Sony announced a Press conference for April 7th at 2:30pm Las Vegas local time (PST). They will certainly announce the new Camcorders. The NEX-7n has been delayed and so no new regular E or A mount cameras should be announced. There may be some new E-mount lens and the Hasselblad Lunar.
Here are some rumors about what may be coming soon:
– Full Frame Sony NXcam.
– The Three wonderful Zeiss primes for the E-mount
– The Hasselbald Lunar
– The 55-210mm Lens update.
Stay tuned on SAR to follow all the latest news! let’s hope Sony suprises us with something unexpected!
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Howcome can there be more Lunar rumors?
Lunar budget? $2500 body only Titanium edition?
Lunar for the earthlings $2000 Wood edition.
new rx100? or rx10 (aps-c)?
FF NXCAM? professional Vg900 would be nice but the form-factor is awful, Sony need a C300/C100 alternative
fs100 and fs700 is it not enough ?
and the F5 eats C300 at breakfast
Sony need a C300/C100 alternatives? are you joking?
Why is it that Motion Pros are happy with APS-C cameras like the F5/F55, but amateurs insist that they need Full Frame ??? Doesn’t make much sense to me.
Probably cause they never see real RAW footage coming out from S35 Cinema Cameras
Only pro level camcorders? A CX730 replacement would be welcome. Can’t understand why it’s not available anymore.
Stab in the dark: official announcement of the 85mm E-mount. I mean, the rumors have been there for some months now and the SR4 rumor said “early 2013”.
http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/sr4-sony-will-announce-a-new-85mm-f1-8-e-mount-lens-soon/
Yep, there is a chance this lens may be announced but I have been told availability is second half of the year only 🙁
Hi Admin,
What ever became of the rumoured update to the A mount 70-200/2.8? Do you think this is on hold pending further NEX developments?
Waiting on this one for a while.. need an update to reassure its coming this year.
The company is HASSELBLAD not Hasselbald. One of the best camera makers in the world!! I wonder what Lunar is gonna go to the historybooks as?? 🙂
Most likely: a failed experiment. I’m more curious on what will happen AFTER that.
Saying Hasselblad is one of the great camera companies is like saying Rolex is one of the great watch makers… Yeah they make a camera that works but way over priced for what it is and does… especially now that they don’t even make their own sensors… Would you buy a Rolex at premium prices is you knew the movement was made by Timex?
Spud,
Take the watchmaker Panerai. Their watches starts at 4000 Euro. Most of them use a cheapo 70 Euro ETA movement. I think this is a well known fact which most of the customers are aware of. Even though they could buy a 99,9% replica with exactly the same ETA movement for fraction of the cost, they buy the original anyway.
The watch itself is only part of the owning experience. It is the exclusivity to own something genuine.
Time will tell if the customers feel the same about Lunar.
Knowing that NAB “From Broadcasting to Broader-Casting” show takes place in Las Vegas from 8th to 11th April 2013 with conferences beginning on 6th April
http://www.nabshow.com/
any Sony announcement in Las Vegas on April 7th will certainly be dedicated to video, filming and broadcasting equipment, not to photography.
Hi Andrea,
would be great if you could mention the times in GMT/UTC as well, as only few people know about PST and I think everybody has an idea of his/her time zone relative to GMT. So it’s easier for everybody to know the time in his time zone…
FINALLY! The Lunar will appear soon!!! 😀
The Hasselblad Lunar has a support in the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.4
Probably because Hasselblad didn’t even change the camera id and it still shows NEX-7. There you go, not a single line of code changed in Lightroom and it already supports the Lunar.
Weird day for a press conference 😕
It’s not that weird as NAB show starts on Monday
I would really like to know what’s going on with some of the great technology we’ve heard about in the past and are not hearing about any more.
In particular square sensor andand100 stacked organic 100mp+ sensors.
These were exciting developments I was looking forward to seeing in production.
Also I would like to know what if anything Sony plans to do to compete against all the new higher resolutions coming out by competitors like Canon and Nikon.
WHy do we go through all these NAB rumors about consumer cameras every year? Every year these rumors turn out to be false.
NAB is acronym for National Association of Broadcasters. This not a show about consumers still cameras like RX100 and Nex still cameras (not even VG900 line of cameras that is still a consumer line).
As I have said before…The FX100 will get a few changes. Zeiss e-monuts as well.
Finally!
It’s very odd for Sony to wait this long before announcing their new cameras. I can’t remember when they waited until the day before show to make their press releases.
If they release a new “NEX FS500”? Could it possibly have this new mystery super A/E mount? Will they release a “NEX FS100-R” with increased dynamic range and 10bit SDI out?
Whatever it is, they must begin to compete with the BlackMagic Cinema Camera.
True Cliff. Thats why the fs100 is going to get a new life.
New life as in firmware upgrade or new camera all together?
Really curious to see if the full-frame NXCAM is an improvement over the FS100/700 + Speed Booster.
