On April 7 at 2pm Las Vegas time Sony will have a new press conference with product announcements. From what I heard the A7sIII is not going to be on market any time soon. At best by late 2019. But I don’t know if Sony will still show some early prototype at the NAB show or gives us at least some early specs.

All we know for sure is that Sony plans to announce at least one more E-mount camera in Q2 (between April and June). Hot candidates are the new A6500 successor and the A7sIII (as prototype).

What’s likely is that Sony might gives us some clue on the leaked 8K codec we report about some time ago.

Rumor recap:

Sony Cameras:
FACT: Sony registered a new RX0 camera model which should be announced within the next few months (article here)
FACT: Sony confirms professional APS-C cameras are on their roadmap (article here).
FACT: Sony confirms new APS-C E-mount gear will be announced in 2019 and “exceed” expecations (article here).
RUMOR: One more E-mount camera will be announced in Q2 (90% reliable – article here)
RUMOR: Sony A7sIII not going to hit the market in first half 2019 (70% reliable)
RUMOR: RX model made for Vloggers. With dual slot andbrand new video code (50% reliable – article here).
RUMOR: Sony 8k sensors and new codec specification (90% reliable – article here).

Sony Lenses:
PATENT: Sony patented new 100mm f/1.4, 500mm f/4.0 and 600mm f/4.0 FE lenses (article here and article here).
RUMOR: New APS-C lens to be announced within Q1-Q2 (70% reliable)
RUMOR: New 35mm f/1.8 FE lens is on the roadmap (70% reliable – article here)
RUMOR: New 200-600mm FE lens is on the roadmap (50% reliable)

Third party lenses:
RUMOR: Samyang 85mm f/1.4 FE autofocus lens announcement within the next weeks (90% reliable)
RUMOR: Sigma will soon be ready to launch their first FE zoom lenses (70% reliable)
RUMOR: Sigma will launch the first proper mirrorless designed FE lenses in 2019 (70% reliable)
RUMOR: Yongnou is working on the first FE autofocus lenses and some info might be spilled out in March (90% reliable – article here)
RUMOR: New 50mm f/1.0 FE lens being developed by a chinese manufacturer (90% reliable – article here)

One more thing:
PATENT: Sony patented a new drone camera (article here).

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I just got this from a reliable source. He heard about a new Sony RX camera launch in late March. But this isn’t going to be the RX0II (which is coming too). This will be a new fixed lens camera with optical zoom. And he got this early info:

– compact camera with optical zoom
-Dual slot
-Lots of video features including, brand new video codec, colour grading video
-Custom function key button set up (e.g different set up for photo and video
– WiFi options (2.4 / 5 GHz)
– made for Vloggers

I think a dual slot excludes the RX100. So this is likely to be a new RX10 or a very new kind of RX camera.

Mirrorlessrumors posted this image of the Nikon Z1 camera prototype that has been show by Nikon engineers. Looks much more compact than the current Z6-Z7 cameras. This mockup will not make it into mass production. But an entry level Z camera will surely be announced in the near future…

Note: This post has been updated with the additional info provided by Mistral (Thanks!).

A source just told me that Viltrox will soon announce the new 85mm f/1.8 FE autofocus lens! The company already made a 85mm f/1.8 AF lens for the Fuji X mount (see image on top) and a manual focusing 85mm f/1.8 E-mount lens (see here).

Yes, we will get three 85mm FE lenses in one month:
Meike has just announced a new 85mm f/1.8 FE manual focus lens which is listed on Amazon US and Amazon DE.
Samyang will soon announce a new 85mm f/1.4 autofocus FE lens (article here)
And now we will get a Viltrox too…

This is the first image of the new Samyang 85mm f/1.4 FE autofocus lens. The lens is set to be announced within March. I have no info about the price yet but we know the Canon EF version costs $579 on Amazon. I have been told autofocus is the fastest on any Samyang FE lens yet. Image quality is close to the GM lens and the Samyang is also a tiny bit shorter.

And you like it?

Samyang is already teasing the next lens announcement and we know it will be a Samyang 85mm f/1.4 FE lens. We got this info:

• The lens will be on market by May (SAR note: not sure when the announcement will happen)
• The lens is a bit shorter and thicker than the version for Canon (SAR note: Probably means it’s a new redesigned version and not a copy of the Canon)
• The autofocus performance will be improved over the other current Samyang FE lenses

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Links to all current Samyang/Rokinon FF E-mount AF lenses:
14mm f/2.8 at BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon. Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.
24mm f/2.8 at BHphoto, Adorama. Amazon. Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.
35mm f/2.8 at BHphoto, Adorama. Amazon. Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.
35mm f/1.4 at BHphoto, Adorama. Amazon. Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.
50mm f/1.4 at BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon. Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.

UPDATED: At the Cp+ show today Tamron is showing the new 17-28mm FE along with the 35mm and 35-150mm DSLR lenses marked with an “E”. At first I thought this might be new E-mount prototypes but I now learned they are regular Canon EF versions.

There seems to have been a confusion with the reports I got from the CP+ show because the lenses had an “E” marking and were displayed together with the two other FE zooms making it look like these would be E-mount versiosn of the recently announced new DSLR lenses.

But thanks to my readers I learned that these unfinished prototypes are “weight” samples which means they are only there so that you can grab them and feel the weight.

Sorry folks, but I got mislead too by the reports I got from the CP+ show.  My apologies!