UPDATE: Fake A77 pictures(?)
Oh! Just came back from my last montain trip and just found this images in my mailbox. I am still trying to get a 100% confirmation from my sources if those pictures are fake or real.
UPDATE: For reference only. Below you can see a REAL image of the A77 and A65 cameras.
REMINDER: Those are the detailed REAL(!) A77 specs (some minor aspects could be subject to change until the final announcement):
The A77 announcement on late August.
Shipment start early October
Coming with new kit lens (A Sony 16-50mm zoom. Compared to the Zeiss 16-80mm f/3.5-4.5 it will have a constant aperture and probably have a bit higher price. Zeiss 16-80mm price check at Amazon, Sonystore, Adorama, B&H, J&R, eBay.)
24 Megapixels (The combination of the new sensor+new Zeiss lens delivers 62% more resolution than the A55 16 Megapixel sensor.)
1080p/30fps, 720p/60fps and 720p/30fps high-definition video
AF fine-tuning capabilities. A source told us that it has an improved focusing system (quite fast and accurate).
11 cross points
over 10fps
3 Million dot OLED viewfinder (more than double of the resolution fo the current Sony A55/33 viewfinder.)
magnesium alloy
It will take CF
No flip-up mode to allow shooting without this extra sheet of glass in place
1.000 pictures with one battery
Price body only = $1000.
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mf
8 months ago |looks very real to me! lol
Rachnaroch
8 months ago |Yes, exactly like this:
http://ylovephoto.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Boutons-A77-03.jpg
What I don’t see, in this photo or the other, is where to put a CF card. Looks like only a SD/MS sized door.
Sky_walker
8 months ago |…
Spoon
8 months ago |Sony said in an interview that what was linked above (transparent model) was actually a *working* prototype.
Blockey
8 months ago |Finally some news about the A77.
Dave Dyer
8 months ago |Perhaps they are real! The hinges are where they’re supposed to be.
Marc
8 months ago |I’m no expert, but I think they could be fake.
The photos are definitely inspired by the real photo of the A77 and the A65, but on some places it looks to me like the buttons were photoshopped from different other models. Also, the JPEG artifacts don’t really help to decide if the photos are real or fake.
But hey, this whole site is about rumors.
My guess is that it’s fake.
I could be wrong though.
But I’m 50% sure
Maximus
8 months ago |looks very similiar to the pictures you posted before, if they’re fake they could be very close to the original, but if I had to decide i would say they are real
Tailor
8 months ago |Why is that space at the left side of the LCD? Maybe it’s touch sensitive, and there are some backlit menu items? :S
Rachnaroch
8 months ago |I’m not sure if you are asking about the black space on the right side of the LCD, but that’s the space that LCD’s connectors take. It’s the same with all LCDs, just sometimes that space is smaller or is somewhat hidden (usually not the case in LCDs that tilt or swing).
Filipe
8 months ago |The grip is fake…
If you zoom-in, you’ll see that there are changes, with visible image quality change…. (on the buttons from the back image of the camera)
Check the Alpha logo on the grip… zoom in… you’ll see image noise and noticeable modifications…
The camera is fake as well (update)
The buttons are modified, the wheel on top and it almost looks like a Canon lol
jagc
8 months ago |Nice catch! The people here get so excited for new images they dont realize how fake and bad those images are =)
But if the camera have that look i will be very happy! its about time i put my a200 aside =D
kalpurush :)
8 months ago |+1
Smart catch
Sky_walker
8 months ago |Hehehe, yea, you see square cut in it! nice catch!
Never the less – someone did a good job with it. It’s surprisingly similar to old prototype in few features.
Still – I’m happy it’s fake, cause otherwise it’d be one of ugliest Sony SLRs to date! lol.
pancanikonpus
8 months ago |look very real especially rear side
Almond
8 months ago |No use in pixel-peeing computer generated images… lol.
These images look exactly like the clear model revealed earlier this year. They are real.
sholky
8 months ago |It looks real at first, but it’s fake, here is a badly photoshopped part of it enlarged: http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/2272/87955603.jpg
Those tiny pieces should be properly alligned, right?
Also, the “?” button is out of place on an A77 class camera, and the grip is simply huge.
