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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Hillary K. Grigonis

Sony’s first-ever DSLR had a wild feature that started focusing without pressing any buttons

TOKYO, JAPAN - JUNE 6: Models show off Sony's digital single-lens reflex (DSLF) camera Alpha "DSLR-A100" during a press conference on June 6, 2006 in Tokyo, Japan. This is Sony's first DSLF 10.2-megapixel with a 21 lens camera which will be released on July 21, 2006. (Photo by Junko Kimura/Getty Images).

The Sony Alpha name has officially been around for more than two decades. On June 5, 2006, Sony announced its first DSLR, the Sony Alpha A100. Twenty years later, Sony’s interchangeable lens cameras still carry the Alpha name, but the imaging giant’s latest models are a far cry from Sony’s first.

The Sony Alpha A100’s 10.2MP APS-C DSLR, which shot at just 2.49fps, shows just how far imaging technology has come in the last twenty years – after all, Sony’s most recent announcement, the A7R VI shoots 66.8MP images at 30 fps.

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