Despite all new Fuji/Olympus announcements the most sold mirrorless camera in US largest online store is the Sony NEX-3n (Amazon ranking here). That said there are a couple of new Sony US deals:
1) The A3000 with kit lens sells for $288 at Amazon US (Click and than select Amazon as seller!).
2) $109 off on the Sony NEX-3N with 8GB SD Card, Case, and 16-50mm Lens at Walmart (Click here).
3) A5000 got $100 off at Amazon (Click here), SonyStore US (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
4) $140 off on the Sony HX50V at BHphoto (Click here).
And these deals have been extended:
1) Get a $50 Amazon.com Promo Credit with the Sony RX100Ii at Amazon (Click here).
2) Sony Alpha SLT-A99V Digital Camera, Vertical Grip and Flash Bundle at Amazon (Click here).
3) Buy a Qualifying Sony NEX Compact System Camera and Save up to $200 on Select Sony Lenses at Amazon (Click here).
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A5000 price drop?
Good sign. I guess this is the consequence of both:
1) Market was oversaturated with the same and same sh1t
2) NEX camera would sell better
They did the exact same thing with the 3N – price drop before release
The A5000 should have been called the NEX E3300, and replaced both the NEX-3n, and A3000.
These are uninteresting same old cameras.
Why would any one who already has a camera want to step up to these?
Why would anyone who doesnt already have a camera choose these cameras?
Sony dont you get it..we want significant advances NOT the minimum changes you can offer and still call them new.
Downrating your stock to junk is totally unfair…thats far too high a rating.
In New Jersey this weekend we just had the superbowl. The two best teams in football competed for the championship.
From the opening snap the Broncos made a mistake and it cost them.
They continued to make one error after another.
The Broncos lost the big game.
Yes thats what happened and the seahawks kept the pressure on from start to finish even after they had a big lead. People keep acting like they won by mistake.
Canon and Nikon are keeping the pressure on Sony even after they have a big lead..and Sony is making error after error…
People are acting as if they won by misteak.
To tell the truth the two best teams in football played each other two weeks ago,Seattle and San Francisco.j
Canon and Nikon keeping up the pressure? They are both in hibernation and Sony is the one innovating and iterating – in a couple of years they will both see the results of their inertia and Sony will be sitting pretty.
Barry
The A-Mount you have been looking for will arrive shortly with its 32mp APS-C sensor. However I doubt any of the DT lenses to date will be able to take advantage of this sensor.
Every one of the lenses I plan to use will.
Remember lens resolution tests are not an indication of the highest resolution of a lens.
They photograph a test scale with an existing camera.
The resullt can never exceed the sensor resolution of the existing camera and can never exceed the resolution of the existing test scale.
This is why so many people falsely believe lenses cannot outresolve sensors.
You will see post after post of people who believe that no lens can outresolve todays sensors.
No lens resolution TEST can outresolve todays sensors because todays sensors produced the test.
The actual lenses actually outresolve todays sensors by orders of magnitude.
Lens resolution tests are only usefull for comparing lenses. They do not measure the actual lens resolution but only measure how well the sensor performs with that lens and that chart.
I have explained this hundreds of times on sar but people still dont understand it.
I hope your right, but its going be hard for me to justify purchasing a new APS-C. How’s Sony going to top an already exceptional camera.
I’ve had it for a year now, and find myself constantly grabbing it for most jobs. I call it the 90% solution. I’ll probably get the Tokina f/2.8 11-16, and the Sigma f/1.8 18-35mm to beef up its capabilities this Spring.
The 24mm Zeiss is practically glued to it. Its unofficial kit lens The SAL1650 really came out of nowheres, and it clearly deserves a G-Series logo on it.
Plus the A77 teamed up with the 70400G is pure perfection for sports, and wildlife activity.
When you buy it please post a review for it.
The Tamron 150-600 is what I have on irder but now Tamrin expect a couple of months longer because Canon the Nikon mounts come first.
Here are some reviews..opinion obviosly
Tamron 60mm f2 macro for C sensor
Fantastict lens..super sharp…as good as any macro at any price.
Tamron 90mm f2.8 macro..older style no internal focus..no hsm
Super sharp lens but somswhat prone to flare..must use lens shade even thogh lens is deeply recessed. Fucus is reasonadly fast but not as fast as the fastest lenses Ive tried.
Tamron 180mm f3.5 macro.
Sharp lens but the other two I reviewed are slightly sharper.
Screw drive focus is not 100% reliable and not extremely fast.
Good reach for a macr, highly usefull lens.
