At last we have a more “solid” info about the possible new E-mount camera launch!
A long time trusted source contacted me to say that there is going to be a public E-mount event the days between May 20 and May 23. He has no details about the new camera(s) specs but it’s likely that Sony will announce a new A6xxx camera. He cannot confirm if the A7x (A7rII) camera will be announced on the same event although he is sure it’s coming soon.
A second source has been told by a Sony rep that the new A6xxx will replace [shoplink 36468 ebay]the NEX-7 too[/shoplink]. Don’t know if that means the A6xxx will get the tri-navi controls.
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Andrea, and what about may 15, this friday “destroy the mirror” announce what you have written recently?
Yes indeed, that’s intriguing, I wonder if Sony could ban the SLT system and replace it with compleet mirrorless systems ?? what do you think ? thanks.
I think (broken mirror) suggest that no more mirror, but releses of new lenses (A-Mount) suggest there will be new pdaf in mirrorless cammera compatible with A-Mount lenses
Is a TV commercial now showing on Australian TV announcing ” The Sony Alpha Mirrorless cameras” The A7ii takes centre stage in the Ad. Been showing quite offen for the last week.
That MAy 15 they will not announce the A6100!
Will they announce anything on May 15 ?
They are about to destroy the mirror on May 15th. But that’s about it. It was never meant as a photography event.
I fail to see how any mirror would get destroyed by launching a A6100. :f
the one of nex 7 owners which expected A7000 and will knock again and again their fronthead on their bathroom mirror until they faint….
I believe Sony is reasoning the way i am though and that is that more advanced users has moved to the a7 or a7r.
According to Sony, a6000 already replaced NEX-7.
At the beginning the rumors were about a7000 and now a6xxx… it seems it will be a small update. Is it possible to add IBIS and 4K keeping the same size??
I feel like my tail is being pulled yet again…
The A6000 was, according to Sony, a replacement for the NEX-7, something that none of the NEX-7 owners really accepted. So, let’s wait what this new A6xxx wil bring us.
It has been over a year since then and plans can change. Or it could just be a rumour. TBH I think it will be an upgrade to bring it more in line with top end APS-C from other manufacturers and even the a77II.
It makes sense that they would bring a7II weatherproofing (and not better) and maybe even reinforced body (mag. alloy). Expected would be xavc video.
Extra dial and buttons/switch are a maybe… perhaps reinforced body will make it slightly bigger allowing for more of them.
Then again it could be ground breaking with stabilisation and 4k too
Man, I really wish you’re right. Weather sealing, on sensor stabilization and XAVC for the win! 🙂
Actually, Sony have never explicitly stated the A6000 was the NEX-7 replacement, ever.
A quick glance at both the NEX-7 and A7 SRP’s will tell you what camera they saw as the NEX-7 replacement.
maybe u did forget but last year, they said it. A6000 replaces both Nex 6 and Nex 7 too
http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/sony-clearly-says-a6000-replaces-the-nex-7-too/
I hope we’ll get a weather-sealed APS-C camera! Pleeeeeeaaaase?
Can’t wait to pair it with all those smaller, cheaper APS-C weather sealed lenses…
Laugh all you want, but where I live, it rains continuously 6-7 months out of the year. At some point, I’d just like to have a weather-sealed body to use with a good adapter and lenses from other systems. I’d be less worried about my camera and I’d take it out more often when it’s pouring.
You do realise if you use a sealed camera with adapter and ‘other’ lenses you camera isn’t sealed right?
Yeah, but it would give more options. I could tape the mounts between the camera, the adapter and the adapted lens, per example. Or I could use weather resistant FE lenses. All other companies provide weather sealed cameras that aren’t full frame. Sony should make a top of the line APS-C camera that has some sort of weather sealing. I’m not opposed to using bigger FE lenses on my camera, and I can just take smaller lenses when I want something small, and carry bigger lenses when it’s raining, per example. Or when I want higher image quality. I already have both big lenses and small lenses anyway, and I’m interested in SEL5518 and the new Batis 85mm.
