Hi!
I am receiving many rumors in these days but I admit that they sometimes are very contradictory. My trusted sources only told me that there will be new Alphas, but they didn’t tell me what kind of Alphas we should expect 🙁
I am not talking about the mirrorless cameras. They are coming in May (I am certain of that). I am talking about the new generation of Alphas with HD video and EXMOR sensor.
As you know SonyAlphaRumors is a relative new website and I will need some time to understand which one of the new sources is telling me the truth.
The rumors I receive from the unkown sources do suggest three different scenarios:
1) New A7xx in May.
Honestly this doesn’t make a lot of sense to me because if Sony wants the promote the camera for the Soccer WorldCup, May will be too late!
2) New Alphas in May but not the A7xx.
This scenario is more likely to happen. One of my trusted sources also thinks that the A7xx will not be announced yet!
3) Sony pellix camera (The very High-End APS-C).
Since November we know Sony is working on it and recently we found the Sony patent which prooved that our “rumors” were correct. The Sony pellix camera is rumored to be a High-FPS shooter and has phase detection autofocus during video recording. That would be a perfect camera to promote for the upcoming WorldCup event!
If you have rumors and news contact me at sonyalpharumors@gmail.com.
I also need your help to improve the website so feel free to send me your suggestions.
Thanks again for your help!
I really hope to give you some good news soon. May is not far away!
P.S.: My English is very poor and I need to improve it 🙂
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Your English is pretty good. I like your English. I know A7XX would be a real hero whenever it comes and I am particularly interested about the pellicle mirrored camera, that might be the future of current APS-C’s or FF IMO.
Agreed – your English is quite good! Anyhow – I visit SonyAlphaRumors regularly to see news about Sony cameras….originally from searching for a Sony A700 replacement. Thanks for putting the site together – and I look forward to seeing what Sony actually brings out!
Andrea–don’t worry about your English even one second. You communicate fine.
Maybe the pellix IS the A7xx, and what we have seen at PMA is the A6xx?
Think about this scenario:
The A6xx or A7xx or both are introduced in May, maybe even late May or early June. Advance, pre-production copies can certainly be in the hands of some photographers by the time of the World Cup opening ceremonies on June 10, and the camera(s) can possibly be on the shelves ready to purchase before the World Cup ends on July 11. In any case, I expect that the largest audiences by far will be for the final series of games in early July.
If one or both of these cameras are not introduced before the World Cup, Sony can still use its air time to tease us for a camera or cameras that will be introduced in, say, late August.
my guess is that Sony will want to hive-off as many A550’s & A500’s as possible before releasing any new equivalent Alpha updates and will therefore be more likely to release 200 or 300 series updates first
I thought that Sony pellix camera would be one of mirrorless cameras with new E-mount. Look: fixed pellix mirror can be installed at acute angle, so flange focal distance can be made rather short… as it is in EVIL cameras.
But if they make full frame with pellix mirror it would be wonderfull! But what mount and what flange distance will it have in this case?
All this talk about pellix cameras like it is some fantastic new design is ridiculous. Pellix cameras were introduced in the mid 60’s and they weren’t very popular then. A pellix camera, because some of the light passes through tiny holes in the mirror to the sensor, it results in much less light reaching the sensor and much less light being passed up to the prism resulting in a much dimmer viewfinder. Sony may release a pellix mirror camera in APS-C but I seriously doubt we will ever see a FF pellix camera. Why don’t you all ask yourselves why SLR cameras became dominant over pellix. I also don’t see any reason for pellix over EVIL.
@James…Hello Mr. James……With due respect, I have few comments to add…..
“A pellix camera, because some of the light passes through tiny holes in the mirror to the sensor”…………Actually there is no tiny holes in the mirror. A pillicle mirror is just an semi transparent mirror, when light falls on it, part of it transmit through it and part of it gets reflected.
“it results in much less light reaching the sensor and much less light being passed up to the prism resulting in a much dimmer viewfinder”…………..Yes, you are right. There will be loss of intensity.
