There is going to be plenty of new Sony stiff coming soon. For A and E-mount lovers! In case you missed it this weekend we had some new rumors and leaks:
1) Sony Australia (Click here) already lists the new A3500 camera and new 18-50mm f/4.0-5.6 lens. I don’t know when Sony will announce them officially but I guess it will be very soon.
2) Mark Weir from Sony confirmed that new Full Frame E-mount lenses are going to be announced soon. And yes, Sony is working on very fast aperture lenses too. He also said new power zooms are in the work. The probably most intriguing news is that Sony will soon announce camera(s?) that have been never made before!
3) The A77II is coming for sure in very early May. And I am looking forward to post the first specs soon!
You have to stay tuned on SAR. If the rumors I am receiving in these days are correct there will be room for quite some surprises too!
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Hope It’s some a-mount suprises…:-)
+1 It has been a prolonged drought for A-mount.
Only if you believe that it will rain A-mount in the future. But if you believe that it is the dead sea-mount, the weather is just fine. Don’t worry, I’m sure we will see some news from Sony in September about the A-mount.
Dan
Or something big is brewing at Sony and will take the market by storm?
They’re just giving the mirror-less cameras a head start. The new FF Alphas are probably going to be announced in the summer.
IMO Sony’s just going to repackage the current A99 and call it the A88, and introduce a updated 36mp version, and call that the A99 II.
New stuff that has never been made before. Isn’t that the case with most /new/ stuff…
I think so, too. In my eyes, admin is interpreting way too much into Weir’s statement. Every PR-related employee of any company in the world would say something like “We will create amazing new products the world has never seen before.” Bla bla, is all I can say.
I can well imagine that admin has some other info to back his interpretation up, but the statement alone doesn’t get me excited at all.
Actually, Sony is really promising something new. Kimio said it too.
http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/interview/20131218_628063.html
No they mean new as in not just the predecessor with a firmware update..
I am anxious to see the official A77II specs to see how well they match the info leaked to me that I recently posted.
Hi Andrea – any news on whether the fast FE lenses will have have oss?
I have never been a big fan of gps on cameras.
I just learned about an ap that will track all your friends and enemies by thier cameras and notify you if they get close to you.
That’s not possible, unless you publish on a social media where you are (if you have wi-fi connection)
When I travel, for me, gps is an essential feature in a camera.
Just google camera gps tracking..you will find lots of devices available for spying on cameras.
Mobile phones are much more suitable for spying on since they are generally always on with wifi/cell data AND are generally personally identifiable. GPS is easy enough to switch off.
The GPS antenna in the a99 is pretty weak. It only works outdoors on sunny days.
The GPS in my A99 works very reliably outdoors but looses sync inside my house which is vinyl sided with aluminum backed insulation behind the siding (cell phones don’t work well in my house either). Generally it takes about 5 minutes to get a lock after going outside, even during snowstorms.
I’ve never been able to get it to work indoors – even by windows. It’s failed to connect on cloudy days for me. Plus there is the hassle of having to download the assist data via a computer every month.
I thought it would have been more useful but it has never been worth the effort to me. Given how little it works for me I have difficulty believing it can be used to spy on me when I so rarely get it to simply download coordinates.
Perhaps GPS in the newer Sony cameras with built-in wifi will work better since they could theoretically use the data signal to assist.
Yes, and you can also find information claiming the 911 attack was a false flag, in both cases it’s nonsense and you are embarrassing yourself by making such claims.
You truly are hysterical. When I want a laugh I just check your posts.
GPS is a one way signal like radio and your GPS device is just a reciever. Your device needs to be connected to the internet to transmit location data.
Both the internet and gps were generously given to us by the US military for the sole purpose of spying on us.
Tin foil hats at the ready.
GPS on a camera is a receiver which triangulates location using timing signals from multiple satellites , it does not broadcast any information because it has no transmitter. However the coordinates are added to the EXIF data of your images and if not stripped out can be visible when posting images on the internet. If that’s an issue for you make sure you remove the GPS data prior to posting images or disable the GPS function on the camera. Cell phones are a different story, they can be used for tracking.
GPS is PASSIVE – it just receives signals, it doesn’t transmit anything and you can’t locate someone’s position when they’re using GPS any more than you can if they’re using an FM radio receiver to listen to 80s hits.
You could however “track” a person by seeing where any photos they publish on social media were taken – well, apart from Facebook and some others that remove the EXIF information.
