My 2013 Sony release prediction…
The following post is a mix of rumors and speculations about the possible new cameras and lenses from Sony. This is not an SR5 rumor 
RX Cybershot:
Sony is quite happy with the success of their RX100 and RX1 cameras. And they definitely will keep going on with new camera release. It’s pretty obvious that there is plenty of room for an RX10 camera with ASP-C sensor. The question is how will they make it? My guess is that it will have a fixed prime lens to make the camera very compact.
Another question is, will there be a variations within the same series? For example an RX2 with a 50mm f/1.7 equivalent lens. Or an RX101 with a wider (and slower) zoom range.
Sony NEX:
There will be plenty of of new cameras and lenses. I expect a new NEX-3 model and probably a NEX-7 successor too. Unlike previous years there will be finally more new lens than new camera announcements
We know three new Zeiss primes with full electronic support are going to be launched in Spring 2013. There will be a new 85mm f/1.8 lens and a 3-4 more new Sony E-mount lenses. But let’s not forget that we can pretty much be sure that also Tamron, Sigma and other manufacturers will announce new lenses too.
Sony FF NEX:
As I told you last week Sony is working on the camera development and an exact time release hasn’t been set yet. It all depends from how things will work out. They want the camera to be damn good, like a Pro DSLR from Nikon and Canon. My guess is that the camera will hit the stores in early 2014 only. There may be some announcement or prototype shown in late 2013.
Sony SLT:
I already told you about four new A-mount lenses that will be launched within the next six months and the most interesting one is the Zeiss 50mm f/1.4 lens. We will have both, new entry level and new semi pro SLT APS-C cameras. It will be highly unlikely that Sony will launch a new SLT FF cameras in 2013.
Surprises:
Unlike Canon and Nikon Sony is always good for a surprise! Never be sure what’s in the engineers head. So how could a surprise look like? A 50+ Megapixel A1x SLT camera, a new 3 layer sensor (foveon similar), or the come back of optical viewfinders. But those are just dreams for now…or not?
And now, what is your Sony camera wish for 2013?
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Ken
5 months ago |A1x please
Homer
5 months ago |Wishful thinkers. Sony can barely churn out nex lenses, what makes you folsk think they can do anything on that list, let alone all of it? Sounds like a stall plan to me. Canikon is laughing harder and harder. Almost everyone in the public is still buying mostly dslrs or ps cameras..mirrorless…lol wishful thinking on so many ppl’s parts.
SonyCyberPunk
5 months ago |yeah true! sony can barely churn out lenses and they wanna release an A1x??dream on!
Beachrider
5 months ago |Canon and Nikon are concerned about Sony and their OWNERSHIP of pro video. They are also concerned about the ‘closeness’ with auto-Zeiss lenses.
I read the Nikon and Canon sites similar to this. They have a bitch list, just like they do here.
If you think that the Nikon folks are happier with Nikon 1 than Sony users are with NEX, then YOU WOULD BE TOTALLY WRONG. Canon has nothing like this, either.
The Sony lens selection isn’t as wide as Nikon or Canon, at all. The do have everything covered ONCE and the Minolta legacy stuff covers it more than once.
There are also a LOT of speak-for-effect folks seeding the conversations on this site.
Homer
5 months ago |Oh please, wishful thinking again. How many p[eople do you see with nex cameras with anything other than the kit of crappy pancake 16mm lens? Go outside and take a good look on the streets with your EYES and see how many Sony cameras ppl use. Sonys strategy is the same as Minoltas. And it worked so well for Minolta..where is Minolta today? Oh, they’re with Sony! Canon and Nikon have been making cameras before Sony cameraship was even born let onlone conceived.Nikon has the SAME mount they used since the 60′s. Canon has only changed mount on there major line once from FD.
Why would Canon or Nikon build high qaulity csc cameras when it will eventually lead you back to the dslr? WHY? Oh you take the mirro out and it’s smaller, oh wow. Then you put in a evf battery drain and charge more…oh wow. Then you put in a smaller sensor and charge more…oh wow there too. Then you make the lenses bigger and make the cameras bigger and whee do you think it leads users to? Wishful thinking on your part. M43 is one damn large esnor fast lens ps camera away from being dead like apsc film cameras, Rememeber apsc film cameras? Why did they die? They dies becxuae every freaking ps camera has 35mm sized film. Mirrolress systems like m43 onkly exist because of the gap created by sensor prices. One day soon, when ALL pas cameras had apsc or m43 sensors, what is Sony and olympus and Pano going to do? Oh, that’s right, abandon the system. And geuss who wiould have told you so. Look at the future, and stop wishful thinking because even the average camera buyer knows this. Dslrs is for serious wrok, mirrolres are just amteurish toys. Its funny how mirrolress users dont even know the pitfalls of the sytem they use. ” oh sir, give us more 2.8 lenses and bigger cameras, hlep guide us back to where we came from , the dslr.” LOL you folks gas me.LOL
Beachrider
5 months ago |Wishful what… You didn’t address ANYTHING that I said. Your points are interesting, but it is totally about different stuff that I raised… and you did it as a reply, not a new subject (which it was).
