α5000 from Sony: Official Video Release (Feature)
With a couple of weeks of delay the A5000 has now be officially announced in Japan too (Source: Sony Japan). In the meantime reviewers already tested the camera:
First imrpessions at Trustedreviews.
Sony Alpha ILCE-5000 Hands-On Preview (ePhotozine).
Sony A5000 Hands-on Photos (Photographyblog).
A5000 first impressions at Polish Optyczne.
Polish A5000 test at Fotopolis (google translated).
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I’m sorry, but i hate this trend and focus on connectivity. Large phones and people nowadays look like retarded zombies with them poking them and looking at them. The same with perverting good cameras into something like a phone and facebook accessory. It makes me wanna puke, when I see such retarded adds like this. Shooting stupid shots just for the sake of bragging over FB with them… Photography should be about something else..
Photography should be about whatever the photographer wants it to be. It’s nobody else’s business.
Amazing how some people are stuck in their old ways and will ascribe everything to the demons of new technologies. What’s the point of photography if you are not sharing your photos? What was so different when bragging by showing physical ones? The problem is the mentality, not the tool. Connectivity is simply one more way of sharing and operating your camera.
Well said! Nobody is forcing anybody to use those connectivity tools but theya re there for those embracing the new ways!
I quite like it. It’s not a camera for me, but I think the idea of bringing good image quality together with the connectivity and little tricks (which used to be fairly laborious with photoshop) should appeal to lots of people. I think it’s a pretty nice marketing campaign.
“photography should be about something else”… mmmmmmmmmm, okay let’s create another branch of picture taking then… This camera is only for documentationographer or sociofotodokumentasionografer…
“It makes me wanna puke, when I see such retarded adds like this. Shooting stupid shots just for the sake of bragging over FB with them”… bhuhuhuhu, you hurt my feeling…
I know right? Let’s ignore connectivity and live in the stone age!
This poor mentality is why the camera industry is where it’s at in the first place
Please go back to NikonRumors.
I like this A5000. I really wish it had a hotshoe. I use my friends 3n from time to time and I think it is a excellent camera. It reminds me of a cheap rx1. I was looking at it the other day and was imagining it with a dial or 2 and a FF sensor. I also wish the tilt able flash would stay in place when you tilted it back. I see a lot of female bloggers on youtube are ditching there canon for this type of small sony camera with the flip screen because finally they see that bigger size does not always equal better.
I see sony finally wised up and made a open bottom half case. I never could understand how they make such horrible cases for there own cameras. I hope they continue to to this.
Exactly! FF NEX-5 with hot shoe or RX1r with E mount.
Both are feasible, both could be made of spare parts now, i.e. no new R&D needed.
No hotshoe is bad. If I read the report correctly, the body is now made out of plastic. The last thing a camera this small needs is to be made out of plastic- that’s what the NEX3-series (nee 3000?) was for.
I’m sure the next 7-series will have additional controls this Alpha 5000 does not have.
Sony stated in an interview with Imaging Resource, that the A5000 is replacing NEX-3N, and sits below NEX-5T in the line-up.
That’s a great Sony promo for this camera, and the technology it leverages.
I wonder if they shot it with a Sony camera.
probably with their video cam. they have many to choose from.
The only thing that I feel “wrong” in this ad is that if they are aiming at P&S people, who only want to take simple snaps and then share with their friends, they’ll soon get fed up of having to transfer files and will go back taking pictures directly with their smartphones.
I know I would!
I do have some cameras myself (dSLRs and mirrorles) and when I want to take a silly, simple snapshot, I simply use my smartphone! When I want to do some more “serious” work, THEN I use my cameras/lenses.
Market seems to be forcing those cameras under the “image quality” hat, but they’re doing it wrong I think.
Isn’t that the market Sony is pitching to? Young professionals with no/little experience in digital photography aspiring to take ‘pro’ snapshots without any sweat who have some disposable income for a toy. Like many ‘toys’, most folks will buy one, play with their new toy all weekend, then put it in the closet to collect dust. Some small percentage will get the bug and pump more cash into Sony.
Camera phones change the formula a bit because people aren’t buying low-end snapshot cameras like they did back when my hair wasn’t so grey. However, the basic issue of casual Ansel Adams wannabes buying aspirational SLRs or whatever and either getting the photo bug or closeting their ‘toy’ for good has always existed.
The a5000 ad is very effective and well done. Unfortunately, social media integration with cameras will always require a cell phone connection kluge. Some of my followers on Twitter like posting really nice photos – obviously not taken on a cell phone – so I can see some folks even using an a5000 for a low-res use case like Twitter. NFC integration takes the most of the pain out of the process.
At the end of the day it’s up to the photographer if they want to use social media features. Personally they’re not for me – first and foremost because I shoot raw. That said it’s good to see Sony wising up to a connected lifestyle. What they need to work on is the software support – wireless hdmi, an Android raw viewer/editor, wifi tethering etc
“Like many ‘toys’, most folks will buy one, play with their new toy all weekend, then put it in the closet to collect dust.”
Yes. You’re right about that.
“However, the basic issue of casual Ansel Adams wannabes buying aspirational SLRs or whatever and either getting the photo bug or closeting their ‘toy’ for good has always existed.”
Yes. You’re right again. But, still, I think most people will be happy using their phones.
