I am getting more and more details about the new Sony roadmap. As I told you before the next camera should be the new NEX-7 successor (shipping from October). We will have new A-mount FF and APS-C cameras (mirrorless) in early 2014. And we will see the first FF-NEX compact camera in mid 2014 too.
And according to one of my best sources Sony also finally approved the new a-e hybrid bridge camera project development. This camera is scheduled for a release in late 2014 right in time for Photokina! As I told you before I have no clue yet how this thing is going to work. And the only example we have form the past is the [shoplink 10295 ebay]Zeiss Ikon Contax I, II and III (here on eBay)[/shoplink]. It had a sort of native double mount on camera.
Anyway, stay tuned, I am working very busy with my sources to grab some info about the specs off all these new cameras. One thing is sure. 2014 is going to be a hell of a year for all of us A and E-mount owners!
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More news on the lens front? both A mount and E mount
year 2014 for announcements of new items – seems quite a long time to wait.
though so far still sony seems on a some a good shape with the current offerings.
just bought A57, which now have quite attractive price (recently seriously dropped).
it might be lacking touch-screen. but in other aspects I quite love it’s good feature set
have nex-5n. great camera. yes, it’s quite bad in terms of autofocusing shifting to the contrast background. but later camera’s didn’t fix this bug.
A99 was considred for purchasing, but the it’s really strange shape, weak continuous autofocus and low sensitivity stops me from purchasing yet. But canicon FF don’t have the tilt-screen and quick liveview, son they are even more out of scope.
I find the continuous autofocus actually works much better when the camera is set up to start focusing when your eye is put to the viewfinder. I’m not sure why this is, but it definitely tracks more effectively.
A99 weird shape? And yet you bought an A57..
No comment on A99 shape, but there’s nothing ‘weird’ about the A57. I’ve owned T2i, D5000, D3100, D90 and D100 among others. It’s just a smallish DSLR form.
In case anyone questions you, I saw it too!!
1) Will the Hybrid mount camera will have a medium size body between DSLT and Nex size? It will look silly to mount a nex lenses on a big body. Hoped it is smaller than A58.
2) Will the nex 7 successor have the new AF technology sensor?
Pentax’s DSLRs don’t look bad with their Limiteds 🙂
I agree, there’s nothing silly about small lenses on bigger bodies. If anything, it’s less silly than big lensen on smaller bodies.
Neither is “silly”. All that matters is what kind of image you get.
The idea that a lens has to “look right” for the camera is absurd. A camera is not a fashion accessory.
The Pentax K5 coupled with the 40mm pancake looks extremely cute! Seriously!
(but it does look a bit silly and unballanced when you have the vertical grip attached as well)
Oh course it is not absurd, for some people it is more important than it is for others. It’s the same with any product, for many people the looks of the product is part of the deciding factors.
Buying a car or even just a knife isn’t just about getting from A to B or to cut something up, looks always come in to deciding which one to get. Rightly so, it’s your money so if you feel that way that is what you will do 🙂
So, big lenses on a small body look silly. And now small lenses on a big body look silly as well? Well, I guess there’s no pleasing here 😛
Maybe I used LA-EA with bigger lenses on it, it still looks okay. I try to place an 18-55mm(majority Emount is around this size) in front of A77, not okay. : (
You tried to imagine and you will see what I meant, maybe the diameter is funny… : )
Why should we care about how lens looks on the camera? We should care about pictures it produces. NEX cameras have a lot more problems than being too small to satisfy someone’s ego.
I am getting really excited from Sony mirror-less Alpha…
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I am about to buy a NEX 6 as a B-cam for video, I am also considering a NEX VG30.. Which lenses should I invest in??????????/
Concerning video (finguers crossed) seems a revolution is coming with magic lantern firmware.
so probably there is some reason to wait a little.
because if they succeed with hacked firmware, getting video RAW 14 bit 4K from regular FF camera would be quite a velcome option for videographers
Not buying this. There’s no lens I’m interested in with A-mount, as well as in toy lenses for E-mount, so I’m not buying additional complexity and unreliability of hybrid stuff. I believe other companies will show their mirrorless IL cameras too shortly after Sony and I will wait for them, especially for Ricoh with their great controls.
