UPDATE: Sony booth at CESwill open tomorrow. So only than we will see the eventually new NEX and Alpha camera prototypes. If you are there feel free to send us your report/pictures! Thanks!
Sony press conference is over and there was little to be excited about the digital photography news. Sony introduced a bnch of new compact cameras including the DSC-TX100V wich records video in 1080p60. Defacto this is the only interesting news!
I hope the Sony booth will sow the rumored NEX prototype…
Official press release text:
– Sony announces six entry level compacts (Dpreview)
– Sony unleashes five Cyber-shots with 16.2MP CMOS sensor (Dpreview)
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Not surprising in the slightest. CES is not an imaging expo and neither is Sony obligated to introduce DI products coinciding with big shows of this type. The compact camera and camcorder lineup, bloggie included, fit far better in this demonstration paradigm. Fiscal year ends March. Look for the good stuff then.
Still, as you all might recall, the interesting features that so often set the Alpha line apart that we take for granted today all originated in the compact line. It is good to see what Sony does with the small sensors as it usually heralds good things for the large.
You got a point… but oh well still quite a let down.
sony tx-10 looks good and cheap! now if only the tx-5 drops price significantly in my area……….
No suprise that there wasn’t a HX1 update yet-that was introduced at PMA 2009.
Guess Sony concentrated on updates to the 10x zoom H55/HX5 this time.
WX10 sounds great-f2.4 lens, many manual controls.
My interest in Sony is officially over. I love my Alpha 850 and will keep it as my main shooting tool, but as far as my second body is concerned, I’m not holding out any longer. I’m either going to re-invest in an Alpha 700 or go for a Pentax K-5, sell my A mount Sigma 70-200 and get the Pentax mount version so I can use the Pentax as my main fast zoom body. Enough waiting, this is bullshit already!!!
Good riddance. Hopefully I won’t see you a month later still whining that you are “waiting”
You wish o.o
Too much planning = nothing happens.
I shall just be patient~ Sticking with my A700 is not hurting me^^
David, I feel your frustration
Many of us who make all or part of our income using a-mount cameras as a work tool, or even point-and-click grandparents who use the Minolta/Konica/Sony platform for pictures of grandchildren wonder about the future of their investment.
Others, don’t care….. And that’s okay too!
Camera bodys come and go, lenses and other parts of the systems are more of an investment, so like you I care about this.
Sony is a very big electronics company, with a lot of diverse product lines and I’m sure in their eyes the pro DSLR is small part of a much larger marketing plan.
All of us who use cameras and very importantly the products that make a camera a system as a work tool should be concerned and looking toward the future.
And this may force some to move to a different platform
I doubt Sony will leave the pro DSLR market to others, but Sony’s timing may not work for all of us.
Many of my friends did already move, most of them to Canon. Right now both Canon and Nikon’s top cameras are getting old and I’m sure both will soon (before Sony) will announce new professional products that will take even more of us away from the a-mount camera.
The main reason that I care is that it will cost me thousands of dollars to replace the system and if this is considered by some as whining so be it!
The bottom line is that the Zeiss lenses currently available are better than anything nikon or canon have ever made in the same class, and slr bodies mean shit if your lenses aren’t good.
So, for now (if you care about lens and image quality) sony is the only choice for some.
The impatient people are the whiners. Good things come to those who wait. If it’s been working so far, it’ll keep working for you for a couple more months.
If Sony’s new Cybershot’s line are using 16.2MP CMOS sensor, then the speculated a7X/7XX 24MP sensor might be a reality. The race for more MP is getting interesting.
Boring stuff announced- but maybe necessary for Sony to make money…
I agree. All these sensors are much, much smaller than APS-C. 24 Mpixel in an APS-C with low light IQ equal or better than the current 16 Mpixel one looks very likely now. I just hope that the current crop of APS-C lenses are good enough for it.
Another posibility, now is that the next NEX and Alfa will have 1080p60 video, as you get this in one compact and one camcorder anounced by Sony. I’m curious in what format are they going to save it as AVCHD does not support it.
Pixel density of 16Mpix on 1/2.3″ with crop factor 5,6 is equivalent to 90Mpix on FF or 60Mpix on APS-C sensor. I’m wondering how cheap lenses could handle such resolution. Images from this compacts at least in low ISO is not so bad.
Much more than that! It’s equivalent to 217 Mpix on APS-C and 488Mpix on FF sensor.
Indeed, it’s proportional to the area, not the diagonal, so you have to multiply by something close to 5.6^2
(actually by 25 ÷ 26 x 5.6^2 because of the different formats: 4:3 compared to 3:2)
Good view. Sony are not camera makers. They’re electronic makers. We avid photographers only account for so much % of the consumer market 🙂
Same as Canon, but they manage to produce professional dSLRs by the bucket full.
Is any of these cameras able to shoot RAW for what is known?
I’m curious about the differences between the old TX-5 and the new TX-10. Not just specs, but mainly image quality. Bring on the reviews!
The coil-drive for zooming on the WX-10 sounds nice too.
Also, how green is green? I would love the cam in that yellowish colour!
It would be a good little cam for amusement parks or ‘dangerous’ areas such as very close to waterfalls. I killed my last cam that way. 😛
I like the 1080p 60 frames but $380 price tag just crazy, i could get a real camcorder with 1080p 60 frames for that price.