Sony unveiled the new NEX lens roadmap. As you see four lenses will be announced within 2012. A high magnification zoom lens, a standard zoom, a wide zoom and a fast aperture prime lens. The other four new lenses will arrive in 2013: The high quality G standard zoom lens, the Mid-magnification zoom, the mid-telephoto lens and finally a pancake lens!
But this is not enough. I have been told by TOP-sources that Sony will launch three new NEX cameras within 2012 only! Yeah, I also think that’s a it of a madness. The Sony NEX-5n and NEX-7 are already top cameras and I don’t see any reason to announce three(!) new NEX cameras. But maybe Sony has some secret reason to do so?
P.S.: The first of the three new NEX cameras will arrive in April!!!
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Nex9 – full frame camera and all other mirrorless cameras wouldn’t make any sense at all. Just imagine Nex7 with FF sensor.
I can imagine…the damn price. Full frame folly…don’t ask for something no one can afford. it won’t happen for a long time.
+1
FF Nex, I dream of it too… 😉
that would be the end of waiting for me. NEX7 is great camera but not for low light, High ISO samples don’t look as clean as the ones from NEX5n – but, NEX5n is more like point and shoot in terms of manual controls – I’d prefer that sensor in NEX7 🙂
got to love lensroadmap without a single Flenght showed….even i can create a lens roadmap like this…
+1
They just whipped something out to keep the folks not losing interest.
Where is that 50/1.8 that was supposed to have been released last year????
The FF NEX-9 will be here before all those lenses.. LOL.
oh great, just when i finally decide to get the nex7, a better version will come out in 2012! maybe nex7.2?
I’m guessing there will be a 16mp sensor in the 7 body.
A new 5 to eliminate the clicking issue instead of the BS fix of lubing the offending part.
And the 24mp sensor in a 5n body.
Considering the problems that the NEX-7 has with wide angle lenses (especially legacy lenses), a camera with the NEX-5N sensor incl microlenses in a NEX-7 style body would make a lot of sense. Read the discussions in various forae and you see that people really want such a camera. Furthermore, 24 Megapixel is too much for some of us – a 16 Megapixel NEX-7 style camera for a slightly lower price would sell like warm bread.
A FF seems technically impossible to me with the E-mount and with all existing lenses because of the larger image circle that would have to be illuminated. A NEX style camera with the A-mount would have to be a lot thicker (like the new Pentax which has the same problem of using a lens mount that is designed for an SLR).
Sony doesn’t sell Legacy Lenses, so why should they care 🙂 🙂
A Nex-7 without the stupid video recording button, please, Sony, please?
its becoming clear they dont actually care about the photographers when they release almost as many bodies as lenses….
That’s a good way to state it.
A NEX-7 with the 5N sensor priced at 900$ maybe (NEX-6)
But Sony, isn’t the point of an ILC to have lenses!!!!??? Qhat’s with all these zooms, I want primes, small fast ones, only 1 prime and 1 pancake by 2013, c’mon!
I think Sony needs to focus more on lenses, less on new cameras. Those are just announcements for lenses, not shipping dates. Who knows when they’ll arrive. I’m close to springing for a NEX7, but the lack of lenses is a real issue, even though I have some solid m-mount stuff I could use through adapters.
How about just shipping the camera people who preodered last August are still waiting for?
Why is everyone thinking the three new NEX cameras have to be like NEX-5N or NEX-7? There are NEX camcorders also, for example the NEX-FS100 as probably the best video camera in its class. So maybe at least one or two of the newcomers aren’t aimed at photo enthusiasts at all? Admin wrote that the first new NEX will arrive in April, and that’s the month of NAB show, the most important trade fair of the worldwide broadcast and professional filmmakers industry. Just a coincidence? I don’t hope so.
What is this madness of 3 new cameras? So we don’t get the Nex 7 and wait for something better.. well we will be waiting for a while anyway.
More lenses please.. the micro 4/3 system is looking more attractive especially with the announcement of the E-M5. Lots of lenses from Olympus and Panasonic to choose from.
I love Pro cameras as they have a longer life cycle. Just wish mirrorless cameras would get a Pro line too.
nex c3 replacement
nex veg20 replacement
and donno about the 3RD one… but no nex9 ornew nex7 / nex5n at least before 6 month…
Awesome! Three new NEX bodies! Fantastic!!!!
Wake me up if they a) release full frame or b) release some real lenses.
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