A few readers asked me to make a summary of all future camera and lens specs. It’s easy to get lost with all those rumors going around the web.
Those rumors are coming form our SonyAlphaRumors sources. Please link back to SAR if you post those specs on your website. Thanks!
The Sony A77
Coming in mid July
Shipment start early October
Coming with new kit lens (A Sony 16-50mm zoom. Compared to the [shoplink 5586]Zeiss 16-80mm f/3.5-4.5[/shoplink] it will have a constant aperture and probably have a bit higher price. Zeiss 16-80mm price check at [shopcountry 5586].)
24 Megapixels (The combination of the new sensor+new Zeiss lens delivers 62% more resolution than the [shoplink 3617]A55 16 Megapixel sensor[/shoplink].)
1080p/30fps, 720p/60fps and 720p/30fps high-definition video
AF fine-tuning capabilities. A source told us that it has an improved focusing system (quite fast and accurate).
3 Million dot OLED viewfinder (more than double of the resolution fo the current [shoplink 3617]Sony A55/33[/shoplink] viewfinder.)
magnesium alloy
According to our sources it will be a little bit more expensive than the 60D. Canon 60D price check at [shopcountry 5117]
It will take CF
No flip-up mode to allow shooting without this extra sheet of glass in place
1.000 pictures with one battery
The NEX-7
Coming in mid July
Shipment in September
High-quality body
Many manual controls.
Price $1.300 with kit lens
24 Megapixels
1080p/30fps, 720p/60fps and 720p/30fps high-definition video
It uses a 3 Million dot viewfinder (we don’t know yet if it’s external or buil-in)
Lenses
16-50mm for Alpha mount (already mentioned inside the A77 specs)
500mm Sony G lens (to be announced along the Sony A77)
200mm f/2.0 (no release date yet)
55-200mm E-mount lens (late May)
24mm f/1.7 Zeiss E-mount lens (probably coming in late May)
A total of 4-5 Zeiss lenses will be announced within 2011 (I am working to find out the definitive specs)
NEX-C3 and A35
delayed.
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65 Responses
Will any of the zeiss lenses be for the NEX? thanks…besides the 24mm 1.7, of course…
they sound like the same camera…
i dont get it.. lol
Yes the A77 and NEX-7 are almost sisthers 🙂
I’ll have to wait for the specs to see whether it’s worth buying NEX 7 as a backup camera to A77 when I already have A700.
Are the 4-5 new Ziesses including those ones mentioned or in addition to those there? And are they going to be renewing any of their existing ones?
I’m thinking about buying the 2470z but knowing my luck they’ll update it as soon as I do.
Don’t know yet. I got some rumors yes, but not from trusted sources. Anyway I believe the 24-70mm lens will NOT be replaced. It’s alread almost perfect 😉
And what makes it even better is a strong Canadian Dollar against a week American one. B&H for the win! (and yes I will use your link)
Admin, Please give us a hint about ISO performance! Im about to switch to Sony and have to decide between a850 or wait for a77!
Thanks
I really didn’t receive info about the ISO performance. Will try to get as much info as I can on that!
You really putting this decision down to the ISO performance?
A850 and A77 are (will be) two completely diffident cameras.
A850 is only 3fps, bad AF-C, no LV, no video.
But it is FF sensor with huge dynamic rage, big bright optical view finder.
It’s like made for studio, portrait, and landscape.
While the A77 will be much better for sports, action and those.
Also the A850 is heavier and the FF lenses are more expansive.
Thanks for the summary, any clue on the physical size of either body, A77 or NEX-7?
I hope the A77 size will be large ( physical size that is ) I have a A550 and like the size of the body! The A55 is a nice camera but I must admit I don’t like the small body size. any rumours of the A77 body size ? I also hope the eyelit which the camera strap is connected to the camera is of the small hole ring style much like the Nikons to alow for aftermarket swivel type strap. Great work on site thanks.
