After the National Photographer Michael Yamashita also another Photographer leaked some A99 images. Mr.Mao is a famous photographer working for Sony china. A few days ago he wrote on his blog that he was working with a new Sony DSLR camera in inner Mongolia. Today he published some photos of this trip on his blog (http://photo.renren.com/photo/231884747/album-814057315?curPage=1). The camera name on the EXIF data was deleted.
I can’t post the pictures from a private closed account on SAR. Please use that login to access the account:
user: sonyalpharumors@163.com
pass: sonyalpharumors
After the login click here to see the picture of the photographer with the A99 camera? And the inner Mongolia pictures are here, here and here. If these are really images taken with the A99 you will see them removed within the next couple of hours.
UDPATE: Our reader Torode posted the three pictures here: http://imgur.com/a/O4IPF (Thanks!)
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umm just register? it’s the chinese version of facebook
There’s just the issue of the verification code that is in Chinese characters..
logged in, looks cool, how do I share it, I mean i dont want to just take the pics from someone’s account
mind to upload to imgur.com?
Good luck with the chinese captcha there 🙂
That’s why Mr. Admin needs help of chinese users 🙂
Cheerio!
Yes !!!
Waiting waiting !!!
So, someone changed the password?
You may just regist a new id
That’s fine. How do you suggest I enter the Chinese captcha?
well i cant log in, its a lot of Chinese characters … aghhhh
I cant see it….heeelp!! =-p
For the love of God,
Please someone download the picture and put them on Flickr…
Admin prob can’t do that, due to Sony’s NDA legalities.
I doubt the admin ever signed a NDA with Sony.
Though he might not have, Sony will still issue a takedown.
Of course I haven’t any NDA. Would be impossible to work on SAR!
hahaha, that’s exactly what I was thinking. Why, for fck’s sake, hasn’t someone just put these on flikr already? 🙂
1 week to release and not a certain picture of a99 and only 3 picture of nex-6 and such a big company like Sony!!!
what a secure world!!!!!
Yeah, it’s a bit fishy. Maybe there is no A99 in 2012…
Very similar to the children’s game!
These are the three images in question:
http://imgur.com/a/O4IPF
Thanks mate! No full rez?
Those were the largest available.
Thanks!
you may also post the exit
EXIF
Thanks!
Hm … much ado about nothing it seems. With no Exif data and scaled down to 720px these can be from *any* camera. Thanks anyway for the effort. 🙂
The EXIF is inconclusive. Here is screenshot from one of them with limited EXIF displayed on the side. The downloaded jpegs are already stripped of EXIF info.
http://i.imgur.com/U5yHW.png
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Ah, ok. So at least it’s neither the A900 (that would have a resolution of 6048 × 4032 px) nor the NEX-7 (not capable of 1/5000 sec.), but it might still be the A77. 😉
I suppose one possible way to deduce whether it is a77 or a99 would be to analyze the field of view based on the EXIF. If you have a look at this one (http://i.imgur.com/HMma7.jpg), it appears that a 16mm focal length is being employed. As the aperture is 2.8, the question is whether we are looking at a77 with the 16-50 f/2.8, a NEX with a 16mm f/2.8 or full-frame with the zeiss 16-35.
from my point of view it looks like UWW, so 16mm on full frame 36*24mm, but that might be just what i want to see.
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3 not-so-impressive pictures with no exif…. hmm.
And, why can’t it be from any other camera than a99 again?
Hey guys, don’t get too excited. The followed discuss in the URL shows those were taken by A900. Yes I speak Chinese.
LOL. We shall continue waiting…..
In this image (http://i.imgur.com/U5yHW.png) the EXIF reports the dimensions as 4000 x 6000, but my a900 reports dimensions as 6048 x 4032. I wonder if that means anything.
Indeed, it should be 6048 x 4032.
Well, exif data are not that difficult to alter if they want to.
It means it’s not an a900, obviously. What insane theory does someone come up with that leads them to believe that a 24mp sensor has to have those exact pixel dimensions? None.
It means nothing.
I think my A77 which is also 24mp has 6000×4000 pixels.
Both the a77 and the a65 produce 4000×6000 images. Speaking from experience.
but a64 is not able of 1/5000s
Yup, the resolution points to that conclusion.
The photos’ quality looks impressive.
Nice one, lol.
can’t stand waiting one more week
It would be funny for Sony to use these heavily post-processed photos as test shots.
lol seriously these picture really high chance is taken by a99! cause only this album/picture he not mention using which camera to take! the picture is so nice! although i know upload will decrease the image quality abit~! but i still can see the different!
Login does not work again (before the link to the picture) …..
PRISM Why not download a photo and do not place in the gallery on the web? Thus, none of which has anything :/ but thanks for the effort ……..
the owner got mention picture having privacy, so cannot get it anyhow and post at other place
In chinese, he said its a new sony alpha
Look at the picture(a girl ride a horse) and other pictures of grand angle
than look the EXIF, its 24mm 28mm …
Its FF
and he said its new
So??
The shot of the goats arse! LMFAO!
thanks for the link!
but this will not be photographing the new A99 … this fact certainly Noooo …
We will have to wait a week: o)))) soon ….
Dang, those are really crappy photos unless you like tons of grain.
Your comments are getting funnier every day.
