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Les Numeriques (Click here) tested the new [shoplink 8461]Sony A77[/shoplink] and earns a rating of five stars (the maximum possible).
The Sony Alpha 77 (P)review at Thistonybridge (Click here): “Put another way, this is a camera for every photographer, regardless of their expertise or experience. Sony have taken a long time getting the successor to the mighty A 700 out to the market, but to my mind, the wait has been well worth it.”
Sony A77 unboxing pics at Mobile01 (Click on the green links to see the pictures).
The first taiwan A77 owner can be seen here at Mobile01 🙂 And it looks like that also Sony UK is shipping the first A77 cameras! Check at Dpreview forum.
Full Sony A77 preorder links:
[shoplist 8461].
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Released in the UK first and only at around 100 USD premium. Strange.
Yeah if you can get it from Sony stores for £959, then it must be a fair bit cheaper from “real” retail outlets?
Taiwan was shipping today!!
http://www.mobile01.com/topicdetail.php?f=254&t=2359327&last=30786906
yeah~ a day before is Shanghai, then today is Taiwan
korea as well and they gave 200 cameras yesterday to the first people + battery grip + bag + memory + battery. I was number 202………
is it at North or South Korea? 😀
🙁 That seriously sucks.
very nice test by the french website except that they didnt mention about the firmware used which should be 1.02. they’re still pointing that the new lens sweet spot comes at f/5,6. for a 900$ lens…
f5.6? I think I’ll stick with my Tamron 17-50mm f2.8 then!
yes, pls do it 😀
So your Tamron has a sweet spot at f2.8? lol That sounds quite weird..
Cheaper tho!
Holy sky, I need one too then!
I didn’t say it did. If the 16-50mm is no better than the MUCH cheaper 17-50mm…
Well, this lens greatest advantage is solid build, not optical quality. It’s something you wouldn’t be afraid to drop in the mud.
I had a chance to play with it a little bit – gives far better impression than Tamron (in build, AF, operation comfort), although optically it doesn’t match A77 sensor IMO (nor do Tamron). Especially in the edges. I’m very curious on the comparisons of it with the Zeiss 16-80. Wouldn’t be surprised if old good Zeiss would come out as a better glass, though for work when absolute sharpness isn’t required the new Sony wins easily.
Can’t wait to read 16-50 review made by photozone, I consider their reviews to be most reliable.
But from information’s we already got this new lens seems to match A77 quite well, les numeriques is the first website which is not impressed with 16-50, so maybe they had pre-production lens?
every lens has its sweet spot at two stops below maximum aperture 😉
That does not mean it has a bad optical quality at maximum aperture
+1
not to mention tamron has terrible CA at wide open… and not forgetting, A77 has CA profile for 1650! that is a HUGE differences for the money you are paying.
tamron definately Not design for the 24mp. nor the speed, nor the weather seal…
i’d go shoot “in” the waterfall everyday after i get my A77+1650…
I don’t know what’s the status of the 16-50 that people get for tests. The one I had looked like production version, though I have no idea really.
And it very much depends on what you mean by “match A77 quite well” – in center at optimal focal and aperture it seem to get enough quality for the sensor but edges… I guess even 10 MPx sensor would be too much for edges there 😛
But yea, let’s wait for reviews. Agreed. Though even if this lens comes out bit worse than Tamron f/2.8 – I still would recommend Sony over it.
I am very curious to see what David Kilpatrick thinks of the new cameras and lens(es). He is always worth a read and is probably one of the most objective reviewers/journalist out there. He is a great resource for all Alpha users. And from what I gather, he is not too impressed with the pre-production 16-50mm f2.8 (he likes the old Zeiss 16-80mm more). I hope he gets production level products soon so he can give his assessments on the products.
sweet spot talk is no different from pixel peeping… why bother,… i been using 50 at F1.4 and people still says my pic is too sharp.
You either have an excellent copy, which would be an unknown rarity, or the images are tiny.
Of course this assumes that people you are showing them to know what sharp actually is! Most people are used to seeing crappy compact pictures on Facebook and are amazed at even mediocre out of focus dSLR images.
Yes, I have the 50mm f1.4. Past f2 it sharpens up nicely, 1.4 is SOFT and all the reviews agree too.
Also seems to be already available in Hongkong.
Yep Sony just called me and said mine is ready to pick up, so I’ll walk down in an hour and get it…. WOHOO!!!!!
GOT IT!!! :):):):):):):):):):):):)
Congratulations!!!
Please upload some full resolution High ISO samples ASAP… 🙂
Congratulations!
Sony said they had got it for £959.
Funny, in Hong Kong it’s HKD9990 = GBP828 = USD1280. And available already. 🙂
It is shipping in the UK, people on forums have got them. 😀
Oh my goodness.. I wonder how much longer those of us in Canada will have to wait for the a77/a65 release. If I really have to wait another month, it’s going to be pretty painful!
