Here is the first 100% real picture of the Sony 18-200mm E-mount lens that will be announced tomorrow. I am not sure yet but I think the only difference between that lens and the current 18-200mm lens is the…color. But I repeat I am not sure, there could also be some minor optical changes…
Stay tuned on SAR! We are getting closer to the real Sony announcement (May 17th, 6-8 am London time!).
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All these new gear announcements are cool, but has there been any more news on a NEX-7 firmware update? It’s kind of fallen off the map, I can’t find any news less than a couple months old about it.
what’s wrong with the NEX 7?
The main thing most people want fixed is that the eye sensor wakes up the camera, burning through batteries really fast. Other than that, there’s nothing wrong with the camera but a whole lot that could be better.
No diagonal scrolling through magnified review playback.
No diagonal scrolling for anything. Could help with placing mag focus box quicker.
No sequence review during magnified review playback.
Nav wheel changes iso too easily.
Need video button lockout.
IR remote prevents all other shooting parameters like bracketing and sequence.
No settings memory.
No remote control video.
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Alpha bodies don’t suffer these flaws… aside from remote video.
+1
…and there was also a rumored A900 firmware update.
Hmm, what to think. Instead Sony dropped the A900 from the list 🙁
cant wait to see the ad about the NEX-F3 ..lets see how they advertise it ..
Superbe ! 🙂
Oh WOW hey look it’s black!
isn’t this what all NEX users were expecting?! well done Sony! new color! hooray!
Well, guess some of us are expecting NEW lens
by SOME you meant ALL – and for more than a year? hehe…
I would hope there wouldn’t be any structural differences between the two! Why mess with a good design.
This is a CGI image, not a foto.
Looks good though…
well…all promotional pictures used on announcements and websites are CGI.
Honestly, I couldn’t care less what color a lens is…
There may be cases where it might be of importance, but I would think these are few and far between.
It would, IMHO, be so much more important for Sony to widen and upgrade the quality their E-mount and A-mount lens offerings.
Reminds me 16-50 f/2.8 somehow. That’s good 🙂
And you remind me of a douche
Wow….this should look great on the ol’ NEX VG20.
Time to eBay my old silver one and upgrade to the new black!
When you are starving for new Sony lens news, even something like this gets to be exciting!
Pitiful!
Silly sony, where is the blue one to match my mohawk?
Well, this sure is a disappointment. Wake me up when Sony announces something more than just a color change.
What a monster to put on a fairly small NEX system. Very dissappointed with the lens offerings for NEX, only good for prime’s (though barely better than the direct competition).
Would you rather have the option to have a superzoom available or complain about how huge this lens is compared to NEX cameras? I’m going for the first option. Although I’m still waiting Sony to release some new offering to see if they learned the lesson.
Because super zooms on m4/3 are tiny? This mantra is getting old.
What a bunch of nonsense. The zooms available, 55-210 and 18-200 are both very good, as good as their competition, even the 18-55 compares with the competition. The lenses are all capable of excellent results. I know because I use them.
Would there be a red version come Photokina?
admin, I have asked this a couple of times before..but, is this black 18200 one of the 4 lenses planned for release in 2012????
So probably more “new lens”-announcements this year will be a new prime lens (black version if the 1.8/50mm) and a new telezoom (black version of the 55-210) 😀
In the E-mount 18-200, is the focus motor in the lens ?
My understanding on the A-mount 18-250 is that Sony upgraded Tamron’s design to require less turns to focus (faster) and has better rounded aperture blades. Perhaps something similar could be done here or it could just be black. Looks better in black, but kind of odd on such a small body.
E mount lenses always have the motors in the lenses, because the camera doesn’t have any. AF speed is not a problem.
It’s definitely not exactly the same as the Alpha version, as this lens clearly says “Optical Steady Shot” on the side. Alpha cameras have Steady Shot in the camera body. This is a stabilized lens, and as far as I know, a first for Sony/Minolta lenses.
People don’t talk about A-mount but E-mount 18-200. This one. And it did have OSS already.
You’re a douche sky walker.
Your work sucks!
I hate pics of cats shot at ISO 6400
A spray-painted superzoom – be still, my beating heart !
Announcement of another color for existing lens? The last stage of marasm….
Well, there has been much emphasis on selling the lens in black. Do not understand why everything has to be black in the world of photography but it is the preference of many people. For my part, Sony, still with bright colors 😛
….just give us more prime lenses also in black pls!!!
Where is the pink version?
The nice thing about the 18-200 by Sony is that it has the “Active Steadyshot” feature enabled with the NEX-VG10 and NEX-VG20. No other E-mount lenses have this feature as far as I know.
This is a better colour for taking aproach to animals. For pretty, I prefer silver lenses.
Sony, give us more lenses please!
Green, blue, red, grey, gold, silver, pink, yellow, orange, … the options are endless!
more lenses yes, not more colors. i can’t believe sony is wasting time on cosmetics when the substance is lacking.
Sony, just stop already.
You produce crap day in and day out for soccer moms.
Produce some FF bodies.
Timelapse & more bracketing!!!!
What If the zoom- and focus ring were both made of steel/aluminum – like they did on the black 18-55., and paintet it black much the same way as for the 18-55. Drops effective dust from getting in.
Fuck you admin
Thanks for that well thought-out and considered opinion
This lens looks like Sony is rebranding Tamron’s 18-200 Nex lens: http://www.tamron-usa.com/lenses/prod/18200_diIII_B011.asp. Is anything different than Sony’s name on the lens?
No. Just rebranded Tamron, nothing else.
This is the old lens painted black, not the new version
Yep. This “photo” was clearly a fake. The new lens has a different filter thread (E62 instead of E67), and the focus range starts at 0.5m, not 0.3m.
hi,admin. after publish, it seems this one is fake. What I mentioned before, it is correct one ^^
Hasn’t anybody watched the youtube-clip about the new F3?? There they are talking about this lens – and actually it seems to be a SMALLER VERSION of the existing 18-200mm!! Because they say the old one was developed to be used on their video camera, but this new one was developed mainly to be used on the NEX. So if it’s true then it’s definitely another lens – but I doubt that I will hand-in my old one…
A37 with 290k dot LCD = fail.
Although most soccer moms won’t know the difference
Which is, I imagine, exactly the point that Sony are making. The camera is clearly not designed for professional wedding photographers but for folks looking for a cheap entry into the world of DSLR. If you want a camera with a higher-res LCD, there are plenty out there. And in any event, there are still more dots than there were on, for example, the A380 – I don’t recall too many folks complaining about being unable to compose a shot with that ‘low-res’ screen.
Highest possible res in the EVF? Yes. On the LCD? Doesn’t matter much, and only serves to feed trolls like you.