Yesterday I wrote how Sony will announce the NEX-FF and likely RX10 and ICLE-7 (and ILCE-9?) in mid October. Now I got this rumor from another source:
“The big announcement will have even more than expected. Was informed something else “special” to appear as well, came from Sony-Japan.”
Maybe the source can just give us tony bot more info about the “special” thing? Thanks 🙂
Something else: The mobile theme of SAR has been fixed. Tablet owners can now surf this site way better than before!
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70-200mm F2.8 G2?
I am sure he referrs on a camera.
How much SR level? SR4?
It could be something that is officially a surprise but that we have already had rumored.
An a-mount body would make sense, given that nex and ilc are already on the menu. Avoids any question marks over the future of the a-mount, which the ilc announcements will inevitably raise (not exactly great press).
A900 update with OVF
Firmware for A77…it would be the biggest surprise
lol
Impossible, ask for something realistic e.g. 100Mpix sensor.
LOL
Agree!
A77 firmware update..with significant changes won’t happen. For those who expect firmware updates, u can try Fuji..
http://www.fujirumors.com/first-sample-taken-with-fujis-new-x-mount-camera-another-leaked-x100-press-release-at-fujifilm-middle-east/
Fuji provides firmware updates for older cameras such as the X100…
Hey Sony…As the saying goes “a picture is worth thousand words” but in that case “a firmware upgrade is worth thousands new Sony cameras.”
Well the Fuji had a lot of quirks when it was introduced so the Sony camera’s have a headstart. Fuji had to fix problems through new firmware, Sony is not neccessary to do so because its camera’s are fine (not perfect but then again, no camera is).
Yes, spend $3000 with Sony and receive no loyalty! Yes, I am ticked off.
HAHA, I agree!
It`would be a miracle!
I doubt that since it appears the ILC 7000 will be debuting and that would take away some of the sales. It appears the rumor of the firmware update months ago for the A77 was false.
expected by?
If you expect just an RX10 then the NEXFF is surprising and the other way round.
a REAL FLASH UNIT THAT DOES NOT OVERHEAT??
a MULTI INTERFACE SHOE COMMUNICATION PORT
THAT IS NOT THE MOST PROPRIETARY IN THE WORLD?
I can stick an EVF, or an external optical viewfinder, or a cheap Chinese wireless trigger, or Yongnuo or even a pocket wizzard controller less flex/ttl on the new hotshoe. What’s not to love?
The new shoe isn’t going away – Sony has only just begun putting it on all the still camera lines plus many video camera lines. The more cameras feature it, the more accessories there will be and thd more attractive it will become to 3rd party accessory makers.
Hopefully the f60 flash will be replaced by a new flagship model that does not overheat next year along with the new a-mount bodies. Thankfully I can use my canon flashes in manual mode on my a99. Something that would not have been possible via the old Minolta shoe.
How do you know that the shoe is more proprietary than nikon’s or canon’s? Is Sony forbidding other companies from making multiport accessories?
Chris
The wokflow response finally came out of moderation in the photomax post.
Did you see it?
Hi Barry, I did read it. It sounds very interesting. I didn’t reply these since the thread beyond the first page.
4000 to 8000 photos in a day is pretty intense. Have you ever burned out a shutter? The battery life on the SLT line must be a real pain for you.
You mentioned that you use a projector. Do you project onto the canvas that you are painting?
Since i shoot rapidly i get a lot nore shots per battery than the camera is rated for.
I have not actuall counted but it seems like about 1500-2000.
I use 2 cameras and carry 6a apare batteries (8 total) and have never run out if battries.
The layout is projected directly into the surface i will be working on and i pencil sketch only the position if the important features.
All fine detail is dine by eye.
To accomplish this i need enough detail to understand the structure and pattern of scales feathers hair texture etc.
I then recreate them by duplicating the structure in the painting.
I have been accused of being obsessed with camera resolution but you can see by my workflow the enormous amount of time and work i waste compensating for the lack of resolution in the camera.
The amount of time i spend posting is a tiny fraction of the time i spend creating the details my camera cant.
