One of my good sources sent me the price range in USD dollar of the upcoming new A77 and NEX-7 (+ NEX lenses)
Sony A77
Body only will be priced at $1000
Body + 16-50mm f/2.8 SSM Kit will be priced between $1600 and $1800.
NEX-7
Body only will be priced between $1000 and $1100.
NEX lenses
Zeiss 24mm f/1.8 will be priced between $900 and $1000.
Sony 50mm f/1.8 OSS Zeiss 24mm f/1.8 will be priced between $300 and $350.
Sony 55-210mm OSS Zeiss 24mm f/1.8 will be priced between $250 and $300.
I asked the source why there is a such huge price range for the A77+kit lens but I still didn’t get an answer yet.
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wooo USD 1000 for A77 body….I will get my friend to pre-order it in Hong Kong.
Body only $1000? The $ to £ conversion makes it around £611! That’s far too good to be true. I’m guessing at something nearer £850 for body only.
Direct currency conversion never worked, that’s why.
@ Kev. Body only $1000? The $ to £ conversion makes it around £611! That’s far too good to be true. I’m guessing at something nearer £850 for body only.
You forgot to add in the rip off Britain factor.
I added £239 to take into account the ‘Britain rip off factor’! 🙂
No way will the body be any less than £800 here.
of course you are right
even with europe and euros!
1000$= 700euros
But it will be 1000$=1000 euros
that’s the REAL CONVERSION for cameras market : /
If only we actually got a straight USD to GBP conversion, even with 20% VAT it would only be around 733GBP.
As usual the UK will get stung by greedy manufacturers and retailers, I think it’ll be around 899GBP for the body.
Canon 60D 830GBP
Nikon D7000 850GBP
Nikon D300s 1100GBP
Only £850 I think it will be £995 initially and then the price will be reduced in 2012 once the rush to buy by beta testers has passed 🙂
I will not be buying until January at the earliest, see what the sales bring.
Looking at the prices on Amazon for the current A580…
A580 body only UK = £599.99, US = $799.00 (roughly 75% of US price)
with kit lens UK = £749.99, US = $899.00 (roughly 83% of US price)
so using the upper figure for a pessimistic conversion the A77 body only might come in at £830 though this is the situation for a ‘mature’ model. The Amazon UK price for a Canon 60D body only is £785… assuming the new Sony bigger CMOS sensor is as good quality as the 16 megapixel one used in the A580 I know which I’d be buying!
Don’t forget to add VAT – that takes it to £733. As the UK rarely gets the best prices, expect something closer to £800.
Sony A77
Body only will be priced at $1000
Body + 16-50mm f/2.8 SSM Kit will be priced between $1600 and $1800.
A77 body only @ $1000 will do for me but the price of the kit may be out of my reach at the moment.
As I already own the 1680ZA and I don’t expect to need the weather sealed lens how will the 1680ZA perform on the A77?
I’d expect the combination to give me excellent images.
Again, where do you see that the 50/1.8 is OSS? It does not say so on the lens.
I’ve got no answer about the 50mm having OSS, I just can’t quite believe they’d release it without. The 18-55mm kit lens has it, and the price is quite high for a standard 50mm prime.
For one thing, it’s pretty much the only reason I’d buy it. If it doesn’t have OSS, it’s not much more useful to me than the £30 Minolta 50mm manual lens I already got. Autofocus would be nice, but that alone isn’t quite worth the investment for me. I’m just after the 2-stop advantage I’d get from being able to safely shoot at 1/30 shutter 😛
The pictures are rendered and not real, so it’s quite likely somebody simply forgot this – possibly the same artist, who made the SEL18200 a 18-55mm lens here: http://www.sonydigitalimaging.com/lenses/e-mount/SEL18200.html#navtop
GrimDanfango should be right that 50mm without OSS does not make sense when the much cheaper standard zoom has it.
Since 50mm f/1.8 will be Sony’s very first faster E-Mount lens it would be pretty useless on a NEX-VG10/20 or NEX-FS100 without OSS, especially since the price is so damn high, while you’re getting faster lenses with adapter much cheaper. I’d possibly pay up to € 250 for 50mm f/1.4, but not for less.
