Specs and Preorders in US and Canada (Click on store name to see direct preorder page / some links via Dealsrunner):
Dedicated Sony announcement page at Amazon US (Click here).
Sony A7r body at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
Sony A7 body at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
Sony A7 with 28-70mm kit lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, SonystoreUS.
Sony RX10 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, SonystoreUS.
Zeiss 24-70mm at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
Zeiss 35mm at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto..
Zeiss 55mm at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
70-200mm A-mount at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
Sony A-Mount to E-Mount Lens Adapter at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
Sony A to E adapter with mirror at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
A7/A7r leather case at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
A7/A7r vertical grip at Amazon, BHphoto.
Sony W Series Battery Charger at Amazon, BHphoto.
Sony FA-CS1M Off-Camera Shoe at BHphoto.
Semi-Hard LCD Screen Protector for A7-A7r at Amazon, BHphoto.
Specs and Preorders in Europe:
Sony A7r body at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, FI, WexUK, WexDE.
Sony A7 body at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, FI, FR, WexUK, WexDE.
Sony A7 with 28-70mm kit Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, FI, FR, WexUK, WexDE.
Sony RX10 at Sony DE, WexUK, WexDE.
Zeiss 35mm at Sony DE.
Zeiss 55mm at Sony DE.
Previews and reviews:
A7-A7r: Dpreview, TheCameraStoreTV, Imaging Resource, Hands.on at TheVerge, Luminous Landscape.
RX10: DPreview, Imaging Resource,
Image samples:
A7 samples at Cnet Australia, Blog Sina, Luminous Landscape.
Hot details:
Sony is not quitting A-mount (Amateur Photographer).
Videos:
A7/A7r first look (german), TheCameraStoreTV, SonyBlog, A7r commercial, RX10 at Sonyblog, BHphoto video,
Press release text in different languages:
A7-A73 at Dpreview, ThePhoBlographer, Ming Thein (quick thoughts), Cameras.reviewed, Amateur Photographer, PB (A7r), PB (A7), SystemKameraBlog (German) ePhotozine, Focus Numerique (French), LeMondeDeLaPhoto (french), Photographylife, Steve Huff, Photoscala (German), DSLR (Spanish), Digitalcamerareview, Engadget, Photoreview, Stuckincustoms,
FE lenses at Dpreview, ThePhoBlographer, Photographyblog, ePhotozine, Focus Numerique (French), LeMondeDeLaPhoto (french), DSLR (Spanish)
RX10 at Dpreview, ThePhoBlographer, Photographyblog, ePhotozine, Focus Numerique (French), LeMondeDeLaPhoto (french), Photoscala (German), DSLR (Spanish), Digitalcamerareview, Engadget, Photoreview,
Product images (Click on image to enlarge):
47 Responses
After all the excitement, reality will set in. The A7 series has no IBIS, so you have to rely on the lenses, and few have IS in the lens. And the lenses will be large, and likely require more tripod use.
Glad I ordered an Oly E-M1 (and the legendary 5-axis IBIS) to go with my many “smaller” (and very good) m43 lenses; and the E-M1 (with its on-sensor PDAF) can be used with my many high quality 43 lenses.
Even though I will get the E-M1, I may still pick up an A7 to use with my FF lenses. But yes, if I would start with no legacy baggage, I would restrict my investment to MFT.
You don’t need image stabilization…hold the camera steady
Bravo Sony !!!!
This is the camera system that people have been waiting for centuries. It will set the new era of photography. The combination of A-series and exceptional zeiss glas, which is unquestionably the best glass of the world, will mean the most formiddable camera system in history which surely will make other camera systems rediculous.
Look at Leica M lenses which are full frame and small. Smaller than any SLR lenses. Who said full frame must be big?! Leica M, Contax RF, and Argus lenses will be sought after and in demand.
Dear Leica Loony, anybody can make small MF lenses. It’s a dead format, let it go. We are talking about the future here. 🙂
Watch put because I understand that only the 36 Mpx has microlenses, therefore legacy wides might not work properly – colour shifts and vignetting.