I have not yet burned out a shutter.
Although i shoot a lot in a day i do not shoot every day as it is not my only job.
I’m not sure about the shutters in the a65/77, I know Canon rates their shutters between 100k and 200k actuations, so I figured if a standard shoot day runs you from 4k to 8k actuations you may have had to have one replaced. Good to know the Sony shutters can keep up with you.
What do you end up printing your giclee prints on (paper/printer) to preserve such insane detail?
For my canvas originals (many are up to 6′) My Giclee s are on canvas with gallery wrap iether 3/4″ stretcher bars or 1.5″ stretcher bars.
Because i put so much detail in prints can be larger ir smaller tha originals.
A new project i started on involves smaller much MORE detailed pieces using acrylic and clayboard.
I have not yet determined how i will make prints of them.
You can check out my website http://www.animalsbybarry.com
the pictures have not been updated recently but you can email me for newer jpgs.
Barry,
Do you do anything when scanning or in post to minimize or remove the texture of the canvas from the original paintings? I’ve often run into this problem when scanning old photos for restoration & printing.
First let me clarify i do not own the scanner or 42″ large format printer that i am talking about but consult closely with the person that does it for mr.
The scanner is a 40×60″flatbed and is as big as my living room.
It has 2 light bars allowing 3 combinations of one or two bars.
The lighting that yields the nest results is chosen.
My canvas is typically covered with 6 layers of painting and my canvas has neen preped to be reltivelly smooth.
Excessive canvas texture has not been a problem however if it were the use of both light bars would minimize it.
Sometimes i paint a smooth solid color bachground using special background paints
In those instances i sample the color and turn the area into a solid color.
Since my original was on canvas and my prints are also on canvas this more accurately duplicates the original painting.I also save thes colors to more precisely match other paintings that utilize the same background color.
The rest of the piece is carefully color cirrected but not specifically corrected for texture.
When you finally print your canvases for sale, do you prefer glossy or matte ink / paper for your oil paintings? Which canvas do you tend to prefer? I just printed some canvases for a client (I print on an epson 7900 24″ hdr printer) and I liked one of the Hahnemuhle canvases, which I chose for that client.
My general issue with printing on canvas is the homogenized texture. With a painting, the texture of the canvas varies due to the uneven application and thickness of the paint on the surface. Since the pigment ink is sprayed uniformly, I find the homogenized texture a tad too artificial for my tastes.
I do not lnow what brand of canvas is being used the finish is semi gloss.
I paint very detailed and mostly try to keep the paint smooth and flat.
I only need to be concerned with that type of surface.
Dealing with customers you will have to deal with many styles so not everything i do will be relevent for you.
Barry,
If you need some assistance in choosing an appropriate surface for your acrylic and clayboard pieces, feel free to contact me directly. In the last 3 or 4 years, there has been a revolution in fine art pigment ink papers. It was one of the reasons I started printing in-house for myself and clients (that and the HDR ink sets – the combination exceeds the quality of wet prints).
C.
A MOUNT?!?!?
Yes, the surprise is A-mount has been deprecated. Surprise!
RX2?
or Rx1 with Wifi and tilt screen?
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tilt screen wold be great plus build in EVF instead of flash 🙂
RX2: 50 f/1.4 with integrated EVF *AND* Focus Peaking also without Magnification 🙂
RX1.4 😀
Hope its A mount FF camera with great low light capability…
Dude, seriously. THIS
yeah it’s called Nex-9
NEX with A-mount, oh people would laugh crap out of Sony. First plastic HX-series-alike NEX and than plastic NEX-alike A-mount camera*
*and before someone jumps in saying it’s impossible – just melt LA-EA3 into the NEX body and you have a picture.
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Well, if we know everything before hand, then that is not a surprise anymore. I would patiently wait until mid October for the surprise from Sony to show up!
Or not. Because its only a rumor about a surprise.
Foveon X3 sensor and i’m selling my kidney.
Of course its from Sony Japan, where else would it be from?
Sony Bulgaria?
sony vatican? because of their great connection …
make belive…
Even god couldn’t sort out the Sony camera systems mess.
