Sony FanBoy video at Digitalrev. A99 for $2499. Message to square sensor source.
The video on top is made again by that crazy Kai from Digitalrev! A noble attempt to make a joke about the “fanboyism” culture 
But we have to admit…the last two days have been that frustrating for us (see unspectacular CP+ announcements and fw upgrade) that we certainly have no reason to be a Sony fanboy!
Now lemme focus again on future news. I just got a weird info about a possible Sony square sensor from an anonymous source. As I have no other way to contact him than writing within that official SAR post I may ask the source to contact me directly at sonyalpharumors@gmail.com? Thanks! And you SAR readers keep feet on earth. This is just an anonymous message and often those messages are not right at all.
A99 price drops:
That said I noticed that Cameraland keeps selling small numbers of new A99 cameras for $2,499 on eBay (Click here). They keep posting such deals 1-2 times per week. To get notified when this happens login and save this search on our eBay application Slidoo (Click here).
alphabart
4 months ago |Nice vid by Kai! Seen it 2 days ago, he has a Nikon/Canon fanboy vid as well, very funny!
Any news on the new A-Mount lens updates? 70-400G? Or Mirorless FF? I still can;t decide I’d buy an A99 or wait until the mirrorless FF, I mean, the Sigma 120-400 OS does it;s work on the Nex very well
kalpurush :)
4 months ago |Funny indeed!
One thing Andrea is so right about SONY that they don’t care about the existing customers at all. SONY doesn’t know what is “customer service”! The reason why Sony is losing money and business.
Wake – up SONY until it is too late!!
Spoon
4 months ago |They are making money in the imaging business, they’re losing it elsewhere and that has very little to do with service and everything with profit margins and fierce competition. TV’s for example, they send out firmware updates several times per year, but that doesn’t make them profiteable still.
kalpurush :)
4 months ago |Well, if you do NOT serve your existing customers, aren’t you going to lose them or some of them at some point? If so, you are bound to lose business.
Not many cares if Sony offers FW for the a33, but many cares if it is for a77 or a99. Thus, ignoring their want/need/request won’t serve Sony either.
Spoon
4 months ago |They are serving their existing customers, just not in every way demanded.
Nothing new, look around.
Abit77
4 months ago |and 70-200mm too.
admin
4 months ago |coming in Q3.
Joe
4 months ago |square sensor sounds interesting, so would it be multi-aspect for video?
admin
4 months ago |Please don’t think too much about this. I still have to check if the info is correct. For now let’s say there is only a 10% it is
james70094
4 months ago |the m43 fanboys here say worse things..nothing can top those delusional tards.
WTH
4 months ago |Hahahaha!
Thank for posting this admin! I was beginning to think you wouldn’t…
John Maverick
4 months ago |Where’s Alambi? She’s the real brains behind the show and writes all Kai’s funny lines.
WTH
4 months ago |+1
And what’s with the newguy? I’ve seen him in a few episodes already, no name no lines whatsoever. I am surprise they did not offer him a redshirt original star trek uniform to wear.
John Maverick
4 months ago |I heard that Lok was starting to become too popular and Kai requested management find a replacement. I think it must be the new guy.
WTH
4 months ago |I don’t know what to think about that…
Lok and Kai was the dynamic duo… The show doesn’t feel the same without Lok.
Don’t get me wrong, I totally welcome Alambi…
But if that is true, I feel sorry for Lok.
Lofote
4 months ago |Why do firmware upgrades always need to be spectacular!? I don’t understand it. Since the 1.04 upgrade the A77 is a very good finished product.
WTH
4 months ago |Don’t think it needs to be “spectacular”. Rather they just need to address a few glaring issues.
Take A77 for example:
Improvement of image quality in high ISO is godly, it’s always wanted but rarely given/possible.
Little features like 1.06 where they disabled the movie button, made the camera a lot more usable.
Now if they can allow us to reassign that button, that would be even better! However if they decide not to include that, than that’s no biggie for me.
Lens correction is not a bad thing, some people shoot in jpeg. God knows why they would with the A77. But they do and welcome the lens support. From what I gather, most people shoot in the LOSSY Compressed RAW format. Which essentially makes the next firmware absolutely useless… I only hope now is that they round up the firmware number like 1.10 or 2.0 so it would look pretty whenever I decided to take a look at the systems menu…
Austin
4 months ago |Lens compensation is important, it affects video
WTH
4 months ago |Thanks for the heads up.
As a photographer, I wouldn’t care much about video.
I guess it’s more joy to the videographer…
Frank
4 months ago |Haven’t we heard the square sensor from Sony rumour a while back?
Carl
4 months ago |There hasn’t been any news about it for some time. Most likely it was just a toy for the engineering department that was never going to be turned into an actual shipping product.
But I’d be all over it if it was real.
DoesItMatter?
4 months ago |I cannot make sense of what this kai guy is saying. Why does he have to talk like a salad toser (while he is apparently not; besides, nothing wrong with that). But…i cannot understand the jokes, therefore are not funny for me. dolby? acting class? my ears? don’t know the problem, but sound is bad. The canikon version is much more audible, even funny.
Frank
4 months ago |Jokes? There are a jokes in his videos?
Trev Prazzle
4 months ago |The guy is so annoying I can’t stand looking at his picture.
Joram
4 months ago |Help me here. What exactly is to be gained by a square sensor? Will all the raw files be square?
Carl
4 months ago |The output of a rectangular sensor is smaller than the image circle of the lenses. Not so much a problem if you don’t crop your files in post, but for those of us who do, a larger sensor will result in less optical resolution being lost.
It also saves the time it takes to rotate from horizontal to vertical and the flash angling issues that come with it, and does away with the unneeded heft of vertical grips.
NEXfive
4 months ago |Best Kai ever – especially when he hints in the end towards the Sony-hater haters that he’s done this against Canon & Nikon already (with an even more awesome Leica supplement).
Hessel Folkertsma
4 months ago |I would love Sony to take the possibilities of having an EVF to the next level. How about offering different cropmodes or overlays? 1×1, 4×5, 16×9 for example?
Hessel Folkertsma
4 months ago |ugh, why does that old strange photo appear as my avatar?
acolyte
4 months ago |AFAIK it pulls out from gravatar or wordpress. You can login into your account in those respective websites and change it there.
Abit77
4 months ago |news in ces 2013 for Sony ??????
gashi
4 months ago |any news about the nex 7n????
rickj
4 months ago |Meh another camera show and no new lenses except for another zeiss lense , where are the mid range lens offerings Sony???? Its either $250 or $1500+
DanTHEME
4 months ago |It’s easiest to be a Sony fanboy these days than any other fanboy…
Geir
4 months ago |The worst thing about being a sony user is not the “sony fanboys” (or any other fanboy). It is the naysayers. They are like a plague whatever brand they use. and looking at some peoples posting history on forums they have been in almost every camp and been just as unhappy with their gear then. At one point they probably will get the idea that it is not the equipment that is holding them back – it is their own focus on the gear and not on the skill.