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Today is the one year anniversary of Sony not announcing a single A-mount product (camera & lenses) nothing for a year and nothing officially planned or officially announced. Yep, a-mount is dead, dead, dead. Dan
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Barry June 14 is when you’ll see the announcement your waiting for.
You could be right Dan. It’s been silent on the A-mount front for to long!! I’ve never seen it this quiet in years of following the A system!
Forget announcements, not a single A mount rumor in last few months. Too much emphasis on deals and other stuff..
Are you reading the same website ? The A79 rumor and the 4k FF rumor escaped your notice ?
@Dan is absolutely wrong. A-Mounts are never made in the winter or spring. Its only quiet because Sony only makes A-Mount announcements in the summer months for its semi-pro / professional cameras. The Spring is reserved for consumer electronics.
I cant seem to get this to post in the other form (being moderated by Admin?)
This is true. It is going to be a ‘soft transition’ by Sony, which they’re already in the midst of. They’ll never announce that development has ceased for A-mount; from the user perspective nothing will change. What you will see, one by one, are products that sell out or are marked as discontinued. Once everything is discontinued, the brand will be gone.
This began early last year, starting with some accessories such as G and Zeiss lens hoods. They are no longer producing them a-al-carte for sale by 3rd party suppliers. If you need to buy a replacement, you must go through Sony Service or Parts directly and the divert the needed sale item from production stock.
Next, you’ll see consumer grade APS-C A-mount items evaporate, beginning with the A58 (with no replacement being announced) and its associated APS-C SAM lenses.
Following this, you’ll start to see Full Frame A-mount cameras and lenses disappear from in-stock status.
This is how every discontinued Sony product flow has worked in the past. For example, the Sony AF500 f/8 Reflex lens slowly started showing as ‘back-ordered’ for several weeks all over the web. Eventually, retailers started cancelling the orders when Sony notified them that “there would be no more stock expected of this item.”
Is this going to happen with E-mount? My opinion; YES. APS-C has a limited lifespan and it is reaching the end of it. But it will be several years before this happens.
EF-Mount is what Sony is betting the farm on. EF-Mount is where R&D money is going. Will FE-Mount succeed? I think so, but there’s no guarantee. This is Sony, afterall.
RobertNaarsta, what is “EF-mount”??? Maybe you were referring to “FE-mount”? Funny thing is….
… let’s get one thing straight – there is no such thing as FE mount. Sony has two mounts – A-mount and E-mount.
In the A-mount category, there are lenses which cover crop sensors, as well as lenses which cover full-frame sensors.
The same thing holds true for E-mount, i.e. there are E-mount lenses, which cover only crop-sensors, and there are E-mount lenses which cover full-frame sensors. Those E-mount lenses, which are capable of covering full-frame sensors are referred to as FE lenses, BUT THE MOUNT IS E-MOUNT.
To better illustrate this, look at this image of the full-frame 35mm Zeiss:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81kJDKjiubL._SL1500_.jpg
See how is clearly states “E-mount”? This is an FE lens (since it covers full frame), just like it as a Zeiss lens and an autofocus lens and so on, but the mount is E-mount. How hard is this to understand?
Good Sir. Let it go. We get it. I’m pretty sure everyone except you knows what I’m referring to. I’m doing it for ease of understanding…not that I actually believe that there’s a separate “FE Mount”.
Actually your wrong. Sony is preparing to release new cameras for the other 82% of the market that uses DSLR cameras. The market segment that actually matters.
Sony announces its high end A-Mounts in the Summer, and releases them in the Fall. This has been the norm since the A700.
The APS-C is launching first because the 90% of all DSLR cameras sold use APS-C sensors because. Anyone telling you otherwise is simply stup!d.
APS-C will remain the dominate sensor in the DSLR market segment because of its excellent price performance ratio.
Two FF frame models are being launched little is known but one is a A99 replacement, and other will sit between the A79, and the A99 replacement.
Sony intends to hang onto the DSLR segment for a very long time.
Unless full frame can sell for $300 (which is the price of a brand new NEX3n and is the top selling mirrorless camera on amazon, APS-C isn’t going anywhere !!!
