After all that Photokina buzz we can finally start with a new bunch of rumors. The first news is related to the Sony NEX-FS700 camera. An anonymous source just told me that there will be a new 4K upgrade coming on Thursday! Leòt’s hope this is true!
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Welcome to the Cock club.
You like cock, don’t you, Frank?
Who doesn’t?
go back to 4chan!
hope it won’t be too expensive…
For now f*ck 4k. Just give us RAW video!
If you want RAW video, buy an F65
Hybrid mount nex FF pls.
NEX-VG900 + LA-EA3…There you go. Want to use E-mount? Remove adapter. Want to use A-mount? Put the adapter back in.
next A57/A37 with OLED-EVF or OVF again please !!!!!!
When will you get over your obsession with the OVF?
If Sony doesn’t suit your OVF requirement then buy a Canon, Nikon or Pentax. If you want an OLED EVF, buy the A65/77/99.
Live with the fact the Sony are not going to produce OVF dSLRs. The choices are available now, so just choose one.
I have too much lenses to change system without loosing a few €1000! LCD EVF is so ugly and 24MP has bad high ISO. So still hoping for OVF or better EVF with 16MP body. If we ask long enough and don’t buy SLT we will get a future A600 from Sony 😉
Frank is right, there will be no more OVF’s.
Now, what is your plan?
/E
You’re probably right……..
Sony is big company, product managers come and go, CEO’s come and go, and business opportunities change almost as quickly as technology.
Sure, the EVF is not perfect, but we live and use a lot of imperfect technologies; cell phones compared to a landline for an example……… 😉
But if you believe as I do, that the old mirror, the new mirror any mirror between the image and the recording sensor is doomed in favor of a totally mirrorless architecture then you must also believe that the OVA is also doomed.
This is all very much off topic.
@E: no real plan, will continue using my A550 and when broke will buy used A580 on ebay (now for €450) Sorry guys, I don’t shoot video, and so EVF or SLT drawbacks are (for me) not worth the extra money Sony asks for
@Rob: why offtopic? This tread is all about “rumors about the next Sony FF and APSC cameras”
Blabla – your interpretation of the topic (SR3) NEX-FS700: 4K upgrade coming next Thursday? is just crazy. Are you actually here to air your beefs, and are actually trolling. You should just go away – we’re on to you.
You would lose thousands of Euros? On lenses that you use on a A550? Hmm. They can’t be very good lenses if they don’t hold their value. 😉
You can as you say buy a second-hand A580, but what then? Do you *really* see yourself using your thousands of Euros worth of lenses on what in a few years would be an ancient mid-level dSLR? Like buying a Minolta 5D now instead of the A57?
The OVF is a fundamental requirement for you, but Sony are obviously not the brand that suits that fundamental requirement. Rather than complaining in forums, I’d simply be swapping brands, life’s too short.
@blabla: get as many A580/A700/A850/A900 as you can then. You will be happy enough with any of those cameras for sure.
fucking ovf morons, buzzz off!
Do you just spout out to anyone and everyone about your obsession with viewfinders? This topic was about a 4K upgrade, not OVF vs. EVF.
Seriously, when the waitress at the restaraunt gives you a survey about the food, do you starting going off on a rant on how Sony is screwing you?
When someone walks past you and asks how your day is going, do you start in on them about why you don’t like EVFs?
When you are standing naked in front of your wife or girlfriend ready for a night of passion, do you get a softie because you can’t just imagine how your life will go on without an optical viewfinder?
I’m looking forward to read the rumors about the new lenses.
Hopefully there will be some serious informations about a DT 50-150 f/2.8 SSM with weather-sealing. 🙂
If they just update the NEX7 with better video features and weatherproof body I’ll be happy
… and new FW for NEX-7.
BTW all NEX-7 users, there is something for those who fight with the video button:
http://www.rluther.com/
Sony’s 4k tv is already shown on sonystyle.ca (coming in November), so it’s good timing to upgrade now. Hopefully, we’ll see a great increase in 4k content soon – I wonder if the 3 (or will it be 2) new Hobbit movies will be released in a 4k format? Also, I wonder if the new FF Sony cam will be 4k capable?? The future is kinda exciting – at least in the 2-3 year time range.
