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A7 deals:
Right now you can grab OPEN BOX Sony A7 for $1298 at [shoplink 26787 ebay]Samys on eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. This is really the cheapest price I have seen for a Full Frame camera. OPEN BOX means it’s new and only the box has been openend once.
And if you want it in complete sealed box you can grab it with over $100 free extras for $1498 at [shoplink 26788 ebay]Focuscamera on eBay (Click here)[/shoplink] and [shoplink 26789 ebay]Cameta on eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
I bet that less thna one year ago you would not have believed Sony would sell a mirrorless full frame for $1298!
UPDATE: Sorry for the typo guys. Has a busy day and was also working on A7s news and made a huge Freudian Lapsus!
Sony A7 with 28-70mm lens for $1798 at Amazon (Click here), BHphoto (Click here) and Sony Store (Click here).
And you save $200 on the A7r with lens too at Amazon (Click here), BHphoto (Click here) and Sony Store (Click here). You also save $250 on the A7r with LA-EA4 adapter at Amazon (Click here) and Sony Store (Click here).
A7s and RX100M3 preorder links:
Sony A7s preorder in USA/CA at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), Sony (Click here), Sony Canada.
RX100M3 preorders in USA at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here), Sony (Click here).
RX100M3 preorders in Eu at Sony DE, UK, ES, FR, IT, NL, BE, AT, CH, SE, NO, FI, PT.
RX100M3 in Asia at Amazon Japan.
Sony A7s EU pages (no preorder yet): Sony DE, UK, ES, FR, IT, NL, SE, FI, PL.
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Ugh. This spammy Dutch blog is so sloppy. The headline and text shouldn’t read a7S, just a7. Methinks there’s a slightly huge difference.
A7s?
Typo sorry!
For a moment there, I was REALLY excited
Typo sorry
Haha, no problem! Happens to the best of us!
Misleading title. It should be A7’s not A7s.
Sorry again. Typo 🙂
You can get a brand new A7 for 100 bucks less. What are you talking about?
where? thank you.
Do you have a link to this A7 deal or were you just talking out of your as*.
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.25.NdPOw8&id=36055727286
Look on Chinese Ebay, they’re selling for around 1100 dollars new in sealed box…beat that…
I ALMOST WANT TAKE OUT MY CREDIT CARD AND ORDER IT. BIG JOKE
Sorry! Made a huge typo.
“Full Frame was never that cheap”
Yes it was film cameras with FF where avalile from dirt cheap to expensive ones..
And full frame film cameras are dirt cheap now, most are under $100. But what does this have to do with the topic at hand?
Description is wrong. It’s the A7 model and not the A7s. It refers to A7’s.
Sorry guys! It’s a typo!
No problem Admin. This is still a very good price for the A7 body.
However, i still like the SLT-A77 as a dependable instrument.
There is no reason why entry level FF cameras should cost four times as much as entry level APSC sensor cameras. We are moving in the right direction. Very slowly.
Sony Card holders could have bought it with the kit lens last week for $1099 US. Ahhh, the perks of having a Sony Card.
Ahhhhh so that is how everyone is doing it. I knew employee’s were getting discounts but I had no idea average Joe could just use a Sony Card. Some people are making some coin flipping these on eBay.
Full Frame has been this cheap for awhile, You can get an A7 from Asia (China, Korea, etc) for around 1100-1200 USD. I don’t know why they decide to overprice the full frame alphas for European and Americans, do we all look like we’re loaded with unreasonable amount of cash?
Asia version has only their language. i.e, Japanese version has only Japanese language. On the other hand, we Americans and Europeans have several languages for extra 600 USD…
I can read both language, so that options worked for me…I guess.
1293.12 (US) open box off amazon.
Detail, details. The A7 is not full frame. The A7r is full frame.
http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2014/04/17/sony-a7s-vs-a7r-vs-a7-which-sony-full-frame-camera-should-you-buy/
Eh?
Lay down that pipe. All 3 cameras in A7 range are FF.
I name this ” Fail of the Week “
In Hungary it costs $2100 and that’s body only… Sony must fix European prices if they want their cameras to be sold.
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Body only prices in dollar:
A7 – 2100
A7R – 2500
A6000 – 1100
A77M1 – 1300
Uh, where did you get that “average salary” for Americans? Per month? Not a chance.
Median HOUSEHOLD INCOME in the USA in 2012 was $51k, and according to Huffington Post, the median annual wage in 2011 was $26,364.
