We usually see these kind of images when the newest iPhone gets in Stock for the first time in Apple Stores. But now…it happens to Sony! The video on top shows the long line of people waiting for the Sony Korean Store aperture. They are the first worldwide store having a Stock of A7 and A7r cameras in-house for sale. Lucky guys, cannot wait to get mine next week!
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Specs and Preorders in US and Canada:
Dedicated Sony announcement page at Amazon US (Click here).
Sony A7r body at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, SonystoreUS. TheCameraStore Canada.
Sony A7 body at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, SonystoreUS. TheCameraStore Canada.
Sony A7 with 28-70mm kit lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, SonystoreUS. TheCameraStore Canada.
Sony RX10 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, SonystoreUS.
Zeiss 24-70mm at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, SonystoreUS.
Zeiss 35mm at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, SonystoreUS.
Zeiss 55mm at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, SonystoreUS.
70-200mm A-mount at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, SonystoreUS.
Sony A-Mount to E-Mount Lens Adapter at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
Sony A to E adapter with mirror at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
A7/A7r leather case at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, SonystoreUS.
A7/A7r vertical grip at Amazon, BHphoto, SonystoreUS.
Sony W Series Battery Charger at Amazon, BHphoto.
Sony FA-CS1M Off-Camera Shoe at BHphoto.
Semi-Hard LCD Screen Protector for A7-A7r at Amazon, BHphoto.
Specs and Preorders in Europe:
Sony A7r body at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO, PT, WexUK, WexDE.
Sony A7 body at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO, PT, WexUK, WexDE, Amazon UK, Amazon DE, Amazon FR.
Sony A7 with 28-70mm kit Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO, PT, WexUK, WexDE, Amazon UK, Amazon DE, Amazon FR.
Sony RX10 at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO, PT, WexUK, WexDE.
Zeiss 35mm at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO, PT,
Zeiss 55mm at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, CH, AT, SE, FI, NO, PT
Zeiss 24-70mm at Sony DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, SE, PT
Asia:
A7r at Digitalrev.
A7 at Digitalrev, Amazon Cina.
A7 with 28-70mm lens at Digitalrev.
78 Responses
Can we get even S1 rumour?
72 MP optical viewfinder A mount will be out before the new year.
MD/MC/A/E-Mount SLT Camera to be released in 2014. The mount will be hybrid and you will be able to utilize your MC, MD, A and E Mount lenses. The camera will be a part of the launch, which will include a Sony 70-210 F4 Beercan, which is a re-engineered minolta beercan, as well as a 16-250 F2.8 Superzoom to be avaliable at launch as part of a superkit deal. The lens will be made in collaboration with Hassleblad. Will be compact and ligtweight, and yet will deliver stellar(pun intended) image quality.
DOH! Forgot to mention Hybrid Dual On-Sensor AF and a Flip-Up mirror mode.
Aww cmon – it was only 26 posts & 9 days ago that we got the last proper rumour… 😉
much as we would all love to see amazing rumours every day we must never forget that this site is entirely the work of only one person who puts in a heck of a lot of time & effort that we get for free.
If he wants to get excited about a new product & go off on a tangent for a while then that is entirely his perogative.
Perhaps the rumour mill is just very quiet at the moment – the next wave of announcements won’t be until well into the new year so I would not be suprised if there is a dearth of decent roumours going round.
But yeah – I would love a good rumour or two 😉
SR1?
Mid Format fixed lens camera RX0.1 with 50mm Zeiss F0.9 and 99 Megaschnitzel self growing organic sensor and brain transfer viewfinder. Price 1000€ (dollar won’t exist any more) coming early 2025
Lol. Megaschnitzel.
Sony is making a 50MP medium format sensor camera that is smaller than iPhone with a pan cake lens of 35MM f0.95 that will be announce early next year
A99 successor to be announced in January 2014. Has no IBIS because Sony has developed a photographer stabilization system, which actually makes you stable so you don’t need lens or body ISS. They call it Photographer Enhancing Natural Image Stabilization, or PENIS. Right now, the a99 PENIS is big and heavy, but by the end of 2014, Sony is committed to develop a very small PENIS for the NEX-6 successor.
