You may have noticed that I posted many lens and QX rumors and little about cameras. But I actually did (and I am still doing) a lot of “behind the scene” camera rumor work! The reason why I have been quiet the last weeks is because I got major news with some surprises and I wanted to spill out the rumors only when I was sure about the rumors I got. I am now very close to get some final answers and I ask you just a bit of patience.
All I can tell for now is that Photokina is not the place for these “BIG” Sony surprises. But I have damn good news: You will not have to wait a long time after Photokina either…
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Hi Andrea – is the picture a hint?
not an intentional one. But yes, there is both A and E-mount news.
separate news for each mount? or the infamous hybrid mount rumor?
separate
there is no hybird mount. It has always been E-mount with a-mount adapter. A-mount is phasing out.
Only if the adapter gives us fast AF like the A77II PDAF and IBIS that is required for practically EVERY A-mount lens…
A-mount isn’t being “phased out”, it’s going high-end.
How then A-mount film cameras worked, where no IBIS is possible? O_O
And maybe we’ll go back to horse and carriages. IBIS is something all camera should feature in the 21st Century.
That’s why they’re moaning. The A-Mount has already made the complete transfer to Sony professional imaging division and the mirror-less cameras were left behind, the A77II was their first release.
Let’s face it the A-Mount is going to very expensive very quickly. I’m expecting to see a 4K capable version launching by the end of the year.
The performance difference between the two mounts is going to grow in the next year or so, and when the Alpha One system arrives all bets are off.
No, it’s not. The A-Mount is Sony’s professional imaging division’s mount, and the e-mount clearly belongs to the consumer imaging division.
The A-Mount earns 50% more per quarter than mirror-less, and is growing slightly faster. Did I mention 31% of all imaging revenue is derived from the A-Mount products.
Next you’ll say Sony is going to drop the RX product line.
Troll somewhere else loser.
forget about the hybrid mount, once and for all. That was dumb to begin with. A simple way is already on the market and that’s an adapter. A hybrid mount not only is difficult to make, but also will cost a little bit more than if you paid only for the adapter.
Ouch – just as I’m trying to decide whether changing to e-mount would be a good move!
yeah….a hint before potokina 2012
Maybe someone should start a rumor website about rumor websites?
As usual some people never are happy 🙂
Who?
Keep up the good work!!! It’s alway appreciated!!
I remember those times when we had sketches, 3d renderings and even SR3 rumors with 3 months of anticipation and they were 80% reliable most of the time. And now, we got…milking rumors.
There is a reason behind that…don’t worry…exciting time will come 🙂
Give us the reason for that 🙂
If needed write me an email. 😛
Its very interesting why the “good times of rumors” are over!
Why not just post everything you get as SR1 rumors?
Why wait so long to ‘confirm’ all of them? Rumors are, by definition, unconfirmed information.
If he would do that, he would risk to exposure his sources to Sony and Sony is very interested in closing “leaks”.
Yep. That is also a very good reason.
OK, thank you, got it.
But im also interested to see rumors not just 5 days before announcement! 😉
It would be very nice if you could revive the times 2-3years ago!
I will post a couple of 2015 rumors soon…dont’ worry 🙂
Cause people tend to overlook this SR1-SR5 categories (or their brains want it to get real) and then keep asking for their promised 100mp APS-C A-Mount.
“then keep asking for their promised 100mp APS-C A-Mount.”
Yeah I am STILL waiting for that! Come on Sony, where is my 100mpix, 8k,15fps, flip up mirror, 100% AF coverage, 1 bazillion ISO, full frame sport shooting camera?
Autobending sensor according to the lens profile.
Fixed that for you.
We don’t want rumours getting in the way of “Official Fleabay Deals!!!” do we?
Thanks for your hard work!
