{"id":16377,"date":"2011-06-22T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/uncategorized\/sony-ditches-three-dslrs-16377"},"modified":"2014-09-02T15:24:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T14:24:37","slug":"sony-ditches-three-dslrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/photo-news\/sony-ditches-three-dslrs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony ditches three DSLRs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amateur Photographer (AP) has learnt that the Alpha 850, a full-frame DSLR announced in August 2009, will be &#8216;slowly phased out&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>AP understands that Sony plans to halt production of the Alpha 850 (pictured) in July or August because the 24.6MP camera is too similar in specification and price to the flagship Alpha 900 model.<\/p>\n<p>The Alpha 850 carries an advertised price of \u00a32,239 on Sony&#8217;s website, while the Alpha 900 costs \u00a32,549.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sony has confirmed that the 14.2-million-pixel Alpha 290 and 390 &#8211; entry-level DSLRs announced last June &#8211; will be &#8216;phased out&#8217; and are no longer being made.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as Sony today unveils its new NEX-C3 and Alpha 35 cameras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony plans to discontinue three of their cameras this Summer in a suprise announcement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":16375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"product-category":[],"class_list":["post-16377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.8 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - 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