Thinking about it, when I’ve looked at my kit lens while the OSS is in action, it appears to shift the very tiny rear glass elements to compensate for movement. Maybe the physically larger/heavier rear glass elements in a fast wide-aperture lens are more difficult to move. Or they simply may not have the space to accommodate an OSS mechanism.
That said, I rather hope I’m wrong. A 50mm prime with OSS would most likely be attached to my NEX on a near-permanent basis 😛
How do you watch the OSS in action and does anybody know a link to a good explanation how it works anyway? But since Sony based their NEX concept on optical steady shot instead of sensor stabilisation it’s hard to believe they could surrender on 50mm already 😕
If you have good light, and gaze deeply into your kit lens looking at the aperture iris, then shift your hand around while doing it… nothing much of interest will happen. Try the same thing with the shutter button half-pressed to focus, and you’ll notice the iris and elements within the small metal ring will ‘swim’ in order to hold your gaze…
It actually looks like less is happening when OSS is on than off… but that’s kinda the whole point. Like one of those paintings where the eyes appear to follow you around the room.
…seen the OSS now in action inside the zoom lens at 55mm, thanx 🙂
1000$ for NEX-7 body only?! It’s more than GH2 on amazon.
It has to really be revolutionary camera or offer the best image quality of all Compact System Cameras to justify its price. But it’s good that they’ll offer body only option for those that have range of lenses.
I bet it’ll have dramatically better IQ than the GH2 – after all, even last-generation SONY ASP-C sensors were much better (high ISO / DR) than that of the GH2, and we’re speaking of an even newer sensor…
Agree, but according to Stephen Huff E-P3 has similar HighISO performance as NEX-5 and with better NR algorithm it gives nicer pictures(although sharpness of the image could be nothing more than higher quality lens).
High quality EVF, very fast AF, 24mpix sensor, iISO hotshoe with properly thought hardware controls and of course inbuilt flash – all in body slightly bigger than NEX-5.
Hopefully the sensor will offer better highISO performance than current offerings and that as a Pro camera it will have advanced options in menu system(NR settings with off option, lens correction like a77 – especially useful for legacy lenses).
Huff didn’t test, he called it ISO WAR, using totally incomparable lenses and a one and half year old NEX-5 that’s gonna replaced this month against a new Olympus. He put the NEX to weak noise reduction instead of using raw files and complained about “dull and mushy” results. Just check the small printing failure inside the first “O” of “INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY” above Andy Warhol on all his crops and you see how serious his verdict is. Anyway, he brought “Noise Reduction OFF” on my Firmware 05 Wish List…
I purchased a NEX hoping to make a transition from u43, but quite frankly I’m not happy with either.
The current NEX kit lenses do no justice to the sensor. The pancake is so horrid that my 1/1.7″ CCD point-and-shoot has less warp. The kit zoom lacks size/weight/IQ advantage over anything — while losing body/lens balance.
My NEX is currently a toy for my MF lenses (M and C/Y), and I’m waiting for a half-decent E lens to go with the NEX body.
Meanwhile, u43 seems to be in no better shape (can’t speak for the Summilux 25/1.4, which I’ve never used). In the end, I’m wondering if the now-pretty-much-extinct Four Thirds struck the best balance between the performances of the body/sensor and lens.
All three lens are f1.8? Is it a typo?
“Sony 55-210mm OSS Zeiss 24mm f/1.8 will be priced between $250 and $300”
No, with f/1.8 it will cost you a handful of diamonds 😀
any idea what the A65 body will cost?
$150 less.
And please andrea…
What about its size?
Similar to A77 or A55 ?
$850 is hard to pull canikon’s potential buyers. unless orange65 deliver super decent iq 😀
Since canikon is more expensive than Sony, should canikon fans consider A77 iso A65?
You mean A77 over A65?
Yeah, we’ve discussed it before. A65 seems like a deliberately crippled A77. $150 for a ‘cheaper version between A55 and A77’ but we readers think the cripple is worth more than $150.
Nex-7 with LA2 translucent mirror adaptor will NOT be a good dSLT
That’s my fear…because all nex produced till now are NOT sensor stabilized…and probably nex 7 will be the same: not sensor stabilized
Some E mount lenses are, but if you put on a nex 7 (with LA2 adaptor) a lens with A mount you will not have any kind of stabilization
Big problem for thelephoto lenses and shots.
Am i worong? What do you think about this issue?
