It’s weekens and if you are ready for shopping these are the current Sony deals in US:
Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here) are offering a 6% Back In Reward on the A99!
500 savings on Sony Camera+Lens combos at BHphoto (Click here).
Up to $200 savings on NEX cameras at Amazon (Click here).
RX1:
Store Demo RX1 for $2,499 at [shoplink 17470 ebay]CameraLand (Click here)[/shoplink].
New RX1 for $2,635 at [shoplink 17472 ebay]ElectroElectro (Click here)[/shoplink].
Open Box RX1 for $2,728 at [shoplink 17473 ebay]Samys (Click here)[/shoplink].
RX100:
Store Demo RX1 for $579 at [shoplink 17475 ebay]Samys (Click here)[/shoplink].
Open Box RX100 for $599 at [shoplink 17474 ebay]Samys (Click here)[/shoplink].
NEX-7:
Store Demo NEX-7 with kit lens for $1,049 at [shoplink 17476 ebay]Samys (Click here)[/shoplink].
Open Box NEX-7 with kit lens for $1,099 at [shoplink 17477 ebay]Samys (Click here)[/shoplink].
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Man, rumors are so slow now. :s
You want rumors even on Saturday evening? 🙂
Ummmmm….. Yes!
Rumours are why we visit this site….
Nothing on Friday.
+1
I want rumor everyday even holidays.
Yeah Andrea, get out of bed and feed us. 😀
Hardly used and open box a99’s are selling ebay for around 2300.usd. Won’t be long before it goes under 2G.
There is no such deal on eBay. The lowest I’ve seen is around $2500. You’ve got to face it people, you’ll never find an a99, retail at $2K or lower. It’s a damn good camera and if you want it, you’ve gotta spend more than $2k to get one. I’m lucky to have bought one at a little over $2200 (A Sony Store employee friend, got it for me at an employee, Christmas discount)
“There is no such deal on eBay.”
A mint A99 goes for 2,300, there are LOTS going for that. The cheapest I saw was 2,200.
Look again, a mint A99 will drop below 2k as more become available and enter the used market.
“A mint A99 goes for 2,300, there are LOTS going for that. The cheapest I saw was 2,200”
How about a link??!!
I don’t know what eBay search you’re doing but the cheapest “BUY IT NOW price NOT BIDDING ACTIVITY” i can find on eBay is at the following link. You are saying there is a lot of them…
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SALE-BRAND-NEW-SONY-ALPHA-SLT-A99-FULL-FRAME-DIGITAL-SLR-CAMERA-BODY-ONLY-/221195621310?pt=AU_Digital_Cameras&hash=item33804953be
Completed listings.
By the way, I’m referring to U.S. Dollars.
Here’s one that just went for $2325…
http://www.ebay.com/itm/230947189682?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
I’ve been following these things friend. Sorry… I wouldn’t have said it if I hadn’t seen it.
Yes I remember that one too. Less than two weeks ago. It begins to get tempting at that price because the difference could buy Phottix Odin radio slave which alleviates most of the wireless flash problems.
And then they´ll be selling like hot cakes.
Can’t comment?
A99 is worth every penny at MSRP
It appears that the majority of commentators disagree with that statement. It also appears that the majority of purchasers do too, hence the sales rankings.
At less than D600 prices they could have had a winner amongst use A-mount users and yes I know they aren’t the same specification. Sony has to do things BETTER and CHEAPER than CaNikon to draw potential sales away from the big tw0.
Wasn’t EVF meant to be cheaper to manufacture? Wasn’t that one of the the major points? They actually did this is the early days, like the A200/A300, but then blew it and thought they could start charging more the CaNikon…
Anybody saying that it costs more to manufacture the A99 compared to a flapping mirror, 100% pentaprism D600, is deluding themselves. Sony pricing killed the A99 stone dead, people get the D800 instead and I don’t blame them!
The cost saving measures introduced are not savings for Sony consumers, it is purely profit for Sony coffers.
I agree, however they’d make more money from lower margins if they sold more cameras at a lower cost. Pocketing the manufacturing savings instead is doomed to failure.
Sony don’t appear to understand that you get ZERO margin from an unsold camera, but you still have the manufacturing cost to make it. 😉
Well, I don’t know if the A99 was too expensive at launch, but Sony should’ve been aware of the cheap FF war coming up and introduce the A88 at equal the price of canikon offerings. And the A99 should have had an 36 mp sensor from the beginning including a much better EVF to distinguish it from cheaper SLRs. And yes, it is too expensive now since the D800 is €350 less than an A99 in my country.
One reason the a99 only has 24 mp is too many people said they only want 24 mp.
Another reason is that not enough people spoke up to tell Sony we want more.
I want a (you guessed it) 56 megapixels.
This can easily be achieved by scaling up the current 24mp c sensor from the nex7n to ff 56 megapixel.
This would use proven existing technology assuring quality that equals or surpasses the new nex9n in every way
This would also keep research costs low.
Sony gave the 24 mp guys what they asked for.
Now it’s our turn.
Give us an affordable 56 megapixel camera
Please join with me on speaking up npw and keep speaking up in hopes that Sony might actually listen.
No it’s not. At this price point I expect a decent AF module and NO DELAYS, like in RAW capture, TTL flash, wireless flash. The $2325 a99 on Ebay was my camera by the way. It’s nice for slow paced shoots, but forget it when you need a quick shot.
Frank has a good understanding of why a99 is not selling to potential. At current price, there is little incentive for Canon, Nikon, and even Sony users to purchase a top camera which tosses the flash system back into the stone ages. There is a lot more to it than just a99 having general better specs than D600. Why would anyone spend so much for a camera that didn’t have a rich and mature flash system? Not even any support for one with 3rd party offerings of smart slaves or alternative flash. This is 2013 you know. We should all be reveling in a mature flash system with pluri-potential. Yet we wrestle with adapters that promise all the class of a $3 Chinese widget fix.
Likewise, the sports togs are not to give up their OVF advantage. See here for reasons why yet another tog selling out of Sony just because the EVF couldn’t keep pace with children in action. He didn’t want to change, but I totally understand why he had to. I felt bad for him, and embarrassed for our brand.
http://www.dyxum.com/dforum/selling-all-my-gear-top-lensescameras-flashes_topic96756_page1.html
How insulting for Sony to abandon working photographer needs. We’re the best evangelists they could ever hope for.
How insulting, all the lies about iISO compatibility, just to support false promises of MIS, which force purchase of Sony microphone along with XLR (again killing legacy investment). It’s disrespectful at best. Insidious at worst, with the seemingly intentional sophomoric designs for accessories. Has one single Sony designer ever had to use the XLR in the field? Do they think we like adapters and clunky brackets? How much thought went into that aluminum adapter just to allow XLR to fit the VG cams? It’s flipping absurd.
Sadly, much of what Sony does seems little more than high talk afterthought, appeasing only the tech lust of zombified adhoc victims.