QX100 in pink!!! OMG!!!
Haha
That’s no surprise. I will be surprised if there aren’t any.
Admin is this true??! Any news from sources? I’m tired of these FF rumors already! Sony wake up you or will lose sales to Canikon if they don’t release pink and orange QX soon!! KTHXBAI SOny!
These 2 sentences alone can a rumor by itself?
SONY becomes YNOS!
Sony buys Sigma…
Lens problem solved
If they do it in a real Sony fashion then it’s definitely a new mount. Because that’s what the world needs.
Please, Nex 7 Successor?
Yes, please! It’s about time.
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The question is: surprising for “the world” or for us SAR readers 😉
The NEX-FF or the sensor shift alone would be pretty exciting already. And yet, we have heard about it already!
Square sensor, Hassy style, configurable to 2:3, too.
wow!
Sweet! A Nex-7 with an APS-C-Square sensor. No more turning and tilting of the camera, and landscape/portrait cropping can be made later, in camera or in post. Apart from the square format being my favourite anyway.
As if turning or tilting camera as small as NEX7 would be any issue. lol
They better bring that to something like A99 – than it can be used to actually benefit people.
Problems can always be bigger…
But seriously, the tiltscreen doesn’t work well in portrait orientation. The could as well provide the 7n with an A99-style screen, but a square sensor would be way cooler.
Especially for people who have square computer monitors or square tablets.
Maybe one big announcement could be a version which will shoot 4k UltraHD video.
Who needs at this time 4k Video (besides the SD card manufacturers)?
Who needs 4k?
You have to be joking.
HD Video is a lot of business for many of us and I was called to a meeting last week by one of our biggest clients specifically about 4k. A lot of HD video has been shot with Canon DSLRs. Blackmagic is doing very good business with 2k and now 4k cameras in a DSLR form factor about the size of an NEX-5. Historically Sony has been one of the few DSLR companies to make cameras which shoot great full HD video. Sony will not want to leave this market to competitors.
Sony has a whole range of 4k video cameras now from a prosumer model up to very grand models for shooting Hollywood movies. The pictures are brilliant and blow 3D HD out of the water. Sony camera solutions so far do not use SD cards for 4k. The consumer stores in Japan have screens on sale and the pictures are fabulous. The screens are coming from Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, Samsung and LG.
No one needs 4K
` Historically Sony has been one of the few DSLR companies to make cameras which shoot great full HD video`
Did you see sample of a99 ??? For me very disappointing . Sony protects camcorder business ( fs100 and above ) I am waiting for new ff-nex and nex7 successor . I hope to see much better video quality . I know it is still camera , but now everything change and even still camera should make very good video . Nex 7 successor sensor size seems perfect for video , so I am waiting , but if sony does not give something better I will jump to Blackmagic pocket .
I want Sony to bring a competitor to the BMPCC as well. The BMPCC is not perfect though as it has a black dot and white orb problems. Its made the 11-13mm lens more expensive. Only the D mount lenses seem to be ok priced but there is no adapters and they are 8mm lens. That’s why I hope Sony release an e mount camera with the new 1/2.3 sensor.
It is obvious you don’t shoot video or events. In a tight market, having 4k video means, have 8mp of photo that you can frame grab in video. No more trying hard to get a good photo on processional/recessional, altar shots. Dedicated stills will be for formals and other really set shots. But for action (boquet toss, first dance, etc), you can do basic frame grabs on shots and make them still images.
4k also affords some big headroom for cropping even if delivery is HD. In our country, delivery is still in DVD, so imagine the headroom we have to crop! Even in HD the detail on landscape, and other subjects will benefit from higher resolution video.
As for storage, that’s not a big issue. 32gbs are common. The manufacturers have to step up on the 64gb storage as we are sure going to need those.
The real bump is in the computer power. We need more powerful cpu’s and gpus. Good thing the GPUs are getting better so that it can really help in rendering 4k files. Going 8-cores in cpu will help, but it’s the GPUs really which will help help cut render times dramatically. Perhaps, this will give PCs more life as surely tablets and phablets are not going to be up to snuff rendering and storing such huge video files.