Almond
8 months ago |Of course it looks “photoshopped.” It’s a computer generated image!
Tailor
8 months ago |Marc: same thoughts here. The button layout looks just too “messy” for me, knowing the A700…Also, there’s noise around the writings and the logo (look at the alpha logo on the VG!). Photoshopped, I guess…
R1
8 months ago |…and where is the meter mode switch that was on the A700? I hope they didn’t put that into the menus…
Thomas
8 months ago |Confirmed fake image http://errorlevelanalysis.com/permalink/447cfb6/
admin
8 months ago |Thanks Thomas!
Klipsen
8 months ago |What’s there to thank for? The article clearly states that lines red colours may appear in the same way as photoshopped elements.
It also says that the results should not be claimed as proof of anything.
Tanglefoot
8 months ago |Interesting! Looks almost like a genuine picture with false bits photoshopped onto it….?
Filipe
8 months ago |The screen holder on our “righ side” of the screen gets bellow the Fn Button lol
The lower screen holder gets almost outside of the camera…
On the corners of the screen the pixalization is noticeable…
Again all the letters have more noise around it…
Sony letters on the lower part of the screen are visibly pasted on the image, with noise…
imjohnsmith
8 months ago |Real!!!
Kevin
8 months ago |I certainly hope that is photoshopped or I might just get an A900 instead of it because I don’t like the size of that at all. Looks far too small, the button layout is two or three steps back from the A700 and IF it’s real, the grip is huge.
The comfort and feel of it are as important to me as the specs.
Spoon
8 months ago |If you don’t like these or if they are too fake, move along as they are completely in line with the last prototype. I see artifacts, but nothing that indicates they are wildly different from what we will see soon.
Almond
8 months ago |These look very photos real. Compare the grip with the one displayed at CES. It looks just as bulky!
http://www.photographybay.com/2011/01/07/sony-a700-successor-on-display-at-ces-2011/#more-16898
Don
8 months ago |I like how as soon as the post was made that announced these were fake, the images disappeared.
Don
8 months ago |Never mind, they’re back now.
Steve
8 months ago |Maybe I can learn to love it,
But I’m not in the market for the A77…I don’t think
I have Alpha a850′s and holding out for the next FF from Sony
But if its real good I may just spring for one.
agorabasta
8 months ago |There’s no trace of the card compartment door, neither of the X-sync socket.
But they may be sorta ‘real’, like the official mockup pix.
Almond
8 months ago |I can see the card compatment door very well.
Your monitor brightness might be out of sync.
agorabasta
8 months ago |You mean that small one from the earlier mockup that does not let a CF card in?
An old mockup image that is, for sure.
Spoon
8 months ago |I have always been sceptical about the CF claim. if there isn’t an extra hidden door at the bottom (unlikely), I doubt the current CF cards will be supported.
agorabasta
8 months ago |That would be a wise decision banning the CF cards.
But only if they figured out how to make an out-of-standard SD and beat the CF speed records by some sufficient margin, like x4.
Otherwise, a no-CF cam is a toy.
Spoon
8 months ago |With current available SD cards having speeds up to 95/80 MB/s (read/write), I don’t see it as much of a problem. And the latest SD standard (UHS-II)allows speeds up to 300 MB/s. Enough room for now I’d say.
agorabasta
8 months ago |The problem with the SD is the bus width too narrow. Which means that the max advertised speeds are almost never achieved.
On the other hand, the CF has a native advantage of a wider bus, so always uses the full bandwidth of the reader connection, if that’s slower than the card’s.
Personally, I’d love the cam to have some 64GB of SATAIII internal storage to be used both as cache and/or long-term storage depending if there’s any SD card inserted. Add some USB3.0 with the body.
Perfect, I’d fancy.
And I also think that this mockup a77 may still have a CF port on the other side from the SD card compartment. And that could be the place to hide that CF card acting as cache or a quasi-internal storage. This way they could also make a few bucks selling those ‘caches’.
Sky_walker
8 months ago |Speed isn’t the only issue. For me the SD cards are simply too small… maybe uber-tiny size is fine in tropics but in places with winter where you swap card using gloves it ain’t funny.