Lol
Let’s see some of your photos then, Saber.
distribution of AF points : http://photorumors.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Sony-a99-AF-system-explained.jpg
Where do you see the distribution of AF points? >.< Anyway, the picture got posted here days ago.
Already posted on SAR two days ago 🙂
Never saw it, link is dead.
Wait, 6000 x 4000??? Maybe it’s the new A78…
Those photos are meaningless – neither good shots nor of good quality.
Even you could find something in those EXIF data – I can write any EXIF you want and make you excited …. 🙂
I first thought there would be some pixe of the camera itself ….
Yep, they look like photos.
LOL 🙂
and is that goat doing what I think it is?! Really, we need better pictures!
they look much more like film colors than any other cmos i’ve seen.
Indeed, but who knows if it’s just a good PP work..
Of course the colour is PP work!
Ahahaha what a bunch of chumps! Just wait til the 12th instead of having to waste your time on this crap.
+1
6000 by 4000 is a nex7
Or A77.
Nah, I reckon it’s a Nikon D3200, it would explain the over-saturated colours 😀
Unlikely, the D3200 has a resolution of 6016 x 4000! 😛
The image has been cropped to fool us. 😀
I dont believe anything anymore!!
Colors is FANTASTIC
Bump up the saturation if you want colours like that. It’s a trick used to impress non-photographers, people appear to like over-saturated colours, it’s why Nikon jpegs are loved by the masses.
Because of the strong color cast, cross processing style, either these images have been processed in PP or they show the new filter effects inside the suspected A99. Just my observation.
The photos are too downscaled to draw any meaningful conclusions, but the photos look good. I don’t see anything there that’s meaningfully different from the A900, though.
You’re kidding right? These were obviously shot with the new Goat APP, and Fireworks APP. Try THAT witch yo’ a900!
BOOOM!!!
At this size, I consider that a good thing. The only difference we should see is in high ISO performance and without EXIF data and high resolution, you can’t make that judgement from these photos.
The A900 remains an impressive image making tool at 100-800 ISO, let’s hope the A99 retains that IQ and bumps up the high ISO performance to competitive levels.
I can wait some days, no hurry 🙂
Has anyone any idea what lens the A99 will be bundled with.. or do they not supply lenses at the end of the scale?
Comes bundled with your bank account -$2500 in its balance.
Haha I’m so glad they did that… AWESOME!
Seen those images before and that design is WAY sexier than a77/99 style. Really wish they could have made it like that. Would have sold on looks alone… PLUS it has iISO hotshoe!
Funny they spelled “believe” wrong at end of vid.
Same designer did a photoshop mockup of a Nikon cam with a kind of rubix cube grip.
Fake A99 video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjgVp-vv0q8
Cool but very fake.
😉
Stylish, but not very functional. With the slanted back the display would be facing downwards in its home position, that would be quite awkward to use (unless you hold the camera over your head most of the time ;)).
Hmmm, I could have taken those A99 images with my A77. Too early to tell yet on IQ. Maybe I don’t need FF.
The pics are nice but like someone has already pointed out they really could be from almost any camera.
Well, if those are indeed from an A99, they confirm that it can take photographs. That’s about it.
He took the pics with an iphone.
Either put up 100% crop ISO 102k images of a candle in the darkness or GTFO 😀
I would have siad it was all double dutch to me …. but it enna is it? It’s chiniese
Well from the comment that left under the picture, I will assume Mr.Mao is saying the picture is taken by A99 but he can not state that. He was at inner Mongolia taking the sample picture for the new A99 that will be post on Sony website after the release. Also, he answered to some question about the image quality of A99 “The image quality will not let you down, especially this one is a high end product.”
These shots are shot at max ISO… Impressed? Oh yes!
Just tell me this camera will be released with a optimized for video lens. I see a big problem. Lots of good older zeiss glass etc but none of it is optimized for video. The 16-50 is great but it will be inadequate for video because of vignetting. I have this fear that they are going to release a em-mount lens adapter for the alphas.. That would break my heart to move their pro stills line behind their pro-sumer video line.
Mind you if they allow us to use the stabilization in the lens and not do that horrid crop in video mode may well be worth it. Just hope i can have autofocus that works in m-mode with some access to f1.8 aperatures… That would make it all worth while.
Oh and 4:2:2 and cleanr HDMI out and a headphone jack for audio monitoring and ability to turn of AGC… and wireless so I can project video to my iPad. PLEASE! And access to those apps would be sweet like the nex. Built in intravelometer. Ya ill pay for that.
Just tell me this camera will be released with a optimized for video lens. I see a big problem. Lots of good older zeiss glass etc but none of it is optimized for video. The 16-50 is great but it will be inadequate for video because of vignetting. I have this fear that they are going to release a em-mount lens adapter for the alphas.. That would break my heart to move their pro stills line behind their pro-sumer video line.
Mind you if they allow us to use the stabilization in the lens and not do that horrid crop in video mode may well be worth it. Just hope i can have autofocus that works in m-mode with some access to f1.8 apertures… That would make it all worth while.
Oh and 4:2:2 and cleanr HDMI out and a headphone jack for audio monitoring and ability to turn of AGC… and wireless so I can project video to my iPad. PLEASE! And access to those apps would be sweet like the nex. Built in intravelometer. Ya ill pay for that.
does the A99 have instagram pre-installed?….:D Those samples are instagrammed.