I get it that some people don’t see any need for NEX. I get it that Nikon and Canon have done pro-photo lenses waaaay more comprehensively than Sony. The Sony-Zeiss connection has been a bright-spot, though.
waldomarek
5 months ago |someone missing the point of CSC.
oskar
5 months ago |last time i was photographed by a pro he used a fuji mirrorless. he said he was happy with it. but you are right about one thing: Sony doesn’t really have a strong commitent towards pro photographers. semi pro and high end consumers are and have always been their main market. nothing wrong with that.
JustSoldMySLT
5 months ago |oh please, u nex users please wake up already.
POOR sony nex sales only has 18.4% of the japan mirrorless market in 2012.
olympus have 28.8%.
even panasonic have 21.4%.
nikon with only 2 bodies has 13.3%.
pentax 7.1% with 2 bodies.
canon with a poor 2.1% with 1 boby.
they should make less nex lens since they make crap lens.
they should just let 3rd party make their lens for them, which are way better.
http://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/guess-what-is-the-most-sold-mirrorless-camera-of-the-year-in-japan-the-nikon-j1/#comments
Vlad
5 months ago |There is a a whole world around Japan. If you really think NEX sales are poor, you are simply mistaken.
JustSoldMySLT
5 months ago |I would not be surprised when other reports started showing out that sony nex market share have dropped.
And its shares are eaten up by the more popular OM-D (which is simply better) and the J1 since nikon folks no longer need to compromise their lens on nex systems.
Vlad
5 months ago |According to Sony’s own numbers, the only ones we have for now, they are leading the mirrorless market in half the world. And with the upcoming Zeiss and Sony lenses, I don’t see much missing from the lineup as far as the average user goes.
JustSoldMySLT
5 months ago |Unfortunately to update your news.
Japan leads the world in embracing mirrorless cameras, Asia (excluding Japan) is in second place, with 30% of ILCs being mirrorless, with Europe and the Americas sitting around 21%.
still, like i said its better to wait for an updated report on worldwide sales of mirrorless and really compare the total units sold and not simply base it off ranking of each country.
JustSoldMySLT
5 months ago |My prediction for sony in 2013.
Sony will continue to lose further mirrorless market share if they do not do anything impressive and really game changing.
And this is due to commitments from the other camps (olympus, panasonic, nikon, canon).
Nikon came late into the game yet they achieved 13.3% within such a short time frame and with more camera bodies being released in 2013
And this is just 5.1% shy from sony share, who have been in the race for far longer.
It will be an upward trend for nikon with their cameras being improved.
Canon is going to come in serious to this market segment in 2013.
Canon fanboys will buy them since its compatible with their current lens.
Their market share will shoot up quickly once they get their act together.
The last straw would be other camps having adapters to use both the lecia and zeiss lens nex users have been so proud of having.
That would really kill off all the advantages sony have currently.
Hope this message gives sony a wake up call.
Beachrider
5 months ago |Au revoir. I guess that you won’t be posting here anymore…
Oly
5 months ago |Isn’t Sony the largest share holder of Olympus now?
Hehehehe
5 months ago |Good point!
Zoltan
5 months ago |Yeah Sony own 51% of Olympus
Ottawa Wedding Photographer
5 months ago |Not only would I love to see them (or Hasselblad) bring out a 30+ Megapixel A1X (or whatever they’d end up naming it), but I’d also like for this camera to bring back the optical viewfinder as an option for the A-Mount.
Yup. That’s right. An option.
Think about it. If they can develop Phase Detect AF sensors on the CMOS sensor itself, why not give us a big pentaprism, a super bright optical viewfinder, and the option to “lock up” the mirror and put an accessory EVF on the hot shoe (like the RX1 EVF). Then, in EVF mode (or Live View mode) the camera could autofocus using a combination of Phase Detection AF on the sensor and Contrast Detection AF, but we wouldn’t have to be without the optical viewfinder!