And also: In terms of real speed CF still rule the world… plus: Sandisk, Sony and Nikon work on new uber-fast CF standard outmatching everything seen till now so… SDs still gonna be domain of entry level and compacts.
Spoon
8 months ago |@ Agorabasta:
I don’t see your point about bus speed reflected in the speed tests from SD cards. They sometimes even exceeded their maximum ratings.
@ Skywalker: there is only *one* CF slightly card faster than the ones I mentioned, but I don’t see many willing to pay about $1500 for a memory card…
agorabasta
8 months ago |Spoon, there are too few readers available that can achieve that theoretical throughput declared in the SD cards advertising.
The interface is the weak point, not the card per se.
And you have to admit it’s true.
Spoon
8 months ago |Ofcourse not. Too few doesn’t mean anything in this context. You only need 1 reader to begin with.
Besides, the speed of cameras has historically always been limited by the camera, even in the case of CF cards. Throw the ultra fast CF cards you can buy now in a 7D and you will see zero benefit in buffer clearing speed over those boosting about half that speed. So in that sense, speed wise it doesn’t matter whether Sony uses CF or SD cards, as long as they make good use of the speeds that are available now (80-90MB/s).
Roman
8 months ago |Look at your favorite e-shop for the sizes and prices of CF and SDXC cards… you will probably find that cards with the same size and similar price differs in one important attribute – speed. CF will be 3-4x faster…
agorabasta
8 months ago |Spoon, you start arguing in an unfair way.
Buy all means the compatibility is the primary concern if the ‘public’ interface is concerned. The speeds you quoted for the SD cards are only achieved with the readers of their specific manu’s, or of some closely related ones.
The camera’s card interface must be a most compatible one, so speed must be sacrificed to compatibilty.
And it means a greater speed sacrifice is it’s a narrow SD bus.
So your magic sooper-dooper speedy SDs might work as advertised in cameras made by some Sandisk. The problem is – they don’t and can’t make cameras of any real interest to us.
So now a measly 133x CF from the remote past is ways faster than any SD when used in the real cameras available.
That’s the reality.
TheLostSwede
8 months ago |God lord people, have you lot never heard of SDXC?
CF cards are bus limited to 133MB/s as they rely on the old ATA/IDE interface, so it’s technically impossible for a CF card to ever achieve speeds above that of the ATA 133MB/s standard.
You’re having an argument about something that very few of you seem to understand and considering that the Class 1 UHS speed rating of SDXC cards tops out at 104MB/s there really isn’t much difference between the two. Class 2 UHS cards will boost this to 312MB/s, BUT do note that the card makers aren’t making cards at the highest speed rating, as it’s expensive with fast flash memory and the same goes for CF cards.
Apparently CFast was meant to replace CF cards, but it never really took off and it’s based on the SATA standard and as such can in theory so far go up to 6Gbps/s (768MB/s), but not a single camera maker has opted to support the standard despite it having been out for a good few years now.
Sure, the interface inside the camera is going to matter, but SDXC addressed a lot of the bus limitations of the SD card interface and yes, it’s possible to max out an SDXC card. There are USB 3.0 SDXC card readers in the market now and tons of SDXC compatible cameras. That said, if you want CF, then get a camera with CF and stop bitching about it.
Harpo
8 months ago |I’m certainly no expert, but I believe it’s the real deal. The front view is exactly the same lay out as is the clear body mock up from Sony. Also look close at the display panel hinges from this photo and the “first unofficial” photo Andrea posted a few weeks ago. It is absolutely the same hinge system and I don’t think that can be photo shopped in. Time will tell, but I say if this is a fake than the one Andrea posted a few weeks ago is suspect as well.
Spoon
8 months ago |They are real. Here I tested an official A700 picture from Dpreview, saved at 65% jpeg compression:
http://errorlevelanalysis.com/permalink/194132e/
Same effect. In other words, all we see is (very high) compression artifacts.
Almond
8 months ago |LOL!!!
Andrea you might as well remove that errorlevelanalysis link because it’s not reliable.
Harpo
8 months ago |Well played spoon
Spoon
8 months ago |Thanks, here’s a layout comparison:
http://i53.tinypic.com/155173p.jpg
It’s all there, eye sensor included (top of EVF).
