The new Sony A68 A-mount camera will be displayed by Sony at Salon de la Photo in Paris (Nov 5-9). And a trusted source also told me shipment is scheduled for early next year. Also: PDAF works down to -2 EV.
And a hot hint: There may be something “else” coming shortly AFTER the A68 announcement…
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The gala event will be attended by Sony artisan AnimalsByBarry.
Of the a68 actually exists I would still have zero interest in a downgraded a77…if it exisists, and if it is a downgraded a77.
More interested in learning what this ” something else ” is.
It can’t be an a-mount Barry! You told us a-mount was certainly, absolutely and definitively “dead.” It must be an “a-mount imposter.”
It will surely bring E mount. It’s just Alpha 68 with E mount
that would look really weird.
Interestingly you had no interest in the A77 II as it had no new innovation and wasn’t an upgrade to the A77… Yet now you own one.
To be fair, he didn’t actually say he owned one.
He said in another comment that he did. Also interestingly for Barry he didn’t reply to this, which speaks volumes.
Ah. Fair play.
Lol!
This is not a new camera.
It is an A77ii with another badge. And it is only released to proof animalsbybarry on SAR is wrong about the future of a-mount. hahaha
Admin is certaian this new A mount camera will come
I however am not.
If I see the camera I will believe it, otherwise I will continue not to believe.
There is no reason for me to chsnge my opinion unless someone can
Show me the camera.
barry, you always said that you only believe in a-mount if Sony comes with a new a-mount body that is state of the art and has some new unseen features.
If this A68 comes as the rumors tell:
Then you are right because this body has no new features. Is an old, re-bodied A77ii at its best. And if this rumor is false and there is no A68, then you are right anyway.
Even if there is never a new A mount you are probably one of very few here that will acknowledge I was right.
When almost every innovation/prediction I made appeared in the a7rii…I heard no one say I was right, only complaints that I was arrogant for claiming I was right or that my predictions were obviose and everyone knew it.
But when I made the predictions they all told me ..impossible, never gonna happen etc.
So no matter how right I am most of my critics will still find me wrong, or ignore my correct predictions and only talk about the incorrect ones.
I have consistently said new technology must be in A mount camera to call it new.
But I have also said there will be no A mount camera.
So if this camera exists it would make me partly incorrect…and of course the correct part of my comments will not count or be mentioned.
I am good at pieceing together clues and making early predictions, but I am no clairvoyant …in fact I dont even know how to spell it :)….so not every single prediction I make will be correct.
Bottom line…at this point I may as well continue to predict this will not happen until they
Show me the camera.
Barry,
Perhaps if you weren’t such a d**k, people wouldn’t feel so inclined to give you a hard time, and you might get the credit you obviously feel you are due.
Just saying. 🙂
I can take pictures of it at the Salon de la Photo in Paris and post these. Will you eat your hat after that and post the pictures on SAR ? Do we have a deal ?
AnimalsByBarry will be presenting a short seminar detailing the finer points of capturing dynamic images of birds. The Corvus (crow) will be the primary subject of the seminar and several breathtaking images of prime subjects will be publicly displayed for the first time. The audience is encouraged to join AnimalsByBarry after the seminar for a luncheon where Barry will be eating a large portion of Crow. Don’t miss it!
Isn’t that a dish best served cold?
Correction: Barry will be eating his hat, since contrary to his claims, an A-Mount camera is going to be released.
Why do animals buy barry?
🙂
A Ninety Freaking Nine Two, please. The a68 as rumoured sounds like a budget a77ii, but as the a65 was a budget a77. That’s all well and good, but an odd addition to a very quiet period for A mount … it doesn’t add anything innovative or new (which is odd for a Sony release these days) and just fills in the line a bit better. It would have been a very welcome and expected introduction in conjunction with the a77ii at the time.
It makes a lot more sense if we assume a (renewed?) commitment to A overall, with a top-of-the-line refresh coming after. I suspect there’s been an internal debate inside of Sony about A for some time, and a decision has recently been made to give the lineup at least one last refresh while the weakness in E are addressed in future development.
Perhaps the large number of comments generated here whenever there’s an A-Mount post has demonstrated to Sony that there’s a huge pent-up demand for A-Mount equipment???
Lets hope that they are refreshing the Low, Mid & High end models, and this is just the first release. Hopefully we will see the Mid level, and the A99 replacement announced over the coming months.
Announce a A-mount camera and then 8 new E-mount lenses, that won’t confuse the consumers at all right…
What about the 8 FE lenses?