A more advanced internal codec than AVCHD would be great. If the GH3 can do it, Sony should be able to. And it’s about time we got beyond 8-bit color in these cameras. At least 10-bit 4:2:2 at 50mbps.
+1 for 10 bit 4,2,2 50mbps. I think it would be pretty cool to be able to have a NEX APSC for when size is an issue, a FF NEX for when size is less of an issue and a 10 bit 4,2,2 50mbps NEX video camera.
+1. 10 bits – 4:2:2 50 or 100 Mb/s. XAVC. & New NEX S35 Sensor.
Hopefully they’ll announce XAVC codec support for the FS100 and 700 series, actually I’m even more excited if they announced it for the NEX6 and 7
I saw a sneak preview photo of the Lunar (derived from the same root as Lunatic)…, it said EDSEL on it.
Please, Mr. & Mrs. Sony
S35 sensor (no aliasing & moire)
CineAlta
A or E-Mount
tropicalized
XAVC 10bits – 4:2:2 (4:2:2 Intra High Profile) – 100 mb / s-1920×1080 (and 2K!)
$ 4,000!
Please
Please, Mr. & Mrs. Sony
S35 sensor (no aliasing & moire)
CineAlta
A or E-Mount
tropicalized
XAVC 10bits – 4:2:2 (4:2:2 Intra High Profile) – 100 mb / s-1920×1080 (and 2K!)
$ 4,000!
Please
Don’t hold your breath, you won’t find an interchangeable option with those capabilities for less than double your wishful price any time soon.
I ask a lot to have a little … 😉
Would not be surprised if there was a VG-40… Sony was practically dumping the VG-30 last month on the Sony Rewards site. The VG-30 with 18-200mm lens was 1,299… At that price it was very tempting to buy and then try to resell the camcorder body, but it didn’t look like VG-30 bodies were moving very well on Ebay.
How many months is the 7n delayed? Gives me more time to save up, I guess.
a couple of months.
Might as well save up for FF NEX 😉
Sorry to burst your bubble, but April 7 is the Sony Pro NAB announcement. It will only be about Pro stuff, not NEX, not Alpha.
Yep likely correct. But also Panasonic announces camcorder + Micro Four Thirds stuff together. So…in theory…everything is possible.
NEX-FS700 camcorder is a “prosumer” !
No it is not. Until recently, I worked for Sony Pro USA. The FS series may share some of the same technology as consumer stuff, but it is ripped apart and made by the pro division.
We got one insider here. John,are you in the video camera group? Do you mind share some news/ Sony plan with us?
The fs7000 is over $7000. That is priced way out the prosumer market and higher than some pro XDCAM models
nex 7n must beat gh3,5dm3 in video , and I hope will do it !!! I am very curious what Sony show .
The problems of Hassblad is that they don’t produce any lens and optics. They used to depends on Zeiss lens. they are so far behind technplogy and still ask a huge amount of money . The 35mm format is get better everyday . Nobody want to shoot medium format except indoor studio .
So if this is a video focused announcement the 55-210 is probably getting turned in to a powered zoom, yea?
ANOTHER CAMCORDER!!!
I HOPE IS THIS NOT A REPLACEMENT FOR THE A99!!!!!
Full Frame video is for AMATEURS ONLY. All Sony Pro Cameras are APS-C.
True. A full frame sensor would be a great injustice to any pro videographer.
Remember the lack of ND filters, too. Might see an upgrade for that as well.
Sony is kind of stingy, if they developed an excellent nex7n 24megapixel sensor, I bet the next few coming nex5 series will still be 16megapixels. They will only focus on take away good things! That is why technology so slow. Actually, all nex produced after the old nex7 should be given tri nav to move on, please dun not spend million and waste time to redesign a lousier next camera as such can sell it cheaper. As you see all competitors are moving forward with great invention to greater invention. I can’t imagine one day nikon or canon will redesign a 16megapixel camera again to sell it $200 cheaper, or can you imagine in the past nikon will hesitate to give a better sensor to 3200 and afraid their 7000 cannot sell?
Tri nav will stay on NEX 7 (you have Duo nav on NEX 6) until there’s a better premium feature to replace it. Funny that you mention Nikon and Canon cause even they practice feature segregation, look at the controls between their low to mid to high end system, totally different and the higher end it goes, the more direct controls they offer.
And Sony do make some great innovation, its EVF is one of them, it even went down to the NEX 6.
As for the megapixel, I guess it’s only a matter of time until they updated the NEX 3/5 with 24mp.
I wish they`d reveal more news about zoom lenses for E mount. I`ve been waiting for news on the G quality zoom for a loooong time now. I`m sure i`m not the only one. the 16-80 pancake doesnt offer better quality than the 18-55
Why would Hasselblad want their camera shown at a Sony press announcement. People are only going to see it as an overpriced Sony NEX camera.