By June 27 Sony will announce the new RX cameras. But those of you waiting for NEX news don’t worry, your showdown is shceduled for end of August-early September!
For now this is what we can expectt o be announced:
1) SR5: After some delay Sony finaally has set the shipping period for the new NEX-7 successor. The camera is set to ship in worldwide stores by mid October. Announcement of course will be made earlier. I still have no confirmed specs but now that Sony has finally set the date it will be only a matter of (short) time until I get them 😉
2) SR4: The 85mm f/1.4 lens will be announced too.
3) SR4: A high quality zoom is coming too.
4) SR3: NEX-5 successor and more lenses.
The big new A-mount mirrorless cameras will ship in early 2014. I still don’t know if Sony will unveil some of their new A-mount strategy info in autumn. Let’s see…
For now stay tuned on SAR. On June 27 at 6-7am London time we will follow live the RX announcement!
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[i]2) SR4: The 85mm f/1.4 lens will be announced too.
3) SR4: A high quality zoom is coming too.[/i]
OMG! This would be so great!
Is the 85mm for E-Mount?
I wonder too…in december 2012 it was SR4 that a nex 85mm f1.8 would come soon…
No thanks. I’ll wait for the Hasselblad version of the new NEX7 – much better value 😉
Are you sure the 85mm is 1.4 and not 1.8? Interesting to see how small they can make it – I would actually prefer small (maybe 50/1.8 size) f1.8 or f2 with OSS.
Any idea if it’s still APS-C only or are they getting ready for FF NEX with this lens?
85f14 for FF would be too huge.
The Samsung NX 85mm f/1.4 looks small enough and the price seems to be ok while the quality appears to be amazing.
It is not small. It is as large as FF compatible 85 f1.4 lenses.
You are right. http://camerasize.com/compact/#287.101,312.222,ha,t
Sry for that.
The Samsung 85mm f/1.4 is actually larger than many full frame lenses, it has to be longer since the flange distance is shorter 🙂 For all practical purposes any 85mm lens for a short flange distance camera will probably be just as broad as a full frame lens with longer length to make up for the short flange distance.
Not sure how a new lens designed for a range finder styled body would be larger. I can see that if they adapted a current retrofocal lens design to the NEX for example.
Also, wouldn’t they be able to save quite a few millimetres when it comes to the circumference of the glass (it would be narrower than a corresponding FF lens)?
Maybe Samsung just copied a FF 85mm 1.4 lens 😉
Expectations of FF NEX are so last year.. With new generation of cameras and lenses, who needs it anyway? And even a slightest rumour about it may cut NEX-7 sales!
I don’t really care too much about FF NEX, I just think that it would make more sense for them to design these high end lenses straight to the eventual FF size. Let’s not forget that there already is one full frame E-mount camera.
That would be a brave message, yes!
Agreed… that could however result in a significant price increase.
I’ll get NEX when NEX gets IBIS.
That’s my dream to! Being able to use alpha lenses stabilised again…or native unstabilised nex lenses…
yes static shots without any camera support are so important lol , considering Nikon and Canon make up probably 95% + of the pro market I guess some folk manage just fine without IBIS.
Stop waiting since it won’t happen.
An alternative is better performance at high ISO settings.
If you can shoot at ISO 800 and get the same quality as you previously got at 400, you can double the shutter speed and thus halve the motion blur.
I am not happy about the concept of a moving sensor. I would prefer the sensor to be accurately and rigidly located at exactly the right distance from the lens mount, not jumping around during the exposure.
Putting the mechanism in the lens gives you the choice of using a lens with fixed elements for maximum quality, or one with mobile elements (and the associated slight loss of optical quality) for more casual work.
A moving sensor for stabilization or even for focus is a technology that has deeper roots than many people think. The Contax 645 pioneered in-camera focusing, and there is still high demand for the used bodies on Ebay. Equip one of these bodies with a Zeiss lens and a Phase One IQ2 digital back, and you have a digital camera with virtually no equal.
I am firmly in favor of a moving sensor after having seen how the Pentax image stabilization technology could also be used for shifts. Imagine being able to do that with the Olympus 5 axis stabilization!
Sony will severely regret the loss of your one sale while it continues to sell millions. Thanks for letting us know. We’ve all been wondering whether you would buy or not. Now, we can let out a sigh of relief.
