Sony launched that Sony A77II bundle deal on their SonyStore (Click here). And there is also a A7/s/r lens/case superbundle again at Sony Store US (Click here).
More new Sony deals:
Today only you can grab the NEX-7 with kit lens for $498 only at BHphoto (Click here). That deal runs today only!
And this is the cheapest E-mount kit you can get right now: The Sony A3000 with kit lens sells for $249 at BHphoto (Click here).
$300 off and free SD card and case on the A6000 double lens kit at [shoplink 34733 ebay]Secondipity eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
$100 off on the A3000 with kit lens at [shoplink 34732 ebay]Secondipity eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
50% off on refurbished 55-210mm sold by [shoplink 34704 ebay]BeachCamera on eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
Save $250 on Open Box Sony A7s cameras sold by [shoplink 34706 ebay]Samys on eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
RX100 with $100 free extras (SD card, LR5) and a $50 gift card when using the code “trade50328” at FocusCamera (Click here).
Save $340 on that
A77II kit with free grip at Sony Store US (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
$300 off on the Zeiss 12mm f/2.8 Touit at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
$221 off on the Zeiss 32mm f/1.8 Touit at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here)
FE 24-240mm is in Stock at [shoplink 34856 ebay]BestBuy eBay[/shoplink], Adorama and Sony US
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There you go folks. A great deal on the camera which can do EVERYTHING! Yes, E mount users, it can even take pictures of moving objects.
Like A6000?
Who would want that with it’s way too limited native lenses etc. etc. etc
how many lenses you gonna buy? 20?
You can do that with E-mount too (there will be some overlap):
Primes:
16 f2.8
20 f2.8
24 f1.8 ZA
28 f2.0
30 f3.5 Macro
35 f1.4 ZA
35 f1.8 OSS
35 f2.8 ZA
50 f1.8 OSS
90 f2.8 G OSS macro
Zooms:
10-18 f4 OSS
16-50 f3.5-5.6
16-35 f4 ZA OSS
16-70 f4 ZA OSS
18-105 f4 PZ G OSS
18-200 f3.5-6.3 OSS (LE)
18-55 f3.5-5.6
24-70 f4 ZA OSS
24-240 f3.5-6.3 OSS
28-70 f3.5-5.6
28-135 f4 PZ G OSS
55-210 f4.5-6.3 OSS
70-200 f4 G OSS
+ 165.403 quintiljarzillion legacy lenses
+ All A-mount lenses with LA-EA1-4 adapters, including legacy Minolta A-mount
+ newly manufactured MF glass by Samyang, etc, etc
And not one of them over 240mm!! Come on..who in their right mind would buy a camera which has NO native lenses over 240. Fast focus speed is not needed with most of those shorty short lenses, so what the heck are you going on about. I’m sure your food, or your scene, or your granny on her zimmer are great subjects for all those short lenses but fast speed..not needed. It’s just Sony selling to the masses who haven’t a clue.
People who don’t care about >240mm? Not everyone has the same use as you (personally I don’t care about >240mm).
Same as I mentioned a few replies earlier. Very few people use long telephoto lenses.
But, i personally think that those who do, would be perfectly served by a proper camera body, LA-EA5 with AF from A77 and the entire A-Mount range at their disposal. Just because we don’t use them, doesn’t mean that a system shouldn’t have them.
It’s a niche use in native E mount (>400mm on a mirrorless, mostly wildlife).
Most Sony wildlife shooters will shoot with A77/A77II and some with A99. But there are some wildlife shooters who use A6000 with LA-EA4 successfully.
E mount is not “meant” for wildlife, yet. Perhaps with the A9 coming, there might be longer lenses?