THere’s a million of people that wont buy this. A friendle suggestion is not to post that here, it may clutter the fora a bit.
Just out of curiosity, what lenses does Ricoh have that interest you and that you lack i a-mount?
OK, compact FF NEX in mid 2014 confirmed? Sweet!
Any lens to come with?
Compact? I guess No. It will have the size of A-mount camera with the possible use of E-mount lenses (which are definitely overpriced for their performance).
what is not overpriced?
Commenting here. ^^
Some are more overpriced than others. Sigma 35 is cheaper than “CZ” Sonnar 24/1.8, but much better performer.
Why do you keep spouting the same drivel again and again?
The Sigma 35mm is of absolutely no use to an NEX user who requires a wide-ish, fast, quality prime. It’s only comparable if it is attached to a full-frame DSLR, by which point you have already spent far more than an NEX/Zeiss 24mm combo.
Please, sir, kindly shut up.
It depends on the location. In Europe D600 + Sigma 35 costs just a little more than NEX-7 + Sonnar 24.
Maybe, if you buy grey market. Besides, you don’t have to buy an NEX-7. Nothing wrong with mounting the Zeiss to an NEX-5R/6 if you don’t need 24mp.
Anyway, even if the prices were identical, your comparison is still completely pointless. You will not get a wide-angle view with a Sigma 35mm on an NEX APS-C camera.
I would have put it less delicately, Lotus Eater.
Why should I have? Emacs has been spamming the board with the same rubbish for weeks.
Cheap D600 sucks and nex7 is best mirrorless so your comparison is pointless. I guess the lotus eater is right.
@Peter
Cheap D600 sucks and nex7 is best mirrorless so your comparison is pointless. I guess the lotus eater is right.
The D600 delivers slightly better DR results than the A99 significantly better high ISO almost a full stop thanks to the wasteful SLT technology. Here in the UK the D600 is £600 cheaper than the A99 ,yet it is still weathersealed , has better AF than the A99 , far wider selection of native lens . So what is it you gain with the A99 apart from being an extra £600 out of pocket ? , better image quality ? No , better video , No, . As to the Nex 7 being the best mirror less , I assume you exclude AF , and high ISO from your requirements ,
Let’s put that AF myth to bed. Initial AF lock of the D600 is about twice as slow, horizontal ll coverage similar but vertical coverage much smaller. No AF range limiter with every lens and laughable LV AF. Besides the long list of missing things.
sojourn,ohn
The mirror reduces light to the sensor by around 30%, which equates to 0.6 stops.
Yeah, the D600 is a great camera, but you also get lots and lots of oil on your sensor. I’d pay the extra for the A99 just to avoid havinging to clean my sensor every few hundred shots, oh and class leading live view and IBIS. The D600 is cheaper because it’s at a lower level.
Hmm.. I’d rather see a metal brick of X-E X-Pro size with a grip, to go with ZF glass. Would be nice to have ZA compatible too. I have no interest in E-mount optics.
They’ll have to be completely *NEW* E lenses since the current ones won’t fit a FF sensor. And maybe this time they come with better lenses (they better do since FF is another business). BTW, the problem with the current E lenses is that not even Sony thought NEX could have some success so it seems they didn’t spent too much time thinking of the lens system… Now the story is very different and I hope they learned (seeing the RX1 it seems the did).
What is the chance the Lecia M lenses will fit this FF NEX? Will it be A, E, or A & E mount?
What’s the advantage? That I can mount small lenses in my big camera and big lenses in my small camera? I don’t get it. They better kill APS-C A mount while it’s not too late and go all APS-C E for consumer and FF E for more serious stuff, and them, this idea might, just might, make sense for example for those that would want to keep using their expensive and superb FF Zeiss glass on the newer FF E cameras. Because this is the only point I can see for this hybrid thing.