They do, it’s called the A77 II of which they also make weather sealed lenses.
Damn true, I had forgotten about A-mount. Well, I hope they make one in E-mount too! LA EA4 is supposed to be weather sealed, no?
No sadly not. Don’t get me wrong I like that the FE system has gone for weather sealing (of sorts) from the ground up, unlike any other system in this regard, but many APS-C users claim to not want to use ‘big heavy expensive FF lenses’ with their crop bodies, yet want a WR crop body of which there are exactly zero sealed lenses and even if they started introducing some there wouldn’t be many and those same users would complain about the price etc. If you want an affordable WR there are probably better options out there is, I guess, what I’m getting at.
Yeah, I get it. It’s too bad, really, as I’d be willing to pay more to get a weather sealed A6000. At its current price, it’s already a steal of a camera, and even if it was 100$ more expensive, it would still be a great value. Having small lenses can be an advantage, but I wish more people understood that the real advantage is in polyvalence. With an APS-C E-mount camera, I can turn full-frame lenses into tilt-shift lenses, and in combinations that cannot be bought on top of it. I can either have a small camera to carry around, either have a camera suited for higher quality. I love it. But I guess for shooting in the rain, at some point I’ll have to get an A7II.
Does it mean rx100m4 will be announced in late May?
Well, there wasn’t much difference between the A6000 and Nex7 already. Some hardware savings like no mic-in and no electronic level. Put those in and the A6100 truly replaces the Nex7.
I suspect that Sony will still leave out the mic-in, saving such a ‘high end’ video feature for the A7 range….
Shitty EVF, no TRI NAVI, no MIC input, no LEVEL GAUGE.
Put them back in, give people REAL RAW and you have a winner 🙂
The EVF is much smaller. A6000 also has mic-in it is just not on a separate jack but part of the hotshoe. You can buy one of the Sony made external microphones.
Now this is great news!
A6x00 is really the camera I want and will buy. I hope Sony have not messed it up.
A7rII is too on my list but due to expected high price may be will wait for some time.
Fixed video, improved EVF, Bluetooth 4 and improved focus tracking algorithms are my top priorities. IS, more dials and buttons, weather sealing are among the highly desirable pieces.
What will really make me happy is new API available on USB, Bluetooth 4 and WiFi alike. Ability to download RAW and/or JPEGs through the API, control over all camera parameters (e.g. white balance tint), bulb shooting through API, access to the camera metering system. Sony should think of use cases with these APIs i.e. what I need to build a tethering application over WiFi, what os needed to build drone camera setup, what is needed to build animal photo-traps, what is needed for the best time-lapse, hyper-lapse application etc.
Ohhh it will be extremely great is if Sony and Google can sit together and make Android Camera specification similar to Android Wear, Android TV etc. If I can add apps to the camera but in much more integrated way then the current apps
Fuji X-Pro2 is on horison, I think I will wait for It before meking decision if to buy A6100, X-Pro2 can offer more, I really want high end aps-c, no interested in sony FF with giant primes.
Still waiting for the A9xxxR FF version.
FFF – you know what the first F stands for
Fantabulous?
Forever? …
Fuсk?
Fuji
I got to play around with this guy at best buy yesterday. Kinda cool. It’s light for sure. I wonder if they’ll put a touch screen on it. Really- that’s all it needs.
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no level gauge is not a problem for me, I barely use it on my nex 7, grids line are enough.
Without level gauge there is no picture orientation info in exif. It is a big omission.
No a7iir and no a99ii in May. Let’s wait till June, July, August, …….2016…..
Sony release too many updates. Sony take too long releasing updates.
im certainly interested, DOF, pixel count, 5 Axis, Dynamic range and a non cooked Fuji raw engine as i much rather sony cRaw at this stage.. A compact size FF compared to say a nikon or canon, i mean there really is no other FF semi compact mirrorless on the market, i really wouldn’t want a High end aps-c when there’s FF available at the same price point. So over sized primes, with regards to constraints (simple physics) there about as small as it can be.