The NEX and adapter isn’t meant to replace a full sized dSLT, it is to give people choice.
People got by for decades before stabilisation was invented. All that stabilisation does is give you a couple of stops. Yes it is a useful feature, but not having it isn’t a show stopper, just keep the shutter speed up like we used to back in the SLR days…
i do not agree at all
you r right…. Keep higher iso or open more the aperture…. But higher iso means more noise
but 1000 dollars and 400 more for LA2 adaptor to get nex 7 and detection phase isn’t a joke.
And nex 7 is meant to be a PRO or high end users camera…
When people think about nex 7 screams about a tecnology miracle… But it isn’
ppl as used unstabilized lenses for ages… But time has changed. And you know.
If we want shot with unstabilized lenses we use old slr cameras….but it seems ppl prefer stabilized dslr nowdays
Stabilisation is not the show stopper you are thinking it is, the high ISO performance of newer sensors is more than adequate to keep the shutter fast in most situations.
Stabilisation is nice to have, but not essential. I think we Sony users have been spoiled by having SSS and expect it to be on everything. The fact is that there are people shooting the latest Canon and Nikon dSLRs right now that don’t have stabilised lenses on them, it’s no big deal!
To each his own, and for me, stabilization IS a show stopper. With SSS you can shoot at lower ISO and get lower noise, for example. Or manage EVEN DARKER situations at top usable ISO. One cannot overstate the importance of IBIS, and the reason I don’t own a NEX is that it lacks IBIS (and the ability to input manual focal length, which would make it the perfect camera for adapters)
if nex-7 is = US$1000 . Then it will be great, I will consider it. Also hope sony will introduce more and more zeiss lens in fast…. Really looking for a high-quality ultra wide lens in e-mount….. (I’m not mind the lens are prime lens)
“Sony 50mm f/1.8 OSS Zeiss 24mm f/1.8 will be priced between $300 and $350.
Sony 55-210mm OSS Zeiss 24mm f/1.8 will be priced between $250 and $300”
What the hell does this mean? How many and what kind of lenses are you really talking about here?
Anybody with even a tiny amount of common-sense can see these as being typos….sigh…
Just delete Zeiss 24mm 1/8 from the lines
I hope that there will be no Sigma-SD1-like surprise.
Any news if the NEX-7 will be offered in a kit with the Zeiss 24/1.8?
So the price range for Nex-7 is confirmed..
I don’t get the point for it being more expensive than A77 and GH2..
Sony makes me think about buying it.. it must be really exceptional to convince me to pay double than my Nex-5 to get supposed improvements.
There is a lot of speculation about prices of the A77 in the UK. Any rumours yet about the likely cost here, or if not, a date when all us eager buyers will know…………………..
24th Aug? 😀
Is there any kit price for Nex7? Nex 7 pairing up with 24mm Zeiss cost $2000, a lot more expensive than X100 >.<
Just now see wrong, thought the lens alone sold at $1600, almost getting heart attack 😀 hopefully final price is $1600.
with this price, i wonder sony can sell much of orange777, the price is mid level range. may be miracle happen like x100 😀
and i hope start now onward, camera company provided class 10 memory as kit as well. hell is still given below class 10 😀
Nuts. So should I keep my NEX5 or go NEX7/A77.
decisions decisions decisions…
u are wrong…
is money money money… 😀
Not just money … selling NEX-5 to buy other model is such a waste, since it’s still quite new.
On the other hand, NEX-7 with microlens will significantly improve IQ when using non-NEX lenses.
*sigh*
Why can’t Sony adds microlens to existing NEX-5/3.
I’m willing to pay for it!
Will there be adaptor or something that can be used for NEX-5/3?
microlenses are integral parts of the sensor. You can’t just add them.
600D also new. i sold it 😀
Well I just sold mine, while still have some value for the money. Since as well I bought my NEX-5 in second hand still getting £300.00 for it after one year with me. I could get more money for it, if I would exchange with something else.
I loved my NEX-5 it was a true brilliant machine, Sony with NEX series came to revolutionize the market. Just unfortunate they could not deliver better lenses quicker into the market.
Now what I need is to joint some money and on Christmas get the NEX-7 or even A77 since their price won’t be too much different but on quality and build on yeah… A77 looks a true pro machine.