Battery life is appalling, fps is slow and so on and so on… It’s not the general equivalent, the universal standard some were blabbering about…
amalric, i’ve seen you across several forums championing the EM-1, nothing wrong with that. Then again you’re so blatantly biased and negative towards the A7 twins that it borderlines on pure fanboy-like. M4/3rds is terrefic, I am not questioning this. Great, light primes, solid bodies and now fantastic AF. I used to own a GF1 and still to this day it’s been one of my favorites. This is amongst the D700, Pentax K5, D7000 that I used to own, and the D600 and RX1 that I own now. I even had a EM-5, loved the features but LOATHED the ergonomics. The RX1 ergonomics are sublime, its more customizable than the Olympus cams and the feel and tactility are magic. You’re bashing a camera with theorized claims. The BH photo video and the Camera Store videos are great insights into the size, feature set and handling. 90% praise, and only a few drawbacks – not bad for a first iteration. Furthermore, whingers who complain of only 5 launch lenses need only to look at M43rds first iteration from Panasonic and Oly..they struggled to provide a wealth of lenses too at first. 15 lenses by 2015 is a terrific roadmap and will ensure its longevity. Here’s the lowdown to your constant bashing; there’s no replacement for displacement. The FF IQ will be superior to the EM-1 at every ISO, this is a given. No IBIS, kudos to Olympus for the 5 axis. From all the fanboys though it seems there’s a generation of twitchers who don’t know how to hold a camera steady or properly integrate an AUTO-ISO function into their shooting. Both 24mp and 36mp sensors are developed for microlenses and will thus be able to properly integrate legacy and other manual focus lenses. This is covered in the BH Photo video and press releases. A7 has PDAF and CDAF, certainly not the fastest in the mirrorless world but the AF modules have to cover a sensor 4 times the size. The A7 twins are phenomenal cameras – the pricing is the real snatch here. $1700US for the A7 puts it dangerously close to an EM-1. Doubt THAT many will cross shop the two but they are close. Initial lens prices are pricy for the ZEISS zoom, and primes, but there will be third party support and also a slew of new lenses to follow. Olympus will surely be looking at Sony’s progress closely – the pricing is the steal, they are pushing a whole heap of weight to get themselves into this market.
Sony 7 with 28-70mm f3.5-5.6 lens: £1550
Weight: 769g (474+295)
OM-D E-M1 with (35mm equival. 24-100mm) 12-50mm f3.5-6.3 lens : £1500
Weight: 708g (497 + 211)
As a one-lens camera the A7 will be very tempting to some – to get FF, to know they have FF. But others looking for a systems camera will realise that FF comes with a “weight penalty”. One example: that the FE 70-200mm F4 weighs 840g while the Panasonic (35mm equival. 70-200mm) 35-100mm F2.8 weighs only 360g.
Great to have Sony pushing FF at this price level in a great body but I hope it will make more look at m43 now that FF is attainable to more people. Next up… Sony’s A3 and A5 🙂
That 70-200 f4 OSS is a bit big: 80mm x 175mm and 840g.
Canon EF 70-200 f4 IS L is smaller: 76mm x 172mm and 756g.
What good is a small body on a bigger-than-DSLR lens?
Its main advantage over DSLR may be in the sub-100mm range.
What good is a 70-200 zoom when you want a small package?
The small body is good in combination with a prime like the 35mm. You don’t need to beat DSLRs in lens size all across the board.
You look like someone that spends a lot of time comparing specs – do you ever get around to buying and using some stuff?
but where can I buy it in Europe?
Do I need to preorder from US and pay 600 $ customs declaration?
Yes indeed Bastiant. US-based websites do a great job but can be forgetful regarding the wider world.
LOL, I couldn’t expect better than an illterate troll who doesn’t even know how to place paragraphs.
I suppose that this must be the fruit of an educational system gone to the dogs, and of a whole country massively defaulting.
They know the latest about a camera without ever having shown or published a photograph.
That’s the dream customer of Sony mrketing who will sell him a 2000 $ camera with a battery for 200 shots.
What to say? I am happy that a cretin receives his retribution 🙂
“LOL, I couldn’t expect better than an illterate troll who doesn’t even know how to place paragraphs.”
LOL! Can’t spell, can’t reply to the right post either! LOL!
Christian, Do not feed him. 🙂
Thank you for reminding me, one-thought-at-a-time troll:
http://petapixel.com/2013/10/15/sony-a7-camera-development-progress-diversification/
Here’s some common sense, while most come prematurely…
Forgive me, the world is crumbling at my feet because of the omission of a paragraph structure. I’m sure I’ll have english teacher hunting me down before too long. Bludgeoning me to death with a Olympus OMD. Don’t worry though, it’s weather sealed. Can’t be spreading my lovely blood inside it’s internals. Seriously though, if you can’t address my rebuttal then don’t reply at all.
