Well, Sony is really crazy busy at releasing new bodies. According to Digicameinfo they will announce the Sony A7II soon (within days) and the A9 in January (according to SonyAlphaRumors).
And these are the A7II specs:
– 24.3 million pixels FF sensor
– 5-axis in body stabilization (same as the Olympus E-M1)
– LCD monitor 3.0-inch 1.23 million dot. 107 degrees up, and tilt 41 degrees below
– EVF 0.5-inch 2.36 million dot
– ISO100-25600 (extended with ISO50). Video ISO200-25600
– The shutter speed is 30 seconds -1/8000 seconds
– 270 sheets at the number of possible shots EVF use. LCD monitor when using 350 sheets
– Continuous shooting 2.5 frames / sec. When speed priority continuous shooting 5 frames / sec.
– Video XAVC S, AVCHD, MP4
– The battery is NP-FW50
– The size of 126.9mm x 95.7mm x 59.7mm
– Weight 599g (including battery and memory)
– Vertical position grip VG-C2EM (sold separately)
– Media Memory Stick PRO Duo / PRO-HG Duo / XC-HG Duo, SD / SDHC / SDXC (UHS-I compatible)
The A7II is basically a Full Frame OMD 🙂
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Too bad they’re not crazy about releasing moderately priced lenses for said bodies.
I agree, but this would be awesome for legacy lens shooters if IBIS rumor is true.
Only improvement is IBIS?
I can’t image a “pro” camera would still be 2.5 fps.
Specs don’t seem right, maybe that is a camera for Olympus, and not a Sony camera? Only thing that really makes sense, since Sony seems to have made it clear that they don’t plan on IBIS in E mount with all the OIS lenses they have.
Oh, I missed rumored specs were for A7 upgrade (already?!?). A9 pro I imagine something more like NX1, in that it is a mirrorless SLR style camera (from the 90s instead of the 70s)?
Is there a chance the A7II will have the D750 sensor?
With battery life becoming more of a problem in this next iteration of bodies, I’d like to see Sony become bolder, by taking away some (not all) of the A7’s customisable elements, in regard to dials and see them using a more pre shot manual body build/layout, akin to the Fuji XT1.
Some will argue that they want to rattle a shot off quickly, but with slow continuous autofocus speeds and by currently offering an experience that is more akin to a digital hybrid rangefinder style of photography, users tend to approach these cameras for a slower, more classical photographic response…
At least whilst on sensor PDAF is still in its early stages of development (in regard to full frame output), a little bit of assertive labelling on the body, indicating shutter speed, iso etc… Well… a photographers skill level could well extend battery performance, beyond the average casual user.
I love the EVF, but I’d prefer to just rely on it for mainly framing and composition. There;s nothing wrong with fine-tuning, by fixing your eye to the EVF, but if you are street shooting in a location where the light and activity of your canvas is continually shifting and you look too obvious when manipulating your controls (using the LCD), I still feel that Sony are offering a great tool, that works beautifully for landscapes and staged portraits, but fails on the opportunistic realities of every day travel or journalistic photography, where discretion can yield amazing results.
In regards to the A9… If they can really push the AF, aperture and iso digital response speed into a new sphere, then lead on Sony and take my money. Will we get a 16mp A7 II or A9s with A6000 AF and IBIS? That would be amazing.
I’d not be happy of the new A7’s weight was in the 600 gram range. That’s the same as DSLR’s. What’s the point of using a mirrorless if it weighs the same as a DSLR? The whole point of mirrorless is for it to weight less and be more compact. The current A7 weight range is good. It’s be nice if the FF mirrorless could get as small as the A6000 since it has the same mount. But getting heavier is not good.
Ho, there exists only three full-frame DSLRs equipped with IBIS: A900, A850 and A99 (which was not DSLR, but SLT).
All of them are much, much bulkier than A7II and much, much heavier.
Only one of them – A99 is still manufactured. But none of them had ever 5-axis image stabilization.
A7II is even smaller than Olympus OM-D which has a small sensor (and smaller IBIS mechanism).
http://camerasize.com/compare/#579,377
http://camerasize.com/compare/#579,482
I agree. 600gr is not light, but this is a ff camera with ibis, so I can justify it. I couldn’t justify such a weight for a smaller sensored mirrorless camera with no ibis, but this a7-ii is really packed with features!!
An example:
http://camerasize.com/compare/#579,572
“- 5-axis in body stabilization (same as the Olympus E-M1)”
False statement, since Sony has already stated that the 5 axis Ibis of A7-II has nothing in common with the Ibis of Olympus. The Sony system is a full new and own development by Sony.