It was obvious that 3D was just a gimmick. Give it another 10 years, maybe it will be viable. But for sure more resolution in video is GOOD. it may not be obvious to some, but for those of us who do video, we know this to be so. And the impact and results are dramatic if not truly ground breaking.
4k will be what HD did for SD. And what SD did with hi-8 and vhs. These are big steps that improve video and viewing experience. It opens vistas and pushes videographers/film makers to use new techniques because of the higher resolution.
The surprise is that the NEX-FF will have nikon and canon adapters with electronic and AF motor coupling – a FF camera that can use any lens you like. (SR1)
maybe a QE-Mount or A-mount 🙂
or yes finally a full frame camera with great low light capabilities. oh wait every cell phone is already much better than film ever was so of course all the full frame cameras are totally unusable for real photography.
no seriously guys if you want to take pictures of a black cat in a moonless night buy a flash and stop whining. todays sensors are absolutely insane already.
the “square”??
Knowing Sony they will bring out a round sensor then start a whole new square lens linup.
😉
Did the source say “special” with a wink?
A NEX with a true Medium format, 56x56mm, square sensor? 🙂
Something tells me it might be medium format. Hasselblad a partner with Sony and Zeiss. Then there is the new Nikon (first ever) medium format lens patent.
Well, I take that back about Nikon’s first ever medium format lens. I knew they made large format lens before. Now, after reading the nikon rumors thread, it appears they’ve made medium format lens before.
I was thinking “Medium Format RX1” that is close to the size of the A3000.
Medium format doesn’t have to be square. 6x7cm or 6x8cm film gave much better results than 6×6.
Realistically, 6×4.5cm would be big for a digital sensor.
6×8 above should read 6×9 of course.
A good use of the Sony Hassselblad partnership would be an a mount camera with a new 36x36mm sensor of high resolution
Possibly a new Hasselblad that is NOT a dressed up Sony.
Nex is e mount therefore will not cover 56x56mm.
Must be RX related. It took us by surprise when it launched.
True. RX group is the most secretive. RX100 specs were totally known (unleaked) just a week before announcement. RX1 was similarly very secretive with very little leaks.
Since we know nothing about the specs of RX10, my bet is that it is again the same secretive RX developers.
RX 0.1 ! A Medium format in RX sized body!! Wahahaha!! Then we will have a complete line of RX0.1, Rx 1, Rx10, rx100~
Sony QX1, 50mm f2 full frame lens, size will be smaller then the QX100.
Price around $800 USD.
Thanks for the new mobile theme – wayyyyy better on an iPad
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Thanks for the new tablet template! Made a HUGE difference! What a pleasure now reading these c omments!
I was thinking firmware for the A77 and then woke up.
+1
Surely the NEX6 is due an update?
Really hoping it’s the mirrorless a-mount announcement! Much as I’d love an ff nex, the first party lens selection just isn’t doing it for me (the least I’d need to see is a 50/1.4 and a 100/2.8 macro).
Sony finally joins M43
It’s a black and white camera.
RX ILC with lenses with leaf shutters
a Trade-in programm?
The problem I have with trade-in offers is that it’s North Americans that get it and nobody else. The World doesn’t appear to exist outside of North America.
ok, a Worldwide Trade-In Programm 🙂
Tractorbeam Object-Shift AF.
Instead of moving the Sensor for focussing, in 2020 the Object you want to Focus on, is moved to the focusplane.
Missing the focus point would have unfortunate consequences though!
hmmm…a free, gigantic coffee-mug!
Hey SONY Tech – here’s a concept for you – maybe you are working on it already (maybe it is even the “surprise”).
RX1 RW (for WIDE) – “Landscape Edition”
Put on a slow, but sharp, compact and CA free, manual focus lens of around 20mm f/4 (for versatility, add an optional 1.7x or 2x screw on converter).
(And, be sure to add a flip screen – for tripos shooting, of course.)
The ultimate antithesis to “Point and Shoot” … I’ll take one!