Maybe so, but I’m surprised that Sony doesn’t have a single emount native fast zoom. CRAZY!
i looked up the weight of the samsung 16-50 f2 to 2.8…. its heavier than the sal1650 xD
fuji 1655 is heavier too
so theres that, so while the dslr may weigh abit more overall, the gap closes alot and the dslr will handle better.
so for cheap kit lens type situations mirrorless is compelling, high quality 2.8 zooms and anything over 60 to 70mm the rear element is likely to be well forward into slr area.
a sensor that can cope with angled light would free up lens design more for mirrorless short focal length lenses, like in the film era.
Who doesn’t have a clue and who is selling to the masses? Right. There’s more in this universe than one opinion, one need and one demand.
LA-EA4? Really? Its one of the tings that is still keeping A-Mount users away from E-Mount. 15-point PDAF of which only 3 are cross points.
When E-Mount will grow some cojones, and will add DSLR bodies and a better LA-EA adapter, is when it will become a system worthy of comparing to A-Mount.
There is no such thing as keeping A-mount users away from E-mount. They are free to buy anything they want. Why would A-mount users buy an E-mount camera to use with A-mount lenses with an A- to E adapter?? Why not just use the fantastic A-mount bodies to go with A-mount lenses? And use E-mount bodies with any lens they want, including excellent A-mount glass with AF, made possible by a Sony adapter? I hope you get the point, because it’s fairly easy. Sony gives you choices: you’re free to choose. Small and light: check, E-mount; big, heavy and fast: check, A-mount; everything in between: yes, check, A-mount lenses on E-mount cameras.
A-Mount users look up to E-Mount, because A-Mount right now looks like it’s about to get dumped outright by Sony. And where are those fantastic A-Mount bodies that you are talking about? There is only 1 body that is up to date. A99 is another body, that is too old in price vs performance, and thats it! There is nothing else!
We, the A-Mount users, and I believe I speak for most of us, are reaching that time when we are about to upgrade our gear. Some have decided to give it another go with A77II. Others are getting E-Mount gear with E to A adapters, just because there are no bodies in A-Mount. And the rest are waiting for Sony to make some kind of a move before we make a decision on what to do with our gear.
I’m still using my A65, because i’m not ready to dump cash into new flashes, that A77II would require and then get entire system discontinued, at which point i’d be looking to switch to another brand, as E-Mount doesn’t have bodies with proper egronomics.
If you can’t see that Sony is slowly choking A-Mount, then its your problem. A few years ago, A-Mount had 13% market share, and was growing fast. Today i’d be surprised if it has 1.3% market share. Its only a matter of money at this point. When it stops covering R&D for Sony, that’ll be the end of the mount.
It’s the same story over and over again. The A99 isn’t old. The A900 was the flagship for 4 years, the A99 is barely 2.5 years old. Besides that, saying that the A99 is old and not good in price vs performance, gives the impression you never used one. For full frame A-mount glass, yes, I consider the A99 (or A900/850 for purists) the best camera. The E-mount cameras are no substitute for that. They lack advanced AF controls, dual card slots, ergonomics and rugged build quality. There are A-mount bodies and if those are not to your liking, it is better to jump ship.
Sony isn’t choking A-mount at all, it is your perception, which goes against what Sony says and shows.
I never said I used A99… But I am considering buying one. I currently have A65, which has no equivalent replacement.
You’re just like everyone who still tries to defend the A-Mount. Stop talking in specific models and their lifetime on the market and look at the system as a whole, A-Mount has no cameras that it can show off. There is 1 recent and 1 camera that is a few years old. What happened in between? – nothing… void… Where is the A3x and A5x range? Where is the entry level FF, where is the pro FF? How can you expect for a system to generate sales, when there are no entry-mid level bodies available and no Halo body to show off the mount. Why is Sony updating the 70-200g with a 2nd gen SSM instead of 85mm and 135mm, that are still screw driven.
There are plenty of why’s. At this point the only replacement to my A65 is a more expensive A77II. I have no options as that is the only model that is close enough.
A99 – doesn’t stand even close in IQ with its peers. D610 and 6D easily outperform it in IQ. 6D being only worse in DR.