It has gone nowhere since, and disposable income has fallen significantly as source deductions and user fees rise.
I know Hungarians are having what they believe to be a hard time right now, with everybody leaving to find work elsewhere. But the USA is no cakewalk, like many ignorant europeans believe. I know, I live in the USA, and my family is european.
Sorry if I wrote bs, I just googled average american salary and this is what google gave me. Still, american salaries are undoubtedly better then what they are in Hungary and if Sony chooses not to price their products equivalently then at least they should give the lower price tag to the poorer countries.
I googled again and (hopefully) it’s closer to reality now:
average in Hungary: $1000
average in USA: $3300
I think the $5000 was for college graduates.
UPDATE: “I know Hungarians are having what they believe to be a hard time right now” They don’t just believe it, it IS, I checked numerous sources and the average salary in Hungary in 2014 is $1000. That’s laughable.
$5000 isn’t for college graduates, its for seasoned workers, working in software development, and live in San Francisco, bay area. I know, I live there. Lots of my teammates are located in different states and their wages are much lower.
Now, to make the point. I’m 100% sure, that a small, 1 bedroom apartment in Hungary, doesn’t cost you $1900-$2400 per month, because that’s the average starting price for 1 bedroom apartments in SF Bay Area. Add to that other costs of living, and even with a $5000 per month in my pocket, i’m left with virtually 0 at the end of the month.
Average salaries are always higher than what you get because of all the politicians and famous people who earn 100x more than the average person. Most people (60-70%) doesn’t earn more than $600 here. That’s barely enough for food alone. Here you are left with $2000 debt at the end of the month. Being at zero is considered a miracle here.
While I get your frustration on politicians earning more, there are so many people in the country, that a few billionare politicians will not change the landscape sufficiently. I was born and lived for 16 years in Ukraine, whos authorities are corrupt to the core. My parents didn’t even make $600 a month together during the 90’s, yet they were able to make a living with 2 kids and help grandparents too. My cousin still lives in Ukraine, together with her Grandma. She is still a college student. They’re making a living by Grandma still working fulltime at the age of 78, and she works a few hours here and there as well. My old school friends also able to make a living by working wherever they can get a job as well as moving to a place they can afford.
If you are left with $2000 debt at the end of each month (to which I call BS, because its impossible to live with that kind of monthly debt), then you need to move to outskirts of the city, change jobs, try to improve your standing against your peers at the job market, by taking specialized classes.
I live at the outskirts of San Francisco and pay 1900 for an apartment. It takes me an hour to 1.5 hours to get to work. Others, who are not able to afford even this, commute for 2 to 2.5 hours to get to work. Apartments close to downtown San Francisco start at $3500 per month and go well beyond $5000 per month. I’m not about to live in those, because I simply cannot afford them.
Living beyond your means is not an excuse to blame the economy. If people in a crappy Ukraine economy are capable to make some kind of a living, there is no excuse for you not to be able to.
We are not close to change all this. For that we have to discover the word enough and share again. It is the greed of the few that do this happen, and the most annoying is that the few cents the poor have in their pocket, they want it too. They will not stop until they have it all and 95% of the people of this planet stand there naked without anything. When we see how some throw around with money, how they racket us with energy prices and food, and how they struggle to invent systems to control all and let you pay for everything, soon they will put a tax on the air you breathe, it is absolutely disgusting. On one side people do not know how to join the edges, on the other we send money to terrorist organizations so they can buy weapons, for free, they make eternal wars, try to control foreign economies so that they match their needs, while their own country is in a constant decay and their own people turn into progressing poverty. This what US is, this is what Europe is. And to prevent you from taking care of their business, they divert you with mass immigration of foreign non compatible cultures, so you are occupied to permanently fight and be stressed by those people that destroy your culture and your living standards to replace it by theirs. We destroy our whole planet, for business and financial interests, oil and wall street scam. And at the base of that is the world’s most powerful banker, the Jesuites that are shareholders in the most biggest corporations and that control the world’s money and cash flow and value. The Christian Religion has been the first major attempt to set one single world order under one heel, and they will never stop fighting until they reach their goal, even if it costs a 8 billions more lives, since that is the price the world paid for 2000 years of religion, and the horror goes on day by day, killing and destroying in the name of GOD. Will that ever end, I doubt it. It’s hard to get a non existent metaphor out of a brainwashed head, and humans love to believe and build faith on things no one can or wants explain to them, important is that the cash flow goes on in the same direction only.
