New Sony Alpha (1 Viewer)

OK they have announced and shown the new body prototypes. Now they have a very good new sensor announcement. When are the new camera's coming out? Anyone seen anything. I think something to compete with the 40D is looming.

See

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0709/07090601sonydslra700.asp

I have been on the Dyxum forum and downloaded a couple of the A700 raw images. Looks like the new ISO 1600 pictures look better noise wise than some of my ISO 400 shots. Detail has improved as expected. Sony has a winner.
Anyone have one on order ? Or have one?

My Sony A100 is in repair. It malfunctioned while I was shooting. The battery I ad in went low and on replacement It ceased to show any setting information. If I took a shot it would flash the picture in the LCD for a few seconds but I could not see them via screen review. Mine was on rev 1.01 of firmware and 1.04 is out now. Hopefully I will have the new firmware when it returns. Despite all this I have decided to stick with it as it''s electronic and it doesn't matter who's name it they will occasionally fail.
I had just got the 70-200mm Sony G lens which is a fabulous lens and works well with their 1.4X converter. To be continued.

Well camera is back. Problem was with switch in the top as it was replaced. Upgraded it now to the new 1.04 firmware. Everything working great again. Man it feels good to have my cameraback. Now to get the PC fixed that crashed the same week. Working on laptop.