As a videographer i agree!+++++
I am happy enough with NEX 6. Little to complain about this little camera. So, don’t have to wait for Nex 7’s successor.
Finally comes the 85mm! Lovely!
But I expect that’s 85/1.8 OSS with smaller size than F1.4 and of course cheaper. Hope it’s price is similar to 35/1.8 too.
And I also need a better tele zoom that on par with A-mount 70300G. Sony, please speed up development in E-mount world. This is the most profitable area in your imaging business!
I hope for sharpness shot at 1.8 and great image quality by relatively low price ^^
Andrea: do you have any price info in europe for the RX100Mk2?
NEX-5 successor was the NEX-5N and that got replaced by the NEX-5R.
So any news on NEX FF? It seems to me that the “full frame mirrorless” is increasingly referring to A-mount and not E-mount. which would absolutely suck.
Admin more news about the high quality zoom please. Price,spec..etc
working on it.
Can you find out if the next NEX-5 will be able to use the same evf as for the RX! and the upcoming RX100 MKII?
Please Sony give us a fast auto focus in the new NEX and all will just be fine!!!! IBIS is not so important to me (and probably won’t happen anyway in e-mount), I have perfect OSS e-mount lenses.
my nex-5n focuses already quite fast. But. It is extremely untrustable in situations when there is no time for double checking or manual focusing, compare to A57 for instance.
in A57 I see the small focus square, and I am confident the focus will be exactly there.
Nex-5n in the case of the shots in the forest, at the park, or similar places where there are plenty of the far contrast backgrounds, in the spot shooting situations it mostly focuses there, at the contrast background. Real pain and shame.
By the way, the contrast autofocus of NEX-5N is ONLY sensitive to the horisontal contrast (i.e. to the vertical lines). Vertical contrast (the horisontal lines) – is simply ignored and can’t focus. Quite poor performance from the Sony programmers indeed. And obvious example of the “shortcut”.
Othervise, there will be almost no reason not to use NEX-5N and use A57. Especially taking into account amaizing performance of the sel-35F18 and sel-50F18 lenses. Which outperform all the A-mount lenses.
interesting indeed. I agree. the main disadvantage of the few contrast detecting af systems that I’ve tried is the size of the actual focus point. speed is not as much of an issue. I wonder how the new mirrorless a mount cameras will perform in that regard.
My impression is that speeding up autofocus is the top priority in Sony’s R&D labs.
How far they will have got for this model remains to be seen. We might have to wait another year or two for really fast focussing.
Will the new 85mm F1.4 be optically identical to old Zeiss model but with internal ultrasonic motor?
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Admin is the 85mm for the E-mount?? That would be beyond awesome. I love my nex-6 but I shoot videos for my girl so I would prefer the nex-7 for video reasons with the mic port but I had the nex-7 and sold it because it would overheat too fast which I am sure they will fix in the 7N. I figure I can use the 85mm 50mm 35mm 20mm on the new 7n and nex-6 while I save up for the full frame nex.
Seeing all those NEX-5R sell-outs probably their successor might be released earlier. Anyway, great to see this promising NEX roadmap for the rest of this year with only the Full Frame NEX missing…
are any of these FF lenses?
no.
Admin, any news about the Sony 70-200 f2.8 GII?
With all this focus on cropped lenses could i assume their will be an major new wave of ff lenses coming Q1 2014 to accompany a new generation of ff cameras?
So the 85mm E-mount lens is f1.4, not 1.8?
Hey Andrea,
thanks for the news/rumours, amazing as always 🙂
Have you had any news on prices for the new cameras coming up soon?
Thanks
x
I hope Sony also has plans for an E mount 100m f/2.8 1:1 macro lens. It’s the lens I’m personally really missing in the line-up.
3) SR4: A high quality zoom is coming too.
I’m sure it’s coming sooner or later but WHEN would be interesting to know. Also in October? After all, it’s been rumored to come since last summer.
I hope they’ll offer a kit with the new NEX zoom instead of the 1855. Many will have the 1855 by now anyways.
I think the current kit is the 16-50mm.
I totally forgot about that one. I don’t own the lens but the samples that I’ve seen on the web werent good. Esp. at the wide end the distortion seems to be almost insane and vignetting is quite noticeable despite the slow aperture.