The advantage of NEX series is the amount of lenses from other brands you can incorporate with the help of an adapter into the camera. I just hope that Sigma can make some lenses for NEX series with Autofocus and SSM technology too.
Future looks bright for Sony, since I always have been a Nikon fan.
I will jeep my Nex-5… So funny camera…
But still no decision for A77 or A65
If A65 same size as A55… then A65.
But if same size perhaps A77 (stilk too big camera for my needs ^^)
hope hope hope
My suggestion for a decision: Just go out and take pictures with your NEX-5 instead of worrying about not officially announced cameras or if the weather outside is crap (like here) take pictures of yourself worrying about decisions…
I agree with them.
If you’re really desperate for A77 and your pocket for Sony is not empty, go get it. If you’re thinking of NEX 7, do you really need it right _now_ before the price goes down a few months later?
Just enjoy your NEX 5. Let us suffer with our longing for A77/NEX7. You can use NEX5 as a backup to A77. In either case it’s cheaper than NEX7 and more portable than A77.
When prices go down, grab one.
Zeiss 24mm f/1.8 no OSS support? who want to spend $1000 buy this without OSS.
What the hell do you need OSS for on a 24mm f1.8??? If you can’t keep a 24mm lens still then you must have Alzheimer’s!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
For low light shots? It’s kinda hard to hand hold the camera at 1/4 of a second without image stabilization you know. Idiot.
That’s one of the many benefits to buying full size camera like the Sony a77 as it has stabilization built into the body so all lenses even my 25 year old Minolta ones.
Tripod! Tripod!! Tripod!!!
you mean Parkinsons?
Of course, how could he forget about that?
if he can’t keep the 24mm f1.8 still he will forget things?
You can’t remember whether you’re hand is moving or not!
you mean Parkinson 😉
Considering Canon, Nikon and Leica all have trouble keeping their high speed 24mm optics in stock since they sell very well and none of them have stabilization, my guess is quite a few would spend $1000, considering all the lenses I mention cost more than $1000!
Seriously if you can only shoot with a stabilizrd lens then you should 1) Give up photography as you obviously could never shoot without some sort of crutch and 2) put in for some sort of disability payout as you are obviously a cripple who has no business near a camera.
camerageek: So disabled people shouldn’t be allowed to use cameras?
You have the technology, parts assembly are cheap, then why are so expensive !???
All the news shared here
http://atributos-1.blogspot.com/2011/08/sony-a77-esta-para-chegar.html
since when have Leaf Shutter Lenses been cheep?
Leaf-shutter is just a wild rumour
unlikely to be true
NEX-7 will cost the same as A77?
That’s ridiculous !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A77 has mirror, mirror box, phase autofocusing, quite possible motor in the body, so where the high price of NEX-7 comes from? They have the same sensor, the same processing unit, the same buffer. Shutter mechanism in A77 is superior. Sony can you answer the question? Are you trying to rip off customers for the camera system that hardly has any lenses? Hopefully Samsung will bring to the table good product, and they have excellent pancakes lenses and next year will bring telephoto that sony can only dream about.
For some of the same reasons the Leica M is so expensive.
Large sensor,short flange distance,extreme angle of light on corners of sensor.
Leica M9 is FF with a 27.80 mm flange back distance where as Nex 7 is APS-c and 18 mm flange back distance.
Nex c3 is reported to give better results with Nex lenses than previous Nex models due to Sony adjusting micro lenses on sensor.
The sensor on Nex7 although the same as A77 will have been altered to offset the very short 18mm flange back distance.
Plus in camera lens correction.
In future sensors will be curved to help this problem.
Nikon already has patent but tech just isn’t there yet.
My two cents – it’s also the same reason why NEX3 and NEX5 is at comparable price to A33 and A55.
Dunno details so won’t chatter 🙂
Pricing may be ridiculous, but you could equally apply this costing argument to all mirrorless systems. Manufacturers must love the idea of combining simpler production with higher prices.
Andrea, does the 50mm f/1.8 have OSS or not? The pictures you posted the other day suggest it doesn’t have OSS, but you keep referring to it as if it DOES have OSS.
Please can you clarify?
I’m sorry if you can’t afford the prices on these new bodies, but look around and if you compare specification to specification, feature to feature against everything else on the market today (or even rumored) the a77 and even the NEX 7 is a steal.