Nobodee
8 months ago |Fake or not, the grip is ugly. They need to make it just one third of its size. The camera itself looks pretty good though.
Why do people pour so much analysis over a photo that is SUPPOSED to be photoshopped to proof it is photoshoped? This was supposed to be a computer-generated image of a camera that didn’t exist at the time. Why can’t the company itself use Photoshop to do this job? Whether or not a photo was photoshopped does not prove or disprove its genuineness unless it purports itself to be a real photo of a real camera, which this photo does not.
kevin
8 months ago |Here’s a similar analysis of DPReview’s product shot of the a850:
http://errorlevelanalysis.com/permalink/86e6d7f/
Or how about the a350:
http://errorlevelanalysis.com/permalink/b913a82/
PhotoNut
8 months ago |Now this is a real unauthorized leak. Why don’t you clarify that it came from dyxum forum?
GH
8 months ago |This is exactly like the transparent mockup. I say real.
ZeevK
8 months ago |It looks very real, just by comparing to the transparent mock-up images. The Grip is 100% identical to the grip shown with mock-ups, the body has small differences – normal and expected when moving from mock-up to pre-production series.
The A77 is REAL and looks nice !
mugen
8 months ago |Looks PRETTY REAL to me
Zyg
8 months ago |There appears to be too many hing mechanisms on the rear LCD (two side tilt hinges and 1 bottom pivot/swivel hinge). With that setup, that LCD won’t be moving in any direction. So +1 for fake. … I hope some real photos come along soon.
Spoon
8 months ago |You might have missed these:
http://cdn2.ubergizmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/sony-alpha-rumors-640×427.jpg
Notice the same mechanisms, also found on the last prototype.
Nobodee
8 months ago |Based on the purported real photo of A77 and A65 posted here, the rear LCD has only two hinges on the two sides (left and right) but none at the top and bottom. Apparently there are multi-directional hinges that can swing the panel to many directions.
The most exciting thing is the rear LCD panel position shown in the photo of A65. Instead of swinging down to a lower position, it swings up to a higher position perching over the place where the conventional viewfinder used to be. This is fantastic, because it closely mimics the viewfinder position of the traditional 6×6 medium format cameras, which is the most elegant and most practical viewfinder position in my opinion. The viewfinder position directly determines how the photographer holds the camera and what posture the photographer has to take. Personally, I find it extremely awkward and embarrassing to hold the camera to my eyes like you do with a traditional 35mm camera. Whether in a private group or in public, I simply don’t enjoy myself being seen in that compromised position. It just makes too much photographer out of myself.
Spoon
8 months ago |The earlier leaked photos clearly show the hinge at the bottom center of the LCD too, similar to the one shown on the last prototype.
http://i51.tinypic.com/xlyt0p.jpg
Nobodee
8 months ago |Interesting. Thanks. Curious of how it works then. But the most important thing is the possible LCD positions shown in the photos.
Zyg
8 months ago |@ Spoon. You’re correct. I didn’t see that other image. So it’s possible. But when closely comparing the two images, the side hinges on the older image don’t match the side hinges on the newer image. So… change in design?… or lack of attention to detail in photoshop? Hmmm…
Peter S
8 months ago |I thought the same thing, but if you look at the apparently real leaked photos, you’ll see that the this image works:
http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/sr5-first-worldwide-picture-of-the-final-a77-and-a65-production-models/
I’m thinking it’s fake, but like spoon says, it doesn’t matter much because that’s what we’ll be getting anyway.
xylum
8 months ago |I hope not, it is ugly. It can compete with 1Ds for the ugliest camera ever!!!
Bring back the Sony designers…
SonyA77
8 months ago |Where the hell is the anti-shake switch, not in a menu surely???
emarsh
8 months ago |That is not the A77, but it is the A65 in my opinion. Remember that the a77 has a top LCD panel, the A65 does not. There is no top panel lcd on this camera. Therefore, this is the A65. (I think) Look at the previous relesaed photo of the a77, and you will see the raised segment on top right of the camera, where the top lcd panel is. The a65 does not have this, in fact the a65 follows the contours of this now released photo we are discussing now.
feedmatekill
8 months ago |as I have said before, that very old mockup of a700 successor is the design which will be used for a65, and this picture could be that camera….
the a77 has that top LCD which is missing here so it could only be a65 or someone had too much free time
Almond
8 months ago |How many times is time news post going to be updated? It changes every minute lol.