There will be three Hobbit movies. The original plan was for two.
@rob i belive that the hobbit will be avalible in 4k.
The problem is that the cinema need to have a 4k projector.
Those are fairly uncommon yet, atleast here in sweden.
The 2nd pr.oblem is that this movie is pioneerin new 48fps frame rate
And the servers might not be able to handle 4k, 3d and 48fps.
Based on these facts im sure there will be regular 2k as well as a 4k version where the sufficient projector hardwar is avalible.
Hi Silver – here in Canada 4k cinemas are very common, and those that don’t convert in the next year will be closed as film distribution of mainstream movies will stop.
I was talking about 2K digital standard, wich is very common here. You are confusing this with 35mm analogue film standard. Im currently working at a cinema multiplex changing 35mm projectors to digital ones but still right now most machines are 2K and maybe one or two that is 4K.
you will see a lot of pimples with 4k, though….
On topic, I promise, this is our last chance to guess how much the upgrade will cost and how much they will start selling the cameras for new. Anyone care to take a guess?
I expect the software upgrade will be free, but you will need to buy an external storage unit to make use of it. That might be pricy. A Sony 256GB SRMemory Card rated for 4K is $1400
Pricey hardware but a free upgrade would be great. Let’s hope you’re right:)
new firmware for a77 please 🙁
I’ve come to peace and have excepted Sony not releasing new firmware for my NEX-7 or for your a77
It’s about time for Sony to announce new top APS-C 7 series cameras.
I have pre-ordered the A77 special firmware upgrade.
Wait, because I have the special Sony code for it here somewhere. Ah, here it is……. A99.
I hope Sony doesn’t waste any time with that, the A77 is old and not appealing. They should rather discontinue it, lower the price and release an improved A79.
Thursday this week or next week?
I cant view myself preordering a A99 without a good review about its ISO performance.
It seems this dicsussion is a little like digital vs. film. I really do not care if there is a optical or electronic viewfinder. As long as it WORKS WELL. In fact the instant preview of lighting ability of the EVF is worth allot to me. And one of the last film cameras i shot with allot was the contax 645, so I do know what a great big Prism can deliver. But i am not buying a binocular I want not the image in the viewfinder to be pretty, I want the picture I store on the memory card to be pretty. For that the electronic helps me more than the best prism.
Having said that: the delay in the sony when you take the camera up to your eye is so bad, that I basically never use the viewfinder on the a77. So here a prism would be much better, because of a fault in the implementation of the EVF, not that concept itself.
I have to agree with one poster: really why have a mirror at all? For now is it only for faster auto focus? Shouldn’t there be another way to improve the autofocus, especially since I have the feeling that the a77 and the a57 before it while focussing fast, often focussed on the wrong thing. At least for me they have cost me many wonderful frames, by focusing on something on the side of the image, without any rhyme or reason. enough to make eye nikon/canon, really.
Seems that Olympus has figured out how to autofocus very well with the OM-D. Thus, if we assume that auto focus can be implemented just as well without any mirror, then what reason is left for the mirror?
Moroever, could sony keep the current lens mount, and, lacking any mirror, start building Leica M style wide angles that almost touch the sensor and that have extremely low distortion? I love my 21 mm Leica, it is just totally different from the “mirrorbox” lenses, amazing.
Of course keep the lens mount and distance to sensor, so that we can keep our minolta glass in use, the only reason i am still here anyway.
Oh, and again, please give us working flashes and a Wireless flash function that doesn not cop out after the first 25 bursts! (the flash in the a77 seems to need minute long pauses after 10 quick flash triggers, WTF). talk about off topic…
So… about that Thursday announcement for the 4K upgrade, hope it happens before Tokyo shuts down for the evening.
So did the upgrade come or not!? Where is it available?