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As soon as they announced it i hope is ready for purchase …crosses fingers.

I hope the video recording capability will be the major new function.

@asahi: The first comment an its pessimistic.
I am very excited. I think i can’t sleep until sunday . Thank you very much for this rumor. Great work. A new 700 with new better design an handling and waterproof solid would be groundbreaking.

Well… I hope video recording is the new function but an advance generation. Any new function for photos?, just buy the A900, still an awesome camera.

I hope every aspect of this new camera is a major emprovement. If not I will hold on to my trusty A700′s

Finally, the wait is over….. SHOW ME THE SUCCESSOR~!

Please please please make it happen! It’s been months and years I’ve been waiting to replace my good old Dynax 5D!

Hashbrown, don’t be silly, Go ahead and “consider the alternatives.” Ops, but there are no alternatives! All others already have the video. Only stinking Sony was lagging behind. I really hope this rumor is true. It’s been a very long and painful wait!

I hope it’s still an APS-C DSLR with a nice big OVF, decent burst rate, buffer and autofocus …go for it, Sony!

AL – my alternative will probably be an A900 or 5D. If this new 700 is a great new camera that happens to have video then that’s fine. It’s just the post suggests that video is the only really new feature. I’d prefer the focus to be on still-camera features.

A new FF camera, or even better a FF A7** would keep me from switching to Canon. Maybe!

Eat this Sony whining skeptics, did you really think Sony didn’t know what they were doing? One step closer to be the #1!. In some aspects they already are too.

Not all people asked for a A700 successor with video. As many I don’t like video on a photographic tool.

Sony guys (if you have somebody reading this website): There are people out there that thinks “photography” 100%, not video or hybrids. So here is my request for you guys: A great APS-C photographic only camera (I don’t mind the name), very compact and unobtrusive, very fast and silent, with outstanding ISO capabilities and a very strong construction (not as cheap as the A550), 12 or 14 megapixels it’s enough. Recently I bought for fun a Leica IIIf (1954) and wow… that was a real camera for those years!… what a pleasure to handle it! But as many I can’t work only with vintage equipment intended for another kind of photography and I need a pro-digital camera (I don’t need it in full formant… that’s too much) with excellent quality/price relationship because I don’t have the money for hyper expensive modern equipment that by the way I don’t like (generally it’s so bulky… that makes me sick). For that I’m sure you could do better than Canon, Nikon, Pentax and Leica, etc… it’s your style. I thing you understood the “funny” phenomenon that is going on on the market: as you big camera makers, make more and better cameras for all people, there is less need for professional photographers, so, how can a modest pro photographer pay for expensive stuff?

I have already a nice Zeiss lens, now I need a fabulous Alfa body… A1000 or whatever! I’m ready to pay a fair price. But please, think as the older Leica brothers: a camera for life… but not forgetting (as they do) that the majority of photographers are not so rich people.

Wow… The time has arrived… Surely Video is a good feature, but I think much more the successor of A700 as my replacement for A100: after 3 years of good photos, I need more…
I’m wondering on CMOS Exmor-R (or -X) sensor, with no more than 14MP… APS-C format preferred.
Not interested in liveview, mirrorless, or compact body. Interested instead in good and quick autofocus, better stabilization and good materials. I’m ready to spend for the body up to 1500 Euros.
I know Sony is great in these things… I think it will be a very good mix-up of improvements and old features. I think that as sensor on A550 and as sensor on my father’s handycam (CMOS Exmor-R is fantastic!), the new sensor will be stunning… bye bye Canon and Nikon

I think I’d best get saving up