The japanese blog Egami found a new Nikon translucent mirror patent. The Patent No. 2011-28177 has been released on 2011/02/10 and the filing date is 2009/07/29. But there are a few crucial differences between the [shoplink 3617]Sony A33/55[/shoplink] solution and the Nikon patent. Egami highlighted them (attention, google translated text):
The mirror lockup is one of the most requested features on SonyAlphaRumors. See the poll results:
The A77 is rumored to NOT have this feature. But I hope Sony will take it into consideration for the A99 fullframe translucent…