And what are you going to do with all the DT Sony lenses? There’s quite chunky, doesn’t really make sense in what you just wrote.
You could easily make an E-mount APS-C camera with the same body as e.g. an A55 or even bigger, like an A57.
This would enable you to:
* use E moount lenses straight away.
* use A mount lenses using and adaptor. If there is on-sensor PDAF, it will only need a micro motor for the screw drive lenses.
* use things like the Metabones adaptor.
You would have a much more flexibale camera, due to the smaller flange distance of the E-mount.
The only thing that remains: please use image stabilisation in the body like the current A-mount models. There is plenty of room for it (unlike the NEX series).
All NEX cameras can do that, the only difference is small (compared to SLTs) handgrip. So you’re basically talking about NEX with large handgrip.
Throw those lenses right into the bin. Only the Zeiss glass and a few exceptions are worth Sony’s future. They have to go FF NEX but can’t kick those that have spent a lot on the good glass, that’s why the hybrid could, and only could, have sense. But FF NEX + adapter is just easier as others have pointed out. I call BS this hybrid mount thing.
Hmm.. assume the hybrid mount is for a DSLR body, doesn’t having an e-mount will allow 3rd party lens for their system?
Hi, I think it will be not bigger because we can see some double lens mount such as ‘Canon 7’ it will be OK!
How long until somebody asks for gigapixels in this thread?
Any takers?
The a mount body has image stabilzation.
The e mount bod is compatable with almost any manufacturers lens with adapters excect for sony because no stabilization.
Will the a/e mount hybrid have stabization and be the best of noth worlds.
If stabilization is not included then I see no advantage over the ordinary nex.
Also some time ago there was talk about combining both sensor based and lens based stabilzation so both can be used at the same time. Is this option still on the table. It would be a nice feature inique to the hybrid system.
Lastly consider allowing a mount cameras to use both stabilization methods at the same time.
2x stabilization = anti stabilization normally… I’m not sure this would be better
Naturally some problems would need to be e solved to make the two work with each other rather then against each other but offering the feature presoposes tgat they can be solved.
Looks like Sony’s too rich.
I hardly can imagine any reason to buy something like that. If I want wide choice of lenses and ergonomic body – I buy A-mount, if I want small body and small lenses – I buy NEX. That’s quite straightforward to explain for customers. How the heck they’re going to explain this new mess they plan to make – I have no clue.
Some companies make money out of confusing people.
Sky, you forgot to add that NEX should have had 1″ sensor to your list of complains.
Who told you that NEX equates to small? NEX isn’t anything to do with the physical size of a camera.
Yes it does, all NEX digital photo cameras are small. The NEX videocameras are obviously bigger but we are discussing digital cameras here right?
FF-NEX compact camera in mid 2014 ? TAKE A LONG TIMES FF MIRORLES SYSTEM
Reading the posts above, I can’t believe people’s short memory. It has been discussed ad nauseam. A FF E mount NEX camera is possible. It is already real: VG900. So, a still’s camera is possible to make (obviously) using the same mount.
The lenses are not the mount. The mount is very flexible, hence why you can attach so many other lenses, Sony or not, to it. There has been already a few M mount lens shots on the VG900 and it works brilliantly. So FF NEX needs not to be the size of an SLR.
The VG900 also accepts the current E mount lenses in a crop mode. No mysterious trickery used.
It was also discussed that a FF NEX cam would cost a good deal of money with lenses likely to cost more than current E mount lenses (duh)
I don’t understand why it is necessary to carry on the same argument over and over again:
* “meh, no way an E mount FF will be as big as A mount, the flange distance doesn’t need to be!, meh!”
* “no way, I won’t buy a hybrid. Crappy Sony E mount, it’s just crap.”