But, if it’s a rumor, why not post it, even if it’s SR2-3? You can always confirm it later 😉
If I start to post too many SR2-SR3 rumros it would become a mess. And on very important news I try to triple check them. otherwise I start a big buzz about nothing…and you would hate me for that 🙂
Even if it’s one or two SR2-3 a week, it’s OK. We are here to have fun!! (and troll for some).
But again, thanks for the hard work!
SAR_Admin, but remember that many people came here just for the rumors, not news. I would suggest you to check your 2010-2011 rumors post to understand what’s my point.
Those E Zeiss 24mm f1.8 / NEX-7 / a99 rumors were great. With sketches and 3d renderings leaked waaaay before the actual thing happened. Remember how many people were amazed by the dual dials on top of the NEX-7 before it was released? We started following you because of those renderings, being true or not. Being SR3 or SR2.
Thank you for all the work that you put in. Lately, though, you rumors are only a day or two away from an actual announcement. I guess that’s the price to be paid for due diligence.
If you mean image leaks the answer is that you are right. If you mean just text rumors well that isn’t true. Like the 46 MP sensor camera rumors. It’s 4 months ahead of the announcement.
To be honest sometimes I get images long before but I cannot post them. For obvious safety reasons…
Guessing game: how many of those exciting surprises will be about new A-Mount lenses and cameras?
lenses will come at Photokina. A99II maybe too btu I am yet not certain.
Is there any fast UWA lens on the horizon?
Like a 14-24/2.8, a 20/2.0 or even wider one?
Or do i have to put my faith into Sigma/Samyang?
Put your faith in third party makers 🙁
For night landscapes a 20/2.0 or faster/wider would be very cool.
But A-Mount is missing options for that.
Or in the future there will be less need for fast lenses due to better ISO&Noise.
From your sight (and knowledge), how much better will they be the upcoming cameras in terms of ISO/noise?
there is this thing for super crisp&clear night photos…its called a tripod 😀
LOL
I never got why they didn’t open the a-mount to third parties, given the number of gaps that are plugged by Sigma and Tamron etc.
Do you have any hard data whether A99II will have integrated vertical grip? I seriously hope not. 🙂
This is not really a new comment..
But then again this is not reall a new post I am reponding too..
Sony should introduce thier very latest state of the art new tech sensor to A and E mount simultaneousl. ..
That is the only way to get a true picture of which system people will buy.
Alternatively A mount should see it first as a long overdue statement that Sony has not abandoned us.
On the A mount subject….the a7 concept ok f biilding the same camers with differrent sensors is a great idea….this should be repeated with the A mount system….sony has several differrent sensors yhat excel for differrent reasons…developing a single best camera makes good production sense.
What exactly are you trying to accomplish by posting same things over and over again?
It’s not like Sony managers are reading this site, when making decisions on the development of new products.
You sir live the life of a pessimist…
Yep.
That way you’ll go through life without disappointment. 😉
Exacyly the same thing you hope to accomplish by asking your same questions and making your same comments over and over again.
Touche.
Why do you care if an a mount body gets a sensor first or vice versus so long as the camera can do what you want? From a marketing perspective, Sony probably does not want to release two bodies that are so similar as to compete with one another as you are suggesting. It would be smart to market things as complementary not either or.
2012 – a99 & rx1 released with new ff 24mp sensor, no confusion, very different bodies
2013 – a7 released with “old” a99 sensor and a7r with new 36mp sensor (or a variation of the 1 year old d800 sensor). The a7 was marketed as budget friendly and the a7r as high res, more premium (and slower) – both complementary.
2014 – a99 II could get the a7r sensor, which is great (Nikon d810 just released with it). Who cares if the sensor was first used a year earlier? It doesn’t matter – camera is more than a sensor and Sony will have the knowledge to better utilize it / optimize it after a year of feedback.
It makes little financial or logical sense to develop a brand new sensor for every camera body out there. There is a tick-tock strategy. Sometimes a sensor will be ready for release for A-mount and then trickle to E, and sometimes E will get it first and it will migrate to A. Is your a77 II any worse for having a sensor that was released in the a6000 months earlier or would it be better of the a6000 did not exist?
