Today at 5pm PST (Las Vegas) time Sony will live stream their CES product announcement. Like I told you yesterday actioncameras, VR, Playstation and other non-Alpha stuff are going to be announced. There is a very small chance Sony will show the A99 successor, the A6100 or the new FE lens roadmap. Keep in mind the “pure” photo event of CP+ is taking place next month already. And as usual with Sony some of the photographic stuff may be announced “off-show”.
Still, we can hope Sony will surprises us tonight! You can follow the video live stream directly here on SAR at:
5pm Las Vegas time
8pm New York time
2:00 Berlin time (January 6 in Europe)
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can’t wait to skip it 🙂
It should have some alpha news otherwise why would they used an alpha product on CES invitation…
The promo picture by Sony..posted on photorumors …shows what appears to be an llc camera with a viewfinder hump in the middle .
This leads me to believe a camera will be anounced.
this camera is labeled a7II
After the last couple Photokinas and CP+ my expectations of Sony are very low.
They’ll say “we are still committed to A-mount” (no releases or roadmaps or anything), maybe present some new E-mounts and eight FE lenses with various apertures, all 35mm and manual focus. Also some videocameras and whatnot.
No A99II, no FE 24-70 f/2.8, no challenging Canikon, just screw you and some BS about adapters.
I hope they announce they ditch A mount. At least this will stop the non-sense posts.
Okay, but then they’d have to finally announce the replacement.
As it turned out, it was even less than that.
Best Sony can/should do is announce FW update to A77m2, A6000, A7, A7r and A7s to support uncompressed RAW and fast AF with LA-EA3 for A7 and A6000. If they can also add improved Auto ISO that will translate to eternal (At least 6 months) customer happiness and increased risk of buying overpriced lenses.
The other fantastic thing to announce is 16bit RAW support for A7r2 even with decreased speed this will be ground breaking and will kill completely Canon and Nikon as A7r2 will feature 15 stop dynamic range and allow more than 5 stops correction of shadows at base iso.
This will be fantastic for the millions of A6000 owners.
16bit raw would be really great, but if they really do consider to announce A9 (or A99) this feature will be most probably supported exclusive in those top-notch cameras
You can’t just do 16 bit RAW on cameras whose sensors don’t have a 16 bit A/D converter. It could only be done on a new camera with a new sensor whose design supported that.
16bit and Fast AF would be equivalent of downloading RAM memory…
I’d be happy with just auto ISO in all cameras. Seems kind of stupid that sony overlooked this for years when canon and nikon figured this out during their first generation of digital cameras. It’s a simple software problem, and an easy implementation. Just allow the user to set a minimum shutter speed, let the camera dive towards that shutter speed, once that shutter speed is reached then proceed to raise ISO.
Instead on my A7M2, shutterspeed will be like 1/125 on a static object, and ISO up to 2000, wtf??? Why does it even have IBIS with an algorithm like that. Most of the time end up using manual Aperture and Shutterspeed and let ISO be auto.
is there some voodoo-trick to summon A9 on CES or CP+?
Could someone do us all a favour, and tell us which minute(s) of this 1.5 hour Press Conference is relevant to Sony camera freaks? I don’t include “current products”. Thanks greatly. I couldn’t bear watching the entire time.
Wait, I thought Jan 5 was the date all along that we were expecting the new FE lenses to be announced. Is that not the case anymore? Did I miss something in between?
Nikon announced D500 and D5. CES is game for camera announcements.
Nikon announces a major investment in the future of APS-C with a high end, professional quality camera. Sony…. um, we’re waiting….still waiting….anything?