Damn, the A77 will be one heck of a camera and a worthy successor of my old trusty A700. If I could pre-order one, I would do that right away.
humm…this is what you do when you´ve run out of real information ? A summary of rumors ! That´s funny !
dont be an asshole.
Any sites doing better and with as few crap on the site?
you are suicide 🙂
What?
“Some readers suggested me to make a summary of all future camera and lens specs”
Eh I just realized that too. Not that I mind.
People can be so kind 🙂
Andrea,
your avatar look miserable. can change to energytic picture 😀
No 24-105 F4 ?!!
Oh, this is really sad. I’m still waiting for a new walk-around lens to replace my good old Tamron 24-135
As Rakim said… “Its been a long time”
I really wish that the A77 was sooner… any more news coming on the Full Frame bad boy you mentioned a few weeks ago?
well you can still post the rumors you received for lenses with a SR2 and then when you get more info update their status 😛 i am really curious about what new lenses can they introduce, maybe some are just little updates with SSM.
Thank you for the summery.
Very keen to know those CZ lens spec. The Fall would be as exciting as costly one I see!
hope sony will release new lens with 10-20mm G, CZ 14-24 SSM, CZ 50mm SSM and CZ 30mm SSM,
Make that a full frame 10-20mm G, and I’d be all over it.
Two things:
“1080p/30fps, 720p/60fps and 720p/30fps high-definition video”
I hope that it will have also 1080p60 as the already released Sony compact and camcorders have it.Fr a video oriented camera is a must today.
“It will take CF+SD+MS cards”
Most likely will be just SD+MS. There was a lot of discussion about this based on the transparent prototype and the conclusion was that there is no place for a CF card to fit. I think this is left from a very old rumor.
I guess will know in July.
exactly! even pocket camera has it.
Yeah. I really hope you’re wrong and there’s a CF. Not that I have issues with SD.
CF still trumps SD for write speeds (number of pins = parallel data transfer). With that 24 MP sensor clocking hopefully > 10 FPS, you might NEED CF.
OMG… more ppl interested in getting 500mm uber-expensive lens than new NEX – right… hehehe
Thanks, this summary is helpful.
What I would like to learn more about the new lenses and are any of them going to be for full-frame cameras like my A850?
I hope to add to my Zeiss and G Lens collection this year.
I know much of the excitement is around the A77 and the E-mount, but I’m happy with my 850’s and looking forward to Sony’s plans to replace the 850/900 class of cameras.
Good summary, don’t listen to haters.
I hope they keep releasing E-mount stuff so that new E lenses come up! Specially cheap third-party ones 😀
Just how many MP’s of resolution will they squeeze onto this APS-C sensor until the MP race screws up these cameras as well? You already lose 70% of the light on the A55 due to the translucent mirror.
Sorry, meant to say “you already lose 30%” of the light.
Wow – one third to half a of a stop to half a stop max! Big deal given improvements in ISO performance year on year.
Remember each stop of aperture or shutter speed is a DOUBLING or HALVING the light needed for any exposure. lets get things in proprtion.
The mirror light loss makes very little difference.
Thanks for the edumacation, Paul. 🙂
Lol @ 30%
i am waiting to see if the sensor is good or not, not gonna jump to assumptions without any tests 🙂 the 16mp sensor from sony really was a huge leap forward. Who knows how much better this can be, but i still am curious about how much does diffraction affects the shots, and i am talking about prints not comparing images at 100% 🙂
I can’t wait. I hope they pair it with a nice lens not the cheap stuff of the past.
Wow! Sony sensor are getting more powerful theseday! D5100 (16MP sony sensor) score 80marks in DXOMark which is pair with D7000 and kicked T3i 600D away.
Do you guy believe the Legendary A77 & Nex7 will do have even higher DXO score? 😀
What about shutter sound! Can the A77 and all future Sony models be really, really quiet please? I wouldn’t mind not hearing the camera at all.
PS More pixels in the viewfinder; will it be possible to make it less battery consuming despite that?