And while they’re at it. I’d also LOVE it if the camera used a 30x30mm square sensor (or 36x36mm if A-Mount lenses would cover that image circle) and employed both physical black masks that would slide into view during Optical Viewfinder operation to allow for vertical or horizontal rectangular aspect ratio compositions, as well as black borders via software that would mask off the EVF should one choose to shoot rectangular aspect ratio images using the EVF.
This camera WOULD get people switching from Nikon and Canon to SONY.
But more importantly. It would keep me, a long-time Minolta shooter, using the A-Mount. I’m in love with my three Zeiss A-Mount lenses, as well as my many Minolta AF lenses. And I’m not the kind of shooter who would be ok with using an EVF all of the time, but I do see value in having the option to attach one to the hot show of my camera.
I hope something like this gets brought to market before the shutters of my A900/A850 (and all the A900/A850′s on eBay) cease to work.
Ho Hum
JustSoldMySLT
5 months ago |A1x +1
CTPhotographX.com
5 months ago |Please for Stills Purists… One more a99PRO
36MP
Mirror LockUp
iISO Hot Shoe (without flash lag)
Multi Spot Metering (with highlight/shadow bias like OM-4)
Flash Spot Metering (with AE-Lock)
Return SSS Button (rather than CF)
Move PC port back to front. (so cable doesn’t bend in vert)
Built In Arca Swiss L-Plate… yep, build it right into the frame.
14-BIT working in multi-shot auto bracketing (rather than just single shot)
Larger Longer Viewfinder Magnifier (bigger hole with deeper view)
Get back the 9xi a9 1/12000th shutter speed.
And make that sensor fully tilt/shift capable, and able to change registration distances to accept any lens.
Or dang, just retool some a900 bodies for 36MP. Gim’me somfin here Sony! a909? a900Ti?
Robert Bell
5 months ago |I’ve been wondering if there will be variations of the rx100 too. If they kept the speed (or faster even)and lost some of the zoom making it a 24-70mm equiv then added there EVF it would be my perfect camera.
Carl
5 months ago |“Unlike previous years there will be finally more new lens than new camera announcements”
Hallelujah. Now do the same for A-mount, and don’t count version II lenses as part of the equation.
HasJan
5 months ago |RE: RX101 with slower lens.
I strongly disagree with this prediction/suggestion. If anything Sony should put a faster lens in the next RX100 update. The telephoto end at f4.9 is slower than the competition: both Olympus & Panasonic f2.5 & f2.7 at the long end respectively, and they both go a little longer. This is almost twice as fast as the Sony. I don’t mind a limited range, anyway folks can walk around with 24-70mm or 24-50mm even. Sony should not concern itself with pocketeability of this camera (as long as it is smaller than a Rebel or Nikon D3200) or limited range. The kind of people who most likely purchase an RX camera is a hobbyist or enthusiast who knows a thing or two about fast lenses, ISO, IQ, RAW processing etc. If anything Sony should limit the telephoto end and increase the wide end: 24-70mm, and increase the aperture values. Even with fantastic ISO, RX100/101 could benefit from a faster lens. A faster lens is ALWAYS better.
Vlad
5 months ago |Agreed. But given the RX1, I believe they are aware of the market. Expect pocketability though. As long as they put a 16mm (24mm equiv) f2 (or faster), I would be very happy
Dave Lively
5 months ago |The RX100 only makes sense if it can fit into a pocket. If you want something smaller than a D3200 the larger sensor of the NEX-5N/R makes up for its smaller lens compared to the RX100. I like my RX100 but my NEX-5N is better in just about every way except being able to fit into a pocket. If the RX100 was not pocketable I would just take my NEX. There could be room in the market for something like a Canon G15 based on the same sensor as the RX100 but it would be a separate model, not a RX100 replacement.
The RX100 struggles with soft corners as it is. I would like wider but a 24mm equivalent would really push the limits of what can be done with a very thin lens. The soft corners seem to be due to software correction of severe barrel distortion since they do not improve as the lens is stopped down.
Dave Lively
5 months ago |I meant to say slower lens on the NEX, not smaller. And I should note the soft corners on the RX100 are an issue at its widest setting.
Allan Olesen
5 months ago |Which Panasonic and Olympus models are you referring to?
Which sensor size do they have?
HasJan
5 months ago |I understand that comparatively the Olympus/Panasonic should have equivalent depth of field to the Sonys (sorry awkward phrasing my English is getting rusty): the former faster lens, the latter larger sensor. But like I said, a faster lens would allow you to use lower ISO, get fast moving subjects in low light. People take compact cameras to events to memorialize social gathering, most of the time the events take place indoors with poor lighting. Now the RX100 has incredible ISO performance, even up to ISO 3200, but only in good light. In low light even ISO 800 is frequently not useable.
