a:hover img {      
      filter: progid: DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity=50);      
      -moz-opacity: 0.5; /* Mozilla 1.6 */      
      -khtml-opacity: 0.5; /* Konqueror 3.1, Safari 1.1 */      
      opacity: 0.5; /* CSS3 - Mozilla 1.7b +, Firefox 0.9 +, Safari 1.2+, Opera 9 */      
      filter: alpha(opacity=50); /* IE 5.5+*/      
}

img:hover {    
    filter: progid: DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity=50);    
    -moz-opacity: 0.5; /* Mozilla 1.6 */    
    -khtml-opacity: 0.5; /* Konqueror 3.1, Safari 1.1 */    
    opacity: 0.5; /* CSS3 - Mozilla 1.7b +, Firefox 0.9 +, Safari 1.2+, Opera 9 */    
    filter: alpha(opacity=50); /* IE 5.5+*/    
}