Andrea, I think your sources are not entirely reliable.
mugen
8 months ago |Which is the lens, someone know ?
Spoon
8 months ago |Probably the new 16-50 F2.8. It’s a zoomlens and appears to have a 72mm thread. The latter would suggest atleast F2.8 too.
Camaman
8 months ago |That grip sure is fugly!
Quite a price to pay and thing to endure for occasional portrait photo.
You better be shooting 80% portrait oriented to suffer this behemoth!
I hope the EVF picture is big. Bigger than regular crop cameras OVF. The eyepiece looks tight.
And why such a big IR sensor window?
BMan
8 months ago |That’s not an IR sensor, it’s a low-light AF illuminator. The 700, 850 and 900 all have exactly the same thing.
Spoon
8 months ago |The sensor is in the grip, the one you’re probably looking at is the AF assist (light).
feedmatekill
8 months ago |one more thing…..WHY, OH WHY did they eliminate metering switch from the back side??!!! I have used it regularly…..
redfern
8 months ago |+1
The metering thumbswitch on the back was a huge time-saver on the A700, and I use it a lot on the A850. I’d hate to see that go away, but everything from the official mockups suggests that this is the case.
shevko
8 months ago |Don’t know if it is real or fake. But one thing for sure, these pictures have been modified in many areas. You can see it if you brighten the pictures in PS. The Focus mode switch (MF/C/A/S switch)on the front is badly messed up. Also, the pattern on the mode dial is not aligned and looks wavy.
But overall, it looks very similar to the skeleton mockup, so these pictures could be modified in certain degrees based on a real picture or existing mockup model.
Spoon
8 months ago |Looks like heavy compression artifacts to me, nothing else. I remember the same comments when the first A55/A33 pictures were leaked.
Futile
8 months ago |This can’t be Fake. The images have alot of attention to detail. The button placement is almost spot on to the Real images we’ve seen before. Even the AF switch which looks weird, is replicated correctly (from a different angle).
Its shaping up to be a decent looking body. I’m glad Sony didn’t loose the Prism look too much. The only negative I have aesthetic-wise, is the grip. The Minolta 7 (film) had a really nice Slim Grip:
http://www.steves-digicams.com/2001_reviews/maxxum7/m7_with_grip.jpg
I found this a perfect fit. It protruded a bit backward and forward to gain stability, but meant it didn’t have to be as deep at the front, or as wide either. All the Sony grips have been huge and horrible.
I hope that if they do make a FF Body with Grip built in, its done like Nikon do theirs.
WyldRage
8 months ago |+1 Probably not fake.
The fact that it has passed in photoshop means absolutely nothing about whether it is real or not.
luc
8 months ago |I wish the A77 would look like this!!!
This would make it the first good looking SLR/SLT from Sony. Would be good news.
MorTal
8 months ago |Doesn’t look like a fake to me, I personaly would lika a camera like this.
Not as small as the weird A33/55, but I would favorite an SLR not an SLT.
Just had my hands on a A55 today an the electric viewfinder is not to compare with an optical one.
Harpo
8 months ago |I’ve been up and down all of the comparison pics and I can’t see where theres an arguement. It looks the same as the clear mockup and what you can see from the pics Andrea poated a few weeks ago the similarities are significant. How about a poll Andrea is it the real deal or not?
noobidoo
8 months ago |Look at the view finder. They are nowhere near the real picture….so yeah its fake!
Carl
8 months ago |The tapered top reminds me of the Minolta 9xi and 7xi.
I’m not sure if the button layout is the best, though. And there really aught to be a movie button on the V-grip.
redfern
8 months ago |If you were taking movies in vertical mode, they would be on their side. Movies are always displayed horizontally.
Carl
8 months ago |“Are” or “have to be”?
Besides, it’s quite common to see vertical screens used in advertising displays.
noobidoo
8 months ago |its so fake by just looking at the view finder. they’re completely not real! and im glad its fake coz that is one ugly a77. Lol
NEX FULL FRAME (24x36)
8 months ago |Probably an early prototype.
nopt
8 months ago |No, this is *exactly* what the camera will look like.