False. Just the way you said it makes it clear that you have no idea what you are talking about. When a device grabs a GPS signal the device itself has an embedded registration. That registration pings the located GPS satellite and sends back the signal to the device. That signal is then clocked. It is the only way possible to render accurate coordinates at a specified time.
Total rubbish
The GPS sends no signals, that is incorrect. Bad information, every word of it is wrong!
This entire comment was prompted by a new series of radio ads selling an app to allow you to track your friends and enemies live from thier cameras.
It also has an automatic proximity indicater to let you know how close they are.
I then checked the internet and found many similar spy products available.
You can also find an ad on the internet selling a prayer cloth that cures cancer.
All gps users are continually tracked in order to generate traffic info.
Furthermore the government decides who is and is not granted access to the gps systems as well as what level of resolution they are granted.
How are they tracked?
The genius of GPS is that it’s passive. If you want to know how far you are from a satellite you could indeed include a time-code in the satellite signal and see how long it’s taken to travel to the receiver – but, like Dan suggests, that would require the time on the satellite and the device to be synchronised somehow. But, if you receive a signal from several satellites all with the same time code, but at different times, you can work out the relative distances of those satellites and the receiver can triangulate it’s position, in 3 dimensions, without having to synchronise the time or transmit anything.
I know this is kind of off topic for here, but I don’t like seeing inaccurate information being passed off as fact. This post is SR5 😉
Dont you get it
GPS is a MILITARY system for battlefield use.
Every user has a code and is tracked.
No one uses GPS unless the US government knows who and where they are and approves.
This is not a magic quiding light in the sky..th US army put the satelites up there.
The US government records every phone conversation, computer transaction, internet click you make.
Big Brother is watching.
If you say so…
They are tracking you as we speak, look out the window and see the drone flying by.
GPS satellites are in 20000+ kilometers high orbit. Do you have any fucking clue how much power it would take to send a radio transmission that far without a directed antenna? Battery life of any GPS-equipped mobile hardware would be measured in minutes if your conspiracy theory had any connection to reality.
And I suppose these magical signals are undetectable too since no neutral third party has ever noticed a GPS receiver transmitting anything.
Just stop already. We get it, you don’t want to buy a new camera. We don’t care. Also FYI you can turn it off.
We get it already
You would much rather complain than read
” plus I am anxious to purchase one”
As for shutting down your electronic devices..they still draw power and are still remote accesaable..they are desighned to monitor you and not to be user dissabled.
You can bury yourself in the sand if you want but anyone tracking your electronics will still know which pile of sand or rock you are hiding under.
wow, I was just planning to buy A7 this month, do you think it’s worth waiting for A7II?
new fullframe emount does not mean there will be a A7II 😉
Could it be nex6 (a6000) lookalike fullframe?
It is A77II, not A7II. 🙂
It’s A-mount A77II 🙂
Oops, my bad 🙂 Thanks for the correction.
I’d like if SR1 – SR4 rumours were posted a bit more often when available – everything seems to always be held back until it’s SR5. The “rumour scale” is well defined. Nobody’s going to hold it against you if you post some lower level rumours, marked appropriately, from time to time. One SR4-and-below roundup per week/month?
I will post more SR3-4 rumors. But now it’s a lot of SR5 rumors to come 🙂
Hi Andrea, any rumours on the FF RX front? thank you
Only that it’s likely to come at Photokina. But I just got another RX alike rumor that is astonishing if correct. it’s SR3 now, but I will post it so this week.
This week, yes, yes, precious…
My precious…my precious 😉
thank you Andrea – thinking about down-sizing on kit I have and RX1R-like camera would probably fit the bill as a holiday camera
And even SR1/2 rumors are appreciated. In fact, why not just post every rumor you receive, and just add a credibility score to each.
This site is becoming a gimmick. Sorry to say, but every monday we now get a bunch of recycled rumors which do not have any real news in them. Yes, we know more e-mount lenses will come, yes, we know A77II will come at some point. But there is no value in these rumors as there are no details in them. The A3500 anouncement was a surprise even to the admin as the rumor was published just when the camera was anounced.
It seems, that Sony is doing a great job keeping news secret.
I guess you missed the part where it said “rumors roundup”. These are clearly not claimed to be new rumors, nor are they recycled. It is as simple as it sounds – it’s a roundup – although not simple enough for some it seems.
wow, why this new lens? I wonder what benefits it has over the 18-55. Probably smaller, limit for focus ring, AF button?