I see the point but for me at least FF has generally meant better performance (AF, tracking and FPS), better high ISO, better lens lineup and shallow DOF. For most people who do not shoot primes, the A7 series delivers only two of the four. It seems that the lack of 2.8 standard zooms are due FE characteristics and might never materialise which, I think, will be a deal breaker for it to be the primary system of some. However the plummeting second hand prices of the A7 and the A7r prices due to follow soon suit it seems that the A7 + a dream lens (maybe the Batis 85) will be out of reach. Glad (and envious) that it works for what you do but for me the wait continues.
I beleive the FE mount is just over a year old? let it grow or perhaps revisit the system in a few years and i think the assessment will be very different… but for now the 55 1.8 sony 90 2.8 macro and very fitting, the 35 1.4 and now the Batis, its looking good. DSLR/SLT has had plenty of time to mature, notably all the characteristics you noted above as for the FE system, give it a few years of sensor evolution, fast sensor read out times and processing power and the difference will be virtually none. As for now the capability to couple any lenses from other mounts via adapter or LAEA5 and the current A mount lineup makes the A7 series the absolute in terms of flexibility..
Of course you are right. Nothing lasts forever. I am old enough to remember hanging up my Nikon F3 for an autofocus body and witnessed all the drama the new technology created. No doubts, mirrorless performance in general will dramatically increase. What really drove
the point home for me was when I had the opportunity to pick up a Samsung NX1for a couple minutes from a not so sympathetic guy in Istanbul airport two weeks ago. That thing is blazing fast and seems to do a tons of things. But it is far more than sensors and lenses that are at play here. Mirorless is in great part software dependent and the two additional components to the equation are the CPU performance and the software itself in addition to how these interact with the hardware.
My grips with Sony FF mirorless is that it does not seemed to result from a vision and built from the ground up but rather that the NEX success took them by surprise, that they figured out that the specs allowed to squeeze a FF in it. They were saying that they had no idea which lenses they would do for it. And, now they are saying that they are not sure they can do tele lenses for the platform and 2.8 standard zooms are conspicuous by their absence. No doubt the A7 is great a lot of
things and does them very well. But the restrictions seem to me that there is a risk that this will not become suitable as a primary system to a lot people who are looking for a one system setup. Sony is quite literally throwing everything it was in terms of resources and expertise at it and I hope that they crack the nut wide open but for now I remain skeptical that this platform will suit my needs.
No, high end APS-C has to me much more adventages and tthan any Sony FF A7x, even if high end APS-C would cost as much as A7II. It’s simple – I do not like Sony’s A7x line with centered EVF, it’s also heavier, bigger, bulky and offer giant primes that cost 3-5x more than aps-c primes,insluding Touits. You hold FF sensor like sacred but it is not, FF is only one factor that matters but you seem to forgot about it.
u can dislike it of course, horses for courses comes to mind here.. but i most certainly wouldnt entertain the idea of shooting any of my weddings with anything less than a FF, the extra weight dosent bother me, considering i was shooting a canon 1dx for over a year…now thats heavy… primes that cost 3-5x as much for 3-5 times more resolution and the ability to resolve it, sounds dreamy to me. Giant lenses ? nothing like my EF primes for example my 50 1.2 is big enough to land a Sony/Zeiss 55 1.8 inside of it… i like the centered EVF maybe because my head isnt shaped like a water melon and body size, well its relatively the same as a m43 or the X1 pro. Pretty much this is how it goes for the most of us EF users…. If it can resolve it, we can afford it, and for my work there’s no substitute, couple of hundred grams here or there in a sizable lens, looks more professional at a wedding all i can say. Im sure the Fuji will make a great travel or street camera but it is a retro attempt in a digital world, more so a identity crisis as it has no true place in any of the works that i do otherwise if i saw a true advantage in Fuji ill buy that too…
You are a professional, but for us enthusiasts a higher level APSC would be great.