Introducing simultaneous inovations across 2 platforms will give a true market prefferrence picture…and they are not direct competition.
If the next innovation goes to E mount first it will make a clear statement that sony wants A mount users to switch to anothr system.
If I am forced to switch from my 40+ year commitment to a Sony system it will not be to another Sony system.
Sony doesn’t need a “market preference picture.” They can review their own financials and profit/loss statements. Staggering releases throughout the year makes for more focused marketing per release and the ability to ship a camera globally / on-time since they parts won’t be hamstrung to be needed for multiple bodies.
How do you have a 40+ commitment to a-mount ? The maxxum was released about 29 years ago.
Started with 2 minolta srt101 and a used srt100.
Were you able to use your Rokkor lenses when Minolta released the Maxxum?
I never swithched to Maxxum….the next Sony camera was the A77.
Minolta introduced the first calcium fluerite lens…
The famous 400mm f5.6 MD APO TELE ROCKOR X.
One of only 2 lenses made with solid crystal element and sold with matched 2x multipler.
The worlds finest telphoto and very expensive.
Shortly afterwards the Maxxim was intrduced.
I still have that lens.
You can mount that lens on an e-mount body.
Shortly after I collected all the lenses I wanted Minolta built a new mount that was incompatable with any of my lenses and discontinued my mount.
35 years later I gave them a second chance an bought 3 new Sony caeras and a new collection of all the lenses I want…except my long lens that I plan to replace with a new 150-600.
Is there anyone out there foolish enough to think that if they discontinued A mount I would ever buy another Sony product?
I will not under any circumstances buy an E mount product unless Sony makes E mount and A mount FULLY compatable.
Nor will anyonyone that listens to my reccomendations.
Good point – Minolta screwed over its users of its bayonet mount when they designed a-mount that didn’t allow adaptation.
Sony did the opposite: the released the NEX along with two adapters to keep great lenses going with AF and communication.
Is there anyone out there contemplating what your plans are following the demise of a-mount?
Barry the trolls are advocating mirror-less, based on bias as opposed to fact. The A-Mount is and will be fully supported for decades to come. Why because people like you and I will not buy mirror-less.
The A-Mount is the flagship product line, designed at the professional imaging product division. The next two cameras will be the best DSLR styled cameras ever produced.
The trolls are using the time before Photokina to try in vain to exploit the silence, to make their case because A-Mount thunder is only around the corner.
And they’ll be thunder stuck
The latest tech sensor needs to see an A mount camera FIRST otherwise those will only be words.
There seems to have been more rumors in the last month and if this is an indication more to come. I think the admin does a great job.
I hope you have some rumors about the new RX1 with curved sensor, suddenly no one talk about it anymore
The silence before the storm 🙂
I really really hope so. Pretty please!
I just ask one question …….Is the Next E mount fast ?
NEX size FF sensor?!
A6000 Form(Evf on the side) & Phase detect ,Tri navy .24mp.No AA filter .12FPS. Compatible with A7 battery grip .+New A to E adaptor with Multi point flexy spot .I would brake the speed of sound getting my wallet out so fast
let’s dream
RX1s with 35mm 1.8
not curved sensor, would be too expensive :-), 24mp
tilt screan, evf, better AF, better grip
Is RX1 of any use anyway.
I tried the RX1. It’s perfect for me except the AF was poor for an available light shooter (e.g., me). So an RX1 with improved AF (e.g., Sony A6000) would be a camera I’d highly consider.
Whole year is the same, no new products, one body per year( e mount), one lens per year, not for a mount, nothing…
im a mount user, this is total disaster, no products, no lenses, no rumors.
E-mount only one camera? Last year we had A7r, A7, A3000, NEX-5t. Four cameras 🙂
http://i.imgur.com/ulTtRBp.png
A77 II is here and is quite nice. There were 4 or 5 lenses last year. May be this year they will announce one or two.