I don’t see the point to use a high res. sensor with a lens that will cost you lots of details due to distortion and vignetting correction and I think many that care to get an advanced model like the NEX7 will care about the lens too.
As someone close to buying a NEX 5R, are there any significant changes expected on the next model? The 5n to 5r was fairly incremental, and they are unlikely to bring out anything to outshine the NEX 6 right?
3) SR4: A high quality zoom is coming too.
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would it be “G” series lenses for E-mount ?
If the next high quality zoom is a Emount 18-200mm with a special coating, please kill me!
Actually, I have the original silver metal E mount 18-200 OS 3.5+ and it performs just as good (if not a little better in some situations) than my Canon EF 70-200 2.8L IS did.
But, i agree with you… whatever it is, it should be a true update, not a rehashed lens with crazy coatings.
🙂
3) SR4: A high quality zoom is coming too. I also hope this is the G standard zoom in their E lens map. I am quite happy with my 16-50E but might consider the G standard zoom if it is more or less a smaller version of my Sony/ZF A 16-80 with its image quality
FF nex-8, just do it sony.
Will it have as many bugs and issues as the NEX6 ? Will the grip peel off in a week like the NEX7 ? Will it take almost a year to get an update like the NEX7 ? Will they screw us again with the onboard battery charger like the NEX5r and NEX?
How about an HDR mode that gives us a RAW + HDR JPEG instead of JPEG + HDR JPEG ?
How about a remote that can trigger the shutter while in HDR ?
How about strap anchors that allow the lens to point to the ground instead of straight out where it catches dust, debris, mist, rain etc. ????
Does anyone at Sony actually field test these cameras ?
but you don’t look cool if you don’ have a big lens (ideally with an UV filer attached lol) pointing and intimidating everything in front of you.
NEX: 24/1.8, 35/1.8, 50/1.8, 85/1.4 is not a bad lineup… and as I am a sucker for long focal lengths with big apertures, then Sony will in my eyes suddenly have an advantage in the prime lens line up compared to Fuji.
By 2014 it seems the biggest aperture lens for Fuji will be the 56/1.2 which has an aperture around 5cm, the Sony 85/1.4 will have 6cm which means even better full body subject isolation, and the way Sony tune their lenses, then the bokeh will be creamy as hell 😉
The primes are starting to look complete. Maybe they could add a fast 135 to make the lineup better. The zooms are only missing the fast zoom and if they release that as well I think they need to be congratulated.
It’s been 2 years. This had better be a major upgrade. If it’s just a BS upgrade to the viewfinder and removing the AA filter, then Sony is up to their incremental tricks. Removing AA filter, wifi, and touch screen are not enough of an upgrade. These are token features meant for marketing purposes. This was the kind of incremental BS that Olympus used to do before the OMD. We need to see improvements to the body and more functionality like improving that awful menu system. Weatherproofing, GPS, a much more responsive viewfinder, improvements for legacy wide-angles, and much faster AF are worth an upgrade. I wouldn’t mind more megapixels either with an improved microlens design so our lens can take advantage of the megapixels.
Admin, would you mind obscuring my e-mail address from my above posts? My autofill got a little funny and there is no editing of posts as you know. Thanks (you can delete this post since it adds nothing to the conversation).
Done!
I hope the new cameras will have a movable spot metering… I wish it could be moved on the 5N…
Given there was no announcement of the NEX7 successor on June 27, does anyone know if the October shopping is still on schedule? Anyone have an idea when Sony might announce something? Im a dedicated NEX3 user but am over the complete lack of accurate information, if I dont hear somethng soon im going with the Nikon D7200, love small size but cant wait forever!
I am also curious about the new Nex 7 that is coming soon. If it is Full Frame, will it be possible to use all of the current NEX lenses? Or, would you have to start over if you want to upgrade to the FF Nex.
Has it been released whether the new Nex shipping in October will be FF?
Keith,
The new NEX 7 will not be full frame, it will be ASP-c. It is due for shipping in October, was supposed to be announced on June 27, nothing was announced and no one has a scrap of information as to whats happening with it, driving me nuts, if anyone has a clue, please reply.
The FF NEX is said to be released in 2014, I dont believe it will be compatible with ASP-C nex lenses. I believe sony has a history of announcing things then delaying 6+ months every time, so the FF must be along way off.