Allan Olesen
5 months ago |You did not answer my question.
But I can assure you that this is not only a question of DOF. It is also a question of noise.
In short:
Two cameras with different sensor size will receive the same total amount of light if they share these properties:
– same equivalent focal length
– same aperture size in mm
And with comparable sensor technology, noise is mostly a question of total amount of light gathered, while f-numbers are irrelevant.
oskar
5 months ago |Smaller sensors in those Panasonic and Olympus cameras. There is always a tradeoff.
chenfei
5 months ago |FF NEX in RX1 body pleaseee…
Kaigee
5 months ago |semi-pro of SLT aps-c will be a77 successor ???
videoboy
5 months ago |My 2013 prediction:
EU Customers sell gear and buy Nikon or Canon instead of waiting for fair prices here.
Denis
5 months ago |+1
Vlad
5 months ago |+2. Absolutely ridiculous. I can buy the RX1 in Japan for 1000 euros less.
Vivek
5 months ago |+3
Sony, I hope, will survive here by the end of 2013.
Andy Pandy
5 months ago |+ 50MP A1x with a 5MP evf + more ZA’s especially T/S lenses + updates for the 85mm & 135mm ZA’s. The chances of any of the above ZERO, so I will settle with a next generation Foveon or Organic sensor, I even don’t mind if they initially appear in a FF Nex as long as the camera has inbody AS
john
5 months ago |Organic sensor is an urban legend.
Foveon is only good for studio @ ISO 125 max
JustSoldMySLT
5 months ago |+1 wonder why people checked 3 layer sensor/Foveon for?
Denis
5 months ago |Because 3 colors in one pixel is the only way to minimize light loss without losing IQ. Traditional technology (with color filters) has likely reached its limit: they have stuck at the Nikon D3S high ISO performance level.
JustSoldMySLT
5 months ago |But at the expense of:
1. uses more battery life which sony batteries cant afford?
2. ISO @ 125 have sooo few uses, would the masses even buy? i highly doubt, it will be a loss making camera.
3. Image preview of the image will be dead slow, software support on the pc are not available yet, even for Sigma.
4. High R&D cost, so i would guess its more viable in 2015 when sigma finally get their act together in a new camera that could challenge them.
Lastly, i am fine with a A1x with 36mp and 2mp evf which is more than likely what could come next year if they really wanted to do it.
The way you kept raising the bar would not get you any camera, not even from canikon camp.
Leo
5 months ago |HasJan you do realize that the rx100 has much larger sensor than lx7 so even though at the tele end the aperture seems twice larger the real difference in dof and image quality is not a big difference, while maintaining big advantage on the wide end
HasJan
5 months ago |I come in peace but faster lens will always be preferable in my book. You get to use lower ISO for cleaner shots at given lighting condition, and you will get higher percentage of sharp images for fast moving images, especially in low light indoor situations. Faster lens is ALWAYS better. Sony, we don’t mind a slightly larger body. The RX100 is not exactly pocketable anyway (cargo pants are OK, jeans, no)
Robert Bell
5 months ago |Yes we do mind.
They can’t make a faster lens without it increasing in size quite considerably. Loose a bit of zoom if they can make the lens slightly faster but it will never be as fast as the LXy g12 etc. with there teeny sensors.
Robert Bell
5 months ago |LX7 sorry
John Maverick
5 months ago |I like fast as well. Bug faster lenses are also generally less sharp. Consider summilux f/1.4 versus summicron f/2 for most of Leica’s range. They’re also larger and more expensive. F2 seems to be a good compromise for primes and maximum sharpness for general lenses. Carry a 1.4 or 1.2 in the bag for when it’s really needed.
SoftonDemand
5 months ago |I have given up all hope for an all new ff slt camera. I guess I’m happy that they continue to make awesome sensors for canikon
jk
5 months ago |I just want Sony to fix the flash issues for both A77 and A99 + tether on A77.
Flash issues: Inconsistence in flash + slow wireless/delay, A77. Slow wireless/delay, A99
And fix the direction the wheels works in P-mode in A77.
jk
5 months ago |And that Sony finally makes software for mac too !
Sven
5 months ago |I’m still waiting for a decent firmware update for the A77.
I had hoped that with the release of the A99 we should have gotten one but no, we only can lock the video button now(I didn’t even bother to install that one).
Sven
George Evans
5 months ago |+1 Get a move on Sony !!!