What country are you from? I am in Australia and all is pretty rosy down here thanks. If you are from Australia as well, then I feel sorry for everyone you have to come in contact with. You’re such a heroic keyboard warrior behind the screen, I can only wonder what low life trolling you do in real life. I choose to buy a D600 and RX1 because I love full frame and I work long and hard as a tradesman to enjoy them. I don’t hate M43rd’s, the GF1 was wonderful. It had character, and it was fun to shoot with. You are so adamant of the A7 twins being terrible camera’s. They’ve never stated these to be speed demons with FPS burst modes, nor are they trying to misinform anyone by bending science. This is a full frame sensor, you can’t cover an image circle that large and not have a lens with full AF capability in a miniscule body. You wan’t pancake lenses to rival you’re holy Olympus pairings? There are a WEALTH of Leica, Zeiss, Canon, Nikkor, Pentax lenses begging to be put on these camera’s.
What is begging to be put on that camera is a Zeiss 55/1.8 for 1200 Euros, or a 35/2.8 for 800. Bwaha – don’t you have any sense of shame or ridicule?
What about the children of boat people being abandoned by your kind in New Guinea, with hardly a rag?
You should be ashamed, honest tradesman…
get a haircut idiot….
not everyone here is from retard country… aka USA.
and we all speak different languages..you reply shows only that you are not only ugly but stupid.
wow one nativ lens available… and 1000$ of a 50mm f1.8… ROTFL
Oh, you mean the ones who pay exorbinant fee’s KNOWING they are going to be turned back or put in detention centers from the very start. I have no qualms with immigrants – just not the ones who come here illegally. They’ve found immigrants with gold, ipods, etc on them. Not all are who they seem to be. It’s the children I feel for most. But why go off on a tangent here?
Investing in Full Frame is always going to be pricy if you want the best AF lenses, especially any made by Zeiss or others. What shame or ridicule? Jump onto the Leica board and blast them for spending $7k on a rangefinder body. Horses for coarses. Don’t dare lament me for working hard week in and out and spending my own money on my own hobby. The lenses are made for those who are willing to fork out for it – and they sell.
I’m ashamed of you…offering weak arguments and cheap shots with no grounding. There should be no discrimination for someone who buys a Canon S110 and loves using, and someone who buys a Canon 5D mark III and also loves it. Both take photos, both have their uses and both provide their user enjoyment in creating images. Get real, if I want to spend $1000 on a lens, sure as hell I will because in the end photography is a huge passion in my life. Not arguing with bald, middle aged trolls like you. Before you troll back with some remark about my physical appearance, for arguments sake I’m also a topless waiter at youvegotmale.com.au Let’s see your middle aged, bald head brave that. Nothing but a keyboard warrior.
How long could you feed a refugee child, with a 1100 $ lens, fascist filth?
Just tell me when you visit my city and I’ll straighten your nose, guard of concentration camps.
Such a poor reply for my previous message. I laid out a logical response, the reasoning behind my opinion and all you do is refer back to the wildly off-topic banter of refugee’s. Don’t lecture me on the ethics of charity. What do you use? A OM-D EM-5? How long could you support a child in Africa with clean water with that money you spent on that. Why didn’t you just buy a small Canon cybershot. You’re pulling out far reaching arguments here that aren’t valid and aren’t relevant. If some of the Leica purists (who by their own right probably worked a long time to pursue such a luxury system) would scoff at your logic and tell you get real.
Did you lose all your logic the same time you lost all of your hair? I RESPECT four thirds shooters, their array of small primes and the maturity the system has achieved – but don’t go berating a new infant full frame system and the cost of the respective lenses. What is fascist filth in the 21st century anyway? Next you’ll be abusing people for buying a $20k car instead of a $15k one. Ridiculous.
“What about the children of boat people being abandoned by your kind in New Guinea, with hardly a rag?”
heard of Lamepedusa, amalric ? Not that that is necessarily your fault, even if you do live in Rome. But it seems by your logic it does.
God help us what level of foaming at the mouth rage you must get to when you’re discussing a topic which is actually important….
