There is going to be a big Rumor time soon. As “boring” as Photokina was as “exciting” the time will become soon right before the next January-February announcement. One thing I noticed this year is that many sites pick up my news and “forget” or “not properly” cite me as source. I am not going to be mad with anyone here but it’s important for me to get some credit back. Don’t forget this is a a small site and there is no big company financing me like they it happens on other “official” photo sites. So it’s important for me to survive with the only push of my readers. I kindly ask you to help me by following those rules and tips:
For website owners reposting my news:
1) You are absolutely free to take news from me…also images! But please credit me for that.
2) Please do not write “SAR” as source but “SonyAlphaRumors.com“. Also kind would be to not “hide” the backlink with bad visible color (light grey on white background as someone does), or by writing “anonymous source” instead of my site’s name. Thanks!
3) Often I post news about external reviews and news not original from this site. But it would be nice to write “found via SonyAlphaRumors.com” if you find the news through my site. Like for example deals, reviews or news. Thanks!
4) The rules also apply to myself and if I do a mistake please contact me at sonyalpharumors@gmail.com. Please note that most of the news I post I receive from my readers and they sometimes forget to mention the proper sources. Excuse me in advance if the main sources is not mentioned or wrong. It’s sometimes impossible for me to track who wrote what first.
For readers:
Follow me on RSS feed (Click here), Twitter (Click here), Facebook fan page (Click here) and Google+. It’s the best way to not miss any rumor and to get them as first!
Spread and Share the rumor and news that matters by retweeting or reposting stuff. This would help me to make it clearer to anyone who is actually writing the news as first.
An interesting note on social followers:
I noticed that “less” famous site have more followers than me. This is because they either pay to get followers or because they get pushed by official companies (like when they write a good review about a certain company camera). I do not get that kind fo support and have to do all for myself. Therefore if you can and want please help me to increase my social fellowship 🙂
Thanks a lot! Rumor time is coming… 🙂
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Most often you are quoted as the “rumor site” in many fora that caters to Sony users. I hope that changes.
dprevs = Amaxon. Not fond of either.
Rx1 news??? Please!
No, RX2.
No matter what, it will be still more awesome than the Canon “See Impossible” thingy~
The Canon “See Impossible” was a stereogram. If you looked at it hard enough for long enough you could see a “dinosaur”, no wait “a new high MP camera” – no no it’s a hotdog. Ehh still looking and my eyes are watering – what the h*ll is it?
A-mount news???
no, E-mount.
To Admin, please give us some kind of direction for new rumors to search for, is it A-mount that is going to be big news or E-mount , maybe then we can help searching for what is really coming ??thanks.
E-mount, big time!
“right before the next January-February announcement.” – can you please be more specific? 🙂
Should I buy a99 or wait?!
+10 for being more specific!
😀
Wait for E-mount A9.
A9 Series is coming!
Professional Full frame mirrorless E-mount
24mp 12bit RAW
1/8000th shutter
Pro buttons layout and hand grip
wireless radio flash capable of OCF HSS
Triple battery bay VG like the A99
dual cards
4K XAVCS internal
Sony is going pro baby and say goodbye to the D750 because it will eat it whole! and the A9R will eat the D810 alive!
Professional E-mount body is coming. I can already hear the shout of victories!
Where did you get that infos?
lol.
There is no professional body, just professional users 😉
And what exactly is a “pro” buttons layout? More buttons? More complicated? Made for *Pro hands*?
I will be using this phrase to all fanatic Canikon fanboys and see whether they went beserk~=D
Pros have different shaped hands.
They’re essentially mutants.
let me guess… Sony is going to announce A900 reissue with A7s sensor?
Keep up the good work, Admin.
Admin
Is Sony making any moves towards more full compatability between E mount and
A mount…..such as IBIS
Canon lenses…..fast focus
Nikon lenses……fast. focus
Sony will never support Canon and Nikon lenses.
Get real Barry! You are smart enough to know that Sony will not support Nikon or Canon glass. It makes no business sense since the only thing it would accomplish is lower Sony lens sales. I’m looking forward to the day when you jump ship to CaNikon like you’ve been claiming. Then we won’t have to put up with your nonsense on SAR.
Full compatabilty with Canikon glass allows over 90% of camera users…who are now dead to Sony …… to buy an E mount camera.
The few lens sales this may cost Sony will be much more than made up by
Increased camera sales
Increaed lens sales from expanded user base
Increased satisfaction/return sales due to improved credibility as a system.
Cross licensing of. LAEA4 type adapter and Canikon mount protococals to third party adapter manufacturers would be one possible way to achieve this.
I have said before that it would be smart of Sony to license SLT tech to Metabones but Sony aren’t going to create compatibility on their own, simply not going to happen.
Sony is notoriously selfish when it comes to propiratory tech. They have never shared well in the past. The world probably would have been betamax and not vhs if Sony knew how to share. They are driven by the yen and nothing more.
I agree. After all they only specialize in sensors.
You’re forgetting one thing. Sony will never support Canon and Nikon lenses.
Christ, Disqus is shite.
Such are the problems from having so many other ‘rumour’ sites set up by people with no other interest than advertising revenue 😉
Everyone knows that this is the best place for anything Sony related… follower numbers mean nothing.
Times change – perhaps site owners should step out from behind the curtains. I know I trust stuff from people willing to use their real name more readily and happily delete comments on our sites from people not prepared to speak openly (people become more polite when not hiding)
Looking forward to the RX2!
Guy Mancuso from GetDPI .com.