Palp
5 months ago |A 50mm RX2 would be a great combination with my Sigma DP1M!
flangad
5 months ago |i want…. none of these.
I just want plenty of E-mount lenses. some very high quality and no compromise, some with very high compactness/quality ratio, so match the expectations of every kind of users.
John Maverick
5 months ago |Very high quality and no compromise means using Leica and Zeiss ZM lenses! The best feature is that they work so well with NEX!
http://sonyalphanex.blogspot.com.au/2010/07/sony-nex-5-zeiss-zm-35mm-biogon-lens.html
ZEBRAWORKZ
5 months ago |I would like to see a nex5 or similar with a bit sharper image, higher bitrate and a global shutter
Gast
5 months ago |Any rumors about E-Mount lenses like 24-120 f2.8 or 18-70 f2.8 or something like that?
Alex
5 months ago |Yes, they don’t exist, although rumours are circulating of a 10-500mm f1.4.
Joe
5 months ago |Nice! It is shaped like a dunce cap and it has a foot and a half wide slab of glass on the front.
Robert Bell
5 months ago |Would you really want one though given the size it will be?
Alex
5 months ago |Yeah, I was joking.
It was a reaction to the often silly wishes for lenses that would be the size of a tank.
Robert Bell
5 months ago |sorry i was meant to be replying to gast
Joe
5 months ago |I wouldn’t mind an improvement on the 200mm lens lineup. Maybe a 200mm f/2. Or SSM and weather-sealed versions of the 200mm f/2.8.
Firmware for A99 APS-D would be nice as well. Any other lenses, really. I just want to know they’re working on it.
Henrik
5 months ago |All I want is a 200-400mm F4 G fore my A99!! If they want some help I allready have the name fore the lens SAL-200400F40G. Pleace Sony!!!!!!
Crazydoctor
5 months ago |Rx2 with 50mm f1.4 ans built in VF and better battery life. Don’t mind if the body is a little bigger .
a900andanex5
5 months ago |No way: I don’t have the money and that would be far too tempting
Felip Mars
5 months ago |An Upgrade campaign for the a900. New Sensor, New AF Module and New Processors for 900 €.
Felip Mars
5 months ago |or maybe just a Nikon d800 with A-Mount……
ian
5 months ago |ha! that works for me too!
nii
5 months ago |The lenses are missing in the poll – this makes it sort of useless as sony already has great cameras.
J
5 months ago |New lenses please!
Ian
5 months ago |A1x
or
Full Frame Nex
I don’t care…Just make the darn thing already!! and make it a true professional high end camera with 36mp or higher and give flash sync at 1/250th or better yet higher!
Put some video in if you need to, I don’t care on that either.
You have the 36mp sensor,
Sooner would be much better than later.
no logo
5 months ago |18-70 f3.2 G lens E-mount OSS please
cliff
5 months ago |We can all expect a new FF e mount NXCAM for NAB next spring. (NEX “FS-200″)
A low megapixel FF sensor with absolutely massive photosites would be amazing for video.
Sean Lancaster
5 months ago |The Zeiss 50/1.4 is almost enough to entice me to get the A99 if it turns out to live up to expectations. I don’t necessarily like any of the AF & fast 50s on the market right now. Is there any news on the upcoming Zeiss 50 (e.g., test photos or user reports)?
OneTrackMind
5 months ago |+1 – I too want to know more about the Zeiss 50! It’s probably my favorite prime focal length, but if I can get the same IQ that I’m getting my my Zeiss 135 then I’ll be very happy to upgrade off my current sony SAL50F14.
I really hope the release date on this lens is early in 2013 – not like may or june – that’s too far away.
Need some help – I will get this 50 and also have the 135 (as mentioned) – is the CZ 85 worth having or am I covered with the 50 by moving closer or the 135 by moving back from my shot?
Rob
5 months ago |In my view, the A99 was a reaction to evaluations of the shortcomings of the A900/a850 – i.e., rather indifferent iso performance and lack of video. As such, the A99 is merely a reaction or “catching up”, and in only “catching up” with the critics, it didn’t really push the boundaries in terms of IQ that much. A flagship model should at least have used the best sensor available, and the A99 didn’t. Now, I fear we’re stuck with the A99 as a flagship for another several more years – at which time Sony may again merely “catch up” by marketing a camera with 2011 specification in 2014. It’s SO DIFFICULT to believe their statement that they want to lead be leaders in digital imaging when all the significant activity is occurring in the lower/cheaper specification and market. I predict that the FF Nex will fall flat as there’s no market for it. Alpha users won’t see any benefit for a couple of reasons – loss of IBIS (the improvement in iso is insufficient to live without it), and that the body will be so small that the whole package will be unbalanced. Switchers won’t be numerous because of the fact that they already have bodies that keep them happy (there’s just no advantage to the FF NEX), they won’t want to use a body that is too small as to cause imbalance with their lenses – i.e., there’s no compelling reason to buy a NEX body other than some misguided perceived “cool” factor. Finally, there are not FF NEX lenses yet – and the track record for production of decent NEX lenses is rather poor – a range does exist, but with rare exception, they’re rather crappy optically. Anyhow, that’s just my opinion – we’ll see what happens in the New Year.
