We have a couple of new A-mount deals:
The Sony A99 certified refurbished A99 superkit sells for $1,499 only at Amazon US (Click here). Includes 90 days warranty.
Lowest price ever on the A77II: It sells with kit lens for $1449 only at Amazon US (Click here).
Hasselblad E-mount lenses:
You cannot miss the great E-mount lens savings on Hasselblad Sony lens clones sold by BHphoto (Click here):
16-70mm Zeiss lens for $699 at BHphoto (Click here).
Hasselblad 18-200mm E-mount lens sells for $499 only (Click here). $350 less than the Sony version.
Hasselblad 16mm E-mount lens costs $100 less than the Sony version.
Crazy 512GB Lexar card:
If you need the biggest 4K ready SD card on the market than get it at BHphoto (Click here). It just got a $50 price drop!
FocusCamera deals (with free printer):
Sony 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 Micro SDHC 70MB/s Memory Card (4-Pack) only $79.99 at FocusCamera (Click here).
If you purchase any Sony camera on this landing page (Click here) you receive a free Canon printer (here is the printer you get). Some of the cameras have an instant rebate already. The printer will show up when you add to cart.
New Sony RX1RII:
And the brand new Sony RX1RII first day sales are pretty good according to Amazon ranking (Click here). Not bad for such an expensive camera! Preorder the new RX1RII at Amazon US (Click here), Bhphoto (Click here) and Adorama (Click here).
New Sony refurbished stuff with 90 days warranty:
There is a very large Stock of Sony refurbished items sold though their Secondipity partner page on eBay (Click here) and Amazon (Click here).
Lowest A7rII price:
Grey imported (1 year US warranty) Sony A7rII now sells for $2,699 on [shoplink 42156 ebay]eBay US (Click here)[/shoplink].
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Silly of me to do so, but I hope. I hope that the successor of the A99 has a sensor larger than full frame, is mirrorless, all lenses having leaf shutters, and has zero bells and whistles… a totally manual camera with 60+ megapixels.
That sounds more like a whole new medium format system
Yes, and Sony can do it if they so desire to… for the market is there.
Check out the Phase One A-Series
https://www.phaseone.com/en/Products/A-Series/Introduction.aspx
It meets every one of your requirements – “larger than full frame, is mirrorless, all lenses having leaf shutters, and has zero bells and whistles… a totally manual camera with 60+ megapixels.”
But it will cost you nearly $60K with three lenses 😉
Single and unattached, so the 60k is not the issues I have with the Phase One. However, I have not said “no” to it yet:-)
It sounds like you want a Pentax 645.
Very nice deal on 99. Very nice.
Good deal! Camera less than US 1000.
Let me see here:
Sell the flash minus ebay fees: 300 bucks.
Sell grip: 100?
Put’s camera at 1100.00 bucks which is about 150 less than going price on ebay used and it’s refurbished. Not telling how many shots it had or if it’s the original shutter I imagine. Then again, it could just be a return. Sometimes you gotta roll the dice.
A great deal if the latter, though. I paid $2500 for that same kit a couple years ago.
New or refurbished?
It was new, so was fair.
I’d probably buy a grip for $100. That flash though, never again.
I might be Danish and absolutely not a fluent english speaker – but I’m sure there are more than one spelling mistake in that headline.
But why spell check when you’re in a hurry? Oh … just forgot this is a *commercial* site – not a *rumours* site. My bad of course 🙂
As much as I love my A7 II, the A99 sure is a fine camera. I’ve used my friend’s A99 briefly, and if it weren’t for size/weight, I’d seriously consider it. Why so many choose Canon 5Dx over Sony A99 is a mystery to me.
5D3 has far better AF performance as well as superior noise and video performance.
No, no and no.
Yes, yes yes, but I still prefer the A99. I also thought Sony would move faster than Canon with an update, but that appears to not be the case.
Has the 5DM3 been updated?
There has been the 5ds, and 5dsr, and the 5dIV is rumored before NAB.
The 5DM3 is still a current product, the 5DM4 should be interesting.
The only focusing advantage the 5DM3 has is a wider area of focus points, that’s it. The A99 tracks better, has face recognition and manual focusing aids that allows quick accurate focus using manual lenses. The 5DM3 is very poor at manual focusing, especially using a 85mm fast lens. Noise performance is a mixed bag, the 5DM3 shows a bit less noise at high ISO’s unless you try to push shadows. The A99 has much better shadow detail and much lower noise in the shadows when pushed a couple stops. Video on the 5DM3 is limited at 1080P at 30fps, the A99 1080P at 60fps and live view focusing on the 5DM3 is abysmal. For stills the A99 produces much more dynamic images hands down.
Face recognition is one of the qualities I enjoy about the a99, but to say a camera is bad at manual focusing is odd to me. In general, the evf and all the subsequent features are what tip the scale to the A99 for me, but having used the 5d, it was faster in certain scenarios using the 70-200. I really don’t like the video recorded by the A99, at any frame rate.
