We still don’t know everything there is to know about Sony’a upcoming monster, the Alpha A77, but from the occasional leaks over the past sever months, we’ve learned a good amount. Now, we have some more exciting news about some of the new internal components that Sony is using in the A77. In what is a first for Sony’s DSLR cameras, the Alpha A77 will use an electronic shutter curtain to further shorten the release lag between shots while creating zero vibration to help you get as crisp of a picture as possible to the sensor.

 

“In fact, as I understand it, the “electronic first shutter curtain” is a virtual moving edge just like the real shutter curtain, so you can use it even with short exposures. Columns of the sensor are turned on one by one just as if the real curtain were exposing them. Because a CMOS sensor can’t turn off as quickly as it turns on, the real shutter curtain is used to end the exposure.”

 

With an August 24th announcement date expected from Sony, tune in as we continue on unravel more information about Sony’s upcoming Alphas.

[Via SonyAlphaRumors]