(SR4) NEX-9 FF will be “fully compatible” with A-mount lenses.
Got some news about the famous Sony “hybrid” solution: A trusted source just let me know that it is Sony’s plan to make the NEX-9 Full Frame camera compatible with the Alpha Mount. But he said this will not be through the use of a simple adapter. Apparently Sony engineers found another solution but he didn’t unveil me how that will work.
I may ask other sources if they have a clue about the Sony’s solution. The only idea I have comes via the Zeiss Ikon Contax I, II and III (here on eBay). They had a sort of native double mount on camera. I am really curious to see this!
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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!
rUY
3 months ago |Using the digital mount to detect the lens and define the crop factor is not a challenge for Sony Engineer, the camera able to use APSC lens does not means that it will resolve the terrible vignetting problem and CA. I still doubt if they based on current sensor technique, they could get both problem solved. Looks like Fuji may the real company the make it happen.
wishful
3 months ago |Maybe this is Sony’s idea of how to merge NEX+alpha in one system (it is about time though)
Maybe they can make mirrorless+IBIS.
Maybe they can ask $4000 for another 24MP sensor.
Maybe nobody will pay that price.
Resolution 48MP, ISO 25-25000, HDR in raw, MAYBE!
MrLee
3 months ago |I don’t care if the body will transform and make any lens ever made made mount without an adaptor… I’m not going to buy a Nex… Especially not at the price they want for the little bit of camera you get (Theres more to a camera than image quality)…
Produce the FF Alpha you are capable of building and I will buy one, or 2….
animalsbybarry
3 months ago |Put a high res sensor on it
Eliminate the mirror and aa fliter
And so will i.
MORE PIXEL POWER!!!
Mr M
3 months ago |like playing games on it ? lol
SoneyPix
3 months ago |It seems like this thing is mutating into a slightly smaller, more rectangular A99 without the trans mirror. If that is the case I don’t think many people will be interested in it either. If it is native A mount the flange focal distance will have to be the standard 44.5mm, instead of the E mount 18mm, which will seriously bulk up the body. The only other option to increasing FFD would be to insert corrective optics between the sensor and the lens flange, and nobody wants that. People could just use the Metabones speed booster on the existing APS-C NEX lineup instead. What I don’t understand is that if the native E mount is incapable of supporting full frame optics, then why does the VG900 full frame camcorder have an E mount?
Carl
3 months ago |It is capable of full frame, it just needs a tight ray angle. For example, the old Exakta mount had a 38mm throat compared to E-mount’s 46.1mm, so it’s actually of fairly modest design, but not all lenses (especially not symmetrical rangefinder ones) have a suitable ray angle.
xxxx
3 months ago |A-mount look larger than e-mount, it will makes NEX body a bit larger. I wish they can put FF sensor inside a body like the 5N. Now that’s something.
bro
3 months ago |Why? When you attach a large FF lens to it any size advantage is thrown out the window, might as well get the ergonomic benefit of a slightly larger body with more comfortable grip, controls, etc.
John Maverick
3 months ago |There’s lots of small fullframe lenses around. Leica, Voigtlander, Zeiss, Contax G etc. Most of them are smaller than the crop E-Mount SEL lenses. They lack AF, but are great for landscape and street when shooting hyperfocal and zone, and peaking works well for stuff like portraits.
xxxx
3 months ago |Maybe, but that will be just another Leica, with bigger-than-Leica lenses.
Physica
3 months ago |I think It will be great if the mount is just fit alike canon’s EF-S mount and EF mount…. But if the body size and weight was greater due to the multi-mount , I think leave it E-mount plus a a mount adaptor is better…… if the body weight and size are large , then i think i no need to bought the NEX-9 anymore and go for A99 instead…
Twaddler Belafonte
3 months ago |Finally NEX will get some lenses.
massimo
3 months ago |it makes no sense
would be much more easier and practical to use an adapter А to E with a screw driver
ZeevK
3 months ago |As I see it, the most reasonable solution is to make an intercajgable “Front Plate” module that will have not only the byonet mount but also all the electro-mechanical mechanism needed for full utilization of either E or A lens.
Sony ofcource can go one step further and also make a modular sensor housing so we will be able to place different sensors suitable for the application (like in the old film days…). I can see at least 3 popular modular sensor options – “B&W High-DR 32MPx”, “Hig-Res Studio 45Mpx, “Lo-Res High-ISO & Action 21MPx”
I acn dream on and on…
Andy Pandy
3 months ago |The mount makes sense to Sony, but sorry the FF Nex should be A mount only so you can have IBIS, no IBIS is a deal breaker for many people and so Sony are already loosing customers by sticking with the E mount for FF.
ZeevK
3 months ago |Whithout IBIS the FF NEX-9 is useless. And this is even before considering the roumored 4K$ price…
xxxx
3 months ago |I used to have a D7k with 3 non-vr lenses. I wouldn’t call them useless. VR/IS is cool, but not a must-have-feature for me. Having said that, I would never could afford a USD4k camera. Sad.
Boooe
3 months ago |What’s the use?
If they offer a body which could work both as OVF-DSLR and FF mirrorless, that will sell like hotcakes.
But this… is a minute improvement.
o
3 months ago |it’s got to be an advanced adapter of some kind. they need to deal with flange distance and unless they want to sacrifice a-mount autofocus performance altogether, they need that flange distance for autofocus tech for the alpha glass. I don’t believe on sensor pdaf is good enough, it will take years to catch up with classic pdaf. I believe the adapter will feel very integrated with the camera, which makes them say it’s not merely an adapter, but it needs to be detachable, or the whole point of going portable with dedicated ff e-mount lenses is lost.I think it’s an adapter alright, and that’s good news. I still worry about autofocus performance though.
Blu
3 months ago |Yippy…yes, yes, yes! Way to go Sony!!! I love it.
James
3 months ago |That’s cool as long as it has native FF E-mount lenses also. Otherwise it’s a waste of space- what would be the point of a nice small body, when it’s attached to huge, heavy, A-mount lenses? If that’s the case, you may as well stick to your Alpha DSLR. NEX-FF with great, small, compact, lightweight E-mount glass would be amazing and worth the money!
Leo
2 months ago |Full frame, mirror-less, Alpha-99 body, sensor can move forward and backward (corresponding to E-mount and A mount), in-body 6 axis anti-shake, that means E-mount lens without OSS can have anti-shake, as well as Leica, Zeiss manual lenses can also have image produced by a full frame anti-shake sensor !
Even better, sensor that can be tilted and shifted?
Puretide
4 weeks ago |No STL mirror robbing the light .Its time to give us the 36MP Sensor thy made for Nikon .In the NEX FF
Nick
3 weeks ago |No IBIS would be a deal breaker for me as well. I would have bought the RX1 had it have had some sort of IS. Without IBIS my Zeiss and other lenses would be useless unless tripod mounted. I can’t understand what Sony is thinking about having championed IBIS for so many years and now leaves its user base hanging in the air.
With IS giving four stops and upwards its omission wastes all the high ISO development that Sony has put into its sensors. An ISO 6400 sensor with four stops of IS is equivalent to an ISO 400 sensor without IS.