For E mount it has been lots of cameras and lenses one after the other. Like every 3 months…..Andrea missed a few – A5100, A6000, A7s, A5000 (4 bodies in 2014). Add to this the A7 and A7r from November 2013 and it is 6 bodies unless than a year. Along that there are 7 new lenses! Neither Canon nor Nikon come close
None of them actually work like the 5D does even after 5 years. way to go Sony!
That is what people cal internet troll. Sorry but A7 is way better than 5d and way better than 5d mk3 in some aspects.
Read again. A7 came after 5 hard and long years after 5D and only marginally better. In those 5 long years many photographers have made their careers, got married and set up businesses. Now we have a flimsy A7 with no lenses. Good for business, I guess.
There is A900 which is about par with 5d mk2 except for video.
A7 is just tons better and all lenses from A900 fit well. By the way all 5d and D700 lenses fit the A7 too. So I do not get the lens bashing at all. Even with the current 7 lens line up one can do a lot. Add to it a 135/1.8 with EA4 and you get a very potent system.
There is A99 that is also not a bad camera….
If you do not like the brand surely there is choice. There is Canon and Nikon and Olympus. I do not get the reason to troll around.
Sony released a few good cameras in 2014. Not in 2008. That’s what i’m saying. Still good on them, that they woke up. Only RX1 and A7s are excellent but still not on par with 5D’s legendary status. Anyway enjoy your belated excitement.
last year was new for e mount, e mount is problem, you have only one ff 2.8 lens, at least one zoom and one telephoto lens shoud be already on the market with f2.8
a mount two new bodys in 4 years, a58 is not new product.
50mm zeiss is new , but too expensive, where is 85mm 1.8? where is 28-135mm or 24-105mm.
where are ssm lenses? nothing.
f/2.8 zooms are not coming to E-Mount. E-Mount is compact system, and those lenses are huge.
There’s no need for a 85mm f/1.8; current 85mm f/2.8 is cheap, light and excellent.
There is 24-105 f/4 OS HSM by Sigma already in store.
SSM refreshes are probably coming.
Sigma 24-105mm f/4 for Sony is still on pre-order, with no reliable info about the actual availability.
It’s already selling here in Moscow for 30.990 rubles: http://market.yandex.ru/model.xml?modelid=10616719&hid=90613&text=sigma%2024-105%20sony&srnum=3
Google Translate says it’s “not available”, making it a pre-order as well (as BHPhotoVideo has it).
Nope, there’s a link to the store, and it says “в наличии” (“in store”).
http://www.mega-foto.ru/lens/9009/82086.html
Stop assuming e-mount is going to remain compact forever.
Yes, I know your opinion that E-Mount can be a universal compact-when-you-need-it system.
Please accept that I don’t share your opinion. I don’t buy into the whole “Mirrorless AF is going to catch up to PDAF” theory.
Time will show whose assumptions will come true.
It’s not an opinion – Sony have already done it with the, admittedly lukewarm, A3000.
I think you need to buy into the mirrorless AF theory. It’s already starting to happen.
Well, they surely CAN do it, the question is whether is makes sense. Without top-notch AF, a big E-Mount camera is just a crippled pseudo-DSLR. Same size, worse AF, pointless.
So far both OSDPAF and PDAF are moving forward. A6000 is a big step forward, A77-II is too.
The A77II is a big step forward from a camera that really wasn’t very good in terms of AF.
It’s not quite clear yet how big of a step A6000’s AF actually is, either (Sony’s declarations aside).
If OSPDAF really does catch up with best PDAF at some point, that would mean not only the death of A-Mount, but of all SLR mounts. That would be HUGE. But not probably happening in the nearest future.
So, demands for f/2.8 zooms for FE don’t make much sense ATM.
Ignore the mirror-less missionaries.
