(SR3) Sony NEX-7 to be announced along the Sony A77
I still don’t have a 100% reliable confirmation from my sources but it sounds like the NEX-7 could be announced within the next few months. A new source told me that it will be announced around the same time of the A77 (July). It will feature the same A77 sensors (very likely 24 Megapixels). The big question is if it has a built-in viewfinder. The trusted sources didn’t tell me anything about that but they said the NEX-7 will not be a NEX-3/5 successor, it will be a complete new NEX model. But there is one thing you have to keep in mind. After the recent Japanese disaster roadmap could change within the next weeks. As soon as I receive some info about that I will post them on SAR.
One more thing: All sources do confirm a new NEX and SLT camera will be announced next week. If the rumors are true we should see new models on Monday or Tuesday. Don’t know the extract time yet (I hope some of you can tell me about it). Stay tuned on SAR!
Reminder (SR = Sonyrumor):
SR1=probably fake rumor
SR2=rumor from unknown sources
SR3=50% chance it is correct
SR4=rumor from known sources
SR5=almost certainly correct!
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dk
2 years ago |New Nex or SLT, Nex C3 or A35?
pancanikonpus
2 years ago |I do not know what to do now… the only thing can do now is wait. Sep/Oct are far to go. Cannot enjoy any bokeh & hd video at current moment.
unless A77/Naix7 announce on Apr
(someone will reply here-wake up boy lol…)
Richard
2 years ago |Can’t see a NEX-7 and SLT A77 being announced alongside each other if the NEX has a built in VF – they’d cut into each others sales surely.
mwl
2 years ago |How so? One is a pro camera and the other not. Unless they put all of the controls/buttons of the a77 on the NEX-7 and also make it compatible with Alpha flashes then there is no reason the NEX-7 will cut into sales. On another note, if Sony decided to install a touch-screen system on their cameras then they will probably do so with the NEX line but not Alpha. This would also effect sales.
Jonathan
2 years ago |contented with my NEX-5. They should prioritize the E-mount lenses first! Getting sick of waiting for those lovely lenses! >:/
SonyA77
2 years ago |The people who work in lenses aren’t the same people who work on camera bodies, there is no need to prioritise one over the other.
Jonathan
2 years ago |Oh! Good to know, sir.
Matt
2 years ago |I agree – a nice EVF for my NEX-5 and the CZ 24 f1.7 would make me very happy
Angelo
2 years ago |^^^Agree. Though I don’t have an Nex 5 as of yet, I’m planning to get one. The Nex 5 is already a pretty all around machine, capable of the demands of an amateur enthusiast photographer as myself, or as some would say, a “prosumer”. Especially with the latest firmware. Sony should focus more on the E-mount lenses and adapters and develop more hot shoe accessories such as an EVF, and a secondary hot shoe that would allow attachment of an EVF and the flash, AND if possible, better flashes.
Jerry_R
2 years ago |EVF and flash HOT SHOE is something MANY people wait for…
It is limiting current NEX usage a lot!
STeve
2 years ago |Since the A77 and NEX-7 are using the new 24mp sensor then it looks like the NEX-7 will now have the best overall IQ due to the effect of the mirror in the A77. Will the NEX-7 have a similar build to the A77 (just smaller)? If the NEX-7 includes the new EVF and a faster CPU for focusing, etc. then the NEX series could become a viable alternative to the A series once Sony improves the lens situation with the e-mount.
The next question is where will the A series be in 3 years from now? Considering how long it is taking to go from the A700 to A77, will development shift to the NEX going forward? Most of the talk has been about the A77 but the sleeper may be the NEX-7.
Edgars
2 years ago |A77 will have much faster and more accurate AF. For me AF is much more important than size. In addition I have lot or A mount lenses and E-mount is almost as switching system.
If it is really the same sensor, then Sony could implement in A77 possibility to shoot without mirror using contrast AF. Unfortunately it will never happen.
pnpbios
2 years ago |I made the mistake of buying a NEX-5 thinking I would at some point be able to use it for beyond snapshots and stuff. It’s clear that this is not what Sony wants for NEX3/5 users. Otherwise, somebody would have invented and started selling a ttl capable hotshoe by now, even if it was only compatible with sony ttl flashes. Sony won’t even let you set it to non-ttl, so manual flash with this camera just isn’t possible. Forget using this damn thing in a studio setting unless you plan on investing in continuous lighting.
The lens quality for the two kit lenses is atrocious. The 16mm pancake is really only good enough for pictures of buildings or kitschy garbage. I understand part of this is because it’s a 16mm lens, but running it through a proper adjustment filter, it’s a whole different picture.
