I know you are all happy because of the great Zeiss announcement (full press here on SAR). But do not forget that within a few hours (April 23 at 13.00 London time) Sony will announce new cameras!
UPDATE: This was a BOGUS announcement. Sony used the press event to ontroduce the two 30x cameras 🙁
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Given the announcement from Zeiss today my bet and it’s marketing 101 here that Sony will announce there A7 FE mount cameras. Seriously they be stupid not too as Zeiss just set them up for huge Press.
This Zeiss announcement before Sonys event is purely by design.
Bring them on
Hmmmm… … you have a very good point here.
When I think a bit about your argument it totaly would make sense to see the Pro Camera tomorrow.
Soon we will know 🙂
A7M?
A7m?
Yes please. A7rII and A7pro
RX and A7 new releases on the same day? Beware of exploding heads, that would be overload 😉
ya, new Zeiss = new A7
A7r II?
If all they do with A7s II is just add the 5AS and fix rolling shutter, I would buy it.
I bet they will actually announce A7rII and A7sII. From here on our, A7X will be announced, then a few months later A7rX and A7sX will get announced together. Starting now.
dreaming of an A7s2, A72 ergo, Internal 4K and Stabilisation. Would keep me happy for a long while, photo and pro video wise.
I think they are designed Zeiss specs to get the label not real Zeiss lens.
first no e-mount now there is? so whats coming in may?
It is interesting how things can change.
In this days we are sitting on the spinning wheel. Nobody knows where it will stop. But my impression is that 99% percent of the patches are FE. 🙁
It’s a Full Frame day… RX1 sucessor and A7rII. And they’ll show the all the new lenses available.
An RX2 with faster AF and an articulated screen would be my dream. But, I’m starting to get a feel for the Sony drill: no RX2 will be presented. Come back here and bash me if I’m wrong.
What if they released a Sony RX1-X with faster AF and articulated screen should I bash you too ? 😉
It will be one of their rx100 with one of their brand new m43 sensors.
Calling it now.
Doesn’t sound like any time soon. Fall maybe?
that minimum focus distance on the 85 is abysmal! 2.62467 feet? thats it? how am i supposed to take close up portraits of my cat and do her magnificence TRUE justice????
Get a bigger cat!
Taken with A7R and Minolta MD 85mm f/1.7 ;P
I followed my friend’s advice “FormerlyE” .. I found a bigger cat for 85mm lenses .. I have another smaller cat for Macro lenses too
That bokeh is funky fresh…I dig.
Thank you 🙂
A7R II .. RX1-X and A7000 ( I wish they will call it A6900 sound sexier ) ;p
In the A-Mount land, we were waiting for A69 for a few years now lol
Yes, seems like the Zeiss announcement is perfectly timed for an A7RII announcement tomorrow!
Rx100mk4 m4/3 sensor slog2 4k 100mbps
M – monochrome?
Bring on the RX100 M4. If specs are accurate the LX100 just became yesterdays news in a smaller package.
Meanwhile, Canon has to keep asking how does Sony do it.
New E Mount!? I have a puppy to go apologize to.
hahahahaha
still dreaming of an A-mount camera…
A77ii review from Dpreview is now available
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sony-alpha-slt-a77ii
Would make sense to announce the A7RII at the same time as the Batis.
Sony is “working on the RX1-X”? – They have been working on it last year, too, and the year before that. The patent for the sensor is fairly recent, and the lens patents even more so, which suggests that it is still unfinished. So I don’t hold my breath for it. I suspect that Sony does not see the RX1 as a priority, because the market for a fixed lens ff compact is small.
I would snap it up right now! Imagine: the stealthy RX1 weights 500g and is not much larger than a RX100. An A7 with a fast 35mm AF lens will weight twice as much, and won’t fit in your coat pocket.
I would also consider an RX10 update: a sealed bridge camera with FF or at least APS-C sensor and starting at an 1.8 aperture would be ideal for traveling.
The RX1 and RX10 are totally unique offerings, but the RX100 competes with Canons and Fuji’s high end compacts. They are sweet, but not for really low light or shallow DOF, so for me, they compete with my phone. Wait for it, we get another one of those now…
If it were the size of the Nikon coolpix A – I could live with that.
What is the patent? Is is supposed to be a curved lens or something crazy like that?
Sorry, meant curved sensor.
The RX1 has the perfect size. With a curved sensor, it could be even flatter, or faster, and have less geometric aberration. I would even buy an essentially unchanged RX1 with updated AF, and perhaps an EVF, and sell my NEX gear.
Sony has patents on curved FF and smartphone sensors, and on a few lenses for the curved FF sensor. One of them is a 35 1.8.
curved sensor with 35/1.8 would be effin sweet. I have a coolpix A and it is good – but this would be phenomenal.
It would be amazing. But it would be an absolute first, so it is not clear that Sony gets the optics right.
Btw, coolpix has a slow lens, so you cannot do shallow DOF, like in the RX1. There is no comparison 🙂
Well, f/2.8 isn’t exactly slow. Not as fast as RX1, but not slow. And it is amazingly sharp even at f/2.8. But you are right, if you skills need shallow DOF field to make up for lack of composition skills, then yes, you need not apply to coolpix a.
Sorry, I did not mean to imply that you cannot take good pictures with a slow 2.8 lens and a tiny sensor. For landscape etc. you want sharpness all the way. I just happen to love shallow DOF for portraits.
http://simonb.zenfolio.com/img/s4/v65/p1329795338-6.jpg
No need for apogee. I was not offended. I enjoy my coolpix A. And yes, sometimes I wish I could get a little more shallow DOF, but I have other cameras for that. A small RX2 with a fast lens could replace my coolpix A – I would just have to get used to Sony color palette which I have never been a big fan of.
I know what you mean! I like Canon’s pastels, and I love Sony’s gold. I am ok with Nikon’s blue, a bit put off by Olympus’ cyan, but I loathe Panny’s purple. It is really a matter of personal taste.
I look more closely at skin tones. I know any raw file can be tweaked 6 ways from Sunday in post – but if I don’t have to adjust sliders for hours to get great skin then it saves me time. Nikon, in general has good skin straight out of the camera. Canon does really good too. Sony – I have had mediocre results – sometimes looks a little strange.
The RX100 competes with your phone??? ?
Is it going to be broadcast anywhere?
A mount
“UPDATE: This was a BOGUS announcement. Sony used the press event to ontroduce the two 30x cameras”
Well, yes. If I leave the house with the intention of taking pictures, I take the full-size camera. Otherwise, I use the iPhone. I find that I never reach for the compact any more. I admit that the phone is much worse, but the compact is also worse than my E mount. Somehow, I don’t feel like deciding between degrees of regret, but between “good” and “in a pinch”… YMMV.