The A3000 with kit lens got a new $50 off and sells now for $298 only at Amazon US (Click here). Although I didn’t get solid rumors yet I really believe the A3000 will get a successor during next spring.
P.S.: Adorama offers a triple special on Sandisk (Click here), Transcend (Click here) and Lexar cards (Click here).
Reminder:
15% credit you get when trading in a camera for the A7/r/s or Fe lenses at BHphoto (Click here to see the special page).
If you trade-in an older camera you could now pay down to $950 only for the new A7 at Adorama trade-in (Click here).
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For an extra $100 you could get an a7 FF body brand new in Australia. Why would anyone bother with this? Inferior sensor and atrocious EVF/LCD resolution.
A7 what?
You can get a A7 for 13 euro if you buy a winning lottery ticket with that 13 euro.
a7 for 398$??? Where??
a7 + LA-EA4 + 28-70 FE is $934AUD at the moment
Sounds too good to be true honestly…
There are several well known local stores doing it for around that price.
Really lucky aussies
Pictures or shenanigans.
This camera is so bad! I checked it in bestbuy and everything about sucks! Can someone please tell the reason to buy one of this?
to show you own a DSLR-like gear
I have the a5000 that’s why when I checked this camera out at bestbuy I was so dumbfounded. The EVF is horribly small and pixelated. No tilty flippy selfie screen. Mirrorless DLSR shaped looks so bad. It’s looks like a fake camera LOL
a3000 is actually an alibi in the line up to show, “look, our entry level camera is bulky, just like any DSLR model. But feel free to upgrade to a5000 which is tighter and has better specs”
Though, i do not know what Sony will do with the 5 line, 5T is actualler better than the 5000, but the Nex numbers don’t make sense anymore
To have a decent image quality and a viewfinder (as bad as it is).
The camera is the perfect solution to get highest picture quality with the least money. A great idea by Sony for entrylevel photographers, as it is much cheaper to produce than Nikon/Canon can produce their cheapest DSLR cameras. Of course body, EVF, monitor is the cheapest that is possible with APS-C, but it was designed to be just like that: cheap.
The big reason buy it: picture quality is absolutely on the same level as the high end APS-C cameras, it will probably kill the 7D mark II in terms of sharpness and dynamic range!!
High end Picture quality for very little money. If fast autofocus, fps speed, good build quality, direct controls and a good EVF/monitor are unimportant, this is the camera to go :)…
a3000 was selling for $300 already right after release.
No boxing day deals anywhere.
Not a deal. Only $162 at Best Buy, open box. Got one today.
This camera is still a POS, even if you paid $0.50 for it.
FE 24-105 f4
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And it’s still SUPER overpriced.
Guess how much it costs Sony to manufacture and ship one of these things?
$17.54 USD.
Not sure about the lens – that’s body only. It’s JUNK! By comparison, it costs Sony $589.70 to make and ship an A77II….
And you know this how?
The Porsche 911 Carrera only costs $5000 to manufacture but retails for $84,300.
For any product, you have a Fixed R&D costs to recover which is in millions. Once you have recoved those R&D costs, you can sell your units as cheap as you want if it covers the production cost
Thats what many people fail to realize. They just look at manufacture costs and overlook all the rest.
And distribution costs. And support costs. And marketing costs. And varying costs of components. And currency exchange costs.
The sensor is great.
agreed.
So should they sell it for $20 and pay $2.5 to their employees?
My daughter bought her boyfriend this camera for Christmas. He wanted a viewfinder and better pics than his phone. She wanted to spend only 300 and no more. The view finder provides composition but it does suck. But I was impressed with the images out of the camera even in low light. I shot some photos at 3200 and they were very good. Good little camera. He should get a good year out of it. But enough about the 3000, any news on the A9?
All they need to do is give it the new menus, a better EVF and a bit faster AF. With those upgrades it would knock spots off the entry level Canon and Nikon DSLRs because the IQ is already great.
Big problem on Nikon D750, once, twice, three times a loser (D600,D610,D750) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LynWn0DvdO0#t=40
The flare looks so amazing with true 14 bit raw files!
The D750, makes every day a sunny day. Just like Kodachrome.
Spanish to English translation: This Camera is a POS!
More Nikon News:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ncN6ceeX1A
Nikon Forever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V68MVEEgp5s
D750, for indoor use only!
I forgot this camera even existed: probably why it’s dirt cheap, so did everyone else!
What do you say the the Nikon buyer that had the misfortune of buying all three versions of this camera?
I’m talking about the A3000.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIWlZxPeOHo
D750, not to be used in the vicinity of smart phones. 🙂
The “Gold Standard” per dpreview.
This camera would be useless for landscape photography, and listen to that tinny sounding cheap shutter.
A low-cost A3000 with IBIS might have been something that actually could have made me consider to stay with Sony if only for using my Minolta legacy lenses. Not that I wouldn’t like Sony cameras, but as it is, Olympus suits my needs better, and one of my next investments will probably be a Minolta MD/MFT SpeedBooster.
funny, the overnexx t A3400 has 4k and cosst 299 in November 2015..
Aps-C, all you need, medeiumgood codec, lowcosthouse, adapters on it, some
Lenses from..N/C/waht ever–and hooosh…. so do it. go down with price till the
blood comes out of all parts. The Industrie goes this 4k way, fine for us-nice.
When it was new it was very cheap compared to its competitors and does have very good image quality, on par with the A77. Now the A5000 is selling for the same price with many better features and the same Image quality, only missing a EVF. The A5100 has better image quality and only a little more money. Stick the A58 viewfinder and LCD on the A3000 and it would again be very competative.