Frankly, I don’t see any real increases in the marketplace until Sony gets serious, and puts out something that is undeniably class-leading where the tech is NOT shared with Nikon – so that people have to switch if they want access to the best.
OneTrackMind
5 months ago |@Rob
I hear and share some of your opinions. In my limited use of a friend NEX 5, I liked the sub compact design, but I couldn’t imagine putting my CZ 24-70 on the front of it. It just wouldn’t feel right – not balanced like you mentioned.
I wonder if the FF NEX camera that keeps being talked about on this site is actually not going to really be a NEX camera. I’m thinking that it will be ‘NEX’ only in the fact that it will be an E-mount, mirrorless camera, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the chassis is more Alpha-esque – like maybe A55/A65 size – which hopefully would give them enough room for IBIS.
The true benefit of this camera might be in the mount(s) – if they can figure out a way to maintain AF and aperture control via an adapter for all alpha lenses, then that’s cool. I’m not fully versed in all the current adapters but i think some do this already. But the big win and potential for canikon ‘switchers’ would be the ability to do fully functioning adapters for all their FX and L lenses too. That would make it a universal camera that could handle ANY lens.
now that could be class leading and a game changer.
REALITY
5 months ago |What did you expect from Sonolta? Minolta has been doing that for years,releasing almost as good products for more dollars. It worked so well they went belly up and the camera division got bought by sony. Here comes round two deja vu all ver again. It didnt work then and now they think it’ll work this time. Case in point, Minolta has only one 70-200 2.8 lens. No IS nothing, it was ns is still around 2 grand. The Canon 70-200 2.8 and they hae an IS verison and a 2nd non is version. The non is version is 1300. Who in the living hell would pay 700 more for the same lens? Who. Minoltasony must be smoking some strong stuff. No one can tell me tha Sony 70-200 is worth 700 more let alone have it be better. Taht is how Minsony thinks…they actually THINK that people would rather buy their lens for 2 grand then a Canon lens for 1300. That is and will always be MinoltaSonys mentality. It didnt work than and now they think it’ll work. I jumped ship a long time ago, I’d advise any Sony fanboys to wake up and do the damn same.
Gordon
5 months ago |Sir your comments do not make any sense here an a site dedicated to Sony products. You recommend that we should buy a nice Canon 70-200 f2.8 lens for $1300 and “why in the livng hell” would anyone want to spend 2K if you shoot with Sony lens 70-200 f 2.8 lens. The point is that any Canon shooter would need to spend 2K to get a 70-200 lens from Canon with IS. Do you understand the benefit of IS with a telephoto lens? I do not understand why so many people talk so much about Nikon and Canon when this is a Sony site. I do not care at all about Niklon and Cannon products. They do not offer any cameras with IBIS, EVF, a fully artiuculating screen and focus peaking. Features that I really enjoy. Go make your recommend on the Canon site. And when you do many people with tell you to get a lens wtih IS and pay the 2k because it is worth it.
Gordon
5 months ago |Sir your comments do not make any sense here an a site dedicated to Sony products. You recommend that we should buy a nice Canon 70-200 f2.8 lens for $1300 and “why in the livng hell” would anyone want to spend 2K if you shoot with Sony lens 70-200 f2.8 lens. The point is that any Canon shooter would need to spend 2K to get a 70-200 lens from Canon with IS. Do you understand the benefit of IS with a telephoto lens? I do not understand why so many people talk so much about Nikon and Canon when this is a Sony site. I do not care at all about Nikon and Canon products. They do not offer any cameras with IBIS, EVF, a fully articulating screen and focus peaking. Features that I really enjoy. Go make your recommend on the Canon site. And when you do many people with tell you to get a lens wtih IS and pay the 2k because it is worth it.
Homer
5 months ago |Bigger sensors, bigger lenses and then oh no what have we got here, a camera just as big as a dslr but with no evf and it costs more! LOL. And ppl wonder why Canikon is skeptical of this csc junk. It will lead you dilusional folks all the way back tot he dslr. Keep it up, ask for bigger lenses and sensors, say hello to Cainkon again. Oh wait, in your minds the whole world inlcuding pros is using m43 cameras. LOL. So diluisonal its funny.