As I said multiple times, I would have switched a long time ago, only if any of the big two had EVF.
Wow, looking at this, and I never realized that Sony doesn’t have a single wide aperture zoom. Not for crop or full frame emoji to. That’s crazy!
Who needs 20. Don’t be silly. But I do need something a lot longer than a measly 240mm. Most E mount lenses are just variations of 16-90mm and who the heck needs a fast camera when shooting short stuff like that. What a mess the E mount is in. System?..No Way. A ‘System’ covers ALL lens lengths, not just shorty short ones.
Give me 2: 16-50 and 70-200. Both being constant f2.8 with a mechanical MF override. Add to that a body that matches these two egronomically and i’ll be first in line to buy that camera.
What was the last newly designed A-Mount lens? I’m not talking about SSM II reboots.
Look, I know it huts, I’m an A-Mount user as well, but bashing E-Mount does not take you anywhere… well maybe Canikon at some point.
a6000 has better IQ than a77ii for sure.
Ha! now I really know you know nothing at all about photography, just what you are being fed by Sony’s machine who are now making fortunes selling small, cheap cameras to those who haven’t a clue. How can you call E mount a system when it has NO native lenses over 240. Then again, I suppose most buyers never go beyond their town or if they do, it’s all scenery, and who needs speed for that.
As much as I don’t like E-Mount in it’s current state, in its defense, very few people use long telephoto glass. Take A-Mount as an example. I bet that on A77, SAL1650 gets many more hours of use than SAL70xxxG type of glass. The biggest problem is that after so many years, after Sony’s deliberate attempts to kill A-Mount, E-Mount still doesn’t have a compelling alternative for us to switch to.
I would have switched to Canon a long time ago, but the lack of IBIS and EVF(being a priority), as well as no capability to AF properly in video mode, has thus far kept me at a distance.
No it doesn’t. There isn’t an equivalent to SAL1650 in E-Mount. So the fact that A6000 is 1/3 Stop better in ISO, makes it 2/3 stop worse, just because the closest equivalent is a lens that is 1 stop down. Add to that native A77 AF system, and the LA-EA4 with AF system from A65 doesn’t come even close, with all A-Mount lenses at play.
Try AF tracking with A6000 with a fast lens, and then we’ll talk. Oh wait, The e-mount system doesn’t have any f2.8 zooms. And the fact that LA-EA4 has AF system from A65, doesn’t help either.
So you’re complaining about lenses? How is that related to my answer to a camera taking pictures of moving objects? And with F4 zooms you’re not able to track moving objects, is that what you’re talking about?
I’m talking about 2 things: 1 – a6000 is not a replacement for A77II, because there is no native F2.8 zoom available, and 2, tracking performance with an f2.8 lens requires much more AF work. Something we can’t test out, because A6000 simply doesn’t have such a lens available. A6000 with LA-EA4 is not a solution, since that AF module plain sucks.
Try rack focusing. That’s the issue.
TBH I did not know what rack focusing is. Looks like it’s only relevant for video shooting where you have a defined script and nothing unforeseen happens. So why would you need fast tracking AF there where my answer pointed to? I think my answer is still valid, A6000 can take pictures of moving objects.
It’s when you are zooming while focusing. Forget about it in this case. Even the touted NX1..with its some odd 15FPS falls flat on it’s face. For me, this is incredibly important for event photography. I need the camera to keep up.
Would love that A77II bundle in Belgium!! Sadly…
Exactly, it seems these deals only happen in the US. If you have a credit card, Amazon.de has good deals from time to time.
A77II body only for £650 in the UK. 🙂
The A77II body is 755 pounds on Amazon.co.uk, which is roughly €1000, which is the going price here. Maybe grey market gets that cheap.