* “wow, yeah, FF NEX FTW, only if it’s $1500 and I can get a kit 24-70 2.8 with that”
* “Finally, Sony really doing something worthwhile. I just hope it will work with my A lenses too”
I understand the need for argument but some argue out of their anus forgetting or ignoring previous information laid by Andrea.
Thanks Andrea for all the effort. I truly hope Sony brings out some nice cams in 2014.
On other forums people are using the Metabones speed boosters with SLR glass, waiting in anticipation for the Contax G AF adaptor, using straight-through M and G adaptors to mount Leica, Zeiss and Voigtlander glass. Using exotics like T/S and close focus helicoid adapters.
As well as a consumer item, the NEX has evolved to become a very capable platform camera, far more interesting than anything in the A-mount world. A small simple fullframe NEX like camera would be incredibly desirable for many, with or without a small selection of native AF lenses.
+1
I don’t need overpriced but still not good enough lenses from Sony (their “CZ” 24/1.8 is just epic example of this — this thing costs like excellent Sigma 35, performs MUCH worse and somehow costs more).
We’re talking about Zeiss here. What would people say if Zeiss sells cheap lens? Zeiss gone soft?
Zeiss designed by japanese, with so-so optical performance?
EMACS, you are not only a plant here intending to do your best to hurt Sony, for some reason, but you are also just plain wrong about what you say. Who is paying you to do this?
What did he say wrong?
Emacs talks sh$t because the Zeiss 24mm Sonnar is not a so-so lens. It is in the league of the 24mm 1.4 Summilux (see Luminous Landscape) so for $1k, it’s a bargain for NEX.
I remember a compasion of SEL24F18 with some Leica… the SEL was good but had chromatism in counter-light (like SEL50F18 has) where the Leica was perfect.
It is not in the league of Lux: the latter is 84.1° lens (diagonal), the “sonnar” is 63.4°, the cz is designed to work as well as possible with NEX-7, the Lux isn’t (color shift and heavy smearing at the edges). In other words, somehow the lens that shows only fraction of its possibilities on NEX-7 managed to outperform the lens that designed to achieve its best with this camera.
Do you have any figures on Speed booster sales? Is it a customer group of real interest to Sony?
Sure, Why not? The reason for the RX1 was because SONY identified that this group using real Zeiss glass on their NEX.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8371/8418290893_1d0c075f0d_z.jpg
Does it make sense to keep two different mounts at the same time? For me it’s confusing, and in the long term it will be simplified.
To me it should be A for FF and E for NEX/APS-C.
As I have repeatedly said, “A” mount is dead, dead, dead. There will only be “E” mount Alphas, so the Alpha line will continue, but will organize under one family of mounts-unity. What the bodies look like will depend on what they want to sell in them. Stabilization can be put into any camera, including NEX models. Full frame “E” already exists and has for a year. The only question is will they sell the “A” mount adapters seperately, or will bodies have a built in adapter. But that is it, no more “A” mount by the end of next year.
Dan
OK, we’ve got it. You own an E-mount camera. I’m already annoyed by people whining A-mount is dead. Honestly I do not care much if my next A-mount camera will also take e-mount lenses. But A-mount lenses will stay with us for a long time.
Thanks!
Okay……
Do you know that basically Sony has two different A-Mounts right now; one that is only for crop sensors and the other that works on both crops and full-frame?
The same can be said about Canon and Nikon has three different mounts, so your argument that a company can only support one mount is silly and speaks to your failed understanding of the business in general.
Auto manufactures make small cars and big cars and some even make trucks.
Photographers have different needs, and to state as you do that the photography business is only what you say it is or want it to be is tiresome and ridiculous.
The A-Mount may very well disappear, but it won’t be because Sony can’t walk and chew at the same time, or because of the E-Mount.
I have a NEX 7, a Sony a850 and a Nikon D800E and all three are great cameras and used for different photography, and sure I can mount a 70-200/f2.8 with an adaptor to my NEX 7 but why would I put myself through the discomfort and hassle when I don’t need to?
You forgot to tell us to sell all our gear this time, silly.
This messageboard urgently needs an ignore function.