The 18-55 isn’t really any better. The only nice thing is that the AF is really really quiet and doesn’t jostle the camera. About the only thing I can use this thing for is recording videos on Sunday mornings of church service. But even then, with only being able to record half an hour at a time because of a firmware limit doesn’t do me a world of good either…
I hate this camera. I wish I would have gotten an A580 instead. Right now I have a Nex5 and an a300. I actually use the old a300 far more often.
specularist
2 years ago |Pnpbios, the 16mm – for which no system has any equivalent prime let alone one for £199 or £99 with the kit – quality is *excellent*! 0.6% pincushion distortion is probably the lowest you’ll find from any lens of this angle. In Photozone’s tests it matches the Nikon 16-85mm for vignetting (only it manages it at f2.8 not 3.5), has lower distortion than any of the zooms at 16mm, similar CA (again, at 2.8 versus all the others being 2/3rds of a stop slower). Test charts were made for >28mm anyhow. You can aim this thing into the sun & get no flare! Soft corners wide open, to be expected, are purely optical fall-off, and were published by Sony as part of the specs. Superb lens, tack-sharp in the center, & all over stopped down. Amazingly, it’s even sharper with the WA converter (18mm equiv)! 18-55mm tests very well also. See DPReview forum for various studio flash workarounds (though standard shoe would’ve been better).
Dulaney Ward
2 years ago |I am quite sure that someone would be more than willing to take it off your hands.
b shaw
2 years ago |@pnpbios
As Dulaney said, someone would be willing to take it off of your hands and that someone is me!
As a matter of fact, I’d be willing to offer you a deal: I wont charge you my normal “I-hate-my-camera” fee. So, you wont have to pay a thing to get rid of that Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Nex5. Just think, you would be free of the Nex5 and could purchase the A580.
Since I’m in such a charitable mood, I will even pay for shipping. So, for FREE you can be rid of that yucky Nex5! No money will have to exchange hands and you could be completely free of that burden that you must be feeling. Just think of the freedom you’ll enjoy by being rid of the Nex5 at no cost to you.
You better jump on this deal right away, I might not be so charitable later.
AVESTA
2 years ago |I wonder if the nex 7 will have Internal Image stabilization, for when ou use your a mounts
STeve
2 years ago |I don’t think so as this will limit it’s video due to sensor overheating.
AVESTA
2 years ago |you’re probably right… that woulda’ been pretty sick for video though.
john
2 years ago |From what I’ve heard SSS is not that useful for video and a $200 Merlin knockoff (steady cam) would be a much better solution.
EE
2 years ago |I’m getting anxious regarding the price-point of NEX-7? What does everyone expect?
$999?
GH
2 years ago |Pnpbios, here is an easy solution for flash usage and the nex-5: http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/994984
Danonino
2 years ago |I hope they remove the shuttermechanism and just make the shutter electronic on sensor. The extremely loud shutter noise destroys alot of the usefulness of the otherwise small and discreat Nex cameras.
tom
2 years ago |Some time to go before global shutter.
It will be implemented as fast as they can though as it will both improve performance and reduce complexity and manufacturing cost. They still have to figure out how to do it though.
Adman
2 years ago |The shuttersound of the NEX-3C is much quieter than the 3/5.
Zstan
2 years ago |Gosh. Nex can only record 29 minutes of video is due to tax issues!!! Under EU Laws anything that records videos over 29 mins 59 seconds
Is considered a video camera and will be taxed higher. It’s NOTHING to do with firmware. Cheers.
richard
2 years ago |If NEX7 can do what A77 can in pixel and video, that would one heck of camera.
JSWinNYC
2 years ago |NEX 7 must be $1000+. To comment that a77 focus will be more accurate, no, NEX will be more accurate (CDAF beats PDAF in this regard, but at cost in speed). Yes, NEX 7 likely becomes king in “image quality”, but we will see. Logical that they be released at the same time – they are not direct competitors, and will share much development. NEX 7 will likely have EVF, but will it also have hot shoe (this is a must )? If so, I will certainly upgrade – flash/strobe with NEX 5 is hopeless.
acolyte
2 years ago |Urm if they have the same sensor, does it make sense to shoot with a77 and have nex7 as lightweight backup?
Andey
2 years ago |And similar price ))
David
2 years ago |Next few months????? I can predict that it will rain in the next few months…..how many times have we heard “next few months”…? Next few months always seems to turn out to be next few years with Sony….
admin
2 years ago |Actually I wrote that it should be announced in July
Dulaney Ward
2 years ago |middle of July; multiple good sources are saying that
And remember, when it happens, it was last Fall when that Andrea said it would arrive in the middle of 2011.
john
2 years ago |Andrea
Any more info on when the 500 F4 will be released?
Same time as A77 would make sense.
SonyA77
2 years ago |I thought you have left Sony?
SonyA77
2 years ago |@David
Voohoo
2 years ago |If the cameras are announced in July does that mean that they should be released by the end of the year? I’m new to the camera scene and don’t know the conventions with announcements/releases. For example, I know that Apple announces their products like a day before they release it (maybe a week?). Video games can be announced but not come out for years afterwards. So are cameras usually released within a couple months after their official announcement? I’d really like to know since I’m looking into buying my first DSLR. I was planning to get a NEX or A33 (yes, I know that both are technically NOT DSLRs) pretty soon but I’m willing to hold off for the NEX-7 if the release date isn’t too far off. But then again, I have a feeling that the NEX-7 will be a few hundred out of my price range. :/
Thomas
2 years ago |Andrea has recived SR5 rumours about an October shipment-date:
http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/sr5-sony-a77-to-start-shipment-early-october-sr4-announcement-mid-july/
Ezio
2 years ago |would that be for world wide secret beta test?
Rei
2 years ago |It’s kind of cruel if its April Fool joke