Personally I think we’ll know after the next FF Alpha release. I have a feeling the A88, A99II are going to be absolutely awesome.
Plus if your interested in getting a mirror-less buy into Fuji. their system is much better than Sony’s. I got the XT-1, and I am very impressed with it.
I don’t know if we should expect A88 (this niche is kind of filled with FE cameras), but yeah, I think too that A99-II is going to be awesome. If they don’t screw it up again by putting the A77-II APS-C AF module in there 😀
A-Mount is the future.
Is the medium format rx cam still on the horizon?
still a possibility yes.
mirrorless MF using any mount i don’t care.. must have tethering and leaf shutter lenses.. throw in 4k video just for kicks at that other guy who just released a sony chipped MF with 1080k video hehe
Medium format is undesirable for video capture.
Here in NZ there’s a $300 cashback off A7s / A7 / A7r bodies, and $200 off most of the lenses that ends Sep 30th, so I figured I’d wait and see what surprises Photokina brings first 🙂 For this upcoming news, not waiting long until after Photokina, do you think that’ll still be in Sep? Thanks!
Or to put it another way, if you were looking at buying into the Sony system right now, in particular the A7s & A7r, would you wait? haha
Waiting always gives you a better camera at a later point. But you also waste time where you could have made thousands of great pictures. It is like with computers etc. Don’t wait. If you want something, get it. It will always be outdated a few months or years later, but that is the nature ;)… Or get a Canon, it is already outdated technology when buying and won’t be beaten by its successor models with only marginal improvements 😀 😀 …
hahaha!!! Actually I’ve still got (and using) my Canon 5D Mark II from just about 6 years ago. Built up quite a collection of lenses, which is what’s slowing down my switch. But yeah I’m generally looking forward to changing, just a few difficulties (Blackmagic 4K camera I also have only takes EF lenses) but pretty sure I’ll go ahead with it.
The Metabones Smart adapter works pretty well.
No new A7 camera replacements yet 🙂
Thanks! 🙂
Bummer. I was hoping we would get a better a7.
You know what i thik would be extremely useful?
A FE lens to E mount speedbooster.
Sounds stupid, right? But think about it!
People always say: better buy a good lens than a good body…. So: if i just start photography on a budget, i will buy an entry level (APS-C) camera. For learning and hobby. But if i think the lens as a long term thing, i would buy less but better FE lenses. Same system, great. And with an speedbooster i woukd have an instand reason to buy the FE lens:one stop brighter.
And this speedbooster would allow me to buy futureproof lenses.
And it can be made on the cheap: same mount, no fancy electricity needed, just connect the connectors.
Am i completely out of my mind, or this really makes a sense?
(And sorry for my bad english)
You would increase the focal distance and so would lose ability to focus to infinity and loose some picture quality.
Speedboosters only work with DSLR/SLT lenses, because of the focal distance.
Also, picture quality always gets worse with any additional optical element.
So sorry, not a good idea ;)…
So buying FE lenses for APS-C mount bodies is just like for any DSLR or SLT camera: you invest in the probability to use it on a full-frame body some day, and till then you can still use it with the crop factor.
I see. Thank you for your anwser! Am a newby in the photography, don’t even have a camera. Right now i’m learning the basics and getting informed on the web. My main intrest is where to put my little money, wich system would fit best for my (imagined) needs…
So thanx again.
Are you going for APS-C or Full Frame?
Right now everithing is just theory. You see, i’m a student and there is this girl… we want to get marryed etc…
But i think for the first place APS-C would fit for me better. I want it for both still and video, so the rolling shutter says aps-c. Cheaper bodies say apsc (but wait for photokina…)
Cheaper and more compact lenses are saying apsc. You see, i took photos with my phone right now, and it’s compact. I can’t see myself running around with two camerabags and tripod and so on…
But i take photos with my phone right now, and it has so much limitations. Iris, bokeh, shutter speed, raw, fixed wide angle… (The next android – L – will have raw support and manual exposure time control and a lot more)
So with this in mind, ff got better bokeh (i saw the tony nortwhatever video, so i know that theoretically it is not true, but there are no such fast lenses for aps-c to achieve the same amount of backgroud defocus).
