A forum user over at Xitek posted that image of the new NEX-5T, Zeiss 16-70mm F/4.0 OSS lens and the PZ 18-105mm F4G OSS. What we don’t have yet is the image of the first DSLR styled E-mount camera, the ILC-3000 camera. These are the four new NEX products that will be announced next week:
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Zeiss Vario-Tessar T * E 16-70mm F4 ZA OSS
– Filter diameter of 55mm -
E PZ 18-105mm F4G OSS
– Filter diameter of 72mm -
NEX-5T
– Look almost the same as the NEX-5R (It has NFC, FN-button control like on SLT cameras, new Menu Interface and a couple of more things.)
– Same NEX-5R sensor -
?3000 (ILC-3000 in EU and US).
– Looks like a classic Sony SLT camera (but is E-mount has no SLT tech).
– Has a new 20.1MP APS-C sensor
– built-in EVF (230K)
– cost around 300 pounds. Target-group is beginners.
– it will be also available with the 18-55mm as kit lens.
We will not see the new NEX-FF camera and lenses for now. These could be announced in late September only!
4 Responses
The new 18-105/4 seems like a monster of a lens (not a surprise with Zeiss 😉 )
The 16-70/4 could be a really interesting one.
Sony NEX has so many lenses and not a single truly exciting one. Sony is really bad at this.
An ‘exciting’ lens is one that produces a good photograph.
I prefer to go out with my camera and any lens than read spec sheets.
I get more exercise and meet more interesting people, too.
It just dawned on me that these are artist renditions of the lens, not actual photographs. The size ratio problem is caused by the artist employing the technique of “single point perspective” to illustrate the lenses with the point originating well below the bottom of the page, rather than the top. This makes the lens behind the front lens appear larger, when in fact they are farther away and should be smaller.
I think the graphic artist was hitting the saki juice a bit too much as their size ratios are way off. All you have to do is look at the base sizes of the lens that fit the e-mount base and you can see there’s a 25% or more increase in size. For instance the 10-18 zoom has a 62mm filter size, yet it looks considerably smaller than the 55mm filter size of the lens shown as the new Zeiss 16-70 zoom. The black 50mm 1.8 on the left also has a 49mm filter size, but looks bigger at the mount then the pancake lens in front of it.
We’re all hungry for long overdue lens releases and details to see if they’ll work for us. Don’t make any judgements based on this “drawing”. We’ll have to wait for the lens’s release to get any accurate specifications as to relative size. Shouldn’t be much longer….I hope 🙂