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Sony NEX-F3: Smaller is Better?

As you may know I’m a big fan of Sony, and I hap­pen to thor­oughly enjoy my NEX-5, the full-size ver­sion of the new NEX-F3.
Sonys lat­est addi­tion to the NEX fam­ily aims to be the small­est inter­changable lens cam­era com­ing in at just 225g (sans lens and bat­tery). The 16mp sen­sor shares a lot of fea­tures with its larger, more pow­er­ful cousins and like other NEX mod­els, it’s just an adapter away from uti­liz­ing Sony’s full range of Alpha lenses.
Priced at just over $500 retail, any decent sale will make this a seri­ous com­peti­tor to brands like Nikon, Olym­pus and Fuji’s cur­rent Micro 4/3 lineup.
Read the full review here.

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Sony World Photography Award Winners 2012

Sony’s World Pho­tog­ra­phy award win­ners for 2012 have been announced and in addi­tion to the awards, there is an exhi­bi­tion show­cas­ing pho­tos from the win­ners at Som­er­set House in Lon­don. The exhibit runs until May 22 of this year. The win­ner of the top prize was Amer­i­can pho­tog­ra­pher Mitch Dobrowner who wowed judges with his series of stormy land­scape photos.

via Sony World Pho­tog­ra­phy Award Win­ners 2012 | Highsnobiety.com.

MegaUpload is MegaShutDown!

Cour­tesy of Giz­modo

What do you spend your cash on when you’re milk­ing the hell out of the inter­net with your very own file­shar­ing super­site? Buy things like a Rolls-Royce Phan­tom with a license plate read­ing “GOD.” Now, the gov­ern­ment owns it!

Revealed in the enor­mous 72-page indict­ment against Megaupload’s oper­a­tors is the huge list of for­feited property—and it’s way more than just their data servers (of which there were sixty). Some highlights?

Cars. Lots of cars:

2010 Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG, VIN WDD2120772A103834, License­Plate No. “STONED”;73.
2010 Mini Cooper S Coupe, VIN WMWZG32000TZ03651, License PlateNo. “V”;74.
2010 Mercedes-Benz ML63 AMG, VIN WDC1641772A608055, License­Plate No. “GUILTY”;75.
2007 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG, VIN WDD2163792A025130, License­Plate No. “KIMCOM”;76.
2009 Mercedes-Benz ML63 AMG, VIN WDC1641772A542449, License­Plate No. “MAFIA”;77.
2010 Toy­ota Vell­fire, VIN 7AT0H65MX11041670, License Plate Nos.“WOW” or “7”;78.
2011 Mercedes-Benz G55 AMG, VIN WDB4632702X193395, License­Plate Nos. “POLICE” or “GDS672”;79.
2011 Toy­ota Hilux, VIN MR0FZ29G001599926, License PlateNo. “FSN455”;80.
Harley David­son Motor­cy­cle, VIN 1HD1HPH3XBC803936, License­Plate No. “36YED”;81.
2010 Mercedes-Benz CL63 AMG, VIN WDD2163742A026653, License­Plate No. “HACKER”;82.
2005 Mercedes-Benz A170, VIN WDD1690322J184595, License PlateNo. “FUR252”;83.
2005 Mercedes-Benz ML500, VIN WDC1641752A026107, License PlateNo. DFF816
1957 Cadil­lac El Dorado, VIN 5770137596;86.
2010 Sea-Doo GTX Jet Ski, VIN YDV03103E010;87.
1959 Cadil­lac Series 62 Con­vert­ible, VIN 59F115669;88.
Von Dutch Kus­tom Motor Bike, VIN 1H9S14955BB451257;89.
2006 Mercedes-Benz CLK DTM, VIN WDB2094421T067269;90.
2010 Mini Cooper S Coupe, VIN WMWZG32000TZ03648 License­Plate No. “T”;
1989 Lam­borgh­ini LM002, VIN ZA9LU45AXKLA12158, License PlateNo. “FRP358”;92.
2011 Mercedes-Benz ML63, VIN 4JGBB7HB0BA666219

A lot of cars for seven guys. How about some dubi­ous art?

Art­work, Preda­tor Statue;
Art­work, Anony­mous Hooded Sculpture

Preda­tor statue?

But wouldn’t be a king­pin oper­a­tion with­out gad­gets. And they had those too:

Sharp LC-65XS1M 65″ LCD TV
Sharp LC-65XS1M 65″ LCD TV
TVLogic 56″ LUM56W TV
Sharp 108″ LCD Dis­play TV
Sharp 108″ LCD Dis­play TV
Sony PMW-F3K Cam­era S/N 0200231;101.
Sony PMW-F3K Cam­era S/N 0200561;
Sam­sung 820DXN 82″ LCD TV
Sam­sung 820DXN 82″ LCD TV
Sam­sung 820DXN 82″ LCD TV

Dupli­cates! If only they’d made it free long enough to see an OLED for sale.

Update The elu­sive Rolls-Royce Phan­tom has been found! Eagle-eyed tip­ster Ming C. points to a Car­Jam (the New Zealand ver­sion of Car­fax) list­ing for one black, drop-top Phan­tom with license plate GOD. What, the Feds are already get­ting it pre­pared to sell? MegaUpload’s corpse isn’t even cold yet.

Sony NEX-7 First Look: Brochure

Sony NEX-7 w/ Karl Zeiss Lens

I’m the happy owner of a 16mp Sony NEX-5, yet I can’t help myself but yearn for the newest addi­tion to Sony’s micro 4/3 lineup, the 24mp NEX-7.

As with the NEX-3 & 5, the NEX-7 uses the same APS-C sen­sor as the Alpha lineup of DSLR cam­eras, mean­ing the same qual­ity photo’s at 100% crop with a much more man­age­able sized body.

As the first NEX-7 has just landed on ebay for just shy of $2000, I’m set­tling for the PDF brochure released by Sony recently, and some blogs that have been lucky enough to test the camera.

A cou­ple of my favorite new fea­tures include the viewfinder, the hot shoe in addi­tion to a pop-up flash, and finally the NEX-7 is the first micro 4/3’s cam­era to shoot in full HD video, no if ands or buts.

Here are the links to the brochure & man­ual if you’re curious.

Tech Radar Full Review here

Sony NEX-7 brochure from Sony

NEX-7 User Man­ual PDF