Ff sensors can handle more pixels whitout quality loss, an i will need the extra information to compense the noob way i will shoot while the editing, and the bigger sensor can handle the low light better (if the pixel size is the same and the total amout of light blabla…)
But i really want manual controls and evf. For now, i hate to set ewrithing for every shot on my screen… As i see the Sony lineup (and from that the future) we will have for almost the same proce ff sensor no manual control and aps-c sensor with more manual control.
And this is the final reason why i will buy an aps-c camera. Sony or Fuji. Fuji is a lot more expensive, but i really like the control layout of the current ones…
But again, it’s nit going to happen today or even tomorrow. Sadly the promary needs are to build up a live, wich is in my country (Hungary) not so easy. (But i love it, no way to move anywhere else in the word)
Buy Fuji mirror-less its a better overall system than the e-mount.
I think it too, but for video it’s much worse (source: people of internet) and for me video is important too. I don’t need 4K at 90mbps OP features, but decent quality, wich isn’t shame on youtube.
I’d get the A77II it’s the best APS-C offering available, for both video, and stills. It can be bought with a professional grade 16-50mm f/2.8. plus it can be used with every Sony or Minolta SLR AF lens made since 1985.
It has the fastest AF of all APS-C camera, and can shoot as fast as FF DSLR worth $5000.00 more.
It’s fully weather sealed, so when it rains you can still shoot.
If your going APS-C there is really only one decent choice, and that’s A77II.
I’d like to add to the truth’s comments.
The A77II is the only camera that has a build quality suitable for work outdoors (outside of a city), in rural or austere conditions. It’s a very tough camera, and can easily take a fall or two.
Mine has survived multiple trips to deserts, jungles, The Canadian Rockies, the arctic circle, and back.
Well, that is great, but on the other hand i see a lot of people complaining about A-mount is dead/near dead/Sony is killing it/f*ck Sony…
So i don’t know.. If i vill start my journey in the not so far future, why would i put my money in such a platform?
They are absolutely lying. SAR has become a cesspool of mirror-less trolls, and Canon, Nikon fans.
Professional Alpha users normally don’t frequent this site. It’s well beneath us. I’ll make an exception for you this one time. This advice is from someone who earns over 200k annually from using alpha products.
Plenty of us switched when the A900 launched, more followed with the A99. Expect a huge wave of switchers when the new A99 “Flag Ship” arrives,
Most of the poor behavior that is directed at the Alpha users/community is because of socio-economic factors. Most SAR readers cannot afford a FF A-Mount, few can afford a G-Series, or ZA Zeiss lens. Their attacks are a manifestation of their frustration, and anger derived from their inability to afford semi-pro or professional Sony products.
The A-Mount represents 60% of Sony’s interchangeable lens camera sales. Canons, and Nikon fans, which are knowledgeable, are aware of the threat the A-Mount possess to their beloved mounts. The A-Mount combines the strengths of SLR, and Mirror-less cameras in a very light package. The A99 was outstanding when it was released, the A99 MKII will likely be better.
Sony’s latest professional offering the A77II is exceptional. Not only does it outclass all of Nikon’s, and Canon’s APS-C SLR cameras, its performance also outclasses all mirror-less cameras offerings ever designed.
The next Sony Flag Ship camera will likely outperform all Full Frame SLR, and mirror-less cameras available.
Ah, I see.
First: Congratulation for your good business 🙂 Looks like you made it.
But i’m not even a beginner. I’m thinking about starting photography as a hobby. When the semipros can’t afford it, i’m afraid i cannot too.
