Sony held a press conference announcing that they’d have a new Sony Alpha DSLR coming out some time in 2008. Not many details are available, but what’s out there is pretty big:

This would be a 24.6 megapixel full-frame sensor DSLR. They’re calling their sensor “Exmor.” I don’t know, Exmor either sounds like a gigantic robot that will destroy all of humanity, or anti-acne medication. Either way, I’m not sure I want it in my camera. On the positive side, Sony promises that the sensor will have very low noise as it destroys humankind. It has something they call a “Column-Parallel A/D Conversion Technique” which has separate analog-to-digital converters for each column of pixels, if I understand right, which should help keep noise down. Surprisingly, given the current trend, the A/D converters are 12-bit, not 14-bit.

The as-of-yet unnamed flagship camera will also have in-camera image stabilization, and will be released along with new lenses (presumably to take advantage of the full-size sensor) and a new flash unit.