“Pellix cameras were introduced in the mid 60’s and they weren’t very popular then”…………………Do you think Sony is such a dumb-ass that it gonna introduce the same 60’s pillix technology in 2010? Have you read the patent filed by sony few months back? If you go through that, u gonna see the new patent says the pellicle mirror is not fixed and it is movable and it could be used same way as we use mirror in normal DSLR today. Can you explain how you gonna get AF in Video using a DSLR with the present system of AF mechanism??????? I believe you can not…..For that you have to use a pellicle mirror otherwise you remove the mirror (Sony EVIL) and it wont be a DSLR anymore. With the new pellicle technology, you can take still images using the mirror and flipping the mirror as we do in conventional DSLR today with no loss of light during actual capture, although the viewfinder would be dimmer but i am sure Sony gonna do something for that. And during the video capture your mirror will be staying there, it will capture video as well as maintain full AF with the present AF mechanism.
Whatever sony is gonna do, it would be a new step in DSLR video. How do you know, the technology will not get improved from now within next few years. And if we use this technology in APS-C successfully with no dimmer viewfinder..what is the problem in implementing it in FF? Does FF carry any separate mechanism? No, it is just the same DSLR with a bigger sensor. We failed in the past that does not mean we can not win in the future.
to James.
I’d like to add to Andrew Anderson’s comment that the loss of the intensity due to pellix mirror can be made very small. One doesn’t need split much light to phase detection AF system-it works even at very low intensities.
“Can you explain how you gonna get AF in Video using a DSLR with the present system of AF mechanism?” – you con’t use it with present system, BUT Sony has a patent for DSLR with phase-detection sensors built into the main sensor allowing fast AF without pellice mirror.
The DSLR with AF video (whatever it’d be pellix or not) will crush the market. Both Canon and Nikon will be in serious trouble on video-enabled DSLR market. It won’t change anything for people who care about photography, but for those who want a video too… there will be no other choice but Sony.
The Pellix semitransparent fixed mirror splits the light rays from the lens into about two-thirds hitting the film, while the rest is reflected to the viewfinder. The object of this arrangement, the first in a 35mm SLR camera, apart from accomplishing TTL metering, is for a simpler construction, a less noisy operation, and to get rid of the finder blackout during exposure. That is a favourable proposition at first sight. However the novel design has its flaws, the obvious ones being loss of light, which after all is not very significant; one third of a stop loss in the exposure, that amount being redirected to the finder, which is two thirds of a stop dimmer compared to using a fully reflecting mirror. A more serious problem proved to be that the image forming light rays has to pass through the stationary pellicle mirror. Over the time, the mirror surfaces become soiled; it scatters the rays and degrades the recorded image.
If a pellix mirror is so great why hasn’t Canon and Nikon released models? Maybe because they, like most of us want all their light reaching both the sensor and viewfinder.
BTW: Admin, you told that you don’t believe in premier of “new generation of Alphas with HD video and EXMOR sensor.” – these are the Exmor HD DSLRs presented on PMA you talk about, right?
Why they won’t have premiere in May in your opinion? I think that they are the most probable scenario as Sony presented the mock-ups along with Mirrorless cameras which are expected to be released on May.
Your English is very understandable. The one error I noticed is “Phase detection” – I believe you meant to say “FACE detection.”
oh! It is Phase autofocus detection!
Sorry Sony, your cameras are among the best ( a700, a850 ), and even the ones I don’t like ( e.g. a550 ) are better specified than much of the competition, but after a great deal of thought, I’ve made the decision to switch to Canon.
The reason has little to do with your cameras – I own an a700 which has fantastic ergonomics, and is excellent apart from mid-high ISO chroma noise, and the well known ( but easiy curable ) scroll-wheel problem.
So why have I changed ? Because Canon make one of the best lenses in the world – the 100mm IS USM macro, which autofocuses instantly and precisely at ultra-close distances, even in the dimmest light, and that lens will make a huge difference to my photography.I’ve waited and waited, but Sony have not brought out a camera/lens combination that comes anywhere near matching the Canon 50D/100mm IS macro combo, so sorry Sony, it’s bye-bye time.