Weel, i like to overkill things. I have gears overpriced to my financial situation, but… you know, i’m groving up, trying to create sense to my life. The prioritys are marrying the girl i love and put money to the bank for a house,
AND i want a decent MILC so badly….
BTW thank you for your comment, i see things clearer now!
This is true. Most of the Maxxum/Alpha A-Mount users are buying into Fuji mirror-less, while Nikon/Canon users are buying Sony mirror-less.
I guess if you don’t communicate with your current user base they’ll go elsewhere.
Eh wouldn’t work! There is no space to fit an adapter as it’s e mount already.
lol
FE => E speedboster is impossible: you can’t have speedboster of zero thickness. There is a way to get around that limitation, but nobody would like it either.
I have Sony a6000 and only FE lenses: 24-70 and 70-200.
And that combo works like a champ. You don’t need a stop brighter, trust me… or better test it yourself at the store.
The only boost I need is a battery boost 😀
Yeah, A6000 stays the closest to what i want, thank you for the anwser. Only the mic in, and that codec from the a5100 missing for the happyness. But looking at the logic of sony with the camera bodies, next year we will see an upgrade that adds these feature. Call it 6500 or 7000…
Sigh… I’d love it if Sony released an A88/A99 II. Then I’d be interested. Also, an A8.
What do you expect from A8 other than the number that is not already in one of the 3 A7 cameras?
Built-in Image Stabilization. It has already been mentioned here that Sony could do it but didn’t know for sure if people would want it. It would make the camera slightly thicker.
This is very unlikely to happen ad we all know it. FE zooms have IS.
The target group is not A mouth users but Nikon and Canon users that forever have been exposed to image stabilised zooms.
Get over day dreaming.
What about all of the other lenses that you can adapt to the a7? All of the other manual lenses & the other AF lenses that don’t have IS?
Sony have said they can do it, they just haven’t done it yet.
What about taking the a7 innards putting into a DSLR body & adding IBIS. Yes you would have to sort out the distance between the sensor & lens but again it is possible.
Yes it may be “day-dreaming” but it is all possible. It wouldn’t surprise me if Sony have already done it internally ;-).
Sony doesn’t make money from 3rd-party and legacy lenses.
They need to motivate you to buy Sony-branded lenses.
Same as with A99 with 102 points which only worked with certain Sony lenses.
You can adapt all kind of lenses, but Sony lenses must work better.
I said and believed the same from Panasonic MFT bodies, since their IS was also in the lenses. But finally they issued bodies with IBIS. So you could be wrong with Sony too. It took Panasonic about 5-6 years to issue such a body and now there are at least two of them available. But then Olympus was competing with them for the same MFT lens mount and had great IBIS working with all lenses, even legacy ones.
There is absolutely no question people do want it.
I don’t…No point having body stabilisation and lens stabilisation…
The point is compatability with A mount and non srabilized lenses.
Not every E mount camera would have it so you can still have yours without.
Ehen you order it just tell then..hold the IBIS.
In case you didn’t know, a very large number of people who own an A7 series camera adapt manual focus lenses. It is a very much wanted feature.
I’m in 2 minds about that… On the 55/1.8 and 35/2.8 it won’t make much difference. Anything longer will benefit, but I’d be amazed if the rumoured macro don’t have oss anyway (assuming it’s not a Zeiss).
Oh they know people want it. It’s been there tag line now since 2006- their main advantage. I think they have crippled FE mount to eventually force A mount users to buy native e-mount lenses.
I’d like to see an upgraded A7 without the AA filter, but with the same 24 MP sensor. I don’t feel like paying hundreds more for an A7R with less autofocus features than the A7. :/
So that would be A7 II or something like it. By the way AA filter on the A7 is very weak. So weak many people complain of moire problems. So I doubt they will completely remove it as moire will be all over the place. Camera without AA filter needs to be very high res 36+MP
Just about everything. Seriously. I get Sony has no competition in FEs and, unlike DSLRs and compact APS-Cs (where they consolidated bodies) it’s not a mature market so they’re seeing explosive growth for now. However, there’s 25-30% of their customer base who, like most Canikon owners, still prefer DSLRs. I won’t even try to explain it to you because it’s been mentioned many times before on SAR and the ‘kill the a-mount’ howlers will never grasp it.