PaulW
8 months ago |I agree this looks like a photo or Photoshop rendition of the A65…no top plate LCD and the strap lugs look ultra basic as they are on my A350 – I hope they are not so basic on the A77 as they just let down the build quality impression.
GH
8 months ago |Huh? It’s impossible to tell whether there is a top plate or not in these pics, and the strap lugs are just like on the A900.
nopt
8 months ago |What GH said, put down that pipe sir. The A65 doesn’t have a rear dial, the button layout on the top is different (two stacked buttons by the viewfinder bulge as opposed to the “horizontal” ones here) nor does it have the middle finger grove on the grip like this A77.
At first I was skeptical because of the poor jpeg quality and the weird distortion of the mode dial, but everything matches up perfectly to the transparent prototype. It’s the real deal.
feedmatekill
8 months ago |yep, i think you’re right….a65 doesn’t have a rear dial….so it must be a77…..I’ll miss the metering thumbswitch on the back but will manage to survive without it….
it seems bulky enough, I like the big VG….but I just can’t wait to see how it performs, that’s what matters….
10fps + accurate focusing system + 70-400G = miracles for outdoors sport shooting
Sky_walker
8 months ago |Most likely it’s gonna be faster than 10 FPS! ^^
Genaro Diaz , fotografo de boda en galicia
8 months ago |Que pena …. habrá que seguir esperando.
Again a false news ……. it is necessary to continue waiting.
Saludos desde Coruña, Spain.
feedmatekill
8 months ago |It’s hard to imagine 10+ fps for a 1000 bucks….that pricing is hard to believe….how much will the a65 cost then, not to mention a55 successor….
Alfonso Cuitiño
8 months ago |Hey guys, off topic question, maybe one of you can give me some advice… I’m using an old lens with a bit of fungus on my NEX, is it risky for the camera?
Soct
8 months ago |If rumored specs are right, A77 will be the best the best APS-C camera in the history!
jack
8 months ago |very nicely done but clearly the dial gave it away as photoshop and the sony logo / flash device part is too small, it looks smaller than the A55, which is not possible. Hence this is a pretty good photoshop job base on the actual unit.
another photoshop gave away hint was the card slots at the site you can see it was modified from the A55 not the A77, there is another slot cover on the proper leak picture, this one has only two ‘doors’ like A55,
Spoon
8 months ago |It’s exactly the size of the last prototype. A simple overlay in your photo editor of choice will reveal that. I don’t see anything wrong with the dial either.
acolyte
8 months ago |Haha maybe it’s generated from the prototype image – using the images of the prototype then generate an image of what’d look like if it’s ready for production.
That aside, I feel like prototypes are never fully accurate. Doubt high similarity. My car strayed from the prototype and so does software I develop.
Spoon
8 months ago |It looks no more fake than any of the previous leaks (think A33/A55).
jack
8 months ago |notice on the Left side of the A77 in the proper leak pic there appeared to have a long thin slot, i assume this is the CF card slot.
there were no such slot in this fake pic
Raul S.
8 months ago |hmmm with this picture, real or not, comparing it with the first a77 released picture, I have a better idea about how the new LCD hinge may work…now it doesn’t look weak anymore at least to me…
The two things on each side of the LCD are like the hinge to flip it out (kind of what we see on the NEX-3/NEX-5/NEX-C3)then, those hinges are made to flip out the thing at the buttom of the LCD, and then, that thing at the buttom rotates and tilts the LCD (like the a33/a55)…so with that you can work with the camera near the floor or above head level with both horizontal and vertical orientation without problems I suppose..but that doesn’t end just like that, because maybe it’s possible to tilt the LCD just in the say manner like a33/a55 without having to flip out the entire mechanism..! AMAZING SONY..!
HD
8 months ago |The shadow under the Movie button and the Menu button are not the same. Also the Movie button appears to be viewed in slightly the wrong perspective.
Spoon
8 months ago |You’ll notice they also used a lightsource from the right side, which obviously gets blocked by the viewfinder cup in the case of the menu button, hence the difference in shadows.