Gordon
5 months ago |The point with all photography is the images themselves and the relationships that those images capture. I do not care what equipment a person uses if it meets their individual level of their enjoyment. There is a place for all types of equipment whether it is DLSR, csc, m43 or point and shoot. People who shoot with a DSLR only are not the only people who enjoy photography. In fact I am tired of all the negative comments people make on photo forums. Sometimes people in this world are just mean. I have all of these types of cameras and enjoy them all. I love having a smaller camera with me during skiing, cycling and hiking that still delivers good IQ and full manual controls. Photography to me is more of an experience in the arts and nature than anything else. Enjoy your gear but it is only a tool.
ZF1
5 months ago |I have a Sony NEX-7 with the SEL18200 big silver lens and it takes a LOT better photos than my friend’s Canon EOS-60D.
His 60D Body Alone(780g) weighs almost as much as my NEX-7 with the biggest & heaviest lens attached (NEX-7 (350g) + SEL18200 (524g) = 874g).
And if you put the SEL16F28 Pancake lens(67g) on than it weight half of EOS-60D Body!
Argue with that mate…
So the NEX-7 with different lenses weights between 400g – 900g which is bearable for me but 900g is the tops for me.
Oh and by the way the NEX-7 even has a sligthly(10%) bigger sensor too!
Maxwell
5 months ago |FF prime lenses don’t need to be big.
Use a collapsible design for small, cheap, light but good FF primes.
As long as the image quality is good and bokeh nice I believe many
hobby shooters will buy.
Robert Bell
5 months ago |You don’t want much do you!
Gregory Lemieux
5 months ago |“It’s pretty obvious that there is plenty of room for an RX10 camera with ASP-C sensor. The question is how will they make it? My guess is that it will have a fixed prime lens to make the camera very compact.”
I hope we see this at CES! I think Sony could be very successful and make a lot of money selling an RX10 as described above. They could continue to target the “DSLR gear, no idea” audience that they’ve focused on to sell the RX100. I bet plenty of people, especially people shooting indoors in dim-light, would find shooting with a fast, bright lens, a large sensor all in a compact package very attractive.
doppler_fto
5 months ago |I would love a NEX-7 with the sensor out of the NEX-6. I shoot with both, and the NEX-7 sucks in low-light, but the NEX-6 makes it too difficult to change settings quickly to respond to changing lighting situations. On the -7, I can change aperture, ISO, and exposure compensation with my eyes closed (or, more specifically, with the camera at my waist, while my eyes are scanning for photo opportunities).
With the -6, I have to hit a tiny, awkwardly-positioned button and scroll, but don’t scroll too far because there’s no hard stop at “Auto ISO” like on the -7. Then if I want to change the exposure compensation, I have to hit a tiny, even-more-awkwardly-positioned button and scroll. It works okay when you’re not in a hurry, but that’s the extent of it.
In sum, the -6 works pretty well for static subjects, but when you’re panicking because a photo opportunity is slipping through your fingers, the larger, faster controls of the NEX-7 make all the difference. I’d love to have those same controls while shooting at night as well.
James Grant
5 months ago |When do we think a Nex 7 will be here? I’m tempted to buy a 7 now (though perhaps not a bad thing given that they’re about £400 cheaper than when released)
CTPhotographX.com
5 months ago |So Sony’s new business model is:
Every new firmware update gets a new camera… Instead of every new camera gets a firmware update?
wk
5 months ago |It’s easy to see how to expand the FX series. It’s a model of one camera body for one lens. So every few mm in focal length change is a new camera/lens combo. Soon you have a huge camera case full of these combos. Go for it Sony, see how many of those you can sell before folks catch on!
Myself I prefer interchangable lenses, universally interchangable preferably. Won’t ever happen between brands, the money to be made is in selling both bodies and lenses. Though Sony is going to find severe limits to sales of camera body/fixed lens combos. They do have a division for that, cybershot. Sony only has cybershot experienced management making the decisions, blind to other options.
Just like in time manufacturers will realize there is more money to be made by separating video cameras from still cameras. Many more lenses and bodies to sell that way.
Juan Diego
5 months ago |How about an SLT with video mode at f/1.4?
Linh
5 months ago |The idea of RX1 released with different fixed prime lenses is very interesting.
