Sony sent out an invitation for a press event related to the IFA show in Berlin. On September 3 at 16:15 Sony will unveil their new products which will certainly include the new Z3 smart phone (with curved sensor?) and the QX30 (with 30x zoom). This is normally NOT the place for regular A or E-mount announcements which are likely to be made before that date in late August.
P.S.: There may be also the chance that Sony splits the product unveiling in 2-3 separate announcements…
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An new QX ‘doggy cam’. My heart be still. ;^)
I don’t get it. what is a doggy cam?
for your dog to wear
At CES Sony’s marketing department showcased a QX promotional video with it strapped to a dog. Never ceases to amuse me.
Unless Sony starts releasing their phones everywhere, especially in the US, they should just get out of the market completely.
They aren’t? At least here in Europe you can buy them and some of them are priced and specced extremely competitively. Same for Asia. Maybe Apple and Samsung are too dominant in the US?
you know, in my country sony’s phone is as mainstream as samsung
Sony will be releasing a small curved sensor in Sept with optional teleconverters of up to 10x.
Clearly zoom lenses and interchangeable lenses are not currently practical with the curved sensor…….add on lenses are however practical with the new sensors.
The new ff curved sensor will have a 35mm fixed lens….the addition of a 3x-10x add on teleadapter would make it a 350mm lens.
For future ff curved sensor cameras Sony might for example be able to make a 100mm fixed lens and with a 3x-10x adaper would be a 300-1000mm
If as I expect the curved sensor has both iso and resolution advantages then a full range of add ons could be built to rival the versatiliy of interchangeable lens systems.
The challenge with such a system would be to build add on optics specifically matched to the fixed lens cameras that would equal or exceed the quality of current interchangeable lenses.
Many years ago I had a Kodak point and shoot zoom camera that you could get a Kodak wide and tele lens attachment for. It actually worked surprisingly well for what it was. That said, I can’t see as a serious solution to ILCs.
Keep me posted on your a77II impressions. Particularly IQ-wise. I’d like to know how it compares to your a77 particularly at the same ISO and shutter speed at ISOs higher than 800.
I will use it for birds and give you an overall impression and comparison…but it will be subjective as I will not be making exact side by side comparisons.
I am familiar enough with the a77 performance however to just use it and compare.
It will be a few weeks before I will do that though.
I wonder what percentage of your posts begin with “I”…
So far 100% of yours do
FF curved and a nice 35mm -Fine! But why spoil it all with a teleconverter :-(( Huh
I only shoot macro and tele.
35mm is useless to me.
Unless this camera will do more I dont need it.
animalsbybarry–as always, eminently, predictably–and, disappointingly–egocentric
You buy the camera you want and I buy the camera I want!
It’s called speaking from personal experiences. When you have some worth sharing perhaps you’ll be able to do it, too.
Z3 real pics are already leaked, which is same as z2, no curved sensor
I read in a forum that someone heard that one grandmother said (in line for bread), the uncle, Bob had heard Peter’s aunt telling Joro that someone sow inside pics of z3’s hardware and it has a FF curved sensor.
Bout as exciting as an enema.
With Nikon starting to float around rumors of yet another introductory or mid-range 24MP FF body coming at Photokina, I’m curious it’ll be a stick to prod Sony’s lazy marketing department to dribble out some more rumors to counter it.
If I didn’t shoot Sony I’d be in Nikon land. For the first time in over 5 years I’m paying attention to what there doing. It may not be much, but for FF usage they have some serious winners. The D810 took what was already a good camera and upped the ante. A very formidable opponent for any DSLR high end entry. I still like my full frame gear non- mirrorless. So, to me it matters. Photokina should be very interesting.
I agree 100%. The d810 is amazing. Just saw a Tony Northrup video (he’s mostly a Canon shooter) doing a comparison with his Canon 5D Mark III where he declared the d810 the best camera you can buy. It absolutely slayed the Canon which has been a sort of ‘gold standard.’
It shows me potential of the a99II if Sony does it right. Can’t wait for the announcement.
Actually, an enema can be pretty darn exciting, if done right and administered by a beautiful, young nurse.
Sony will be announcing new A and E-mount releases in late August?
The event will be in February 2015, cuz they are waiting for the nex-gen Intel’s mobile processor Broadwell.
I hope the 2/3 curved sensor + 20mm equ. lens is not aimed for the big Z3 smartphone!
It would be much more interesting in a highly pocketable compact camera…
There may be also the chance that Sony splits the product unveiling in 2-3 separate announcements… http://apu.sh/9ac
According to today’s Sigma Rumors….a new supertele zoom possibly. 300-600mm is almost 100% certain to be anounced in September.
Well, I interpret the Sigma Rumor a shade differently. How I read it, the “100% certainty” is a new telephoto to supplement the 120-300mm f/2.8 sports lens. They don’t know the details but bring up 300-600mm rumors “are floating around.”
Eh, I’ll run with the fantasy now that it really will be a 300-600mm ‘sports’ lens (realizing it’ll probably be too slow), that it’ll be hand-holdable (realizing physics prevents it if it’s not), so sharp the images from it will make my eyes bleed (a virtual impossibility in a zoom), and all in an affordable package (if you’re not laughing at the point, you have no sense of humor).
Am I interested even when the reality falls short? Darn toot’n!
Cancelled the Tamron yet? Serious question.
Your response came out above..instead of below your comment.
Of course it is not a certainty that the Siggy will be any better choice than the Tammy.
Don’t get me wrong, as I said above, I think Sigma right now is more interested in quality than Tamron. Unfortunately, there’s the reality of the physics and costs of quality. Their current sports lens is fast but very heavy and very expensive. I do like the fact Sigma is concentrating on a narrower zoom range than the Tamron because the problem with these long zooms like my 200-500mm is I can count on 1 hand the number of times I shoot under 300mm and, unfortunately, that’s where it tends to be sharp – south of 400mm.
Waiting till last minute but I will be notified before it ships.
Also….the Tammy is not reccomended for ANY telecnverter …no clearence at 150mm.
Not a real issue for me because I found generic teleconverters didn’t work well with the Tamron 200-600mm so no expectations with its bigger brother but thanks for the heads-up because I won’t even attempt trying it out if I get the Tamron 150-600mm.
I get why you’re sticking with the Tamron 150-600mm pre-order because you’ve told us you’re planning a serious outing in the next couple of weeks. With Photokina just around the corner I’d still recommend waiting. I don’t think the 100mm extra reach is worth jumping into a sub-optimal choice unless you have no problem losing a few hundred dollars dumping the 150-600mm on eBay should Sigma come out with a significantly better alternative. Given Sigma’s redirection to top quality, I have high expectations for the IQ of a 300-600mm ‘sports lens’ clearly beating a Tamron. Cost and weight would be my concerns.
I say this being highly cynical of the pre-Photokina rumors (and not just the Sigma but all the SAR and Canikon ones as well).
Oh, speaking of teleconverters, I saw where someone replied to you on the Sigma rumors site saying their existing sports lens was too heavy for their matched ones. Doesn’t bode well for the Sigma 300-600mm but teleconverters on these big, slow telezooms isn’t really an issue with me. No expectation they’d work well even in good light.
It appesrs they carry thier lens by the camera and probably already damaged thier equipment by doing so.