On the CES stage Sony talked for almost 10minutes about the A7 series cameras but did NOT announce any new FE lens or camera. It was somehow expected to NOT get any new Alpha camera at CES but a bit strange they talked a lot about it without to announce anything :/
Here is the list of products (handycams, actioncams and so on) announced by Sony: sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/201601/16-001E/index.html
P.S.: A99 and A6000 successor now going to come around Cp+ in February. And hopefully those new toys will steal the spotlight from the Nikon D5 announced today.
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A picture of some products now in the live stream one of them is a sony a7 camera, can this means camera related release?
where is the picture? good thing this has nothing to do with photography..yikes!
“Easy and simple to use user interface”
I was laughing too.
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They’ve done a fantastic job of saying nothing for the past 20 minutes! Ha.
Haha, yeah!
Now they are in 30 minutes and showe some quickly camcoder.
They sow picture with long shutter speed in darkness and everyone is impressed! I did this whith my canon 350d
And they show pciture of there dogs!
BOring!!!
This is now so silly that you have to think that it has to be intentional 😀
Long day at my home office, so I have this playing in the background… two dudes rambling about their puppies and stroking each others egos, shut the helll up and get to the meat of it already!
Typical Sony presentation 😀 Maybe they pull a rabbit out of the hat, maybe they don’t and it just ends like this 😀
Please don’t say that they are about to show the Sony A7S II that everybody knows already? Seems like those stage minutes are not very valuable.
And here are pictures of my bedroom, dog and kids. Weeeeee!
BAM! Nothing new today.
What? Seriously?
It just took Sony 30 minutes to say we make cool stuff, but we have nothing new for our customers today.
Woah, what a let down, seems Sony doesn’t have anything to respond with to Nikon :/
They probably do, just chose not to compete for the spotlight.
While we are bored, can someone suggest a great budget fluid video head for unrigged A7rII/A7sII, under 200$?
Where is the a6100/a7000?
They’re still streaming, not there yet
Damn HD Audio and Damn TV’s Most of the audience is here for new camera’s i guess.
Boring American Show ! 🙁 Sony should change this CEO ! Only Bla Bla
Hold your breath …
still holding it 🙁
Where can I claim the hour I wasted watching this?
You can’t, just like the hours wasted writing comments here 🙁
audience at that trade show did not seem amused. (like us)
Still no a6100 🙁
If at least more stuff would get leaked it would be easier to make a decision to wait or buy something else.
no camera announced, fine! where are the lenses?
That is the real question. The a6100/a7000/aXXXX or whatever will come, but (more) great lenses are needed along with that.
What a boring american Show ??? Definitively bad marketing !!! Nothing new exciting. We have to wait for the CP+ in february !
A very pretentious presentation with nothing new. Nothing genuine came out. Just scripted narration about how serious Sony is about emotional expression in all forms. A good idea but poorly executed. I felt nothing.
It almost seemed like that camera guy didn’t know what he was talking about. He said he was shooting with the a7. In the end the other guy asked what’s good about the alpha series and the camera pro replied it’s “the best camera”. They showed some disturbing footage of his films of prisoners and people fighting. It looked like an amateur just found s-log 2 and recorded some clips for a Sony-presentation without grading them. Might have been the stream messing with colours and contrast but content was awful too.
So this pro guy was shooting with an a7 and an a7s? I’m still unsure if this is the 2016 CES presentation.
I’m a bit of a Sony fanboy but I turned quite limb after this. I get mad about thinking when he held up that 4K camcorder. I seriously thought that I was watching an old stream from last year that was on test-loop for the stream so I refreshed but there he was. Explaining about 4K for 2k$ 2014, 4K for 1K$ 2015 and now 4K for everyone followed by something like “I know it’s bad but it’s the best we’ve got”.
That line pretty much sums it up 🙁
Wow I think that was worst CES presentation ever.
It’s all about you.. all about you.. all about connecting emotionally with you.. blou blou..
First he tells you how tremendously important and relevant this show is, then… nothing.
I actually feel bad for these marketing execs, shoved out on a stage in front of a crowd, having to fill a time slot with absolutely nothing to announce. It can’t be fun.
A total non-event. So why are all these “trusted sources” leaking specs 2 days before a show at which nothing is announced?
At least Sony talks about it… Unlike *cough* Samsung *cough*
Simple really. They don’t want to hurt Nikon’s feelings.
They chose to hurt us!
Exactly!
Why Why Sony!
Nikon announces a pro-level APS-C camera. And Sony pushes a marketing exec out on the stage for 15 minutes of tap-dancing with nothing to announce. It’s cruel.
Silence is deadly.
How can they hurt Nikon’s feelings? They don’t have any competing products
It will happen at CP+ a great new Sony sensor (in the Pentax K-1)
Yup!