I have no idea what you’re on about. All i’m saying is that if you can’t afford to enjoy a specific lifestyle, you have to reconfigure your everyday life. I was also making very little $$$ in US, until i got off my behind, stopped wasting time on the internet and actually started studying. In a year, a whole new carreer path was available to me.
7 years later, I still work hard for my future, but the light at the end of the tunnel looks much bigger and brighter now. I don’t blame anyone, but myself for wasting time.
What does this have to do with your conspiracy theories is beyond me. Stop blaming governments and little green people and work on your well being first. It takes hard work, sacrifice of your personal life, and long time before you can finally start relaxing. The world isn’t an easy place to live in and nobody here owes you anything.
>All I’m saying is that if you can’t afford to enjoy a specific lifestyle, you have to reconfigure your everyday life.
>I was also making very little $$$ in US, until i got off my behind, stopped wasting time on the internet and actually started studying. In a year, a whole new carreer path was available to me.
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In the US you are paid for your hard work and talent, meanwhile here the only way to get a well paying job is having a relative / lover who is an “important” person. There’s a huge difference. Would you mind telling me how many people do you see laying on the street, starving and near death? I guess zero. Our government made homelessness illegal, but they offer no job, no chance to get your house back that was stolen by them because you had no cash to pay your “debts”. I won’t wait for my turn, I’m leaving right after finishing university and don’t tell me I’m an ignorant who thinks living abroad is better because you have no idea what kind of shit is going on here.
I will hopefully put much of this to bed. I live and work in the US, and I have for 25 years. My family is back in Hungary, in Szekesfehervar, Budapest, Szeged, and Szabadbattyan, and some up in Harrachov. I have sat down and compared things with them, precisely. There is no difference in the quality of our financial lives, or in our level of disposable income. They like to complain because they wrongly feel that we have it so much better in the USA, until they get the facts, then they feel better. But they still like to complain, it is a way of life, which is one of the reasons I left. They are everything from bankers to welders to farmers to musicians to doctors. They have different standards and a different outlook on life and how it should be lived, that is all.
My wife’s family is all French, and they similarly have it quite well, but also like to complain, and are totally misinformed about life in the USA. They hear about some bigshots in Manhattan, and they project that onto the entire country. Naive, and misinformed.
Life is no cakewalk in Hungary, but neither is it in the USA.
Finally, the figures I cited are MEDIAN income, and therefore not skewed by the few hedge fund managers making a killing. Do you understand the difference between AVERAGE and MEDIAN?
If you’re replying to me, then you are preaching to the wrong choir. I know the difference between average and median. And i’m actually making the same point as you, that its not easy, anywhere you go.
I lived and worked in US for 15 years and I have quite a few friends and relatives in Ukraine. Trust me, they’re with the same mindset as your relatives. On top of that, lots of people still view US the way it was in 1990s – a country that likes to stick its nose everywhere it doesn’t belong and as an “Evil Empire” as well.
Sure, US polititians still do it, but its not as much as during the 90’s and no more than say Russia, Germany, GB, France or China.
Some people in ex Soviet countries still have cold war syndrome. It didn’t go away and actually became stronger.
“$5000 isn’t for college graduates, its for seasoned workers, working in
software development, and live in San Francisco, bay area.”
This is total BS or more likely deliberate misinformation. $60K/year (5k/month) is well below what even college graduates in Computer Science get on start, not even in Silicon Valley/SFBA but in cheaper areas. My buddy just moved to SF for $160/year, and it is low but the job has other perks (huge signing bonus basically).
Here is DC, I know about a girl who got $155K/year after just 2 years after college – nothing special in skills. Although admittedly the going rate for average software developers is about $120-130K – which can be had easily everywhere here if you are not bottom of the barrel (who still get $90-100K which is much more than they deserve). These are DC area salaries, SFBA rates are higher (but state taxes and real estate prices there are even higher).
“nd according to Huffington Post, the median annual wage in 2011 was $26,364.”
Average salary in the States is $47,000.
http://www.averagesalarysurvey.com/article/average-salary-in-united-states/15200316.aspx
“Household” is not a 2-earner family with kids, it includes for example a single senior on Social Security not receiving any salary at all.