Hopefully, Sony has picked up on all the customer outrage and at the end of their planned leaks to drum up interest in Photokina (which are coming later than usual indicating to me Sony is doing some last-minute rethinking) when they pile on the FE announcements they’ll slip in a quickie before the wrap-up on an end to the a-mount FF foot-dragging. Andrea mentions Sony intends to share a plan/vision. Let’s see if they have one for the a-mount or it’s embarrassing crickets like CES.
I jumped FF to Nikon but down the road I’ll come back to Sony if they turn around with a coherent road map and give me a warm and fuzzy the a-mount is a keeper.
I saw a Chinese news agency publish a rumor that a 400mm A mount lens was being announced at photokina.
There is, and it was designed by Olympus Inc. Also expected is the 24-105mm f/4.0 G, 35mm f/1.4 ZA, and an updated 70-300mm G2
Fast af and a quiet shutter?
I really hope Sony release A88 price around 1800-2000. I really can’t wait.
@SAR_Admin:disqus How many month do we have to wait after photokina for the big surprises?
Going to disclose this soon. Give me 1-2 days to wait from trusted sources feedback.
Hey Andreas, why not post now as SR1 or SR2 and then upgrade it to SR4 or SR5 when you have the trusted source info. Isn’t that why you have the SR rating scale?
Wait for another week. Then you will have 100% reliable info from Photokina itself.
this is awesome! i laugh *each time* i see word “working” in this blog. very funny and always *works* 🙂 thanks !
@SAR_Admin:disqus I think it is great that have commented on posts. It is good to see some feedback to the comments and questions people are asking. Thank you. Your ever patient a-mount hopeful 🙂
You want to spill out the rumors only when you are sure, they are not rumors anymore. Okayyyyy.
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At one point didn’t Andrea say Sony planned a pre-Photokina presser to announce stuff? Haven’t heard anything about it lately so maybe add it to the list of bs but if it still happens we’ll probably get the SAR SR5 ‘rumor’ about 15 minutes before it starts at this rate. ;^)
Maybe its because some rumours are not allowed to be “officially released” until the correct date? Seems suspiciously like Sony managing rumour releases in exchange for access to rumours? Its a conspiracy I tell you, a conspiracy! Sorry, ill take my pills now and shut up.
Andrea,
any chance of new lens adapters? LA-EA6 with A77 II AF engine?
Any chance of Af and aperture control adapter for Nikon?
Translucent adapters for EF and F mount would be great options.
You will not have to wait a long time after Photokina neither…
must be PhotoPlus Expo NYC Oct. 29 to Nov. 01
We don’t need any new bodies, we need lenses for the A7 series !
Until the a7 is as good or better than a 5Diii then we need updated bodies.
PhotoPlus timing?
What are the chances of a new mirror-less Full Frame alpha body?
Like amalgamation of a7 and a6000: fast AF with Full Frame sensor 😀
Close to 100%.
That had to keep something for the future, so you’d have a reason to upgrade.
ilce-qx7(r/s)?
Do u mean the sony event at 10/3 to 10/5 in German?? Ad?
Zeiss FE 85mm f/1.8? 😀
probably f/2 for E-Mount
All I really want to know is- will the A99II provide 16 bit RAW files?
Only the “prototype” that Admin referred to. The production model will go back to 12bit like a900, and have slower processor and startup times like a99.
But good news is that a99II will have a completely new different hot shoe that isn’t compatible with current MIS or iISO. It has a great new feature called “extended delay” that adapts to anything but never fires the flash at all.
“Extended delay”- good one…..
any news on rx2?
Why don’t we get emails anymore?