Sigma 70-300macro apo
Not a super sharp lens but reasonable. Very compact and very usefull to have 300mm macro.
Good for walk arond but not for the highest quality work.
Sigma 50-500 older version
Reasonable long lens for the price..not real sharp but very versatile
Screw drive focus is reasonably fast but not reliable
Sony 16-50mm f2.8
Excellent lens but I seldom use it because I usually shoot macro or long lenses.
All reviews based on performance with A77
Brwat
I just reviewed 7 lenses but the comment went into moderation.
Hopefully it will appear soon.
Brwat
I notice you are planing to use a C size camera with wide angle lenses.
C is most usefull for macro and long telephoto were limited dof is an issue or extreme size and weight are issues.
With normal to wa lenses this is not the case therefore ff would probably be the best choice for the focal lengths you are considering.
I’ve only recently decided that it’s time for a wide angle zoom. I normally use our wide angle primes for most jobs (Sony 20mm f/2.8, and 24mm F/2.0 and 35mm f/1.4), up until recently.
I’m still weighing the two options
The A77 and Tokina 11-16 f/2.8 will allow me to keep weight to an absolute minimum.
or the A850/A99 and 16-35mm Zeiss, which is the best optics combination, but also the heaviest.
You are forgetting that the world is not only rich countries, theres a lot of countries where 300$ is a lot of money, thats why I appreciate cameras like the a3000 with good iq at a bargain price for big markets like china, india etc.
Strange to discount new cameras a week or two after release but if it leads Sony to get more Market share that may be ok. The NEX serie is awesome and represent top value for money ! It’s good that people recognize NEX as a great IQ camera.
Yes, Alpha has been downgraded to junk status… bring back NEX please.
It makes sense that the A3000 is being cleared out. It really was a stupid design that neither camps wanted.
DSLR/DSLT users want large A-Mounts. Mirror-less users want little NEX bodies. So hopefully Sony launches an A39 for A-Mount users, and a A3300 for NEX users that actually looks like a mirror-less camera.
I personally think the NEX line should revert to previous name, and NEX model numbers should start with an E to indicate the mount.
The A5000 should be the NEX E5000. The A7 should be the NEX E7.
Nah, A3000 is the trojan for introducing bridge camera users to the wonders of APS-C E. I don’t think it has any appeal except as an emergency backup body for existing users.
Alpha users already have a bridge camera its called the A77 + SAL1650, and it trounces any NEX designed to date, and it looks really nice besides the A99. Actually the average back camera for an Alpha user these days is either a A700 or A850.
My A77 is gonna make a really slick back-up when the A79 arrives.
lol? You know what bridge cameras are? They are sub-$500 DSLR wannabes with fixed lenses like Canon HS50 SX, Panasonic FZ70, Sony HX300 etc. Sony A77 is a nice camera, but it’s no bridge camera xD
So essentially a complete waste of money.
Yet new models come out every year!
The A77 is a NOISE MACHINE. Any NEX, including the 3N, runs circles around it for IQ, lol…
Only fools take JPEGS with the A77 above ISO 1600 (post firmware V1.07. In RAW the A77 blows the NEX Series out of the water. Like the reviews say “the A77 is essentially a pro-camera wrapped in plastic”.
Lol.. what a joke.
So I go to Flickr. I do a quick search for NEX-3 pics. No kidding, this ISO 200 ‘winner’ is the first one I opened: http://tinyurl.com/q8ukqeg.
BRWAT, I don’t own an A77, but on A65 (same sensor and stuff) you can’t really go above ISO800, and that’s already very noisy (RAW and all). Realistically I have to keep it around ISO400.
Those crop SLTs are great machines in many aspects, but they ARE indeed noisy. My old A580 was significantly better in this regard.
I had both and I don’t agree at all.The nex is only better @ higher iso and even then if the picture is exposed correct they are not that much different.
In my opinion, the A3000 was sony’s answer to all the people who (not long ago mind you) kept asking for a mirror-less dslr/dslt. It may be aimed at the amateur enthusiasts but it does fill the role. Personally they got the mount wrong, at that price the slower af would not be such a problem when considering the increase in light you get with no mirror if the camera was a-mount. Plus the new processor is more than welcome.
Crazy little guys called “experts disagree”
The NEX 7 only has a .3 f/stop advantage, however it isn’t stabilized so you lose 3x f-stops shooting at night (so bring a tripod for every thing), So the NEX runs a -2.7x deficit when shooting non-stabilized lenses.
NEX little Blur machines.