Waiting for A99 II! 🙂
🙂
more than a year for now
I know admin only posts what he gets from sources, but man, these sources suck. We keep getting rumors that an announcement is gonna come at such and such event and then nothing. Then afterwards they say it’g gonna be at the next event and then nothing. Then out of nowhere Sony announces stuff unexpectedly that these sources had no clue about.
Ya, but look what Nikon did with the D500. They totally keep it under wrap. No one saw it coming.
Just like Sony. No one sees it coming too, especially the reliable sources.
I suspect Sony plants some information on someone with the aim of smoking them out. So when they gleefully make their rumor known to SAR then Sony knows exactly who not to trust and so they can carry on with the unexpected announcement whenever they wish.
I believe they didn’t see that “Nikon announces the D5 with ISO 3,280,000 !”-thing coming and they will not announce something new now, cause they have to rethink their strategy…
right…. and then they will rework on their previously ready-to-launch product and by February we will hear A99II/A6000II/A###II is delayed for september, and then by september we will hear that they are delayed for 2017, and by 2017 we will hear they are delayed for 2018. But whatever, those are all rumours so we are not supposed to have any hope for anything anyways.
I’m not surprised at all. A7 and up coming a9 belong to pro-lines. Save these for right time :))
The d500 just took a dump on the a6000, but what a price tag. Sheesh
It’s the same as the D100 price tag of 2002.
Well it dumps all over the 7D MkII, but the A6000 or A6100? Not exactly the same target markets.
Not the same market? I’m an a6000 user and I’m already looking hard at the D500. If it has great low-light performance, and Sony doesn’t match it with something by March, I may go back to Nikon because they obviously see a big future for APS-C .
The d500 competes with the a77II, not the a6000.
Takes a crap on everything apsc. Better?
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. Peter II 3:9
NO.
Signing off the rumor page. It’s been nearly 6 months and not one prediction that I’ve been following has been correct…. i’ll just wait for the announcement. At least then it’ll be accurate. P.S. get better ‘sources’
not sure why I get sucked into the rumors, I to will simply wait
how does one keep a rumor site going without reliable sources? Make them up and hope people would click on the advertisers’ links. There have been numerous a99ii rumors in more than two years and still nothing.
Same thing at NikonRumors, the D500 was a complete bombshell, no one had a clue. There aren’t any meaningful ‘rumors’ today, camera companies just don’t work that way anymore. The rumors sites just sell ads. Camera makers’ R&D groups work in isolation, probably none are in U.S., no contact with manufacturing, and they probably don’t tell marketing more than they have to either.
Hey Sony, stop fooling us and add finally touch screens to all your camera products!
You looks stupid. You’d said that professionals don’t use touchscreens, but even nikon now added touchscreen to it’s professional camera for professionals!
Stop fooling us and stop hiding info from us about new products. Release your lens and camera roadmap finally!
And stop playing only FF-Zeiss game…give us affordable crop camera products as fuji and others form m43 did…
Anybody had high expectations of Sony?
After the last Photokina and CP+?
Nikon D500 set great goal for speed and buffer for Sony a99II. 10FPS and 200 RAW buffer. At US 1999 price point.
The D500 is a crop-sensor camera. It would be much harder for a full-frame to achieve those metrics. Definitely not at that price point anyways.
hey, its 21 MP. If new a99II will be abt 24 MP, there is no practical difference in data size. Todays a99 buffers some 14 shots or so.
The a99 replacement won’t be 24 MP, do the math here (hint, ideal downsampling for 4K).
You most probably know, that A7SII is the best 4K camera = 12,2 MP
Well, glad we got 5 pages of clickbait for this haha. Another example how all this is just a pointless exercise, shame really considering all the hard work and people ranting against each other.
thats it ….changing from Sony to nikon! Bye Sony …not because million iso, just because nothing happend in FF Amount
Im sitting and waiting for the A99 II, on the fence. But if there is no A99 II in february. Then goodbye Sony. Then i am shifting to Canon or Nikon. Because then i can’t trust Sony anymore. Better to say A Mount is dead and let people move on
Not sure what I think of the presentation. I shoot an a900 with one Sony G lens (70-200/2.8), one Zeiss lens (135/1.8) and the ancient Minolta 35/2.0. I shoot a lot of sports with that kit, but the body is a tired dog. If I could trust the a77ii’s sensor to deliver clean crops like the a900, I would buy it. Does anyone have experience shooting this camera? If Sony doesn’t step up to the plate, a used Canon 1Dx may be in my camera bag before a new Sony.
And you have expected those long promised, almost mythical “8 new FE lenses” and a6100? 😉 Maybe even A9 or A99II? or a5? What if Sony releases A7III, with the same 24mpix sensor and the same 5fps shutter and the same weak AF? 😉 Just a few firmware changes? 😉 Maybe 4k from tight 8mpix crop? 😉