(SR5) Sony A7s to ship in July (not sure about the price yet).

Pricing listed by Australian Store Teds (not the official price).

The next Sony announcement will be made next week on May 15. And let’s hope Sony unveil the final A7s pricing by then. In the meantime I got confirmation for sources that the “real” shipment period for the A7s will be July! With “real” I mean that Sony will officially state it will be abit earlier but as usual first camera will be in Store a couple of weeks later.

There is still a lot of uncertainty about the final A7s pricing. Sony is spreading different pricing info to different stores. All I heard from one of my trusted sources is that the price could be “lower than expected”. Let’s hope he is right :)

A7s Preorder or pure notification store links:
USA: Sony USAmazon and BHphoto.
Europe:  Sony DE, UK, ES, FR, IT, NL, SE, FI, PL.
Asia: Digitalrev

Reminder: You will need the Atomos Shogun at BHphoto (Click here) to grab 8bit 4:2:2 4K video.

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(UPDATED) Sony Hong Kong/Japan announce the new A77II and A7s.

This is the Sony Hong Kong event flyer which says there will be a product announcement at 19.15-20.30 local time (That’s 12.15-13.30 London time). Like I told you yesterday do not expect too much from it. It may be that they show the A77II only. The A77II also got announced today only(!) in Japan (Source: DC.watch).

UPDATE: Indeed Sony Hong Kong announced the already known Sony A77II (chinese pdf here) and Sony A7s (chinese pdf here). They didn’t unveil the pricing for the A7s :(

The one real big announcement to follow will be made next week on May 15! We will see the new RX100M3 and likely also the final A7s pricing. And hopefully Sony will also shows us the first image of the new Zeiss 16-35mm f/4.0 FE lens too!

Thanks Mike for the translation!

Reminder: Sony announcement tomorrow (May 7). And RX100M3 announced on May 15?

So far I got info about two more Sony announcements on May 7 and May 15. From what I heard the Sony A7s pricing and the RX100M3 will be unveiled. But I am yet not sure what exactlyw ill be announced when. The May 7 event flyer from Sony Hong Kong shows a big Alpha Logo. But I don’t know if they will just show the new A77II or also announce the A7s pricing. A trusted source told me he heard the RX100M3 will be unveiled on May 15.

A7s pricing: Sony is spreading different price info that’s why you didn’t see me posting an SR5 rumor yet. Store owners told me prices between $1800 and $5000. And they claim they got the info from Sony managers. So you see, better to wait for the real pricing announcement :)

New Zeiss 16-35mm f/4.0 FE lens: Maybe Sony will show this lens for the first time after tomorrow along the A7s pricing announcement.

RX100M specs: Nothing has changed from the previous info I got. The specs I share now are 99% correct:
20MP sensor (same as RX100M2 model)
ISO 125-25600
24-70mm f/1.8-2.8 lens
Built in View finder (SVGA OLED Tru-Finder 1440k dots)
Tiltable screen (180 degrees up)
Record in XAVC S format (Same format of the Sony A7s but with no 4K output option).
Almost same size and weight as the current RX100/M2 models.
I have been told all other specs are the same of the current RX100II model.
Price is said to be around 800-850 Euro in Europe. Should be around $800-850 in USA (US price is my guess)

(SR4) New Zeiss FE 16-35mm f/4.0 FE lens will cost about the same as the 24-70mm Zeiss.

Image courtesy: Photoscala.

I have been told the newly announced Zeiss 16-35mm OSS FE lens will cost about the same as the current Zeiss 24-70mm FE lens ($1199 here on Amazon). Sony still hasn’t shared any image of the lens yet. But it should ship from August.

Image courtesy: Photoscala.

Zeiss 24-70mm FE Price check:  in USA at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, SonystoreUS. And in Europe at Sony DE, FR, IT, ES, NL, BE, SE, PT (Click on country name to see the lens site).

A77 Preorders:
Sony A77 body in USA at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), Sony Store (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Sony A77 with 16-50mm lens at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), Sony Store (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Sony A77 body in Europe at Sony Germany, Sony UK, Sony France, Sony IT, ES, NL, BE, AT, CH, PT, NO, SE, FI.

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(SR5) Sony A65 will not get a successor.

The image on top is part of an officially released Sony A77II slide. It clearly shows the A65 will not get a successor. And also there is no A58 and A99 successor to come the next couple of months :)

Note: The “AA7” was the Sony internal code name for the A77II.

Preorders:
Sony A77 body in USA at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), Sony Store (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Sony A77 with 16-50mm lens at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), Sony Store (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Sony A77 body in Europe at Sony Germany, Sony UK, Sony France, Sony IT, ES, NL, BE, AT, CH, PT, NO, SE, FI and Wex UK.

(SR5) Next Sony announcement next week already (May 7)

A77MII invitation for the May 7 Hong Kong event.

I like the new Sony strategy that splits up the product announcements in many pieces. Today a trusted source confirmed the Sony May 7 announcement! I am still not 100% sure if both, the RX100M3 and the A7s pricing will be announced. Looking at the Hong Kong flyer this must be an A7s news too.

A77 Preorders:
Sony A77 body in USA at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), Sony Store (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Sony A77 with 16-50mm lens at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), Sony Store (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Sony A77 body in Europe at Sony Germany, Sony UK, Sony France, Sony IT, ES, NL, BE, AT, CH, PT, NO, SE, FI.

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A77II preorders at Amazon. Says will ship it on June 10.

The A77II can now be preordered at Amazon US too (Click here). And it says the exact shipment date is June 10. I also updated the preorder list with Sony EU store links (althaugh there seems to be an error on the preorder page):
Sony A77 body in USA at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), Sony Store (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Sony A77 with 16-50mm lens at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), Sony Store (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Sony A77 body in Europe at Sony Germany, Sony UK, Sony France, Sony IT, ES, NL, BE, AT, CH, PT, NO, SE, FI.

The Full A77II news and test coverage can be read here: sonyalpharumors.com/sony-a77ii-officially-announced-follow-live/.
The Zeiss 16-35mm f/4.0 OSS FE announcemetn news is here: sonyalpharumors.com/surprise-sony-also-announces-the-new-zeiss-fe-16-35mm-f4-0-fe-lens/

Meantime I am bit surprised to see how many like the camera: 76% of our readers! That’s unusually high linking rate. See the poll results:

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I guess many are happy to see (finally) a new A-mount camera :)