I got my hands on a list of products that Sony will announce today in Las Vegas (5pm Las Vegas time):
1) HDR-AS200V: Successor of the current Sony HDR-AS100V POV Action Cam. This is rumored to have 4K recording (Source: ActionCameraRumors).
2) Three (all 4K!) camcorders: FDR-X1000V, FDR-AXP35 and FDR-AX30
So far no new A and E-mount stuff (as expected).
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“actioncamerarumors”………………
Yep. Friend of mine is passionate about ActionCam. He will try to get some good rumors in future like the one he spotted today.
Nice passion……….
I don’t like them :/
Don’t rely on Indonesia e-postel… All of the sony xperia stuff were already launched.
D6653 = XPERIA Z3
I removed it for now. Will check the list to see what’s new!
what can we expect for Photo+ and NAB?
Is that all ? where are the new E-mount and A-mount 4K camera’s, who need camcorders when one can shoot 4K with a DSLR or Mirrorless camera ??
Smooth zooming and no overheating come to mind. And then a slew of PRO features, specific to video work. I thought I could do it all with PZ lenses, but so far it is still not the same.
How many Sony cameras shoot 4K ?
Not even the A7s shoots 4K internally 🙁 🙁
My Sony Z3 camera phone shoots 4K internally. Thankyouverymuch.
XAVC-S at 50Mbps.
Far exceeds the A7s spec!
😉
I wonder what all these electronic companies are going to do after 4K gets popular?
going to 8 or 16K just doesn’t seem to be such an attractive option because one can only get to discern so much detail on a TV. Besides which, the content already leaves a lot to be desired.
What I’d like to see would be a whole suite of relatively inexpensive screens that can be made to look like and function a lot like picture frames. The content – loaded from your own source -would then be able to change continuously at programmable intervals. Now if these displays had large size [ say 80-100 inch ] then I’d say 16K would be quite useful.
Just my twopence. Your mileage may vary.
Right, there is no way they could make an 80-100″ TV.
In terms of next steps in camera tech, there’s enough to keep them busy for a couple more years of releases…
H265/HEVC codec…
4K at 120FPS…
Global shutter…
Full sensor read-out…
As for displays, 4K has not been widely adopted yet. They’ll be selling those for the next few years at least. Expect a major sporting event like the next world cup to be the big push for that… so several years of selling 4K before they need to move on to the next thing. And they still need to introduce a means of delivering 4k content, so more devices/services to be sold there.
IN summary, 4K will keep Sony/Panny/Samsung busy for the next 6+ years until they need to start pushing the next format to consumers. Of course the next format will be launched before that, but wont be what drives their revenues until 10+ years from now.
Nice to see a sensible and considered answer.
Actually 4K is a bit like HD, before you know it 8K will be rolling out and 4K will be the ‘cheaper alternative’. Many broadcasters are looking to 8K as the next main standard (because upgrading broadcast is a LOT more difficult, expensive and time consuming than upgrading a TV), so they are less likely to jump on whatever the latest and greatest at the time is, much more needs to be considered with a lot more future proofing. 16K is probably a way off (if at all), I think there will be some other thing being pursued by then rather than resolution (like HDR).
The next big thing after 8K will be Holographic. It will come from some company like Apple & it will be dead simple, like install 3 tiny laser projectors at 120 degree spacing around your room, and they will wirelessly connect to a control unit. The 3 lasers will self align in a minute or two, and then shoot out a color signal and at the point where the beams hit each other they will create a 3 dimensional holographic image.The initial content will most likely be driven by the Adult & Gaming Industries, and then a year or two later it will be mainstream.
Hmm,
I don’t see this happening at all.
The next “big step” is immersive 3D, like Oculus Rift (due November this year). 1080p for each eye. Stereoscopic 3D TV/Movies/Gaming will make another resurgence.
4k TV sales have been lacklustre, due to no broadcasters supporting it. In Australia, hardly any 1080 content is broadcasted, I can’t buy any Bluerays that support 4k either. I bought an LG 4k TV last year, and a Panasonic FZ1000 (great camera) to record my own 4k content. Keep in mind, both the TV and camera can’t even support 4k at 60fps (both max at 30fps), and HDMI 2.0 is yet to be adopted by TV manufacturers.
Still a lot of work ahead before we’d expect to see holographics projection systems.
J
All TVs of 50″ + will be 4K by the end of next year and there are millions of people with 4K cameras today.
Exactly..Oculus Rift – Virtual reality and augmented reality ARE the next big thing and it is downright scary how much they will be a part of peoples lives in the next few years.
the whole purpose of consumer 4k is so that soft porn will still look good or at least like standard hd by the time it gets compressed by youtube..as has been the same drive for everything digital.
Emount & Amount are death! lol…
comment of the day!
Sony’s releasing a new DR mount! OH NOES!
Sounds like a completely new line of camcorders, admin have you any details other than model number?
no details.
These could be really interesting if they were a smaller ‘cut down’ AX100.
http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-video-industry-news/526300-new-sony-fdr-ax33.html#post1872604
USA Today violated their NDA last night. The photo says “AX33”
http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/digital-video-industry-news/526300-new-sony-fdr-ax33.html#post1872604
Another of USA Today’s mistakes! I’m sure Sony wont be happy.
wow you got you hands on alist of products teh same hour everyone eld did… gret investigative blogging… rotfl….
1 These are not sony alpha products.
2 The admin mentioned a rumor about this stuff over the weekend.
3 Rumor sites and news sites alike tend to report on the actual product announcements by companies.
4 Try harder to be clever next time around.
Anybody suspect that the “X1000V” will be an interchangeable lens Handycam? Similar to the VG30 or VG900.
Will it be full frame or APSC?
Could it have the A7s sensor?….wow.
Sony should come out with a 4K version of the full frame VG900 using the 12mp A7s sensor but with internal 4K recording.
Yeah…thinking that too but that would be very bold move from Sony. Im sure Sony Pro department would highly protest that model. From what I hear, they are already not happy that the A7s exists with “their” SLog2.
So, a Handycam with that monster sensor and 4k internal codec would be a deep threat to ther higher models….unless Sony crippled the hell out of it.
Why can’t they put some 4K in the A7 series if they are for everything else? All I want!