The best of both worlds would be certainly a NEX-7 shaped body with:
36 mp FF, IBIS – little thicker housing, bigger grip.
And in APS-C crop-mode I want to have super fast frame-rate for the centered 16 mp – so it can challenge Canon 7Dii + 5Diii / Nikon D7200 + D800 + all other m43 alltogether.
Then you are probably out of luck. All indications suggest Fuji is moving to the centred EVF form factor for their top models.
With so few lenses and 3rd party manufacturers for the lenses on E-mount, my choice would go to A mount FF camera ( it would be great if the A9 rumors is an FF high end in sensitivity and resolution A mount camera to not need to use a $hitty adapter from E mount camera) However i think the second source means like last year, Sony wanna piss us off and not release any direct nex 7 successor before a while and this A6xxxx will be the sucessor of A6000 which was nex6 and Nex7 upgrade camera.
PS: it doenst mean i will not be happy to have tri navi, level gauge, still 24 bits color depth but 14 bits in DR, over 1800 ISO in low light, greater NR, 4K video, IBIS, being able to adapt a vertical grip like A7 one.
All for about 1000-1200 euro if it s necessary to get all the previous features
PPS: i decided to replace my 16-50 kit lens to another 16-xx. Which one in same range you would advice me? and for which use then?
First off, “Sony wanna piss us off and not release any direct nex 7 successor…”. The NEX-7 successor is called the A7. You may not agree, because of the form factor, the sensor size or the position of the dials, but that’s just the way it is.
14bit RAW would definitely be a step in the right direction. Can’t see it in an A6100 though.
Regarding advice on E-mount zooms, there’s only one other native APS-C option that starts at 16mm, and that’s the 16-70 Sony/Zeiss. It gets good/bad press. Check Flickr for some real world examples. I’ve seen some excellent images taken with it.
Thanks for the advice.
Yes you said it before A7 was the one nex 7 successor but then i hope they will improve the hardware of A6xxx series.
Indeed APS-C evolution should be always in Top 2 priority of Sony R&D if they wanna compete Panasonic, Olympus and soon Canikon, which wanna become leader of Mirrorless too in 2017( Canon)
I’m ordering it immediately if a6100 has 4k and audio jack. Waited for more than half a year for this rumor to come true
yes they will announce that the week after they will break a mirror :p but nothing else ;)… It will be like for compact camera exhibition last month
Come on somebody spill the beans! We need some real spec/features leak on this camera this time more than a day before release! We need some Sony spies here C’mon!
WHY?
Amen brother. I’m not dancing to the FF drumbeat.
So, the rumored release date keep postponed
The most trusted source I have suggests don’t trust the rumors. My source: past experience.
So, uh, why are you on this site, then?
I just read the rumors and comments, don’t rely on them or plan my future based upon. So if they prove to be wrong in future, don’t blame SAR.
Sony, where is my goddamn A5?
So many people want 6100 we don’t all want fool frame
Does this mean that the RX etc. announcement on the 15th is dead?
What’s shitty about the EVF? Slightly lower resolution? It’s easily made up for with faster refresh.
i buy my a6000 last week, so it makes sense a6100 would be released next week
history tells most cameras i owned/buyed get discontinued/replaced before i used them for a month
they still had that “new smell” when i feel a little sad cause theirs a new/better model 🙁
so my bet its, yes!!! a new model its coming in less than 4 weeks
i hope its only a6000 + ibis (something i dont really care)
if the a6100 get some cool stuff, like 4k, silent shutter, global shutter or faster/better AF, then i will be even more sad 🙁 (but a little happy as sony brand owner cause it will rise even higher the bar in apsc, and sony its already at top with the a6000)
OR MAYBE sony will follow the mark trend
they will release the a6000II, that will be like the a7II upgrade to a7, it may be pricier and coexist with current a6000, nah! i dont think it will work or maybe it will…;)