If you ever see it at all in Canada…
haha Why would you say that? I already reserved it. The Canadian Sony site says Oct. 14 though D=
Didn’t Canada miss out on the A580 being available from Sony or something like that?
Aah, I had no clue of that. Don’t scare me like that!! 😉
that is A560… lot of country misses it out, like A450 too. its for certain market where the country has terrible exchange rate tat has huge price gap.
At the moment, we all can only wait… I also wonder when the camera will arrive in Switzerland… As you know, Switzerland is a small island in the stormy ocean of the European Union…
At least the linked datasheet of my vendor stated ‘Available: October 2011’ …
yes that because all OUR banks stole all OUR money and put it in YOUR banks so we’d never find it 🙂
I want to know the firmware version of the sold cameras. Anyone knows?
v1.02
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1037&message=39404713
V1.02B with improved details in red channel. More info from here: http://www.dchome.net/redirect.php?tid=1069058&goto=lastpost
Get the kinks worked out boys. Hopefully the camera is fine, if not I still will have time to cancel before mine ships in mid October.
Sorry, wrong post…
wonder what the 1st issue will be that people will make public..
on the third thursday of every month, if you hold it upside down in front of a certain breed of cow then press every button on the camera simultaneously you get slight underexposure in the following 3 shots….and they’ll regard it as being the most heinous fault in any camera in the world….ever! 🙂
lol you’re right! They remind me of the Comic Book Guy in The Simpsons
What’s the Firmware Version on the Production A77 then? Is it 1.02?
Does it have Pixel Binning for high ISO?
Noone knows cause noone got a camera from the shop yet to confirm anything 🙂
I predict that it will be higher that version 1 and less than version 10.
You are winner! 🙂
Do I win the A77? 😉
in s.korea it is firmware 1.02 with the consumer released camera
It is firmware v1.77 😀
You are dreaming, man. That one is going to be D400.
It’s 1.02B with improved details in red channel.
http://www.dchome.net/redirect.php?tid=1069058&goto=lastpost
But only red.
Do we have any idea when the a77 will begin shipping in the US? Have mine pre-ordered from Amazon but there is not even an estimated date
I’ve heard anywhere from the 10th-21st of October now. I would be surprised if it’s any time before then for North America.
Will be any price drop after fullfil all pre-order?
The official US release date is October 14th. My order from Sony USA had a est. ship date of October 19th. I would expect most places will be shipping by late October unless demand is really high.
Ment to reply to Robby
I hope like Nintendo 3DS there’s a 30% price drop +_+
Final firmware is v1.02, according to http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1037&message=39404713
I think you forgot to include this Sony Malaysia link: https://www.sonystyle.com.my/Promotions/MainPromo.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TceLcrvtWhs sony demo a77 video
Sometime Wonder why 24 Mp … Finally no need
Can we have that in an understandable sentence please? 😀
Nice new video of the a77 in action at a concert: http://vimeo.com/29366837
Quite a bit of back-focusing or where the camera wanted to focus on the microphones, but I wonder if face detection was running. Did quite nice anyway I think for so much panning and movement.
It says 450mm tele hand-held. Might explain why there was focus problems as 450mm is very difficult and a fair distance away too!
Good point!
It obviously favors the girls with Alpha Cinnabar colored hair.
Well the red channels were improved… 😉
Perhaps it was their time of the month…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM&feature=share
What’s wrong? 16-50 f2.8 is a good lens. i already test it. it has weather seal, it’s the first Sony lens which has weather seal.
But have you tested it against the Tamron 17-50mm f2.8 which is SIGNIFICANTLY CHEAPER. 😉
Some people don’t care about SSM and weather sealing.
So Sony has improved the red channel with the changes from FW 1.02 to 1.02B, Quite nicely too, judging by the examples. I am sort of impressed, but also disappointed, I was hoping we would see a FW of 2.0 or higher in the release model with a lot of improvements. It’s fair to say that we can expect more improvements though, the A700 got a major improvement in its high ISO performance with the upgrade to 4.0, hopefully we can see the same again.
I REALLY want to see some direct, studio controlled comparisons between the A700 and the A77 now please! I don’t own an A900, nor a Nikon D7000 so comparisons to those cameras are pretty useless!
It will not be long before DxO add the A65/77 to their comparison table. I would imagine them being keen to see how the new sensor stacks up against the D7000.
Personally I am getting the A77 regardless, the performance and features alone are enough of a leap for me over my trusty A700.
Just got mine in HK.. One day earlier than official release. 🙂 gonna test it out with 24-70 Zeiss against mine a850…. Anxious!