BHphoto (Click here) add a free $100 BH gift card to the already great NEX-7 with double lens kit deal! You get case and SD card too. it’s a very tempting deal but I guess most of you will resist a couple of weeks more to see what the successor will cost.
Reminder: All newly Sony stuff announced at CES can be seen on that page at Amazon US (Click here). And here are the detailed links:
Sony A5000 at Amazon US (Click here), BHphoto (Click here) and at SonyStore US (Click here).
Sony LCS-EBB Body Case for the A5000 at BHphoto (Click here).
Sony E 55-210mm f/4.5-6.3 OSS Lens (Black) at Amazon US (Click here) and at BHphoto (Click here).
W830 compact camera at Amazon (Click here) and at BHphoto (Click here).
HDR-AS100-V action camera at Amazon (Click here).
The 4K Sony FDRAX100 at Amazon (Click here) and at BHphoto (Click here).
List of all new Sony camcorders at Amazon (Click here) and at BHphoto (Click here).
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The successor will cost $1,499.00
So, this is a great little deal. Someone will buy it for sure.
And you know that because…
The NEX-7 was introduced at 1199$ so they would have to make it MUCH better to get that kind of money. This would be similar to the EM-1 price, which would be a bad move unless Sony releases a weathersealed and IBIS body.
Sorry, I was suggesting a kit price. (Assuming they still insist on selling with that awful 18-55mm.) I’l probably place the body only at $1,299.
Sony likes to mop up with the early adopters, then drop the prices of these things, so it may be more to start.
I don’t know the whole “weather sealed” and “IBIS” thing matters to everyone. When you go through the Flickr accounts of the real complainers about weather sealing, it’s not like you ever see anything taken in a rain storm, lol.
Perhaps, having the much larger sensor and arguably better image quality is enough for them to price at the same level.
I agree that the IBIS/weather sealing might not be critical, but I thought they would be necessary to justify the 1499$ price you suggested (which was a misunderstanding). I don’t think sony can go much over 1199$ though. The A7 is not that far in price and they probably will try to avoid eating A7 sales, unless the NEX successor has something the FF can’t offer, like IBIS. This would be quite fantastic with legacy lenses and Panasonic showed us that a company can have both in-lens and in-camera stabilization in their line-up. Given Sony’s tendency to shoot everywhere, this is a (welcome) possibility.
What IBIS would do is make a and e mounts more compatablr/interchangeable.
Currently it is extremely difficult for an A mount user to justify buying an E mount camera.
I would prefer not to have IBIS. It is better to have the sensor securely located and exactly parallel to the lens mount.
When you consider that a very slight misalignment of an adapter is enough to spoil focussing accuracy with short focal length lenses, the chance of getting badly focussed images with IBIS seems to be high.
I think stabilisation is a good thing for a P&S camera, but not for serious work.
A serious photographer who uses long and macro lenses has very little use for current e mount system an very much use for IBIS.
If your needs are primarily normal to wide angle lenses you might easily reach a differrent conclusion.
Isn’t it rather unlikely given that the A7 kit is priced similarly? Obviously, Sony regards APS E-mount users as potential upgraders to FE so I don’t think they would price them farther apart.
-dont
Why would anyone buy these piece of shit lenses with such a good camera?
Bart, are you sure ? Is that *with* the SEL1670Z ? 🙂
That’s quite some money so I guess the new model will be awesome !
No details yet ???
New cameras and old ones evidently sell best. I just checked Amazon for mirror less cameras and #1 is the A7R. #2: NEX-3N. #3:NEX-7. #4: A7 with lens. #5: A7 body.
A good deal, but this suppresses the price I can get for my gently used NEX7 I want to sell.