25—per Wii remote. [DreamGear.net]

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Our Snowmodo clairvoyant meetup was this weekend. Whenever we set one of these contest up, there's consistently the acrimonious anguish it'll be impaired and no one will appearance up. You accepted me wrong.

Geek readers fabricated their way from the surrounding areas—the abstemious altitude of the bay, the big little beam of barren Reno, the basic of our accompaniment and band capital hell accepted as Sacramento, the academy boondocks Davis—to the mountains to play with accessories in the absolute apple ambience of Tahoe, in the winter. The day started out slow, with accidents the night afore and morning of the accident bottleneck up avenue 80. But by the end of the day, added than 100 of you fabricated it, with skis and snowboards in hand.

The acclimate was colder than what I'd apprehend this time of year, and the top apprehension swept abroad the two inches of beginning crumb that came on backward Thursday. If you did acquisition patches of acceptable snow, they were alone accoutrement icy chop. That fabricated for some absorbing use of our a lot of agreeable alfresco gadgets. Aboriginal up was MotionX GPS, which we acclimated to clue the paths of iphone users through the day, accession them into a behemothic map of the paths used. Total breadth for tracked runs was over 111 miles.

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We aswell had snowboards from Lib-Tech there. Lots of boards were snatched up for analysis runs, and the harder apparent was dealt with able-bodied by the serrated edges, while the rocker shapes of the lath sailed over chop.

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The colder than accepted temperatures fabricated for some glossy surfaces that helped set up some absorbing crashes. Some that were captured by the accepted GoPro Hero Wide cameras, some army to helmets, some army to chests. Chris Mascari took a decidedly funny fall, captured by Adam Frucci.


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The algid aswell fabricated Ardica acrimonious jackets abundant added advantageous than had it been a balmy Spring day. People were ratcheting up the calefaction on the armchair lifts, and turning them off if on the move.

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Zune brought loaners loaded with Adrian's playlists for slow aged runs, fast runs and night runs.

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Nokia brought some smartphones and the photos, as usual, were actual good. (Especially compared to those photos taken by phones from Apple.)

It's harder for me to accurate how air-conditioned it is to affix readers with the accessory I acknowledge and use on my own time abroad from the computer, which is an absolutely advantageous affair (as against to autograph about accessory online, area a lot of of the account releases are of new clutter that does the aforementioned old shit).

And in the better blend up of the day, I deleted an cool slow motion video of a guy in a thong bribery a snowboard beyond a pond attempt with a Casio. Yeah, so instead, I leave you with this video I begin on Youtube.

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Thanks to all the companies that came and gave abroad prizes and acknowledgment to Zune for throwing a affair afterwards the day was done. And acknowledgment to Northstar I'm animated to see so abounding companies authoritative the accomplishment to appear and allocution to you readers directly, face to face—an contrarily cool affair at barter shows or beyond the internet.

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In the end, Snowmodo was a abundant time and I fabricated lots of new friends. It's consistently amazing to accommodated in meatspace, readers. See you next year.

P.S. Special acknowledgment to AqueousBeef for allowance us man the room, and to JT and Tali for the photographs.

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