Just because it’s £755 on Amazon doesn’t actually mean that is the best price. I HAVE just bought the A77ii body for £650, it’s from a well established English company with two branches and the cam is brand new, fully sealed and definitely NOT grey. If you knew so much about photography, then you would know where to look for the best prices.
I know that. I was just saying that the going price is similar. I didn’t mean that that would be grey market only, although I now see I sounded like that. Knowing something about photography has nothing to do with knowing where the best prices are. I’m not living in GB, so no, I don’t know where to look there.
OK, fair comment, as you said, it did sound like you were trashing my statement re the price and it’s authenticity. If you don’t live in GB, then no, you would’nt know…but you sounded as if you did.
Have a nice day, I’m off to try out my bargain A77ii 🙂
Enjoy your A77ii!
A-mount is dead.
Trolls are alive.
So is reality, A-mount is dead, dead, dead.
Dan
Not even a few months ago, I used to be a fierce opponent of anyone saying such things, but it’s kind of hard now to look at the state of the system and wonder where it’s all going.
With only 1 recent camera on the market (A77II) and the other camera being 3 years old(A99), and not a single update/release in sight, it’s not that hard to see that A-Mount funding is being redirected elsewhere, while it in itself is coasting to a halt.
Frequency of E-Mount releases make the whole picture look even more grim.
TBH, Sony promised updated 16-35mm and 24-70mm. Like, they picked the lowest hanging fruit to allow them to claim they’re updating something with minimal effort (redoing coatings etc.).
If Sony were serious, they would have chosen 85mm or 135mm to be updated to SSM.
Thank you for reinforcing my point 🙂
I agree, it is surprising why they still haven’t updated the 85mm and 135mm lenses
I should have bought this camera instead of the A7. Oh well, it’ll happen soon enough.
Die A-mount so Sony can focus on E-mount
Ever hear of karma?
I have use the A77 II ended up return, I don’t find it much better than A37.. Still has limit of F 3.5 to focus video is a huge problem and still short battery life. I never understand size of that camera has weaker battery than a6000 make zero sense. Only good tradeoff is that Sony A mount has much much better lens selection than E mount. If count to that might as well head to Canikon… A77 II fps burst rate even for JPEG quickly running out. Simply can’t beat Canon 7D or 7D II in long run burst test. A77 II is a nitch market good for those action photographer in idea condition, cause in low light it can’t focus well. Nikon and Canon 7D II or D7200 will does much better job.
Sounds like someone trying to rationalize the fact that they spent twice the amount of money for a lesser performing camera. Sucks to be you.
The Canon 7D II does have a lower performing sensor but the rest of it is better. AF, burst rate, battery life, build quality, lens selection etc.
Don’t forget that the price of the 7DII is much higher. This means that you can get the Sony A77II with the 16-50 f2.8 lens and have money left versus the 7DII body only.
Agreed. Plus better IQ too.
7DII has better AF and better burst rate? Go check the specs again and wake up. What is everyone smoking these days? The only thing “better” of the 7DII is the price, which is astronomical relative to the value you get from the camera.
Yes it has. 12 fps is useless in tracking. You need to slow it down for the AF to keep up.
Don’t believe me read image-resource shooting report of the camera. He got around a 46% keeper rate while the Canon and Nikon cameras give 70% or more.
The A77 II is still a very good camera but its no 7D mk II in performance.
Those he need speed and tracking ability aren’t going to be happy with the A77 II.
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/sony-a77-ii/sony-a77-ii-shooters-report-part-ii.htm
Makes me wonder about authenticity of your post, especially about owning A77II at some point in time. And that is because you have mentioned a weaker battery in A77II than A6000, while It is widely known that A77II gets way more shots out of the battery than any E-Mount camera under the same usage scenario. That is simply because A-Mount uses FM500H for the most part, while E-Mount uses FW50.
Can’t disagree on Canikon part though. If Canon or Nikon had a camera with EVF, I would have sold my gear a long time ago. Or maybe wouldn’t have bought a Sony in the first place.