An exciting day it was, the launch of Sony Alpha A900 here in Malaysia – and to make it even better, the launch was held just before the Sony Alpha Convention on 10th October 2008, the first ever held in Malaysia.

To make it even more exciting, I was scheduled for another event later in the afternoon.

The publishing of this article was delayed by 1 day. I intended to publish it on 11th October but I just couldn’t get everything done in time, much thanks to my packed schedule during the weekend.*

Even before arriving at the venue, I was greeted by this………

Stair ads never looked this good!

Neat huh? It’s at KL Sentral, I decided to use the packed KTM Komuter instead of hurting my calf-muscles with the early morning traffic.

I made my way to the 6th floor at Le Meridian hotel.

Yummy…….

Directions. CLEAR!

Being a person who loves to be on time, I often reach the venue really early.

FIRSTSSTSTTSSTTT!!!!!

Yup, damn proud man! The first to register at the FIRST ever Sony Alpha Convention 2008. Heck, I’m not even a Sony user! Due to the early morning traffic, crowd was kinda slow in massing the area. I never saw this many Alphas in my entire life, it’s like everyone was practically carrying an A350!

And speaking of the A350, here it is!

Nice or not? Can use for Sony product brochure.

and…….

Got chance to test it out too!!!!!

I’ve never touched the A350 before. I used the A700 for a while, thanks to Alpha user Albert .

There were girls and bikes for you to shoot too (not with guns la……….).

That’s Hawt!

Vrooooomm………

Shortly after 10:00AM, we were ushered to the conference hall.

Vrooooomm………ehhh no no no. This is the conference hall. I think that’s what they call it.

To cut it short, we had speakers such as the emcee and also the big guys from Sony to present on various aspects of Sony (tech, sales, every other thing else)

Big Guys from Sony. Mr Naoi Sudo (left), Mr Ichiro Takagi (center), Mr Katsuyuki Kaneko (right)

and then the launch of the A900.

Yeah it’s launched!

Sony also had one of their key speakers for the conference, photographer Kris LeBoutillier gave a short testimony of the Alpha, and also announced a bunch of other stuff like AMC Mobile, online reality show Double Exposure, and also the joy to all Alpha users – PRICE CUT for Sony lenses!

The launch ended near noon, and we’re all set to head to 8th floor for lunch. But before that, I decided to drop by the Technology Room that show-cases Sony’s technology – including the cut-away camera here.

See inside, without X-ray vision.

It was pretty crowded to take decent pics in there, I then made my way to Al Nafourah restaurant, the restaurant on the 8th flor that serves middle-eastern cuisine.

Vrooooomm………

I thought that the A900 was an impressive camera, at least from what I see and hear so far. RRP of RM 9,999 is a steal, and the first 100 buyers get a free Sony HVL-F58AM flash and an additional battery! Damn, if only I have the money to spare.

I’m even more impressed that Sony was willing to admit that their lenses cost a bomb, and had decided to make effort to reduce the price of the lens line-up!

For more pictures of the event, kindly visit my album.

For those of you who attended the convention, how was it?

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