FE is dead.
Thanks guys, I did not know that they would stop their FE line so I just returned my A7R II. Thanksfuly I bought it 1 week ago only.
I will get the new A68 instead then. Is the image quality as good as A7RII? Does it have an intelligent auto mode that triggers the flash automatically? (Cause I am never sure when to use flash or not). Thanks for your info !
You are a lucky guy reading SAR. It helped to correct the biggest mistake in your life!
Yep, but I think I would have returned it anyway. I took a picture of my toilet paper with A7R II and iPhone 3G, iPhone 3G had more 3D Pop and color.
I had no lens on the A7R II though.
What a dork.
3D poop on the toilet paper !!! Lol !!!
Sony gave up on making FE lenses. All lenses will be Zeiss now, only Loxia and Batis for the future…
Not too expensive the Zeiss lenses.
Probably the most boring reason to go to Paris ever.
Sure is shaping up to the most underwhelming release from Sony this year, plz bring it out already, so we can move on to gear that actually matters 🙂
Still a much more exciting one than another Canon Rebel.
Well, it’s their only mistake in a good year, not bad, compared to what other makers did.
Will new AMount leverage Eye-AF EMount tech? Sony shares AMount tech with EMount… hope they go the other way around too.
Poor Pairs. They deserve more.
if they did read this then why serve up anything less than a99ii or a77iii
So they’ll only release the A-mount not to confuse anybody. There, sorted
What does that mean -2EV? How much is it in LUX?
Learn to use google….
0.75 lux…
why not Yahoo or Altavista?, are you paid by Google?
Wow, what an ahole comment. Because Google owns more than 60% of the market, has the most accurate search results and by the way, Yahoo uses Google search engine…
But mostly it was about learning to search for stuff on the internet. Thank you for trying to troll…
lux = (2 ^ ev) * 2.5
So according to that formula it should be 0.625
Lux? The retro unit?
wonder if you’ll ever be able to adapt e mount lens to a mount lens.
if you mean e-mount lens to a-mount camera i guess it’s physically impossible
What’s the reason why its physically impossible? Is it because of the flange distance? I’m not entirely sure what that is, but im assuming that is what you meant.
Yes, because of the flange distance. To try and make it simple : if you have an SLR (or SLT), try to hold a lens focused on infinity a couple millimeters in front of the mount, you will see that you can not get infinity focus anymore (but you can focus closer on the other end, that’s the principle behind macro extension tubes).
So basically, if you put an E-mount lens on an A-mount body, you get a macro-only lens, unable to focus far away from the camera, and this can hardly be solved as you would have to “dig” in the mount to reach the adequate flange distance
Makes a lot of sense, thanks 🙂
Yes it’s the flange distance, this is the distance between the camera sensor and the rear element of the lens.
all A-mount lenses are made to work with a flange distance larger than E-mount lenses (you can check the photo .. upper image is A-mount camera and lower image is E-mount with an adapter in blue color)
simply you can increase the distance by adding the adapter .. but how would you decrease the distance ?
the only available solution is to make a mirrorless A-mount camera with the ability to move the sensor forward by a button or something https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/568d384686367fe2efa7e17e291946bf71f82a6d0440c5af1195a897e9e6c953.jpg
Didn’t Benjamin Kern explain this an hour ago?
Are you SAR police ?
Yes. lol
I didn’t understand the explanation. But thanks to the pictures I got it now.
I didn’t post the picture, which can help a lot to get the point ! (and I also didn’t think about this sensor shifting thing, which is quite an interesting point, even if I don’t expect to see this kind of tech on the consumer market anytime soon)
I think all is needed is a better and faster A-mount adapter with a DSLR style E-Mount camera. A new LA-EA5 adapter with a A7R III Pro.
Ohhh makes sense. I’ve been scratching my head on this for the last year or so without ever researching it lol. Thank you.
You’re welcome 🙂
I’m SAR teacher .. Nice to meet you
And the guy in the image is SAR police
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c83e4de5d14078551ab74be5034910659223dd64a356e4d07ad844fa3113f530.jpg
There’s no precise enough tech to move it reliably.
There has been past rumors about hybrid mount and Z shift.
If Sony is capable of a hybrid mount that would make a lot more sense than a new A mount.
Z shift could also be useful for close up focus, or even for autofocus on manual focus lenses.
Most of the other rumor sites that like to repost SAR articles have not been willing to repost any of these A mount rumors.
Iether admin knows something no one else knows, or he does not…we will soon see.