Oh Dan, you must have creamed your pants when you read the headline. I bet you couldn’t type, “dead,” three times fast enough for your itchy little, repetitive fingers.
Wow! People feel insulted because it is someone’s opinion that A mount will die. Well, here is another for you: A mount is doomed.
Opinions are fine, copy pasting the same message 4 times in every thread, gets old. Weird isn’t it?
Here’s another one along your lines: we are all doomed. I predict less than 5% in here will even see the next century. Your turn!
Epic reply… almost better than engadget comment sections.
Native A-mount… Nail… Coffin….
I’m reminded of another product. VCRs and videotapes. When DVDs came out, so many people insisted it wouldn’t replace VCRs. After all, you couldn’t record on most DVD players (and you still can’t today on most players.) And people had huge collections of videotapes (A-mount lenses!), so surely there was still a large market for VCRs. Besides, there had already been attempts by laser discs (early mirrorless?) to replace VCRs, but VCRs remained the mass product.
If you asked Sony 15 years ago, they would have said they planned on producing both VCRs and DVDs into the foreseeable future.
But with newer buyers who didn’t have huge collections of videotapes, DVD players became popular. And the ability to record (IBIS?) wasn’t deemed all that important by the market. Especially as DVRs (lens stabilization) became common for recording.
And as the funeral began for VCRs…. Sure, they continued to be made… But you started seeing dual-machines for a short period. Dual machines that could play VCRs and DVDs. Sounds much like this hybrid mount. A transition step towards the death of the A-mount.
Now, videotapes take up boxes in basements, loaded into dumpsters, or piled at thrift stores. I don’t even know if Sony makes VCRs anymore. DVDs have evolved into Blu-rays (advanced e-mounts?), and even DVD/Blu-Ray players are starting to transition out as people rely purely on digital download.
This attempt to merge the 2 mounts very much feels like a temporary step towards the death of the older system. Not immediate. I don’t think Sony has a secret plan to kill the A-mount. Just feels like history repeating itself.
They’d have to make high end E mount bodies able to support large to very large glass and offer the expected ergonomics for such a camera. Yet there’s no such glass to be found for the E mount (and not to be expected anytime soon since it’s not what buyers expect), so you’d still have to fiddle with adapters when using a 500mm lens.
Can’t see it happening the coming years, especially knowing that there’s very little extra cost required to keep both mounts running when they share most components, but clearly target different markets that would require different bodies and lenses anyway.
I’m not feeling this analogy. Comparing lens mounts to analog magnetic tape vs digital optical media is more than a stretch.
If I can purchase a full size camera that can also accept e-mout lenses, I’d consider that to be a nice feature. The 12mm zeiss touit lens certainly tempts me, I’d buy it if I could use it on my alpha.
For the near to midterm future, there exists a market for both lines. Sony has a large history (and is more than capable of) supporting multiple product lines. Look at the video camera divisions. There are a vast array of consumer, prosumer, professional and cinealta camera lines. So long as a-mount is profitable, they will continue on with it. Although lack of profitability doesn’t stop Sony either (see: tv division).
Are they profitable? Are they even still making it?
They already stopped making dSLRs. It’s not speculation. It already happened. For people devoted to optical TTL viewfinders, they were abandoned. Did Sony stop making dSLRs because they weren’t profitable? Wasn’t there still a market for true dSLRs? Despite the presence of a market — the market either wasn’t significant enough to be profitable. Or they thought it would be more profitable to ignore that market, and go after another market.
Sure they’re profitable 🙂 Don’t let trolls fool you 😉
So if there was a significant profit in Sony dSLRs, why did they stop making them several years ago?
I don’t think Skywalker was talking about Sony DSLR’s. More about current SLT cameras.
And future cameras can even be more profitable if they cut out the mirror, separate AF sensor and eventually the mechanical shutter too.
Besides, Sony didn’t leave behind a whole mount that they were still expanding on, when they droppped the classic DSLR design. They only left the moving mirror and OVF. As we speak, they are still updating and expanding the A mount system. And with serious stuff too.
