These are the images of the new HX and WX compact cameras that will be announced on Wednesday (Courtesy of Digicameinfo). Like I told you before the two most interesting new cameras are the:
HX400 has 20,4 Megapixel, 50x zoom and Wifi (image on top)
HX60 has 20,4 Megapixel, 30x zoom (starts at 24mm) and GPS (image below).
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I wonder how does A6000 looks like?
underwhelming, surprisingly no TX update? what about a waterproof model?
I thought the compact business wasn’t doing well.
yeah it doesn’t. But it’s actually a very reduce collection of Sony’s compact camera. I remember the time when Sony introduce dozen of new compact twice a year, that’s long gone.
When looking in local stores I see almost no A mount or E mount sony cameras but I do see the compact cameras.
So even though the compact market has shrunk these cameras play an important part in making a presence for sony.
I travel a lot for work and cannot carry a big camera or lenses with me.
I often see birds and animals that I would like to photograph but only have my cell phone with me.
The HX-400 would be nice to have on those occasions.
I often miss shots of birds because I dont have a camera with long lens available. This would be the equivellent of a 1000mm or so lens on a ff.
I am sure the quality will not be comparable but I would consider this camera to keep in the car for those JUST IN CASE shots thqt often come up.
Depends on the store in my corner of the USA. Target just picked up the a3000 but not NEXs. Best Buy always has a special area for NEXs (which Sony must pay a dear penny for – I’ve only seen a single NEX in the wild here and nobody’s ever looking at said display) and also carries the a3000 curiously alongside Canonikon DSLRs. I haven’t been in an H. H. Gregg in a while buy they didn’t carry any Sony interchangeable lens system body. Only a local independent camera shop carries a-mounts.
All the above carry Sony point and shoots and super-zooms.
Ironically, the age of camera phones which is killing off low-end point and shoots might help some day peak an interest in better cameras. Camera phones are good enough for most people. But I’ve got a nice Nokia camera phone and, still, even tweeting pics from Flickr taken with my a65 there’s a huge difference in quality.
That’s why I think a recent ad pitching their a5000 with emphasis on high-quality social media shots was a good attempt to attract hip, affluent millennials.
My Instagram is better than your Instagram. 😉
My Target has had the A3000, 3N, and F3 and Best Buy the A3000, 3N, 5R, and 6 for quite a while. Target might be down to the A3000, though. Only other mirrorless at either stores are Samsung NX and Nikon 1, which both stores carry some of.
The Targets in my area never carried any NEX that I’m aware but they are promoting heavily the Nikon 1. They even carry a lens for it. Nikon is really promoting heavily the Nikon 1 to push into mirrorless because they’ve paid Target, at least here, for an end of the aisles full display.
I have actually just seen some Sony comercials on tv.
They were vague general commercials and not for any specific products.
P.S.
The HX-400 is 1200mm ff equivelent not 100mm…I am correcting my own incorrect statement.
There’s hardly any camera stores in the UK now. Chain stores don’t carry a lot of Sony stock (and even then just low end stuff), but LCE surprisingly had a lot of Sony gear last time I was in the Strand store (reasonable prices too).
where is the A6000 photo?
I’m more interested on it…
Nice to see a multi-interface hot shoe on the HX400.
Ok, next….
Let’s talk about Alpha cameras.
Andrea, any info about RAW in the HX400?
Any relevant improvement over the HX300?
If they kept the same level of Jpeg compression as the HX300 has then any improvement in image quality with the apparent new sensor will be negated. If Sony would just quit compressing the H out of the images to cram more on the card the HX300 would not need improvement. I use the HX300 when the big DSLR system is not necessary. And of course for that 1200mm tele that works. And extra PP to tone down the compression artifacts is the price I pay
ZZzzz… ZZzzz…
+1
I get SAR must cover all rumors but this one’s about as interesting as a door knob.
o, of course, because you are a professional photographer, so it’s not worth mentioning… I understand….
Can we understand that the 20.4 mpix models have the 1″ sensor inside, since that pixel count matches that sensor?