It was only a matter of time until Sony or Fuji would enter the Full Frame mirrorless system world that until now has been dominated by Leica only. According to SonyAlphaRumors it is Sony’s plan to release the first NEX-7 styled Full Frame NEX camera in almost exactly one year! It has a native E-mount and you will likely be able to use current E-mount lenses in crop mode. The camera specs are still not finalized a two different sensors are beeing tested (24 and 30-32 Megapixel).
And I guess that by than also Fuji may be close to release their own Full Frame X camera althaugh I don’t know yet if they will sue the current X mount for it.
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Bring it on!It’s already great at 25MP…at 32 MP…wow!
I’m dying to use again my Canon FD L lenses on it.
I’m dying to put my father in law’s 50mm Contax RF lens on it.
NEWSFLASH! Rumor site reports that another rumor site announces rumor!
🙂 🙂
Way better than the networks from the US “interviewing” their own (staff) reporters who instantly become the “experts” on everything one ought to know.
lol!
they are operate by the same group of people, look at the very top of the site.
the 4/3rumors, canonwatch, sonyalpha and fujirumors are all from the same family
Great. One more system that will have 3 lenses when it’s 2years old.
Thank god we have Leica and others form the past so that we actually have a chance of taking a picture with this future camera.
Fuji could kill it! They’ve shown real commitment to the X-cameras with very nice lens selection, which it’s still not really happening with the SONY’s NEX cameras. Sony has a more all around game than Fuji, but the X-Trans sensor is a beast in both DR and high ISO, which is impressive. I just wonder if Sony can really bring the lenses for a FF sensor with the E-Mount and if Fuji has de resources to develop a new mount.
Sony is really jumping around with their mounts but they don’t have the lenses. Though improving, lenses are what we need. Many people, like myself, got into Nex because it allows us to use our excellent old lenses. If they go for a FF E-mount, I don’t know if we can use our old lenses with the adapter. And how many FF E-mount lenses would be available?
Perhaps they should go for the M-mount and improve the focus assist even further. Such FF Nex would really eat Leica for the breakfast.
nice to hear, that you all will put your old lenses on it. and how will you correct all the optical problems of them, they are optimized to anaglog film problems and can’t offer a pixel quality like new, digital lenses.
oh, i forget, you won’t take perfekt pictures, you like them for themselves. ok, spend many thousands of $/€ and be happy. but don’T say you didn’T know.
I’m not sure about waiting for this anymore. I can go out an get a d600 today, sort the dust & oil issues out by the end of January and have a FF for an entire year. The NEX sometimes just doesn’t deliver. Sony will have to add on a whole lot more of bells and whistles and get the camera under 2k to keep my interest.
They should make it M mount and optimised with micro lenses. Otherwise it will be 2017 before there is a decent lens line up.
This is going to be the most optically atrocious camera system ever – the corners of the sensor are so close to the edges of the mount that they’re chopped off when viewed from the front (such as in the photo above). But who cares if half the image is a blur and twice as dark as the centre? All that matters is that it will be full frame, which will somehow make the IQ magically better regardless. Rejoice!
But will it use Leica lenses without issue? This is what everyone wants…. there is a vast majority out there who want to get into Leica but have only enough money for either the lens they want or the camera body, but not both. That, or they want to use the Leica lens anyway because they’re unsurpassed in image quality and size. Either way, whatever the reason, we want to use Leica glass on this.
The first manufacturer’s FF mirrorless platform that allows the use of Leica glass will win my money.