“something “else”” ?!!! Can’t wait!! 😀
Indeed do tell !!
It might be a new mini flash for the A68~
If, Sony A68 is going to release soon and get ready for A99
update to be made public as well in the later days my best guess people have to
pay for >$2k and they’re in process for preview at major site… (y)
hmmmm….I wonder if Sony will do an alternating cycle when it comes to product releases…2.5 years flooding the market with A-mount products and then 2.5 years for E-mount.
Nice to see something new on A-mount.
However I can’t get the sense behind such release.
During the past three years since the A99 release they did renew the most G and ZA full frame lenses. There wasn’t anything new on APS-C besides the A77II.
My understanding would be that anyone already being on A mount APS-C would be going for an A77II; and APS-C beginners would be better going with A6000.
I think for an aimed retail price of 600 $ it can’t be a feature-monster, meaning coming with compromises.
It does allow them to sell older parts, which they may have a lot of. Makes sense to me.
We live in the time of lean manufacturing and “just in time” delivery. That means they only have the parts they use and not a big stock of older parts. But I guess you don’t know that since you write this.
I’m familiar with ‘just in time’ manufacturing. They still have the production lines for parts, and therefore don’t have to retool.
That’s quite BS.
You seemingly haven’t sufficient knowledge and are arrogantly judging someone else.
Sure Sony is following a modular principle for inner parts and pieces.
But for model specific parts they in fact have to re-tool. That’s alway binding capacity and resources.
Who am I judging, and how?
Of course they have to retool for model specific parts. Isn’t that obvious?
You seem to be the only person throwing smack talk about here. Have a nice day.
Talking canting after editing the post of you I am reffering to. Poor guy.
Have a nice day, too.
Always best to check what actually gets posted, rather than relying on notifications. 😉
Always better to be a man and stand for what one says….
If you must know I posted and immediately edited when I got the gist of what he was actually saying.
No need for ludicrous posturing. I stand by what I said.
You don’t.
You did not edit directly, you edited overall content after my criticism that you judged a guy as having no clue while you didn’t sufficiently explain what you meant.
Editing is fair enough, but then only without changing sense and content and throwing shit on the guy who critizised your deleted content.
Looking at you post vs. votes ratio (similare to mine by the way) you shouldn’t need to go the sneaky way.
Controversal discussion is just fine, but then with respect.
“If you dish it out, you have to be able to take it.”
You don’t.
You did not edit directly, you edited overall content after my criticism
that you judged a guy as having no clue while you didn’t sufficiently explain what you meant.
Editing is fair enough, but then only without changing sense and content and offending the guy who critizised your deleted content.
Looking at your post vs. votes ratio (similare to mine by the way) you
shouldn’t need to go the sneaky way.
Controversal discussion is just fine, but then with respect.
“If you dish it out, you have to be able to take it.”
The bulk of what I said remained unedited. I repeated what I thought was a sarcastic remark in his comment. When I realised it was probably just language differences (within seconds), I removed it. I’ll say it one last time, check what’s actually posted, rather than rely on notifications.
I’m always happy to take my lumps if I’m wrong or out of line. If you think I’ve been sneaky, I can live with that.
My wife has been shooting Minolta and Sony for decades and she does great portraits and weddings, but she is just not that much into the technology of cameras. Her A77 is too much camera for her and I’ll be glad to get her an A68 as a replacement. I’m sure it will suffice. I am actually really looking forward to this camera.
I don’t think they’ll be much difference between the A77 and A68.
This is going to be Sony’s answer to the Canon Rebel. Unless you shop for cameras at Best Buy, stick with the bundled kit lens, and always shoot in “auto mode” you are probably not going to be too interested.
I have about 15 A.mount lenses. I have tried Auto mode, but I do not use it. I bought my a57 body only (i.e no kit lens). I bought it from a photo specialist (i.e. no Best Buy equivalent).
I am very interested in a68. I am not interested in a99ii (too expemsive).
I prefer simpler cheaper bodies, that way I can upgrade more often and can afford lenses.
Canon Rebel (700d) sells for 500 Euro with kit lens, different price category. Sony should do something about the 18-55 kit lens, it’s very mediocre lens compared to the Canon kit lens.
You’d be surprised at the pictures and video people have shot with the T3i.
No disrespect intended as to the Canon (or the yet to be announced Sony, which may also prove to be a perfectly capable camera) but these are marketed to the masses who aren’t prepared to spend $3200.00 on a camera, nor are they necessarily interested in all the nuances of the non-auto functions. You are not likely to see them on this forum either.
