This is your last chance to save $300 on the great A6000+16-70mm Zeiss lens kit at BHphoto (Click here). And what a missed to report before is that the kit is also available in Silver (Click here). One of our readers who ordered it yesterday told me today that BH already shipped his order!
If you don’t care about the poorer AF performance you can grab the NEX-6 with lens and extras for $654 on [shoplink 26126 ebay]eBay US (Click here)[/shoplink] or in double lens kit for $999 at Bhphoto (Click here).
Reminder: $100 off on the RX100II on [shoplink 26119 ebay]eBay US (Click here)[/shoplink].
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deal out SAR! this’s not a place for advertising. there’s the dealsrunner for info like that
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Excuse me!
thanks for the info.
am i missing where it says this is the last day for this deal on the B&H site? It only says “preorder” still, I don’t see any sunset date for the deal… I’m still on the fence about upgrading…
I was interested in the deal, but the lens seems to be a miss from the Kurt Munger review. I’ve also read Sony dropped the ball on the FE 24-70 so not real sure about Sony. They make good stuff, but shoot themselves in the foot every time.
Admin is incorrect, B&H states the instant rebate ends May 31st.
sony is falling behind the competition.
Fujifilm has XF 16-55mm f2.8 R OIS WR and Samsung has 16-50mm f/2-2.8 S ED OIS.
Much better than the zeiss.
Not saying I wouldn’t be interested in faster zooms from Sony, but one of those “much better” zooms doesn’t even ship yet and there’s hardly anything to judge the quality online yet and the other is available for 1.5-2 times the cost, adds more bulk and has about twice the weight.
In other words: As of now, you get nothing from Fuji, but for the same price and weight as the samsung zoom alone, you get the A6000 AND the Zeiss at BH photo.
And I guess, that makes the deal not look that bad for many!
If 50mm is enough on the long end for you and compactness isn’t such a concern for you but max aperture is, the better option for you from Sony is: get the LEAE1 and SAL1650F2.8. Should be all in all similar to the two zooms you mentioned, except for lack of OSS.
For me it would fall in a completely different use case, since 50mm just isn’t enough for the one zoom to accompany my primes…
they already ship in europe. I’ve tried the samsung.
the sony is available for 1000$ the samsung is 1250$ so that’s just 1.25 more. not 1.5 or 2. The Fuji is rumored to be priced between 700$ and 1400$. Still far from 1.5 not to mention 2.
Not sure where did you got your math education.
Bundles are always bundles. in samsung you can get the flagship camera plus a free tablet plus 2 lenses for less than this. It’s much better priced and there’s many bundle options unlike sony.
Using the LEAE1 and SAL1650F2.8 is just being retarded. It loses all the portability advantage of a mirrorless camera not to mention it’s more expensive and compromises performance and doesn’t even has OSS. What a piece of shit solution.
More weight and less zoom range? what were you expecting? more full of plastic lenses like sony? No way these are sturdy weather sealed metal made built to last.
worried about losing 20mm? why don’t you just get a superzoom instead? better yet. get a bridge camera.
just sit and wait for the reviews fanboy.
First: I am in Europe, Fuji targets shipment of the lens you mentioned for end of 2014. Samsung ships afaik but around 1200-1300 Euros. I bought my 16-70 Zeiss last December for about 800 Euros. Since then you may get lucky and get it even cheaper (or less expensive) in some places. Anyway: BHphoto ships the Samsung lens and the a6000 + Zeiss combo for about the same price.
Second: Sony made clear, for instance in interviews that good image quality in a small package is the main goal of the E-mount. That’s good for me, because that’s what I was looking for when I bought into that system in addition to my existing A-mount gear.
I wouldn’t mind having a greater variety of lenses for E-mount, but I can understand that Sony doesn’t release very fast, expensive, heavy lenses as the first premium lenses – as they will add similar bulk to using non-native lenses via adapters. I used for more than a year a NEX 7 + LAEA2 + SAL1680Z which was fine, but just a bit too much bulk … and I never bothered taking my SAL2470Z that I use with my A99 with me even though it provides the f/2.8 you seem to miss so much.
Seeing the specs of the Samsung and rumors about the Fuji, also these lenses even when being designed for mirrorless systems
They add considerably more bulk.
Sony has already a number of decent zooms, even fast zooms for A-mount, so why should they focus on similar lenses if they don’t provide the compactness advantage of E-mount? And since Sony released full frame E-mount, the biggest interest in the higher price territory will anyway be for FE lenses – where gaps in the lineup are enourmous right now.
For Fuji and Samsung it’s a different story – if I’m not mistaken, they make only mirrorless APS-C cameras. So there is a need to provide all the lenses if they want to provide a complete system. Don’t get me wrong: In particular Fuji has some very nice glass … I just happen to have already quite some A-mount glass that’s better supported on E-mount.
Third: 20 mm * 1.5 crop factor makes quite a difference – in particular if you take your camera somewhere where there are people. Of course, no zoom will be a good replacement of my SAL85F1.4z or SAL135F1.8z for portraits, but any zoom that stops about 75mm really is short. I always carry some primes with me, the zoom is usually just there to fill the gaps when I’m lazy
All travel zooms I’ve seen so far have much worse optical quality and add still significant more bulk. that’s why I’ve seen the range 16-80 mm in APS-C as ideal (for me) and can still live very well with 16-70mm, but 16-50 just wouldn’t be enough anymore.
YMMV, but for me, the NEX7 + LAEA2 + 1680z didn’t feel retarded, just very similar to the A580 that it replaced. The real benefit was, that the primes I carried with me are now much more compact – so in there was more in a compact travel bag… and since I got the 16-70, the bag finally also got significantly lighter.
Actually, the lenses you proposed are not much lighter and from the prices I’ve seen actually more expensive than the combo of the cheapest adapter that works with the very decent SAL1650. So what would one gain from Sony offering similar lenses to the Fuji and Samsung?