Even the lenses are priced lower than the competition, although it must be said that the optical quality is not yet known so the real value is unclear.
I would love to have a $55,000 Phase One IQ180 for my work but I can afford it, and complaining about the high price won’t make it so.
Both the a77 and the NEX 7 are currently miles ahead of anything else you can get for the price. If you don’t agree…………… buy something else!
The complainers are either trolls or poor people like me who could use every cent shaved off :p
1600$ = 1600€ if u buy from usa u save 500€
this is why amazone.com etc wont ship to europe. But if you have a freind over there who can ship you a present 🙂
Better yet, come to the US, buy it here, go on vacation, and take some vacation photographs while you are here.
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Anyone knows anything at all about the A77 working with MANUAL LENSES?
Something like AF confirm? Or something like the yellow lines from the new NEX cameras?
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I am alittle concered about slow lenses. as with 24Mp defraction could be a serious problem which would explain going for f2.8 on the 16-50. I am hence likly to change my plan to buy a 70-300G into a tamron or sigma f2.8 70-200.
I’m curious what the Nex-7 price will actually be .
It seems weird to me to make it as expensive as a DSLR body, for a camera without a fully developed system around it.
I wished the Fuji was a competitor, but with a fixed lens it’s too niche to help keep prices down.
$1000 usually translate to €1000 – but then in Europe tax is included – 19% that I get back . 😉
‘Why make the NEX 3 and NEX 5 more expensive than entry level SLRs?’
Same question.
One answer: Lack of competition.
Panasonic & Olympus didn’t exactly spit out cheap mirrorless either. And who knows how much will Nikon sell their future mirrorless for.
It’s exactly as you said – without a fully developed system – which is why it’s expensive. A100 was expensive to me when it came out, while lens choices are limited and kit lens was disappointing.
Economies of scale & market competition will drive the price down in the future, but it has to start somewhere.
Maybe a stupid question: In how far will the new “faster” AF of the A77 depend on the new lens? Does it make sense to buy the new set lens if I can use my recently bought a450 set lens, or will the lens be the same anyway? Can older lenses (Minolta AF) by their design or build slow down the A77’s AF?
when AF first arrived on film cameras you needed f2.8 for it to work on some. So fast AF if more likly to need fast lens than new ones. hence I intend to get the new lense plus f2.8 70-200. would like to see an afordable F4 60-250.
Maybe Sony can keep a secret, could the new A55 kit lens be a Zeiss? the 800us. cost difference Would make sence
A55 kit lens? Is this new?
My bad I wanted to say A77 kit lens
My bad I wanted to say ,A77 kit lens.
A77 kit lens
More Sony junk, you guys need to get a life.
Well, someone does, anyway.
I died a little inside looking at the NEX-7 prices. A bit too expensive for me.
I wonder what kind of “universal hot shoe” are we talking about though. Knowing Sony, it might be a new “universal” standard…
$1000 for the Sony SLT-A77? With all due respect to Andrea and his sources, I’ll believe it when I see it. If the specs for the A77 are as we expect, that is one of the best deals of the century.
As for the complaints about the lack of lenses, I already have everything from 10-750 covered with Tamron and/or Sony zoom lenses. They may not be as sharp or as fast as primes but I get shots that others would miss while changing lenses and the image quality is more than satisfactory.
And Jaye, you need to take your meds and get out a little more often.
If people like you keeping saying that how unbelievably cheap $1,000 for a Sony A77 body is, Sony will probably raise the prices much higher. $1,000 nowadays is a lot of money for most no-so-well-off Americans, plus another $500 -$1,000 for a couple of lens. Please stop bragging about A77 at $1,000 being “best deals of the century” without knowing how the camera will perform in a real world situation in terms of IQ and functionality.
is NEX 7 worth buying if we compared it to a77..???
because NEX 7 price is even higher than a77..?? wth..???
For heaven’s sake, get a grip Bill. I can see it now. Sony sees my post: “Well, if Houckster thinks this price is too good to be true we should raise the price $500.” Yeah, right. If the price really turns out to be $1000, it will be because Sony wants market share and they know that until they’ve got the lens line-up that Nikon and Canon have, they’ll have to compromise a bit on price. That’s my take anyway.
The A77 will be one of the finest cameras we’ve ever seen if they’ve really got the EVF right.
If Sony does raise the price, you can blame me.
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