“The A99 tracks better, has face recognition and manual focusing aids that allows quick accurate focus using manual lenses. The 5DM3 is very poor at manual focusing, especially using a 85mm fast lens.”
Said the 5DM3 is poor at manual focus, not the A99
My niece owns a 5DM3 and uses the 70-200mm f/4L, we were at the same venue where I was using the A99 with the old Minolta 70-210 F4 (now updated to the 70-200mm f/2.8 G SSM). Shooting both cameras (mostly automobiles) one after the other it was a close comparison but the old beercan seem to focus quicker. My niece felt the same way, and after an hour using the Canon I was anxious to get the A99 back while she was reluctant to give it up. She paid more for the 5DM3 body than I paid for the kit with grip and flash. After the event she prefered the images captured on the Sony over the Canon, no argument here.
I’m shooting dance events, and putting the 70-200 2.8 Tamron on the A99, as I didn’t want pay the extra $2000 for the Sony, especially with the potentially dying mount. Putting that against the Canon 70-200 2.8. The difference in image quality is just a debatable topic to me.
The Canon 70-200 F2.8 is reported to be the best lens in that category, The Tamron, Sigma, Sony are all really good. My Niece’s 70-200 F4L which cost her about $1000, doesn’t look much better than my $125 mint condition Minolta 70-210 F4. The 70-200mm f/2.8 G SSM is sharper than the Minolta but the shaft drive focusing is a quicker and noisier.
Yeah, same experience. Especially when looking at the files, the advantage in DR with the A99 is absurd. And at this price poitn? fcking bargain
Well, I have both cameras, and the 5D3 has quicker and more reliable AF and the video quality is way better. Despite the A99 shooting 1080p @ 60 fps. Where the A99 excels is in the still image quality, the files are a dream to work with and put the 5D3 to shame.
Canon has far better lenses, and as with all Sony cameras, the menus on the A99 suck. Despite its shortcomings, the A99 is still a beautiful camera and a great choice for stuff which doesn’t move quickly.
ironic comment?
My statement is true if you use both cameras, which I do. Your is true if you think wishfully.
Well, the a99 sells brand new for just $999 dollars “promotion just november” in local retailer
So, if anyone want one I can ship to you free, but don’t know about import duties
But I really don’t know why someone will go for it, when the a7 with kit lens sells for just $1100
Maybe the sentimental guys could rush and grab the last A bodies lol
This kind of super deals and fire sales that only you see with Samsung, Olympus, etc
Forget about chart sales, that’s the signal something its not selling good
Well, don’t take Samsung fire sales too serious, appear they are getting out of camera bussines
But its just temporally, they are killing the nex brand because next year they will announce the buyout of nikon, yep, they will pullout a minolta/Sony!
None took Sony serious until they buy Minolta
Samsung had outstanding sensors and lenses that go nowhere because they are unknown in camera bussines, fourtanely in this market you can buy prestige, and looking as camera market current state, Nikon will be a better bargain to Samsung that Minolta was to Sony
The deal its almost done, that’s why Samsung and Nikon had not released new products and lenses in a while, and Nikon/Samsung marketing had almost completely stopped.
Beware Sony, niksung or samikon, are coming, and the products they are developing its nothing but raising the bar even further, in fact the only that will lose will be canon, canon just will not survive the war coming, it will be a market split between Sony and Samsung, with less than 20% to everyone else (Panasonic,Olympus,canon,leica,Fuji) in fact canon will became more a lenses supplier than anything else, Fuji will be a niche as always, but even smaller niche than today, leica niche, m4/3 will dissapear after that war, the coming war will be a blood bath, that for customers its just good news, finally photo market will see the light after all decades in the dark, the canikon dark era where milking the cow stopped new technology its finally over.
A-mount will be discontinued for sure. give it 1-2 years
That’s the same time FE mount is said to be discontinued. Weird timing huh.
yeah – in about 10-20 years
Anyone buy this thang yet??!!?!?!?!
What are you talking about?
Even if I accept the theory that Samsung is buying Nikon: what happens?
Nikon/Samsung keep F-mount for DSLR? Nothing changes!
Nikon/Samsung use F-mount for mirrorless? Pentax fail revision #2 🙂
Nikon gets Samsung Sensors? Sony sensor division loses a portion of market share!
Nikon accept Samsung NX mirrorless mount? No FF mirrorless possible!
Nikon/Samsung introduce new mirrorless-mount? They must start with new lenses at 0.
And don’t forget after a fusion of 2 companies (especially with 2 different languages) the R&D goes down in the first years.
I really don’t see dark times for Canon because of a Samsung-Nikon fusion!
Smoking deal
That is a great deal here in the UK the A99 body alone costs £1400 { $2100 }
Wow! That’s actually not bad. What’s bad – I’ve already sold pretty much all my a-mount lenses 🙂