Shallow DOF software emulator for the NERDs. Use a F 2.8 lens and get F1.0 DOF 😀
together with a new 50+ MP organic sensor with 5 times more sensivity and dynamic range it’s all people need for the next 100 years 😉
I’ll take that RW “Landscape Edition” too! A perfect lens would be a FF 18mm version of the Zeiss 12mm Touit.
Even better give it a wide 16:9 sensor with 36 MP. Finally a digital X-Pan for landscape photography.
MF manual lens + Tilt/Shift adapter with new NEX would be better.
I think what you want is a Sigma DP1M. That really is a landscape camera.
True, that is a great camera with a sensational sensor. If only it was wider than 28mm… a 21 or 24mm lens would have been ideal for landscape.
Whoa -I hadn’t realized the price had gone through the floor! Yes, 24mm or better would be preferable for landscape, but I will look closely at it.
Thanks for the tip!
I’m in too.
Wisffull thinking but I keep hoping its a new stacked sensor ff 100mp+
I dont actully believe it but at least I can imagine it for a few days.
A-mount full frame camera with square image sensor (instagram friendly).
Is this an article about a future article about a rumor about a future camera? Please…. more of these… it almost reached 100 posts
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If it is really ‘big’, it might be this prototype that was shown at NAB: http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/surprise-is-that-the-new-a-mount-full-frame-with-built-in-vertical-grip/ Here is a better picture: http://photorumors.com/2013/04/07/sony-shows-4k-prototype-cameras-at-the-2013-nab-show/
Remember: that lens is the 24-70CZ, which is not a small lens! So that camera is really big. And seems to have a dual mount… So A-mount combined with Hasselblad mount? That would be really big… Although I’m not interested, I’ll be happy with a FF Nex. 🙂
Hope it’s not like the news Olympus E-5 users received a week ago. Our A-mount lenses to be used only with adaptor in NEX kind-mount bodies. I really hope not!!
FF QX1 under the glass dome! 🙂
I cant believe 25 FB likes and 3 tweets for an article titled “Source talks about a surprise…”
25 likes are nothing these days…everybody will like just everything..
4k resolution sensor or m4/3 NEX? lol
Why go m43? It’s better to have m43 crop mode on APS-C sensor.
Sonympus Medium Format camera with a 5.5×5.5cm In Body stabilized 40mp CMOS Exmor sensor.
$10,000 for the priviledge and used the now defunct Hasselblad V mount so any of the classic lenses works.
Hmmm, Sony surprises are usually just a surprise for the execs in the boardroom, who think the general public will be surprised. I wouldn’t be amazed at all if this so called “surprise” was to bring back the AIBO robot with a built in NEX, or maybe trying to revive their line of cassette players?
Just a thought…
I heard there was going to be a rumor…just wait.
Sony M43!
They would have a good (2ND party) lens lineup at least.
😉
An old forgotten SAR rumer was for a Sony A1A camera with a 100+ mp square sensor
It was also suggested that it might be organic (stacked)
As far as I know that rumor has not happened??????
I’d expect any camera from now and on to be able to work with these new standalone lenses, using software from the camera.
That sony will implement this before any hacker or magic lantern, THAT would be a surprise.
Imagine a camera/body/device being able to capture images from multiple lenses!
The supprise is that DSLR protype body that Sony displayed at NAB last spring.
If you remember…the thing had a crazy large silver ring/lock around the base of the mount. It was a large DSLR stlye body
surprise rumour + end of A99 rumour = new A mount full frame
???
Kaz Hirai marries Phil Molyneux, you know, only A-mount.
Camera slightly bigger than the NEX-7 with a global mount – full AF Canon Nikon Sony, Fuji, etc. lens compatibility with AF on-sensor that smokes Canon’s MKIII in speed, accuracy, and function. 45 MPixel square format, but crop compatible for FX/DX lens interchangeability. 12 FPS, flawless video (with all lenses). Everyone will abandon all other camera bodies because the Sony sports shooters are getting all the shots at the various sports venues because they just don’t miss the shot. Sony finally has made photography as easy as looking at something with your naked eye.