And the A58 is a year old camera. Whats the point of replacing a year old camera ? The camera that is going to be replaced is the A77 and A65 most likely.
I agree. The A65 / A77 will be first. The A850 replacement (A88) will likely be launched later this year.
Dan wrote:
“Today is the one year anniversary of Sony not announcing a single A-mount product (camera & lenses) nothing for a year and nothing officially planned or officially announced. Yep, a-mount is dead, dead, dead. Dan”
RobertNaarsta wrote:
“This is true.”
Robert, please tell us how you know that. Are you working at Sony Image department?
Dan, neither Sony nor any of the other camera manufacturers are usually announcing their coming models a long time ahead.
Besides, it is not true that Sony haven’t made a single official pronouncement about A-mount. They have shown slides with placards showing the “rank” of the next A-mount camera (better than A77). Also, Sony representatives, both here in Sweden and at other places, has told us that there are more A-mount cameras coming after the A77 replacement (A78?/A79?). Later, there will be an A-mount 4K camera, and probably a fast pro camera too.
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This is true also. There are a few A-mount cameras already in the development pipeline. All High End – Enthusiast and Pro only. They’ve been delayed several times (should have been released already) due to resources being reallocated to FE mount and RX development.
Lets just say I’m the Snowden of A-mount information.
RobertNaarsta, I appreciate your insights, but if you were “the Snowden of A-mount information”, you should also know that there is no such thing as FE-mount.
Doh! My mistake.
Is this MoiMoi?
Anyone using the Alpha platform understands what FE means (A7/A7r). FE is not an official term, but the community has been using it to differentiate the APS-C optimized lenses from the FF optimized lenses. So Robert is right.
Robert also right about the next three A-Mount cameras being released this year. (One A79 model, and two A88 models)
Sony will announce them in the summer, and release them in the fall prior to Photokina 2014.
Sony doesn’t announce semi-pro/Professional cameras at consumer electronics events.
Consumer events are reserved for the e-mount.
Check you facts. The A58 was released only 10 months ago. Sony releases semi-pro camera replacements on three year intervals. Now go to Wikipedia do five minutes of research, before you make another less than credible statement.
Sony announces professional A-Mounts in the Summer not the Spring. This has been the case since the launch of the A700. You statement is also factually wrong, the A58 was launched in April of 2013, which was less than ten months ago.
Maybe you should do a quick 5 minute fact check before making less than credible/misleading statements.
Let’s hope not, in the last 6 months ive brought a58, 50mm prime, sal1650 2.8 and minolta 70-210.
Will be a bit miffed if no future upgrade path for a58
Keep the 50mm prime (if its the f1.4 FF lens), sell the rest now. Over the next year, all these items will depreciate dramatically.
The upgrade path for the A58 will be Sony Alpha E and FE-mount. I can definitively say there will not be an A58 successor.
There’s no FE Mount
There’s no such thing as an “ATM Machine” either. Its convention….
You can definitively say so ? How is that ? Are you the CEO of Sony (though even he cannot really predict anything). Are you Nostrodamus ? God ? If no then you cannot really definitively say anything ! 😛
No. He’s Barry’s contact! 😛
Ask an experienced A-Mount user. The three new A-Mount cameras will be announced in the summer, and released in the fall. Sony has never announced or released a semi-pro or professional A-Mount camera earlier than June since they aquired Minolta.
The entry A-Mount camera (A58) will then be replaced with the A59 early 2015.
Why don’t we get these amazing deals in Russia…
Admin, do you think Sony will release a firmware update for the A7R soonish? I only ask this because I have found on my photos the same artifacts that Digglloyd wrote about.
Hoping for lossless raw. :/
huh, soon not. Sony isn’t exactly famous for their way to support cameras 🙁
So when is an ART 70-200mm coming out? Sigma has been really promising lately, and their old 70-200 is now way behind.
Come on. A tele-zoom lens?
It’s definitely going to be branded as a “Sports” lens.
The Sigma 180mm macro may be one of the greatest lenses in existence – just sayin..