Ha ha ha haaa ha ha ha… (penis) ha ha, oh god, I’m crying…
+9000
If the new A-mount cameras are coming out in early 2014 then there’s gotta be someone out there with some news.
Nope, this site just got renamed to A7andA7rgadgetinfo.com
Two days withot rumors and people goes crazy? 🙂
Yes, you’ve spoiled us 😀
Yes we are spoilt, but by my reckoning it is 9 days :p
Yeah, you should actually publish everything your barber says to you and change the site name to sonyalphabulls**t 😀
Keep up the good work and don’t worry so much about the whiners. The A7/r is an Alpha and should be fully covered on this site. This is my go to site to get the latest info about Sony cameras. Because of your great coverage I used your links to pre-order my A7r and lens. Thanks!
Apple is going to sue! Didn’t they know that Apple has a patent on first day queues?
Makes me wish my trip to Korea was earlier!!!!!!!
I’m very jealous.
My screen protector for the A7 just shipped. 😛
It was a surprise because it was listed as mid-December by BH Photo.
have fun with it! 😛
That made me giggle…. How exactly is one supposed to have fun with a screen protector?!!! Take it to the cinema? play scalextric? Build a den???
I suppose some people are easily pleased ;P
Please make unboxing video of it!
OK. Coming soon.
no, some people don’t understand sarcasm 😉
I’m gonna tie a string through the packaging and hang it around my neck. 😛
Awesome! Now all you have to do is to stick an A7 on it. 😀
Lucky Bastards
FYI, the first comer was given a free FE 55mm F/1.8 Zeiss Lens, the second comer HVL-F60M and the third comer LA-EA4. and the first and second comer had waited there for more than 4 days.
You usually only see somehing like this if a real technological revolution happend. Kudos to Sony, they just deserve to have all the attention and and “hype” around the A7 now!
1st buyer got free 55mm f1.8
2nd buyer got free HVL-f60M
3rd got LA-EA4
free 55mm f1.8……. maaan i should have called my couple days off and waited in like 2 days for just that.
funny thing is… after the first sale about forty of them are being resold in the Korean used market already.
Translation at 1:46:
“Sony was giving away some free cameras and accessories and I came down because because I am touch deprived and Sony employees are required to high five me if I say I am buying A7.”
So nothing more than a marketing ploy. Looks like the admin got sucked into it as well.
@ Steve
You’re not the sharpest tool in the shed are you?
Steve, you aren’t the sharpest guy in the town. If it’s a marketing video, do you think “marketing” would leave that statement in the video?
Just to make it simple for you: Taran’s “translation” is fake.
There’s some truth in it, Sony S-Korea is giving away leather strap + charger with extra battery (plus another gift, can’t remember what but very nice deal IMO). Sony HK is throwing in an extra battery and free SD card as their pre-order promo.
Some Australian shops are giving away free metabones.
my take: sony should really include the charger as the first “gift”. I mean come on, even the cheapest point and shoot comes with one.
Weston chargers from B&H work great. Around $20…
Sony Thai giving free a charger and a battery and 30% Discount either LAEA4 or Grip.
Smart move
This is Sony, not Samsung.
Hey, admin. Did you notice that the boxes stacked up around the 26 seconds mark say ILCE-7K? Could that be a sibling to the ILCE-3000?
Or I guess that ILCE-7K could just be the code name for the A7 kit??
Well, I guess you could call the A7 a sibling of the A3000. A more professional sibling.
(Yes, ILCE-7K is the A7 with the kit lens)
Damn. They need to drop that 2k on some dental work first lol.
Yes! Now we will start seeing what these cameras can do.
Can’t wait for the A mount in the 2014.
I know that store very well, I use to buy stuff from there when i was living in Seoul.
Sony Alpha line and Nex are very well appreciated in South Korea.
