In a few hours at exactly 15:00 London time (16:00 in Köln at the Photokina) Sony will introduce new lenses. As usual you can follow the event here on SAR where I will give you all links to reviews, news and preorders for the new products. By the way 15:00 London time is:
7am in San Francisco
10 am in NYC
23:00 in Tokyo.
What can we expect? The Zeiss 16-35mm f/4.0 for sure. And Sony will also likely show more new (pre)production A and E-mount lenses and an updated FE lens roadmap.
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Unleash the beast! 800mm f4 for 2K (e-mount only)!!!!
I was thinking a 12-800 f/2 with anti-grav system 😉
Very quite. No leaks just hours away. D750 pictures was leak about half a day before announcement.
So in a few hours the less than exciting photokina announcements will be over and we will be able to talk about the really exciting stuff coming in January…or was that April?
I think @Admin knows jack about Sony’s next A-Mount camera body, or lenses, but from what I gather there are three full frames coming.
Three bodies doesn’t sound logical, maybe one or possibly two with multiple sensor configurations. Something like the A7X series.
Coming in late 20XY actually.
Sigma has introduced 2 new 150-600 lenses and 2 new teleconverters but there are still a lot of unansered questions about the C version and also when or if the other products will be made for Sony.
Sony has left everyone guessing about A mount future and 3rd party manufacturers are justifiably unwilling to commit to Sony versions of thier products.
More A-Mount gloom and doom, shame on you animalsbarry.
If you have been following the anoncements so far…nither the new super teleconverters or the sport version of the 150-600 are currently going to be released in A mount.
The contemporary version with smaller glass and fewer elements is the only one anounced in A mount.
Although the Sigma website boasts about thier new manufacturing process that generates an MTF chart on every copy of every lens made, there is no MTF chart available for the contemporary version….which Sigma claims is as good as the sport version especially on the 600 end. Also no optical blueprint for this lens…..
My biggest question is..does this lens actually exist yet or is it still just being developed?
Sigma has a great design department but the manufacturing operations leaves something to be desired. Seems that lenses are always late, some have quality control issues or only available in certain mounts and multiple mounts can’t be manufactured concurrently etc. etc. Sigma should consider farming out some of its manufacturing or get its in-house production in order.
I’ll buy a 150-600mm when Sony launches a G-Series version.
I’ll buy a 15-1000mm f8-f22 if it ever comes out bazmund
Isn’t that how it usually goes? Sigma releases for Siggy cams, Canon and Nikon. Then maybe Sony, maybe Pentax. It is the way of the Sigma release cycle.
I wonder what would become if Sigma released a camera of their own (their current half-hearted efforts notwithstanding).
Imagine, a Full Frame DLSR, Sigma SA mount, with all contemporary features.
The problem with new systems is usually lenses – but Sigma would have a whole array of lenses immediately.
He needs either a girlfriend or hooker.
Yes, a girlfriend or your sister. 🙂
It’s a really bad for any business to make – really don’t know what they’re thinking…
Reminder..in one hour an official reminder is coming about the reminder that will take place in 2 hours to remind us about the next reminder in 3 hours….
Any update on the stacked sensor?
I wanna know which camera is getting the 32mp, 36mp or the 46mp sensor. Cause Sony’s been working on all three according to this forum.
No rumor of a 32, the 36 has been out for over a year. Likely a 45+ megapixel for a high end A-Mount and follow on E-Mount.
One thing is for sure, it will be a lot better than anything Canon, Nikon or anyone else can design and build. But if they ask nicely, I’m sure Sony will sell them a copy.
+1
Is there a livestream for this?
have any of the remaining 3 mystery Loxia focal lengths been discovered yet?
Probably two from the 15mm, 18mm ,21mm, 25mm, 28mm range and one from 85mm, 135mm range
15 or 16mm would be pretty neat. i have the voigtlander 21 1.8 im really happy with. even moreso after getting an adjustable close focus adapter. makes the lens far more versatile for messing around with. so i wouldn’t be too excited about a 21 or 25..an 85 would seem redundant with the alleged 85 on the roadmap..but, what am i saying..they also made another 35 and 55..so scratch that thought..and 135/2 would be neat, also.. 🙂
UWA (15-21mm), medium macro and 85 I would bet
I wasn’t considering macro to be part of the line.. I’d love a 150ish.. That would be a plesant surprise. The 50 2.8 z is my favorite lense on apsc right now.. Its even pretty great w ext tube on a7r uncropped.
look for the current ZM lineup and try to guesss from the options available
My crystal ball says you can’t have too many 35s or 50s. No idea what it’s hinting at…
Hot News Flash… Yep, that describes our strobe system.
We have enough idiots trolling already, so what’s your issue? Sensor envy or body envy?
Sensor envy, definitely.
He’s definitely envious of your rockin body. 😛
Oh hell no! 🙂
🙂
Not a lens envy, Sony are you listening?
SONY TO ANNOUNCE 100MP QUAD-STACKED SENSOR + DUAL WIELDING LENS BODY* *REQUIRING YOU TO OWN DOUBLE COPIES OF EVERY LENS.
Any news on a RX10 mk2 ?
Its been almost a year now.
RELEASE NOTES: Sony announces a7R Mark II. new, higher dynamic range, 48 megapixel full frame sensor, twice the battery capacity, new Silent Touch™ shutter. Whisper quiet. Available March 18th.
+1
I have similar dreams.
Better AF and EFC would be enough to make it a deal for me. 🙂
2016 ?
Wednesday is my Photokina day. 🙂
I am already so excited.
If anyone has a chance to be there I recommend to do.
Wow, Samsung.
http://www.eoshd.com/2014/09/big-news-samsung-nx1-4k-24p-h-265-hvec-codec/
At least they are not holding back.
APS-C sensor? WAY EXTREME BRO!
Read about the upcoming NX1 a couple of days ago.
And this thing will for sure put some headaches onto sony.
Recording 4k internally and UHSII support.
UHSII support means, they support current speed index 3 cards, which allows a minimum continuous write speed of 30MB/s supporting 200MBit/s prores!
And for stills it allows to empty the buffer much quicker.
Not only these specs – Samsung also has a proper assortment of native lenses including the always highly desired 85/1.4 focal length.
I am no Samsung fan, but – kudos!
15 fps with 28 mp. That’s lots of data to move.
And H.264? would like to see some samples.
15fps means something around 600MB data. The current Sandisk UHSII cards claim to support 280MB/s (honestly I assume that as a maximum read speed, but let’s say it reaches 150MB/s write speed) that’s just 4s to move.
Actually it’s H.265
New Alpha Mount System_Autumn 2014 PDF file,
nothing new really, but can be interesting for someone:
http://www.alphaforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=97468#p97468
Hmm, “wide aperture prime”, possible futures…
85/1.2 the crowd goes wild, sony fans dancing naked in the streets, fuji owners photograph them and pretend they’re not jealous
85/1.4 the crowd is happy, got what they want and dared to hope for
85/1.8 the crowd is disappointed, some complain, some try to put a brave face on it by reminding us that the A7 series are meant to be compact
28/1.8 the end times are upon us
F1.2 people will say it is too big & heavy.
F1.4 people will say it is too expensive.
F1.8 peolple will say the aperture is too small.
If Sony release 3 at the same time, people will say it has too many choices. 😛
f1.6 might be the best compromise then!