David
8 months ago |Looks like the real thing to me…and that’s unfortunate because the body styling is almost identical to Canon. I prefer the vintage look and feel. The A700 body was perfect, would have loved to see a similar body with top LCD and all the goodies in the new body. Regardless, looks like a great camera…can’t wait till it actually comes out!
Sky_walker
8 months ago |*nods* IMO if that’s real – than A77 gonna be somewhere near the top of “ugliest Sony cameras ever made”. I have no idea what some people like in it. C’mon, it looks like brick would fall on it!
HD
8 months ago |Whatever. I buying it.
Froo
8 months ago |ITT: lots of confused people. I’m sure this is the real thing.
For you complaining that the grip is large. It isn’t. The camera is very small though. To fit the batteries and make a proper, not cramped, grip it needs to be this height.
But where the devil is the steadyshake button??? I hope it’s accessible with the FN button at least, or I will bite someone at Sony.
Frank
8 months ago |I don’t see the metering switch. Would be a big step back compared to the A700 layout! Also the layout is a mess. No logical structure. So I hope this is not the final layout!
Cucukl
8 months ago |its real, there are more photos:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/a77/
Sky_walker
8 months ago |More? where? I don’t see any. Hope you ain’t trying to advertise your private flickr group….
Cucukl
8 months ago |group:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/a77/
photos:
http://i56.tinypic.com/waseqe.jpg
The Lotus Eater
8 months ago |Those photos are months old. Nothing new there.
SonyA77
8 months ago |Do you have a link to the images that you have seen several months ago? Because that would be news to all of us and the rest of the World…
The Lotus Eater
8 months ago |What are you talking about? Have you never seen the transparent mockup photos before? The rest of the world HAVE seen them before.
SonyA77
8 months ago |Nooooo, not them. The ones on this page. lol
The Lotus Eater
8 months ago |*sigh* I was talking about the Flickr images being old, not the ones on this page. If you notice, my post followed Cucukl’s posted links.
Cucukl
8 months ago |Have seen the one on the front page?
its new one i guess
The Lotus Eater
8 months ago |The front page of the Flickr group? No, I think that pre-dates even the transparent mockup.
Cucukl
8 months ago |No, not the transparant one, its the original Sony product shot
The Lotus Eater
8 months ago |You’ve lost me now. There are no new photos of the A77 in the Flickr group – not that I can see anyway. They have pictures of the original black mockup (which hardly resembles the new pictures on this page at all), and they have pics of the transparent mockup, which appears to be pretty close to the pics on this page.
SonyA77
8 months ago |On the SAR facebook page admin is saying that a top source says it is real.
Bard Prentiss
8 months ago |It looks like the transparent one to me, but where is the steady shot switch. If they have dropped steady shot I will switch brands. Could it be menu controlled?
The Lotus Eater
8 months ago |You would switch brands because of a missing SteadyShot button? Seriously?
I can’t think of any reason where you’d need to switch it off, except when using a tripod, and when you’re setting up a tripod it’s hardly a lot of extra work to switch off SteadyShot in the menu.
Jennzhen
8 months ago |“it’s hardly a lot of extra work to switch off SteadyShot in the menu”
A person who does not mind tinkering with menu … a perfect target market for NEX.
Mezman
8 months ago |Looks fake to me. The knurling on the mode dial is all wonky.
The Lotus Eater
8 months ago |I don’t mind when it’s a setting I hardly ever change. I’d prefer a switch, of course, but to switch brands because it lacks one strikes me as a bit mental.
Warnes
8 months ago |Hi, is the A65, there is very little difference between these and the a77!
Bard Prentiss
8 months ago |I guess the response to my query about steady shot is it’s in the menu as I suspected > I don’t care where it is I just want it to be there. On my A700 and A100 there is a button but a menu option would be fine since I rarely turn it off. I would only switch brands it steady shot was dropped completely.
The Lotus Eater
8 months ago |Don’t worry, SteadyShot will be there. It’s a major advantage compared to Canikon.
Clifton
8 months ago |I agree that steadyshot is a major attraction, without it, I would certainly consider switching brands but only if the A77 is a disappointment.
JS
8 months ago |I would imagine that if they dropped the SteadyShot, then they’d have to come up with a ton of new lenses that provide some sort of IS….so my guess is that it will have it.