I want my a7 🙁
Just wait till January and hope there are some in Mexico while im in vacation o_O
Maybe the Koreans know something we don’t 😉
I AM PROUD USE SONY ALPHA CAMERA 🙂
SR2:
New low level A-mount cam with 32Mp, with usual IBIS and on sensor PDAF along the lines of ILCE 3000 for $1500 will debut in Mar 2014. Will incorporate new electronic global shutter along with mech shutter.
New A-mount SLT with 36Mp will also be announced at the same time.
A99 will be upgraded with better AF using new processor and newer sensor without anti-alias filter. New electronic global shutter will debut in addition to usual mechanical one.
In all cases the Flash system will finally be fixed to remove the stupid lazy shutter delay that still causes eye-blink problems.
I, too, got the impression they were not actually selling them. Why the tickets from the bowl? The interviewed guy looks like a winner of some kind of lottery or competition and so do some of the other people put before the camera. This may not be a line-up for buyers.
Are you never seen first people in line-up to get iphone ?
This same as.
It’s clear that they gifted some accessories to people. One of them was a HVL-F60m. Of course the line is to buy the camera with lenses.
More people than cameras available. Lottery system, not first come first serve.
It was first come first serve.
Lottery was for extra free gift.
Great to see the ZA FE 35mm shipping with the new bodies.
I find this kind of “celebration” around the rather trivial act of buying a consumer item rather lame. Sales staff applauding for people handing over their money, isn’t that a bit pathetic?
The music makes me think it is rather a hidden Sony ad or at least promo made by the store, or Sony Korea. You have to give credit to Apple for making this type of self marketing popular.
I think Sony PS2 long before Apple iPod made people camp im parking lots in front of Best Buy
And Microsoft with Windows, long before Apple got the attention.
Which one is for you Andrea? A7 or A7r
A7r
i didnt know sony made enough cameras to sell to all those people..what about the ones that pre ordered?
wonder if they got theirs yet there.
kinda worried about the viewfinder. its the same as the A99, which is just allright.
the Olympus EM-1 viewfinder is out of this world!
Most Sony employees in that video worked in an Apple store before.
I never understood this urge to be the first to have the latest gadget. Always found it stupid to stand in mile-long lines to be among the first to have the new iphone or playstation or whatever. Find it equally stupid when it’s a camera.
It’s marketing or hype whatever you want to call it…. I for one think the A7 and A7r does deserve a long line on it’s launch day.
“They” are just CaNikon troll! Ignoring them is a wise move IMHO.
Looks like Sony did everything right this time, finally.
boring! … Same idiots as in front of the apple store … buying the new ipad and crying if they get one?
Man you guys are just full of piss and vinegar! They’re wanting to get their hands on a hot new camera, one that they’ve been waiting on for a while (how long have people been wishing for a “FF nex”?), and everyone bashes them for it. FWIW, if they did that in my city, I’d be waiting in line too 😀
Here’s an idea, instead of insulting people for waiting in line for something they want — I’m going to insult people who’s life is so vacuous and empty of joy that they come online to insult OTHER people doing REAL activities >:)
Sheesh.
samsung must be pissed off, nobody queues for their products in their own country 😛
There were 200 cameras in the store with a gift bag for each purchase which included a neckstrap, keyring (of ff sensor)battery charger with battery and a battery grip!! The battery grip alone would be worth queing up for.
The guy who was first in the queue was given a free 55mm lens, the second was given a flash and the third was given the free adaptor for autofocus lenses.
Anyone know what the soundtrack for the video is? I like the song.
I have a question, can you use Canon AF lenses on the A7r and retain AF?
Si
Yes, with Meatabones smart adapter, but AF will be slow
I’m jealous. I want a free battery grip, battery, and charger. The keyring would be cool too!
Or the free adaptor they give out in Australia. Sigh. Why don’t we see these deals in the US?
Looks like the store in Korea had some kind of lottery among first entrants with A7 or A7r as a prize. That can explain long lines – who wouldn’t have a good chance to get an expensive camera free?