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Why Sony Alpha A and FE mount camera vertical grips are more featured than the few Nex ones?
We’re there ANY NEX grips?
Recently two!!!! For A6000, a few months ago
Not official Sony grips, right?
I would love to see Sony’s A mount monthly sales numbers. How many A mount bodies and lenses are they actually moving?
I wonder how those figures compare to E mount bodies and lenses.
At this point, I think Sony has deliberately slowed down A-Mount enough, that it doesn’t matter anymore. 2-3 years ago, A-Mount was still gaining steam and had about 12% of the DSLR market, without any proper marketing. After killing off A3x, A5x and A6x bodies, it must have dropped to around 3% DSLR market share and keeps on falling.
Sony has positioned it effectively to coast on its own, until it slows down enough, to kill it without anyone noticing.
I love A-Mount, but at this point E-Mount looks more promising. I just hate E-Mount body size, mostly crappy lenses (there are a few gems, but most are expensive junk in comparison to A-Mount, or Canikon), and the dreaded electronic MF is just plain horrible.
I’d seriously consider a DSLR sized A7000 with LA-EA5(that has a much better AF), so that I could use it with my SAL1650 and a 70-300 Tamron, without feeling like i’m trying to use a telescope handheld.
I agree, A-mount sales are mostly likely to show as being way down, but that’s by Sony’s own design, as they’re looking to scrap it for sole focus on E-mount. I’m not saying that’s good or bad, but definitely what appears to be happening.
It’s bad…REALLY BAD!!!
They just don’t seem to realize that E mount has become a system for very different styles of photography than what the A mount covers.
No European deals these days at all
NEVER any European deals, (except for the very occasional German gold box deal).
Never any English deals EVER either and boy do we need then considering the VAT/taxes we pay.
I was in my local camera store in Denver, and was surprised to see all Sony A mount no longer represented or in stock – for the first time ever. The shelf had been repopulated by Nikon. I asked about it and the manger rolled his eyes and said that A-mount was in the process of being discontinued and will no longer sell it. He also said the number of A-mount customers went from about 7 a month to zero in the last 3 months.
My shop did the same about two months ago. Ricky (the owner) pulled all Sony out, not just A-mount. He said he thinks what they’re doing is disgraceful so he’s boycotting them and stearing people away from Sony to sell them on Canikon.
It’s funny you say this – I was just visiting my sister in NYC last week and was in Adorama (way cool if you havent been, btw) and they had a VERY small A-mount lineup. They had one A99 on display, one A77II, a 70-200GII, and the 16-50 kit lens. Nothing else in stock, except a lot of used gear (not on display). Then about 20 E-mount cameras, and all the E-mount lenses and a couple of A-mount telephotos IN the E-mount section.
Even Adorama is giving up on A-mount. We’re all f*$#^ing screwed.
Sony are slowly digging themselves into a great big hole by their extremely blinkered view on what the public actually wants. They push and push the E mount (which is very good) but they totally ignore their fabulous A mount which does a totally different job. They have two very good products yet they insist that one product will do all jobs, which it never will. Who the heck wants adapters on everything for a start. How can they be so stupid.
They bet the house on SLT and it fell through. No matter what they attempt to do with it critics will pan it for it’s lack of low ISO performance- which is BS. However, when you don’t market your crap what do you expect. Even worse, Nikon and Canon are BURYING you alive with more and more FF offerings. You have ONE full frame camera? HAHAHAHAH. It’s a joke right? It has to be! Screw me because I’m going to take an utter beating when I unload all this stuff. Oh well. I learned my lesson.
You alright man? Its just cameras…
7 a month would be a record at my store in Brooklyn. We’re not pulling A-mount out of our catalogue, but we sure as **** are not giving any showroom real estate to it! We removed the A-mount display in June 2014.
There are no more A mount cameras in my store here in CT. They took the display down- SEE YA! Is it coming back. No…f’in ….way. I asked and they said they were frustrated with Sony. Even mentioned customers who did shoot A mount voicing their frustrations as well. It’s DEAD. Whether it lives on or not..it’s DEAD.
blasphemy!!!
calling the 16-50 (probably the best aps-c lense in A mount) just a “kit lens”
its like calling the zeiss 24-70 just a kit lens
Amazing lens!
Agreed – it is amazing. But, it comes with the A77 kit. So….
I was just looking up vids of this camera and when you disregard the spam vids it seems to have had almost no impact. Just about everything is from when it was introduced. Maybe it’s because it’s not a camera that was geared towards those with an interest in video but it seems pretty capable and has an awesome kit lens. I think Sony will make one last full frame A camera and then all future interchangeable lens cameras will be E and FE. Such ashame. But I really think this camera has had almost zero impact on the market.
It’s simply because Sony doesn’t market it.
Dang…must not be selling. Such a shame. Sony’s best camera currently in production just sits there….waving in the back of the crowd. “Hello…OVER HERE….ANYBODY?.”
So tempting!
North American buyers love SLR for sure. Me too, sadly to see Sony is leaving for a different direction. Other than SLR cameras, I also use Sigma DP2M, it produces great photos, but It is not a SLR, does not give confidence to the user compared to a SLR design. I feel Sony’s A7 family of cameras will be just like Sigma DP2M, great for something, but not for an pro level requirement.
A-mount looks so ugly…
Compared to what? The “brick” A7II or maybe the “thin brick” A7.
Does that matter?
It could be so easy: Sony bring A88 for $/€ 1000 ( price must be below 6D and D610 ) and FF A-mount has a future ! Or an re-modernized A900 (with OVF) would be nice too !
This is a good camera but if most buyers/people think A-Mount is left stranded, it’s still not going to sell well.
I got even better deal during new year around $1500 in Amazon. Sadly ended up return it, video af only limit no faster than F3.5 is a big letdown. The AF isn’t that accurate, i find the burst rate don’t last that long. The biggest let down is the battery life, with size of like yet battery life is like nex body…
E mount is the future not A mount, true that A mount has much more lens, but the body is just fall short vs competition. Sure the price heck cheaper, but I don’t find the image quality as good as Nikon. F 2.8 is actually more like F3.5 when compare to NEX or Sony camera ISO. The biggest problem is that the video limited.