Those who make $6000+/mo are senior engineers, doctors, lawyers. Rent in places like NYC, the Silicon Valley, or Seattle is $2000+ for a small 1-bedroom apartment, and daycare per child is $1200/mo.
Anyway, this is an open box item. If you want it new, the A7 costs $1500 + tax. In Hungary, sales tax is 27%, so 1500 * 1.27 = 1905. Also the HUF currency exchange rates fluctuate very wildly. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying it’s fair, because it isn’t. But you can’t compare an open box item before taxes to a brand new item after taxes.
Nobody is implying that Hungary isn’t in a problematic situation at the moment. But the point that @Kratos6633:disqus tried to make below, about somehow everyone there is living with a +$2000 debt per month, while people in USA are somehow bathing in cash are outright lies either by him or by his source, whatever it was.
“Those who make $6000+/mo are senior engineers, doctors, lawyers.”
BS. Get off your coach and out of your cave. Here in the US, $70K is a starting salary for an average computer science student. In 2 years they make up to $150K/year. Doctors/lawyers make more than $1M sometimes.
These price deals are not happy news when you see them from Europe. 🙁
If you are worth anything, you can always find a job in the States.
FF has never been so cheap. Yes, but only for the camera only, what you need to put in this hole is a red light zone system. If you want to stuff it up, you pay solid prices. It is that pricing that keeps me a way from it. If some day we get lenses at fairer prices, it will be an interesting option. But at an average 700 to 1500$ for a decent lens, it is a perspective to think about first. Now this said, 1475$ for A7 with zoom in the kit, you ask yourself then why you should pay 800$ for a dinky toy like Rx100-3. There is definitely something wrong here.
Who wants to bet that by this time next year, if not earlier, the A7S will be selling for the same price as that of the A7, and that’s not a knock on the A7s. Just give it time, that’s how technology works
More likely it will drop to current A7R price I guess.
I think it will drop more than the other two. But, not that low based on initial price. Maybe 1500?
Just got a new A7 kit deal on ebay with the 28-70 and the battery grip for $1700, from a US seller. The whole thing came straight from Sony, the seller had it drop shipped. There are lots of deals to be had. I bought into te A7 cheap, but I’m paying full price or the A7s.
In Japan, A7 released at $1250 and now $1170, but only one language available 🙁
That’s why I never import Sony products from Japan, and pay tons of extra here in US to get a same product because of the re-sale value…
I try to buy new/used lenses and language, packaging, and warranty wouldn’t be an issue.
The A7 is also consistently cheaper in Asia like in HK and Taiwan which would have English menus.
it’s only true if you know how to negotiate 😉 otherwise the price is usually higher than US.
I’m only talking about official Sony prices at Sony stores. As a tourist you get 5% tax break which makes the A7 cheaper than US. Plus 24mo warranty in Taiwan.
As a Sony card holder I’m seeing some crazy discount on RX1-100-100II at the moment on Sony Rewards.
And my A7 is never getting sold.
Finally the A7 is at where I would like it be (33% off from the list price at 1005 Euros) if the deals runner link is reliable.
Just repeating myself – it will be $999 on Black Friday.
I know what kind of stuff is going on in Ukraine, so don’t try to tell me that I don’t know or that Hungary is worse.
I never said that it was the same as in US. I reiterated multiple times that Hungary and Ukraine are in a disadvantageus situation in comparison. But your thinking that there are no homeless people here is completely wrong. There are plenty!
There are also many people who have lost their homes, because they couldn’t pay.
I’m not telling you not to leave Hungary. On the contrary, if you have a chance to get out, by all means, get out. I’ve been trying to get my relatives out of Ukraine for a few years now.
But this belief that US is somehow a magical place is completely wrong. If you don’t pay for your house, just like in Hungary, the bank will take it back. The only difference here in US is that during an economic boom, it is easier to find a job. But when there is a recession, its just as bad.
I never said that the US is a magical place that turns you into a millionaire when you cross the border. All I said was that in the US at least you do have the chance.
And there’s a difference between being a homeless in the US or in Hungary.
In our beloved country there’s zero chance that a homeless will get a job and because “everyone has the right to live” you will get $120/months up to 3 times. After that:
1. You can die (no one will care)
2. The government may offer you the chance to do “communal work” which is 8h / day, 5 days / week and you get a filthy $200 / months as payment. They call it communal work, I call it slavery. I dunno about the US, but in Spain you can have your house and feed 3 kids while having no job.