This is the first deal on the first Full Frame NEX camera, the VG900. You save $500 on the camcorder with 28-75mm lens at Amazon (Click here). The same $500 rebate is valid for the A99+28-75mm kit too (Click here). The recent A99 kit offers made it possible to get the A99 body only for less than $2,400 on [shoplink 18483 ebay]eBay US (Click here)[/shoplink].
UPDATE: The Bower (same as Samyang-Rokinon) 24mm f/1.4 got a $200 rpcie drop and sells for $499 at BHphoto (Click here).
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Who buy this camera? Amateurs don’t need full frame, semi-pro don’t need digital camera-based sensor, with moire and others. Maybe if it costs more like VG20…
Studio photographers? Currently it is the only way to get 1/8000 shutter and 1/250th synch speed with the 18mm deep E mount.
You appear to believe that you know what other people want.
Well clearly, you don’t.
Why?
Because people are buying them.
Spent about 20 min Shooting video with this camera. Took the SD card home and was shocked at how soft the video was. Hell, its softer and has more moire artifacts than even any Handycam at 1/3 the VG900’s price.
Its a great photo camera but its marketed more at video people.
Terrible thing.
People who like VG900, shot with manual focus: bokeh (shallow focus) with soft background (in shallow focus, the low sharpness is not noticeable) or in low light. For some scenes with actors this shallow focus may be good, cretive, but to watch long videos with the background blurred in every scene, it is awful for many viewers. When used for deep focus, without the background blurred, the entire image is so soft (and the low sharpness is noticeable on a good and big 1080p TV). This is for all VG line, VG10/20/30/900. Even the related “professional” NEX-EA50 is rated as “satisfactory” (the lowest rating) for resolution by Slashcam, like a cheap Handycam.
Tested sharpness for videos (in number of pixels): VG20 455.000 (VG900 cannot be better in sharpness than VG20 acording to comments and reviews), NEX-5N 455.000, NEX-5R 390.000, NEX-7 490.000, NEX-6 506.250, A77 345.000, GH3 680.000 (GH2 is even better). These pixels are artificially streched to fill the 1920*1080=2.073.600 pixels in an Full HD video. These cameras cannot match the the best professional video cameras (over 1.000.000 pixels in sharpness, from over 1000*1000 lines).
The future 4K versions will help much Sony VG line to increase the sharpness in Full HD videos over the current VG10/20/30/900 line because a video converted from 4K to Full HD will retain a lot of sharpness of 4K.
VG900 with good FF lenses, and manual focus, can perform well in low light. Autofocus in VG900 is available in APS-C only, not in FF.
Does anybody knows the square thing below the LA-EA3 is a focusing motor or just a tripod mount? Can it work for APS-C camera better than LA-EA1? Does it sold separately?
Does anybody knows the square thing below the LA-EA3 is a focusing motor or just a tripod mount? Can it work for APS-C camera better than LA-EA1? Does it sold separately?
If the video of the VG 900 looks anything like the A99, and it seems it does, people woyld be better off shooting with an iPhone.
This camera is a joke. It’s full frame but it is not. Pair it with the right lens and you can shoot full frame. Oh wait…You must use the adaptor. Well thats why they also supply the adaptor. Now I have to make sure that the lens I use can work with a full frame sensor.
Well hell, why go through all of that? Just add an e-mount lens and shoot full frame. Oh wait, there are no e-mount full frame lenses.
Ok…Back to the adaptor and a full frame lens. There we go. Crap! Now I do not have auto focus.
Ok…I guess I can shoot in APS-C mode with the e-mount lenses. But wait, why did I spend all this money on the full frame camera again? Oh yeah, so I can shoot in APS-C mode. JOKE!
This camera is a joke. It’s full frame but it is not. Pair it with the right lens and you can shoot full frame. Oh wait…You must use the adaptor. Well thats why they also supply the adaptor. Now I have to make sure that the lens I use can work with a full frame sensor.
Well hell, why go through all of that? Just add an e-mount lens and shoot full frame. Oh wait, there are no e-mount full frame lenses.
Ok…Back to the adaptor and a full frame lens. There we go. Crap! Now I do not have auto focus.
Ok…I guess I can shoot in APS-C mode with the e-mount lenses. But wait, why did I spend all this money on the full frame camera again? Oh yeah, so I can shoot in APS-C mode. JOKE!