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Dpreview published the full Sony A57 review. Just in time enough to push the Nikon D600 news down from the top… 🙂 DP writes: “The A57 combines a high quality 16MP sensor, easy access to shooting parameters and class-leading video performance. And does this while providing an equivalent shooting experience whether composing images via the EVF or rear LCD“. The Sony A57 is one of the very few cameras earning the Gold Award!
Price check: [shopcountry 14158].
P.S.: Tamron announced two new ALpha mount lenses. The 70-200mm f/2.8 and 90mm f/2.8 Macro lenses.
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The A57 deserves the Gold.
YEP. It’s a mega mega camera. I’m glad I bought it!!
The NEX-7, A65, NEX-5N also received the coveted Gold Award, as well. I’m excited to see how the newly released bodies will hold up to the critics.
lol.. i bought the one did not rated gold award -a77
Tamron 70-200 f/2.8 USD. It’s about damn time! Hopefully it optically performs well, while being cheaper than the Sigma.
The funny thing is that I wrote an email to Tamron Germany about 5 weeks ago asking about a new version of the 70-200 F2,8. They told me:
“many thanks for your message and your interest in our products.
Unfortunately, we must inform you, that till now nothing of a planning
with regard to 70-200 with USD / PZD is known.
We will pass on your proposal of course in Japan and
thank you for your understanding.”
Tamron is really quick if they managed to design a lens like this in 5 weeks. 🙂
Olaf, you can’t seriously expect Tamron to tell you that they are working on that lens right? Not only that but not everyone at Tamron knows what is under the hood, seriously. This is how this works.
Carl
Sucks that Tamron continues to leave VC out of the Sony mount lenses, even now that the NEX bodies could benefit from it via adapter.
+1
+2. And they still charge the same as for version with VC!
+3
I bought Sigma OS HSM just in case I get NEX series + adapter.
About time those monkeys got around to the review
Why did the A57 get gold, but the A77 only got Silver??? I really don’t get their rating system…
Cost, noise, 3200 ISO video, 12 fps, digital zoom video.
A77 got silver in a class of cameras where competition is much harder – everyone got 100% pentaprism viewfinders, magnesium bodies, great video features – it’s really difficult to get gold out there. Stil – A77 is an amazing camera with more then deserved silver award from dPreview (plus: tons of other awards from various different portals)
Depending on the price of this new Tammy, my beercan could finally be getting some well deserved rest.
I own the a55 but decided to keep it as my companion when I cycle due to its small size but upgraded to the a57 which I have enjoy very much. I consider it a complete camera with very good output except it needs a better jpeg engine. That is my only complaint. I highly recommend this model as a beginners camera. The handling is great, the feature set is fun, and it is fast. I am a fan of the clear zoom feature which with my Sony 70-400 G gives me a reach of over 1200mm for birding and the output is very good. I am no longer tempted to buy any lens greater than 400mm. Now Sony just fix the jpg engine and for its price this would be a fantastic value and it would be worthy of the dpreview gold award. But then Sony is not know for timely firmware updates.
Imagine if Sony would open source the firmware… nah, will never happen.
The JPEG engine in A57 is perfect. It is much better than in A65/A77. At high ISO an A65/A77 has only 48% details @ISO3200 and the A57 still has >80%@3200
Neither Canon or Nikon with their top models are able to deliver this values!!
I am wondering how the A99 will position.
Good point. That is the reason I sold my A65 and am looking for a good deal on the A57. What good are 24 megapixels if they are grainy?
The a77 doesn’t deserve a gold award because of that limited iSo performance and it needs a better jpg engine too among other things Luckily when I shoot stage events with the a77 i haven’t needed to set the iso higher than 1600 to get a shutter speed high enough to capture dancers and the noise to me has been acceptable using an f2.8 lens Ssm lens.
A57 has less noise than 650D. Funny 🙂
Why A55 has GPS but not A57 ??? WHY?
Probably to bring cost down…and to give people a reason to choose the A65 instead of the A57! If they would only put in the EVF of the A65 in the A57…then we would have a Nex 6 like SLT! (Probably same reason they left the GPS out…)
I always felt this was one great camera from Sony. Now let’s hear all the whiners of the EVF and SLT tech. 😀
dpreview awards don’t mean much. I often disagree with marks, but they provide deep reviews which allow you to choose what suits you best.
The only weak part of their reviews is sample gallery. Obviously not too good photographers. LOL
“Just in time enough to push the Nikon D600 news down from the top… ”
This sentence when talking about the A57 (that has nothing to do regarding the D600) is just (another) proof of the success of the D600.
Canon 1100D – 69%.
Nikon D3200 (with A77 sensor) – 73%.
Sony A57 – 78%.
omg… feels like D800 of entry-level. Knocking down competition to it’s knees. At least – this part of competition that got tested already – we still wait for C650D test, but I doubt it’ll get close to A57 with it’s old sensor.
Somehow those numbers does not affect sales …
I expect good optical performance from both new tamron lenses, but also a firm price increase. I will get both.
While I welcome new 70-200/2.8 Tamron and I need such a lens badly I’ll decide just after price is known. I like SONY coatings more. If there is a new SONY lens in the 1st half of 2013 I may buy SONY instead.
Macro’s a bit disappointing – 139mm min working distance?! The 60mm has a better working length than that… F2.0 would have been nice too.
Sony cameras are great but by some reason when I go into shop (in Germany) I see 20 different Canons freely available to try and only 1-2 Sony cameras closed in glass boxes 🙂 Sony has to change the way they working with retailers.
i have the “old” 70-200 and while i woudl liek the new one i see no need for now (i did ask about when a 400f4.5 woudl come out )
i might end up picking up the A57 but kind of hope to hold out till a mirrorless A mount makes it to market (assuming the AF woudl still be good )
Concerning Sony coming out with a 400mm telephoto. Instead of 4.5 would rather see a 400 F2.8. This would not only allow an effectve 600mm 2.8 for the a77, etc, but provide for a 840 f3.5 with 1.5 teleconverter and even if loose 2 f/stops that is still an 840mm f4.5(effective). Would purchase that today.
Nice, but a little too late to post the review don’t you think?
DPreview is really getting slow with the reviews, they need more than 2 people reviewing cameras. It would be nice if they had a competent videographer evaluating the video portion of the review as the current crop of reviewers clearly have very little by the way of video skills. They spend 20 pages talking about stills and one page with 3 or 4 crappy videos – despite the fact they’re always trumpeting how great video is strong selling point of certain cameras. Please DPreview – hire a damn videographer to shoot the videos!
Oh dear, that Tamron lens looks like a cannon. I have a similar Tamron lens for my Minolta DSLR, and the only good things that could be said about it is that it does do macro and it was inexpensive. Sharp? No. Color fidelity? No. Large and heavy? Yes indeed.
An UP goes the price. Darn!
Tamron:
VC for SONY? seriously? NO! PLEASE TAKE IT OFF. I DON’T NEED THIS!