Money is the problem, not a lack of creative ability or interest. There is a large group of people – yet still not “the masses” – who know how to exposure adjust, use a large aperture for a soft background, make a great short video, etc. You are right about that group not being well-represented here, which is why many of the statements and assumptions made here are not all that relevant.
Again . . . intending no disrespect. I am talking about “marketing.” If you are in the US, Rebels show up in Sunday newspaper pull out sections bundled with some kit lens (or a cheap third party lens) and maybe some other goodies. If you know what you are doing you might buy these cameras (body only) because they are capable enough and you don’t want, or feel, the need to spend the money on more. (I might be tempted by an a7rII, but at $3200, I am passing because it doesn’t meet my needs and its too expensive to buy on a lark.) Or you might just be a beginner who Sony, Canon and Nikon are hoping to capture in their system. Everyone has to start somewhere. I am just trying to express what I think is the niche for this camera (but guessing a great deal because we haven’t really seen any hard data on specs.)
Like Dennis_photo, I bought my A57 at a photo specialty store. I now own about 10 A-mount lenses. I use Auto mode sometimes, along with most of the other modes as the situation dictates.
I am interested in the A68 as an upgrade from the A57. The A77ii is a great camera, but I really don’t feel like paying hundreds extra to get the magnesium frame, weather sealed body, and 3-way tilt LCD. I’m also not a fan of the A77-style joystick. If the A68 has the A77ii guts inside an A65 body, that would meet my needs nicely.
I hope Paris is not the only place where this camera will debut. We have a photo expo in Stockolm, Sweden at the same time. I suppose the chanses are next to null, but one can always dream….
I guess it’s too late, but I do hope that if this starts the next generation of SLTs then maybe Sony could give the new bodies a hybrid viewfinder, so you have both a prism and the ability to see changes being done to the image
Doubtful. That would add complexity and cost. Not something that would show up in the A68, which is the low end of the DSLT line.
Not gonna hold my breath bet its a E-mount announcemnt lol
Sony, bring a 42Mpx A-mount camera with all the bell and whistles you’re capable to offer and another 12Mpx model focused on Speed. 12fps af-c, unlimited buffer, dual AF system (ala a99, but with 179 pdaf points on sensor and 79 dedicated pdaf points on mirror). Dual card slots please and tilt-rotating lcd screen. Make latest A-mount lenses worthy with cameras like the ones I mentioned.
Give it S-Log and 120FPS @ 1080P, and you’ll sell truckloads of them.
I’ll visit the salon de la photo so I’ll see the A68. Great !
I wonder. Will the A68 be better than the current A77 II.
Because i belive that if Sony is to keep on going with the A mount. Then the A68 has to be better than the A77 I, and then they have to release a A77 III for the semi pros, and the A99 II for the Pros
77 – 68 = 9
A9 confirmed~!!!
This are the changes for A68…. almost same spec but new 24Mpx BSI sensor with 5 axis stabilization.
This new camera may not be an A mount camera but the long rumored hybrid camera that has been in the rumor mill for several years now.
This new camera may not be an A mount camera but the long rumored hybrid camera that has been in the rumor mill for several years now.
It does not make sense to produce a new entry level A mount camera, but a new entry level camera that can be use for E and A mount would make sense and quiet some complaints about not wanting to use an adapter.
It would also explain why other sites like mirroless rumors are expecting E mount news, and onlu SAR is talking about new A mount.
What if Sony cram all the goodies in this A68? 42mp BSI with 5 Axis stabilizer and OSPDAF . SLT flip up option, dual card slot, NFC, WIFI and all the best fancy spec and performance you find on the A7RII.
And this might be the first APS-C that will put Canon 5DSR to shame. What a marketing tactic, trolling competitor’s pro body with a entry/midrange body.
Which makes sense, unless you shoot A mount where body upgrades are few & far between.
You’re better off saving the extra and getting an A77II, because the next opportunity to upgrade may never come.
Why? If the A68 turns out to be basically an A77ii in a less-expensive shell, why spend the extra $300-$400 for features you don’t care about?
Shipping in 2016? For a consumer body?
Get real, this needs to be in stores in the next couple weeks, or it will miss the largest buying season of the year, and while you can release a high-end body by announcing well in advance of shipping, that’s the kiss of death for consumer gear, by the time it reaches stores 2-3 months later all of the hype is done and it doesn’t make a ripple.
My bet? A68, in stores shortly, something else, in stores in 2016.
Where is my A99 II announcment you talked about mid Oktober ?
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