“The a5000 ad is very effective and well done.”
In a sense, yes. It shows what new things it has compared to previous NEXes and how you may use them.
“Unfortunately, social media integration with cameras will always require a cell phone connection kluge.”
Why? Why can’t everyone take a path like Samsung’s and add an OS to their cameras?
I’d LOVE to use my NEX for snapshots if I could simply email/whatsapp/whatever a picture right from it, without the need to upload it to another connected device.
(since I can connect it via wi-fi, it makes the transfer a bit less fidly. Not having to remove the card or insert an USB cable already helps somewhat)
“Some of my followers on Twitter like posting really nice photos – obviously not taken on a cell phone – so I can see some folks even using an a5000 for a low-res use case like Twitter.”
So can I. But I do not see it as a major selling point.
It’s a nice thing to have, indeed. But I do not see it as something so big that amateurs would go for it.
“NFC integration takes the most of the pain out of the process.”
I haven’t used any NFC device yet, so I don’t know how faster and seamless it is compared to an wi-fi connection for instance. But it does seem pretty easy and helpful.
Also, didn’t Sony release the QX ‘cameras’ using this very same approach? Use an external device, so you can take better pictures and send it via smartphone?
You’re not thinking reasonably.
Why should sony spend so much to develop apps for their cameras.. When everyone already has smartphones where the apps are updated all the time already?
They made it easy as heck already.
Really? A dslr user like you would settle for a shitty cell phone selfie? No way!
This camera isn’t aimed at you anyways, it’s the new entry level e-mount.
Just wait for the upcoming $1000+ nex-7 replacement
It’s totally unrelated to this post but has there ever been some rumour about a new optional EVF?
The 5 series has progressed a lot since 5n (at least in model numbers) and it’d be great if there was a new EVF at some point, provided they’ll continue with the 5 in the x000 range.
Look like we lost the bottom soft key ?? (now permanently assigned to image replay ?). No function button either to bring up a custom menu ??
Yes, it seems Sony is going back to a more direct control interface on this one. Whether it is good or bad depends on your usage. I think the trend was already set with the NEX-5R. Less customization, more dedicated controls. I hope the NEX-6 and 7 replacement keeps a very clever customizable interface.
With the kit lens, the small JPG photos that get transferred with default settings aren’t all that much different from a cell phone image. A kit with a ‘bokeh lens’ with a food photo worthy close mfd might work well for this target?
Also, it might be more acceptable and useful if there was a wireless tethering capability where photos automatically go to your phone as you take them (no need to stop and transfer)
I use the sharing on A7r all the time. It’s fun.
Agree fully! It’s just more tricky than automatic on the phone.
Guess you saw the dpreview comparison D800 and smartphone cameras? It’s gonna be a hard time selling small cameras like A5000 even if you use 5000 instead of 3.
Maybe Sony should develop a low quality fast kit lens with really insane distortion and abberations. You’d still get images unique to large sensor cameras (available light and thin DOF) while electronic compensation will make the images good enough for web use. Add to that a simple macro mode and call it ‘lomo’-something.
I think that’d be a great idea! Sony can come out with a small collection of “toy” lenses that would let people tap into their creative side or even to those that are interested in a particular type of lens and get this as a trial, then, if they enjoy it enough, get the proper version for more money and higher quality. The lenses I feel would have to be around $100 though and not much more, in order to appeal to those casual photogs and point and shoot upgraders IMO.
There’s a mode to automatically transfer after each shot. No need to stop and transfer, but there’s a pause as it sends the file over, Esp if you set it to send the full resolution file.
I’ll tell you – the A7r is the first camera that makes me feel stupid! The manual is worthless, and I’m still figuring out the intricacies of the settings and exactly what they all do.
I’ll have to work on that auto-transfer mode.
*while tethering that is
I wish it could transfer the pics normally as i’m taking it.. sigh
camera’s just aren’t there yet
unless you’re using samsung and the camera you have has dropbox integration
We talk about extrems here on SAR!
PhaseOne released the price here in Sweden now for the new combo. Back pack, camera and kit lens $38.000 🙂
There goes that Audi I was going to buy.
How does something like this compare to an Olympus PEN?
Most people do, what is told them to do-maye it is marketing slavery
maybe they do not see it maybe it is the gun in the neck of those…
so.
-CODEC we have not the new codec of rx-10 in it = castratus est
-not a god Codec taht you can have a clear sharp-so = for what?
-OLD SELL/ OBSLENCE THIMKING: SONY do you think i wil buy another
233 SONY´S till you geht it? nope this was your chance
-PRICE for this UNUSABLE NOT MADE FOR HUMANS but I-DIOTS and ZOMBIES
299 usd $ and not one cent more- problem I WILL NOT BUY IT.
I WIL ALSO NOT BUY the supa fussz wunder RX a a 7000 and so on
and no NO CAMERA AT ALL because i want 2014 something taht is 2014
NOT a claustrobhobia of a LOOP 2010 20 YEARS LONG.
and this is for all others same canon nikon pansonic…. ther are
34 billion ” old” cameras out in ebay..150-200 usd$
and if it comes to filming/hobby 10 bit bmc poket 899 usd$
DO YOU COPPY SONY???
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chhr..
huston…. they have a problem..think they are head-cutt -ed