Sony aren’t known for quiet shutters 🙁
The sound more loud, the camera more pro lol…
Someonetold me that thing when i 1st time play dslr (a300)
Amen to this. Silen…t shutter and OLED high resolution VF are my wishes too but I accept that A77 and NEX-7 will still have mechanical and therefore audible shutters and the EVF will be 3M Pixel. No problem though, I will still buy.
I only want a super wide 14mm f/2 FF lens SSM (may be G or Zeiss) and update 85mm f1.4 to SSM.
agree with hanuro we want it, and rebuild zeiss 50mm or 30mm SSM plis, it would be great! and new full frame camera too
progressive scan and double video resolution (1080 with 720) is serius reason to buy A77. Very very waiting for official confirmation.
A77 will have full-frame or APC-S sensor size?
Sony 16-50 has constant aperture. F2,8? I will buy Tamron 17-50/2,8 soon or wait for Sony lens with 2,8 aperture?
What? The 16-50mm is just some normal kit lens? I thought it’ll be a Zeiss
What does this mean “No flip-up mode to allow shooting without this extra sheet of glass in place”?
Meaning you cannot flip the mirror up like a regular dSLR (note that this is a dSLT)
Other than more MP and improved AF, what’s the big leap from A55 to A77? I am looking for them to deal with the long wait after shooting a burst to clear buffer, screen not showing what you are taking pics of during burst, manual controls for everything in movie mode (A55 has limited/no aperture control during high-speed burst or video recording which makes it nearly useless). If they improve these, then I’m on board! Also worry a lot about a 24mp APSC sensor and degraded image quality…
Good point, Bill. The lengthy buffer flush time and loss of functionality while waiting and the significant image review lag are problematic even at 16mp. To be honest, I’m much more worried about the impact 24mp will have on buffer and image review lag than IQ degredation as the camera has to handle 50% more image data coming from the sensor.
It would be difficult to even prevent the camera from getting slower, let alone speeding it up and making it more responsive.
The reason i’m not worried about the image quality degredation is that since 2005 or so, Sony has been able to improve IQ with each new generation of sensor whilst increasing the resolution. The 16mp sensor is better in every measurable parameter (quantum efficiency, read noise, dynamic range) compared to the previous gen 12mp. I doubt that the 24mp sensor will be able to improve on those measurements since it’s an even bigger jump from 16 to 24mp, but i suspect Sony should be able to make the jump in resolution while holding the line on noise.
mmm…. i hope they have option of ’12mp raw’ if anyone get what i mean. instead of locking to 24mp when raw is selected
as for buffer, u have a choice to shoot at lower MP. but for A77, a flagship, i hope they dump 1gb buffer inside. lol.
also, the biggest thing i dream of (which has massive uses for me) is to have a “global shutter” option so i can use snyc speed up to 1/500….
NEX-7 like $500 more than 5? What do you get for that? I’m not seeing anything much listed here to justify that price point.
There is no way the Nex 7 will be $1300. No one would buy it. Mark my words: it will be around $799. The Canon T3i and the Nikon D5100 are around $800-900, so Sony would never be able to sell a non-slr for $1300!
I´m sure they are nice cameras but I think the price is too high, also, quite strange with no 1080 24/25p? Anyone interested in doing shortfilms and stuff wouldn´t buy a camera that only does 1080/30. (I know I wouldn´t sell my 550d)
I am intrested in Nex 7, if Sony make camera body really good…magnesium alloy, many manual controls….and if Zeiss lenses been in pair, in optic and body, metal, quolity with primes ZM lenses..in focal length range..15mm f/4, enough, 21mm f/2,8..OK 25mm f/1,7….35mm f/1,4..50mm f/1,5..and 80mm f/2.0..enough..My wishes is also excellent Sony adapter for M mont for excellent ZM lenses..and Leica M lenses..regards from Croatia, special regards japanese people around Fukushima..
nex7 is not good.
It’s too expensive. Please down.
How come there is no news of Nex- C5?
I will buy a NEX7 for extra 500 usd just if there is an IS system inside, don’t care about very high def, just want to use all my FD lenses in better conditions.