According to our sources the Sony pancake is a 16mm f/2.8 lens. With a diameter of 49mm it has a bigger size compared to the Olympus 17mm f/2.8 Lens
According to the sources the image quality is very high and the price very low. In fact the NEX3camera + 16mm lens will be cheaper than the Olympus E-PL1
Along with the pancake lenses two zooms will be launched. The 18-55mm and one more tele lens. Also this lenses do have the same high-build quality.
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The silver color of the lens is actually visible in the teaser video if you look closely.
Sounds good, I was mainly looking at the pancake lens anyway. Maybe a good tele for later.
Less than $550,- sounds good. I’m curious for the price of the Nex5 too, well pretty much any news about these cameras. 😀
That sounds quite good actually, a wide fast prime lens and a new body for that price?…. might be the perfect body #2 in the bag for interior photography then….
Oh, SR5!
This sounds good for me as I am waiting for the NEX (or purchasing a A550 body as it only costs $500).
With the price cheaper than E-PL1, I think this camera will be a great hit!
Hopefully, this lens can have a good weight balance when installed on its mirrorless body. I also hope Sony can succeed in this product so as to give more pressure to the M4/3 systems for more advanced features (and fast primes) available to the market.
what i find strange is that they can suddently make a 16mm 2.8 prime in metal cheaply (?)… why can’t they offer that to other alphas too?`…. just because they are slightly bigger in size, the price jumps x3 times in the air, kind of strange.
Eric, they never said they can’t … just a quastion of product placement.
Look here, this is a product that will be 4/3 killer, they want the cheapest bundle possible to win the market, and with this system, all alpha lenses will be compatible and will have same focal range that all aps-c alphas.
No more mess with the 2x factor of 4/3
@Eric
Because it’s very easy and cheap to create a wide angle prime for a mirrorless camera
shorter flange-sensor distance enabled by the removal of the mirror, allows normal and wideangle lenses to be made significantly smaller and cheaper because they do not have to use strongly retrofocal designs.
Wow… NEX3+16 pancake in better price than PL-1 body?! That’s just too good to be real! hehehehe, nice 🙂 Hopefully in a year the ILCameras gonna get their price down to acceptable level 🙂
@Sky
Sony actually announced “Officially” longtime ago that their compact mirrorless camera”s” will be sold for less than 1000$
So Next 5 will properly be sold for 699$ (Nex3 with Full HD 1080p AVCHD) and NEX3 (720p) will be sold for 499$
Of course that’s my guess if the “cost less than epl1 was true” but my personal guess i say NEX5 will be sold for 899$ and NEX3 will be sold for 699$
There is update on the video of the new evil camera!
http://www.sony.jp/dslr/info2/20100222.html
“No more mess with the 2x factor of 4/3”
Yeah – 1,5 Factor of APS is so much easier to calculate! 😉
Hopefully, Sony forces Pana, Samsung and Oly to lower there price tags, too.
I guess the low price profile, as ususal, does not apply to us Europeans.
The only extras we usually get is a timer that stops us from making video clips longer than 30 minutes. They should have two versions (with and without) as I don’t mind to pay the relatively low camcorder-TAX-difference.
I do however have hope for 25/50 frames per seconds in video mode to fit EU standards. In this case I will consider buying it.
This is small lens. That’s its main claim to fame, not the speed at f2.8, nor the focal length, the equivalent of about 35mm in 35mm photography. But on the small Olympus PEN body, this lens gives you a small package that takes quite good pictures without messing around with a zoom. In particular, it works well as a walking-around street camera, much like an old Leica or a Canon rangefinder of the 1950s/1960s.