You mindless idiot. We are the only country in Europe which is rescuing hundred of boats at sea each Summer, while you are building walls and buy new Sony cameras, to the face of children drowning.
The association comes naturally, because you are preparing to spend twice the money for a luxury good without blinking, and perhaps without even realising.
A moderate set will indeed cost you 5000 or 7000, while you’ll ditch a lot of other money in your ‘old’ equipment.
An all this for what? Mostly to shoot your irrlevant pets and brats, as if they were the jewels of the crown.
While you let other children drown…
Free tip: if the children are drowning, air is the priority, not food.
What’s the deal with Sony and their ever growing number of lens mounts? Does this make anyone besides me a little nervous?
We have A mount and E mount, and now this. Yeah, you can buy adapters, lose functionality and speed, gain size and cost, but that’s not really the point. With all of these options, something has to give — even for a company of Sony’s size and resources, they’re spreading themselves pretty wide. I’d hate to be the owner of an orphaned system.
As a former NEX7 owner, I can tell you it was pretty frustrating waiting for good E mount lenses. I did not want to buy adapters and use non-native A or Canon glass, and wish I had a pile of vintage Leica glass laying around, but don’t. More frustrating was the proprietary flash mount (glad to see it gone here) and the incomprehensibly convoluted menu system. I hated the tri-navi controls, which also worked differently than anything else in the NEX camera system, so owning two bodies meant no shared muscle memory. Add to that a sensor that overheated when shooting 8 minute video clips (seriously!) and I was happy to unload my entire NEX7 rig, lenses and all.
But I have to hand it to Sony. This looks like an amazing camera, and I will definitely rent one before buying that Canon 5DM3 or 6D.
Not having touched the A7 or A7r yet, I do like the concept of both. They seem tailored to different segments: event and action oriented shooters can get faster focus and better low light (in theory) with the A7 and more methodical landscape and studio shooters can get sharper, bigger files with the A7r.
Most impressive, to me, is the apparent size and weight of these little monsters. They are tiny, compared to a 5DM3, and even look smallish next to the Leica. I wish it had a quieter shutter (or better, a Fuji silent one!) after watching CameraStoreTV’s excellent video review, but that’s the only downside I can see. That and another wait for lenses, which may or may not ship on time.
Color me interested, but cautious.
Don’t worry. The A-mount will probably go away so you will only have to deal with the E-mount now.
Micro Four Turds is now officially dead. Only the deluded will want some toy like an EM-1
Oh my, fanboys everywhere these days. Just go out and train your eye – no matter what equipment!
There’s also those that actually know how to use a camera. You just belong to a different deluded group.
A f/2.8 zoom lens with a dinky sensor. Same price as a FUJI X100S.
At first I was excited for these cameras, but the price of lenses is too high for a hobbist like me.
After all, the 35mm f2.8, even with a slightly different fov, can give me about the dof of my 30mm f2 on aps-c and the 55 f1.8 not much more than my 45mm f1.8, while no native lens on this sony can for now do what my 85mm f1.4 can do. A 135mm f2 will, but will also cost 2000$.
Well, then there is a market for APS-C still. What a relief.
And here i thought the OMD looks ugly! What a shame, no way I bring my hands on this monster. Might be that I miss something but if this is the FF future, I’ll stick to my heavy Nikon Equipment for work and M43 for travel and wait what Fuji has in stock …
I’m so disappointed because the RX1 *was* the way to go from POV. It just needed a small EVF (NEX like) and interchangable lenses and i would have dropped all my big stuff! Damnit!
That’s one more lucky guy that won’t have to wait for the camera to be back-ordered.
I came over here from 4/3rumors in search of other mirrorless discussions. I forgot to bring the bug spray.
Just go to work , if you have money buy a camera , if you dont have money shut your mouth and use your plastic cheap gear
Smaller than an Alpha DSLR But Not that small. Dimensions are just slightly shorter but taller and thicker than my Zeiss Ikon rangefinder – ZM.
Sony A7r (126.9mm × 94.4mm × 48.2mm / 5″ × 3.75″ × 1.9″) vs Zeiss Ikon
Its impressive, but wish the interval timer was built in, as well as in body stabilization.
vs Zeiss Ikon 138 x 78 x 32 mm (5.4”x3.1”x1.3”)