It’s cheaper, bringing the price for the kit down even more.
Well it will probably bring down the cost for Sony. Not sure the it will be reflected in the sale price. The A3000 kit can be had for lunatic prices. It’s almost worth buying to get hold of the black 18-55mm OSS and a spare battery.
Yes, the pricing is getting very bizzare. The A3000 kit is $350 USD at it’s retail shop and the 18-55 is $300 USD at the same location. Throw in the battery for $80 USD and the camera comes in at a negative number of $-30 USD. Now they are going to put to market another one of these cameras, and so far the pricing is a bit more, for even less. I just don’t get it.
Oh, and by the way, welcome to the year of the A-mount.
I will keep my expectations low to not get disappointed when Sony reveal their stuff “soon”… 😀
Don’t suppose there is anything doing the rounds about new A-mount lenses is there?
I think the A3500 will not be announced globally at all. It’s just the same camera as the A3000 with a different name for the Asia Pacific market.
I’m a bit scared that they are some new E-mount FF rumors and still not A-mount FF rumors. Is Sony keeping very well theirs secret, or do they killing slowly A-mount.
I need a reflex-shaped camera with the A7 sensor. Do I have to switch to A Nikon D800? Or to go to a MF, like the Pentax 645D. Sony is about to lose me.
slow kill. It’s been over a year since the announcement of any A-mount – anything from Sony. Has anyone even seen an A-mount roadmap? Does anyone still have a copy of the last A-mount road map? Even if they do release an A77II this year (in september) it would be years before anything else A-mount is released, based on historical evidence. Oh and how is that new A77 firmware working out. That was supposed to be released forever ago, right?
Future A-Mount development is now handled by Sony’s Pro Imaging Division. The delay in bringing new A-Mounts to market is a result of this transition. The A-Mount’s future is Sony Pro.
I recommend the current FF A99.
Something that hasn’t been made already? Ok, Sony, here’s an idea:
How about a fullframe Nex with IBIS? Up to now there hasn’t been ANY fullframe mirrorless with IBIS. You could be the very first one 🙂
Or you can release a new lens and about three or four cameras to go with it.
(ops! THAT has been done already multiple times. Sorry)
A77II woot woot !!!!! hurry up and post those specs pleasssssse !!! >_<
Andrea, why did you delete my comment? A lot of the users agreed with me. So why did you delete? If you are affraid that someone expresses unhappiness about the quality of the recent rumor posts, then hey, just forbid comments totally.
I think it’s because you were pretty rude and insulting, not to mention wrong.
Insulting troll posts should be deleted more often, if you ask me. This place really needs a moderator.
Yes, Because it was rude and plain wrong what you wrote there.. Writing that I just make roundup of rumors when I spent the last three days (the full weekend) posting NEW(!) rumors it’s pretty bullshit.
Any more information on what those FE-lenses will be? I have just heard “new lenses” and the Sony-guy in the video from B&H said that they had been listening to the users when deciding what to release, but that doesn’t really tell me anything. I’m hoping for a fast portrait lens and a WA-zoom, which should be pretty logical additions to the lens lineup. Any indications?
The thing I found most troubling right now about the FE-mount is that there doesn’t seem to be any full-frame E-mount lenses from third-party manufacturers being announced. I got the notion that A7 and A7r are selling pretty well, and of course the FE-lenses can also be used on APS-C E-mount, so it should be fairly attractive. A few of the Samyang-lenses for E-mount work with full-frame, but I still have trouble seeing their advantage over legacy glass.
Well these are the lenses on the roadmap (UWA zoom and fast prime), so that is what we should expect.
I hope to get SR5 info on these soon!
Is there going to be a FF A-Mount launched this year?
> The probably most intriguing news is that Sony will soon announce camera(s?) that have been never made before!
This is the most useless rumor i ever seen in my life 😀
Blame it on the Sony rep in the very long (anyone watch that?) video.
Given the fact that Sony have already made Q10/Q100, this is worrying news. What other fancy stuff they will come up with “that has never been made before”?
New A-mount 36MP, 5 Axis stabilization, 8FPS, Hybrid focusing etc. to be launch too? haha!
Please! I need a FF A mount camera with AWESOME iso, auto focusing speed, auto focusing in low light, and dynamic range. Thats it. No video or fancy bells and whistles. Thanks.