Next Tuesday Sony will announce the new A57 SLT camera with 16 Megapixels. And stores are already preparing the new preorder pages. So it comes that you can now find the void A57 listed at Redcoon Belgium, Redcoon Germany and Redcoon France.
A part of the new 16 megapixel sensor and the 1,44m dot viewfinder the A57 is pretty much the same camera like the A65. I will cover the A57 presentation here on SAR on Tuesday morning (6-7-8am London time). Stay tuned!
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o_O at that exchange rate to the dollar. Would someone here be so nice to tell me how much of that inflated price is due to VAT or is it just the anticipation?
Just treat the Euro sign as a dollar sign. Almost all of the difference is VAT.
ALpha 57VY means that it is the double zoom Kit with 18-55mm and 55-200mm (Y) and that is has GPS (V).
@Maximus, Marc, and everyone else.
Thanks for the info. I’m closely watching this.
ADMIN – Upon announcement will you use microblogging (Twitter) to get the official info out sooner or just update here and let it update your twitter feed like you do now?
1:1 😉 1067Dollar in that case
even though an Europe is currently worth 1.31 Dollars and might well go over 1.40 in the next tree months as Europe seems to stabilize, it is sadly true that the europrices are nearly as high as the dollar-prices do to Sony’s crappy price politic and the fact that vat is quite a bit higher inside of the EU (19% e.g. for Germany and 19,6% for France…). So i guess you can be happy that they’ll probably charge you 1100 or 1200$ for it instead the 1400 it would correspond to at the moment.
yawn…
I gotta agree with you.
+1
how true!
Again, Sony’s business is Interchangeable Camera Lens(ICL)!
Make more lenses not more Cameras you fools! It’s becoming annoying!
They’re putting out cameras like other companies put out software upgrades, and I can’t get them to fix back focus issues!
Sony should price this cam somewhere between 1100D (€400) & 600D (€550) to be more successful. For €700 (body only) people will continue to choose Canon.
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Admin, I recall a rumor about something special being announced soon, is that going to happen at this anouncement?
Any updates on what the A37 specs will be? Any news on the new Alpha lenses?
http://www.redcoon.de/B368004-Sony-SLT-A57V_High-End
Sony SLT-A57V
749 €
Can you tell if that is the price with lens? If that is with lens I guess that means US price will be around $799 with lens. I read the Canon T4i will soon be released.
I don’t know if that’s the official Sony retail price, but the German Redcoon online store is listing the SLT-A57V as 749 € (body only, no lens).
Sony SLT-A57VK – 849 € (should be the kit with 1 lens)
Sony SLT-A57VY – 1049 € (should be the kit with 2 lenses)
Does the V indicate it has GPS? And with that Y it’s the double kit?
I think its priced right at introduction, but has to drop fast to battle the T4i.
I was thinking the same. At least it’s true for A55V and A77V.
Would be interesting if it also offers AF micro adjustment.
More prices:
Body:
http://www.centralpoint.nl/onbekend/sony/slt-a57v-body-art-slta57vcee5-num-1219307/
18-55 kit:
http://www.centralpoint.nl/onbekend/sony/slt-a57vk-kit-18-55-art-slta57vkcee5-num-1219308/
18-55 + 55-200 kit:
http://www.centralpoint.nl/onbekend/sony/slt-a57vy-kit-18-55-55-200-art-slta57vycee5-num-1219309/
I would guess that if the body is mostly like the a65 that it does not have micro adjustment, and I also would bet that it will not have decent bracketing like the A77. And of course, no tethering. Deal killer for me.
No pics Yet ?
Weird, admin do not have full spec SAR 😀
Btw, why not Sony offer FOC firmware and purchase firmware. ie: so many do not like tethering in a77. perhaps Sony could offer 2 types of firmware. Whoever taking tethering or more feature fw, pay more , fair? at least Sony engineer not doing for free 😀
Firmware should be open source. But they wouldn’t do that because then features would be added that manufacturers didn’t want adding. 😀
Not understand why sony remove it from a77!!? or by default plan sony not even think to corporate it in semi pro slt!!? or sony running out of resource/time as they do not want to delay any basic bug fix fw development for a65/77!!?
Sony own d users an explanation, so mean Paul own d uses an answer 😀 haha…
samsung and olympus filters look funny too, hopefully could have in future fw update -continue dreaming 😀 lol…
It’s because Sony are schizophrenic mental with no plan and no clue
Releasing $15,000 lenses and bodies that have smile activated shutter but no tethering. And even when people asked for it, Genge sounded surprised that people wanted it. They’re basically clueless.
They never put the A77 in the hands of a studio photo tog IMO.
Oh and Paul G, wasn’t surprised by people asking for tethering. He had already had the same questions when the A55 was released!
David:
“bodies that have smile activated shutter but no tethering.”
So which of these features sells more cameras?
The average consumer, i.e. 95% of the market, thinks smile shutter is cool and have no clue what tethering is, nor any use for it.
And when available to buy, December 2012?
I hope it will be available in 1-3 week.
To long delay and people are starting to wait for the next model/generation.
I am waiting for the update of NEX-5N, I hope it will have EVF.
The NEX-7 with 24 MP sensor is not what I need.
hum I still wonder
– how big will be the buffer. will the burst last at least as on the Alpha 700 (5 seconds with a good CF card) ?
– will that Alpha 57 get a grip ?
I am still waiting for a good upgrade of my Alpha 700 that is not coming 🙁