The NEX-7 has massive shutter lag, a non-weather sealed body (so bring a Ziplock when outdoors), No GPS (where am I), Slow Contrast AF system (coffee break between shots/Expresso if your sophisticated/Tim Hortons if your Canadian)
If your An A77 user you can also use a crap ton of F/1.4 prime lenses or F/2.8 Zooms to choose from in low light situations. A stabilized A77 Camera and Zeiss (Anything Really) makes an awesome low light rig.
And it had really shined since firmware update V1.07.
http://snapsort.com/compare/Sony-A77-vs-Sony-NEX-7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlZmhyOUhUg
So in short the A77 is light years better, and its getting a new model. A-W-E-S-O-M-E.
LOL, you’re hilarious. Keep carrying that A-mount torch, BRWAT. In the face of the vast majority of Sony users being E mount users and Sony’s schedule for phasing out A-mount, you are raging against the machine. LOL.
Don’t worry, I think Sony will give you guys one last aps-c and one last FF camera, much like Olympus did with the E-5 for 43 DSLR users. Make sure to buy all the A mount lenses you’ve been wanting while they’re still in stock. If the final run hasn’t happen yet, it’s likely very soon. There will always be E-mount for you guys once you guys stop resisting. After the end of this year, there will be 3, maybe 4 FF E-mount cameras to chose from, and you’ll be able to buy an adapter that will allow you to use those last run A-mount lenses. All will be good.
Maybe Sony needs to get the memo the money’s in traditional DSLRs and not tiny compacts. Typical of the product lifecycle, when they first came out they sell crazy because they’re new. However, it looks like the market is very thin and maturing very fast. There’s mounting evidence the sales figures for compact camera systems is much smaller than DSLRs and imploding quicker in a stagnate camera market. Here’s the latest from UK substantiating that theory: http://tinyurl.com/ouznczf.
Sony’s real problem is incompetent marketing. They’re fumbling the e-mounts this year (why the a5000 is in the toilet in preorder sales) but not even in the game ever with a-mounts.
In America, only e-mounts are in mass merchant big box stores. Even then I’ve only seen 1 person using a NEX in the wild (and talking with him he owned an a77 he mostly used too). I’ve run into more people who have an a65 like I do than all the NEXs combined. Seriously.
Sony has no brand recognition in America and erred badly, IMHO, by not retaining the Minolta name. A guy at work who had old Minolta SLR film equipment and several lenses didn’t know anything about Sony being compatible with that system until I pointed it out to him. Now he’s thinking of buying a Sony DSLR.
Sony will never beat Canikon in DSLR sales because they’re huge name brands here. It’s the ‘nobody got fired buying IBM’ syndrome of playing it safe, getting the name brand. However, Sony could easily greatly increase sales here if they tried. I get there’s not a lot of money in cameras so marketing budgets are a joke but they could do what they do here with NEXs and support in-store display areas like they do at Best Buy or eat some margin and offer special deals to big box stores.
Sony, please wake up and smell the coffee before you make a huge, huge mistake by killing off a-mounts. You will regret it. Most a-mounters will eventually walk to the competition because it’s clear without IBIS, a feature you’re not likely to add to any compact (I don’t care about how much people hope or speculate here), they’re a huge step backwards for us. Plus, fundamentally, many like myself think the ergonomics of tiny compact NEXs suck badly.
sony bring the ” nex ” NAME line again!!! confusion is now spreading!
They won’t bring back the NEX marketing. Within the next 3 years, the only cameras Sony will be making are E-mount so they want them to be called just Alpha. They don’t want to lose the plain Alpha brand when they phase out A-mount.
Then Sony will forever be an also-ran in cameras. Canikon DSLRs will outsell their e-mounts exponentially alone and as they expand into the compact market in a serious way anyone with a brain will run from Sony’s incomplete line-up.
“A5000 got $100 off”
Like 2 months BEFORE actually being available in stores? Their pricing policy is a joke.
They had a pricing policy?
There is some other reason for the pricing drops. Sony is not the only one dropping prices, Panasonic and Fuji had cuts this last week also. Might be a seasonal thing?
Very soon they will give A3000 for free and hoped they will buy some lenses to recover the lost…
I played with an a3000 for the first time last weekend. The only attraction is that it is more comfortable to handle than NEXs. However, it’s still a bit too small making it a bit awkward to hold. But the real problem is the EVF. It’s crap. Almost useless.
It’s only of interest to someone thinking of buying a superzoom. Comparatively, they might opt for the flexibility of the a3000.
The good news for Sony is the a3000 is selling a LOT better than preorders for the shiny new a5000. People even prefer cameras if they just look like a DSLR. 😉