Except the DVD brought significant improvement in image and sound quality over VCR. E-mount does not. The opposite is actually true (loss of IBIS, less room for physical controls, smaller grip, smaller battery etc.)
You can stick a bigger grip on an E-mount.
IBIS is irrelevant to 95% of dSLR owners. Go ask Canon/Nikon owners if they are miserable without IBIS.
Image quality on the NEX is just as good as the dSLR.
DVD was superior in many ways, but not in all ways. Recordable DVDs never became mainstream…. The ability to record, one of the main reasons for even owning a VCR, was a feature that the mainstream market realized they could live without.
Does the mainstream market prefer smaller cameras, or larger bodies and larger grips? Will have to wait and see. There definitely exists “a market” for bigger bodies… but there was also “a market” for true dSLRs with optical viewfinders. There mere existence of “a market” is no guarantee that Sony will deem the market profitable enough to manufacture for.
Recordable DVDs lost to harddisks, flash drives, and networks.
So why have C & N introduced mirrorless alternatives in non DSLR style with a different mount that on their DSLR?
Why change mount, the mount does nothing?
And why do everyone talk like Sony only competes with Sony?
The thing is, a Canon/Nikon dSLR is fundamentally different than a Canon/Nikon mirrorless. The dSLR has OVF, it has a dedicated AF system. So the differences between a Canikon dSLR and Canikon mirrorless is not solely the mount. On the other hand, it is starting to look like the new Sony “dslr” will be identical to the Sony NEX, except for size and mount. (and IBIS… but Canikon has done quite well without ever having IBIS).
“And why do everyone talk like Sony only competes with Sony?” – it’s a best envoirment for trolls.
OK I can’t wait any longer for the new NEX7, in the mean time I need a new camera.
So I’m thinking of getting the NEX6.
Or do I save loads of money and just get the A58 (which is 20% discounted at Amazon UK at the moment).
Is there much major difference between these apart from the size of camera and mount?
Does one focus much better than the other?
Chris, find a store that sells Sony and test AF performance on both the a58 and a NEX.
If quick AF is important to the photography you do, you need to understand the limits of both systems before you buy.
Any guess about the price of the new Nex? Im not sure if i should wait for the nex nex —maybe about 1400— or buy the old nex 7 for about 1100.
Help me:D
I would get the nex-7 there are plenty on ebay in new and like new condition for less than 800.00 and you can sometimes buy a warranty from square trade or something like that. Just be aware that the nex-7 overheats pretty fast when shooting video but does very good video but if you plan to shoot mostly pictures the camera is pretty amazing and the high iso is actually not bad compared to my nex-6.
I guess removing the mirror gives room to move the sensor to fit both the flange distance for e-lensen (18mm?) and a lenses 44mm.
Didn’t Pentax just drop their mirrorless DSLR?
I feel a hybrid camera will be a compromise.
Sony should drop something and go full inn for the best system.
If E-mount (and FF E-mount) is better for a mirrorless system, drop
the A-mount.
If A mount is better for DSLR system, drop E mount.
Sony dropped DSLRs nearly three years ago – didn’t you hear? 😉
hmm…. still a year to go… is it too late for Sony to “re-enter” the market??
the arena is changing so fast, new products appear almost every week… if you don’t keep moving to capture/defend your share, you are determined to lose the battle, maybe forever..
Amount of panic this message has stirred proves that Sony’s doing it right this time.
Since when is panic a good thing?
so, i think this might be the begining of the end of A mount, despite A mount being kept alive, if they find a way to merge both mounts, i dont find it hard for it to disapear since Nex has more possiblities even though no IBIS (it can be done in the future, perhaps a slighter bigger body in between nex-dslr form) and walá
i guess this might be the time for a switcharoo to nex.
ANDREA: I love your rumors lately, finally giving us some lovin
FF SLR body e-mount. use adapters for A-mount and other lenses and you will have more lenses to choose from.