I quote a lot of rumors on GetDPI from sonyalparumors.com and always give a credit and link back to here. I believe its in everyone’s best interest to do so as great data is all most of our small forums want and the right thing to do. We have a nice Sony forum with great discussions on Sony topics. Small forums eliminate a lot of the trash because we can manage them easier. I test a lot of gear and love to get more involved on the upfront part of Sonys products. Love to get my hands on the new 16-35 right now for instance. I find many reviews somewhat worthless by the lack of experience in testing and understanding of the digital process.
I read this site everyday for the latest rumors on Sony products and give them a lot of credit for there hard work.
Keep up the good work guys.
I can imagine how difficult it is to have/maintain this type of site (a rumour site).
But I think you’re doing an awesome job Andrea!!!
I’m happy to recommend/link to it from my (small) blog!
With all the interest in suprtelophoto zooms currently, it would be good if Sony made something better and faster than the current new 150-600 f6.3 s but lighter and less expensive that the current primes.
Possibly 200-600 f 4.8 or 5.6 to sell for just under $3000.
Possibly even a lightwight 300-800 f 6.3.
A 300-800 lens will not be lightweight.
Right, back to planet Earth…
20 lb would be lightwiegt for such a lens…as opposed to 15 or 20lb.
Pardon? Please proofread your posts, then we can carry on analysing them.
If Sony is unwilling or unable to make E mount cameras truly compatable with A mount then all new A mount lenses should be made dual mount compatable.
Each new A mount lens should have OSS with an on off switch that is automatically turned off when IBIS is on.
Also whatever is necessary for E mount lenses to work should be included in a mount lenses so a mere extension tube/like adapter would be all that is needed to go on E mount.
By doing this it will increase Sony A mount lens sales by insuring they will still be usefull with E mount and increase the selection of lenses fully compatable with E mount.
This will be particularly usefull with larger lenses such as super telephoto and longer macro lenses.
Your posts are like some kind of endurance test.
Why not switch off IBIS and leave OSS on? It IS superior afterall.
Ever heard of the LA-EA adapters?
Of IBIS were switched off then OSS would not be automatcally switched off.
LAES4 does nothing for stabilzation…so why do you continue to bring it up?
It is not as fast focus as A77II and will continue to fall behind.
guess what, all future lenses from SONY, apsc or fullframe, zeiss, G, or not, will be E-mount.
LOL, that is a distinct possibility.
Guess what…by that time all camera users will be using Canikon…Sony cannot take over the camera world by force…it didnt work with betta..it didnt work with memory sticks and it wont work with E mount.
It kinda worked with MiniDiscs. I had such a dope collection. Everyone in the weight room was always like, “What’s that alien technology you got?” and I would tell them about how I could copy my MP3’s to MiniDisc via CD player to MiniDisc player DUB, and they were blown away. Insane sound quality too. Don’t underestimate Sony.
Whats a minidisk??????
So this minidisk thing you say took over the world….they must have used stealth technolgy because no one ever heard of them.
Why would you want to switch off OSS? If you do, just flick the switch. You don’t make any sense.
In your alternate universe, future A-mount lenses will come with OSS, so why does the LA-EA4 need stabilisation?
You argue in circles.
Most users are too stupid to switch off oss themselves so they copmplain about the lens
In your desperate attempt to find fault with my comment you combine current non stabilized lenses with future stabilized lenses to come up with a situation where my solution is flawed…your getting pretty desperste it seems
LOL what?
So you were talking about A-mount lenses with OSS, then talking about providing adapters with those lenses, then I’m apparently desperate because I mentioned non-stabilised lenses, which I actually didn’t.
Your posts are full of strange and flawed ideas, many seemingly invented on-the-fly during the course of you typing posts. Added to this, you seem incapable of typing coherently. It isn’t a case of needing to find fault, as your posts ARE full of faults!
There will be no new a-mount lenses. Why not just buy the new E-mount ones? F4 aperture zoom lenses are now complete, F2.8 zoom lenses will be next.
E mount makes absolutely no lenses that are of any use to me
I would buy this:
A7000
IBIS
Hybrid AF
3:2 Touch OLED Monitor
Level Gauge
New 18-55mm f2.8-4 kit lens
Rest same as A6000
$899
I also hope they launch a new telephoto for APS-C, something like 70-300mm f4-5.6, $399.
And a pancake 30mm f2 for $249.
IBIS is not needed, OSS is better.
OSS lenses sucks in quality. Name one OSS lens with good image quality!
IBIS + zeiss 135mm f1.8 rocks!
35mm/1.8, 50/1.8, 70-200/4, 16-35/4…
Better than Oly’s 5-axis?
Anyways, even if OSS is slightly better, I would rather have IBIS since it will work with all lenses including vintage manuals.
I hear a rumor that we are going to get another rumor.
It’s a recursive rumor so you can read rumors while reading rumors: http://www.yodawgyo.com/about/
I would like a 2.0xTeleconverter for a FE mount.
Why not a 3X? You would think by now they could make more precisionary 3X tele’s. I mean, we have Sigma arts going up against 4k Otus lenses. Why not? Heck, why not a revolutionary 4X tele…I’d buy it….for fun.
As long as I don’t lose too much F-stop then yeah I would like a 4x too 🙂
If you’re shooting video, you can get 1.5x by changing the settings to “Crop Mode”. If you have the A7R, you have whole lot of room to crop to mimic a 2x telephoto. 🙂
I will always place the source and link to the place I am getting the news, as a blog maker, when I copy a post I try not to copy the whole post, I just copy a part of it and place a following line so the readers can go to the rest of the post on the original post, (I did talk this to cinema5D, blog owner) we talk about just redirection the web traffic so all of us (bloggers) are getting the best traffic possible, mine is cinefotografo.com .
All the best!
Great site. Thanks for all the hard work put in.