JustSoldMySLT
5 months ago |Wish for 2013:
MagicLantern for Sony
Could only make myself drool…
- Advanced Bracketing (HDR)
- removing the OLPF (Optical Low-Pass Filter aka Anti-Aliasing filter)
And so many more stuff that could be fixed.
Just wish Sony would open up, and let people who know what people really wants do what they want to their camera and not limit the crap out of everything. (la GHx)
http://www.canonwatch.com/magiclantern
http://www.canonwatch.com/hacked-eos-5d-mark-iii-more-footage/
To justsold
5 months ago |It doesn’t matter what your wish is, from all your previous comments. You are not going to buy anything, you are just a troll here bitching about Sony, I bet you are doing the same on every site (Nikon and canon). You are just a person with many great wishes but only willing to pay $10 and ask ppl to offer you everything they have.
Homer
5 months ago |Dont call him a troll just because hes in touch with reality and your just a crying baby fanboy. The only thing worse than a real troll is a fake cry ababy fanboy who think anyone who has a differing oppinion is a troll. You are the worse kind of troll, the crbabay fanboy troll. Now suck admins nuts like you do, you crying little snot.
To homer
5 months ago |Look at this link:
http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/wierd-a99-jpg-quality-beats-the-rx1-in-dynamic-range-and-noise-handling-according-to-techradar/?comment_view=flat
I just don’t see why can’t I call someone, who has been around this site calling everyone troll, troll.
He is just basically anti-Sony, and don’t appreciate the innovation and competition this company bring to the market, so that canikon have to improve and probably sell cheaper. (Not that canikon product is better) but 2 racers vs 3 racers in the competition.
I can guarantee that when Sony can make someday make a camera that exceeds his needs, he will say that “oh it’s over priced, I don’t want to pay extra xxx dollar to have this blah blah blah function, all I need is only this and that, Sony listen to ppl and provide a cheaper camera” all that kind of crap.
And yeah I am a Sony fan boy that’s why I am reading this rumor site.
From your past comments, i see that you and JustSoldmySLT hate whatever Sony innovated. I think you and him can be good friends. But why you two are here in a Sony rumor site since you both hates Sony so much? Because this site is free? I guess.
JustSoldMySLT
5 months ago |I’m puzzled, i did not comment anything on that post where did all that hate come from?
More than anything, i dun see you saying anything constructive other than personal attacks.
If you do not like the truth i am saying, too bad for you and do grow up.
Since all you could do is come up with lies with no truth at all.
I have spent more than enough money on sony bodies and lens to learn to sad fact of sony cameras and what they should do about it if they intend to retain their true customers and not crazy fanboys.
Never did i complain about a55, a77 or even nex pricing.
All i did complain was a99 pricing which i firmly believe is simply over-priced. Most of the folks will find that is the truth either way.
Lastly, i never called anyone troll on this forum unlike you fact-less coward.
MrLee
5 months ago |A1X
peevee
5 months ago |Bridge camera based on existing Sony technologies, primarily from RX100. Something like 8x 25-200 equivalent f/1.8-f/4.0, or even 10x 22-220 f/2.0-f/4.5 (a man can dream, right). Same sensor and processor from RX100, but with PDAF pixels like NEX-5R/NEX-6. EVF from A65/A77 etc. Bigger battery than RX100. Good optional WA converter lens (maybe even fish-eye with optional in-camera defishing), tele with that sensor is better done by cropping anyway if main lens is sharp enough in the center. Weather-sealed. Price under $999 (of course cheaper would be aggressively better).
And that is it. All bridge, mirrorless and APS-C DSLRs are done – none can live without the kit-lens crowd. The interesting thing is nothing is fantastic about that, just a bunch of existing Sony’s technologies. If RX100 is 240g, the bigger lens and EVF will fit into 650g-700g weight budget of a serious bridge cam (see X-S1 for example, 920g) or small DSLR with a kit zoom.
If I got a whiff of such a camera in development, I would short every camera maker except Sony like crazy.
Oen
5 months ago |Sony, please bring a digital version of Rollei 35. Thx.
Vlad-Theodor
5 months ago |Firmware update for A33 please !
Nick Nguyen
3 months ago |I was wondering how many lenses normally come out for cameras? I was thinking a few new ones are coming out this year….
ive already read about the 3-4 that are coming out soon like the 50mm 1.4 etc.
I was wondering if there would be more lenses as well after?
Or is the 4 all that will come out in the year?
I dont really have any really good lenses…. i have the 35mm 1.8 and a small zoom lense…. as well as kit lens….
Looking for a good wide angel
Gary
4 days ago |I’d like to see Sony start using the DNG format. If not only, at least offer both.