E-mount does not involve mirror, so no SLR body.
I was referring to the size of the body and not about the mirror. Having the camera in the A-mount size body, it will be more balanced when using most FF lenses available in the market. Having the mount in E will allow adapters for a variety lenses.
I’m not excited about any of Sony’s latest DSLR moves. Numbers crunching by corporate types. Overpriced full frame camera, ‘bundle’ deals, rehashing the same olde 16 megapixel sensor on every camera. Now a combo mount.
Funny! Rehash of sensor.
I’ve seen that comment before, but it wasn’t about Sony…
Sony latest DSLR was a580. So what exactly are you trying to point out?
Please don’t correct people over the use of DSLR, we ALL know what it means. SLT is near death anyway so why acknowledge it? Signed, owner of 2 SLT’s
Interesting news for the NEX users like me. Would the FF E Mount have the same dimensions as the current APS-C E-Mount? I have a couple of adapters with which I use FF lenses. Would I be able to still use the adapter or would I end up buying another adapter for the FF NEX? I mean there is still a long time to go, but I was just curious.
There is only one e-mount. So yes, same dimensions. It depends on the adapter wether you will be able to use it on future camera’s.
Why would i want to mess around with e mount lenses whit a Mount lenses, dont get it. Why a hybrid camera????? For who is this aiming at????? If your in to a mount who in hell will buy the e mount lenses????? Eh!
Sounds like another TEMPORARY product… Just like SLT technology was… Can anyone honestly see model after model coming out with dual mounts??? This just sounds like a (Temporary) way to sell any lens possible to a consumer (or Worse)….
Sure. And while they were at it, they decided to release a 50mm ZA for a temporary product. Design a brand new 400mm F4 for a temporary product. Update the 70-200 and other top lenses for a temporary product.
You almost made temporarily sense.
And you make no sense at all…
I said a dual mount camera is temporary… Not the A-Mount cameras as a whole(The mount the lenses you mentioned are for)… Please learn to read like so many others need to do on here as well when reading posts and replies…
I read what you implied in your last sentence. Let’s not play hide and seek.
I read what you implied in your last sentence. Let’s not play hide and seek.
Why do you say a mount is dead
Every day sar tells us about new a mount cameras lenses and even a hybrid all for a mount.
Are you unable to read or are you campaigning for another camera brand?
Can we get a hybrid flash mount too?
+1000… LOL
I cannot comprehend all the bitter skepticism. If one is buying a camera, isn’t it a great feature to be able to accept two lens mounts rather than one natively? More lens options are greater than less.
You would have to be crazy to buy an A mount only mirrorless over an E mount if you didn’t already have A mount lenses. A hybrid mount as an alternative to an E mount only camera makes more sense as it will get people who will convert for legacy lens and maybe they will invest in A mount as well.
I’m with you. While sony is on the move of making of a new hybrid, why dont make it to fit Canon, Nikon, m43….. and throw in a iphone aswell. 🙂 Sarcasm
With the slt mirror removed a mount cameras could actually be made quite small.
If we abandon the stereotype slr shape sn a mount can be as small as a 3″ cube.
If the mount telescopes such as with an a/e mount hybrid then the closed camera could fit in a pocket.
IF sony ever stops waisting time, they will make a killing. So many people waiting for an Full Frame E-mount in order to use legacy glass we have saved up. Nex-7 was great almost bought it for that reason (maybe should have), but c’mon, just to have to upgrade again? NO THANKS… well, whenever this piece of equipment comes out, i think i’m jumping on board.
“shipping from October” I’m guessing the specs would be awesome, but do you have rumours on price?
> And according to one of my best sources Sony also finally approved the new a-e hybrid bridge camera project development.
Yeah im really looking forward which way they found to break the rule of physics, will be awesome!
Q: Will the SONY alpha/e-mount hybrid feature Speed Booster technology?
PLEASE let it have a z-shift sensor that allows AF on manual lenses!!!