(SR4) Surprise: Is the A77 going to use USB 3.0???
A new A77 tester contacted me to say that he had the chance to play a bit with a preproduction version of the A77. He said that the automatic focusing is insanely fast (yes that is the word he used). it’s fast even in Tracking Mode. The new OLED viewfinder is a huge step forward compared to the A55 viewfinder. There are “almost” no jerk’s when moving the camera fast. The manual controls and buttons are placed right, he found the usability has been improved too (compared to the A55). And there is also a completely new feature. Apperently the A77 will be compatible with the USB 3.0 standard. Via Wikipedia: “USB 3.0 has transmission speeds of up to 5 Gbit/s, which is 10 times faster than USB2.0 (480 Mbit/s). USB 3.0 significantly reduces the time required for data transmission, reduces power consumption, and is downward compatible with USB 2.0.”. This is wonderful news (if it turns out to be true)! Imagine to transfer all your 24 Megapixel pictures in a few second from the A77 to your computer! WOW! I told you guys the A77 will set new standards!
Stay tuned on SAR, will keep you busy with rumors 
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!
Jakubcz
2 years ago |Sounds too good to be truth already…If it’s that good when it comes out I have to have it, even if it means selling a kidney…
R1
2 years ago |It makes sense to include the latest USB technology, especially with such large file sizes. Great!
sonyboy68
2 years ago |+1
Jay
2 years ago |Agree!
uhuh
2 years ago |Really? C’mon, think a little harder before posting this. USB isn’t currently limiting the transfer speed of camera’s. It’s the storage that is the bottleneck. Current SD Cards don’t even get close to reaching the 480 Mbps USB 2.0 spec. So what’s the advantage of 3.0?
admin
2 years ago |Easy answer: Current SD cards no, future yes.
And by the way, the A77 not only takes SD cards
BS
2 years ago |USB 2.0 is 480 Mbits/s, add in the protocol overhead and the fact that it’s half-duplex and you will not get much more than 30MB/s out of it. There are already many SD cards that will outrun USB2 and if the A77 does indeed take CF cards then USB3 is a must.
Dee2Vee
2 years ago |+1 Absolutely .. I would say it more or less 45 MB/s on USB 2.0 when the card reader is inbuilt into your laptop .. going with 3.0 is a very sensible decision .. thunderbolt will take sometime before it matures ..
Given that it is SR4 and not a 5, I would be very disappointed in Sony if they dont include 3.0 in the A77.. after all it is supposed to be their flagship SLT and flagships dont run on old junk..
Mike/Canada
2 years ago |I would still like to see if The A77 is going to have both SD & CF card slots, I know everyone has expressed it will have a CF slot, as well as MS slot. But I still think no CF, but I hope I’m wrong, and please have a large size body like the A700 or the A550. PLEASE!!
Gunnar
2 years ago |+1
SonyA77
2 years ago |As already said, you are talking about current cards, not future. But is it perhaps that USB3 can be used now to transfer pictures and video faster for when tethered to a PC.
Anon
2 years ago |sounds about right. hopefuly its true seeing as the next canon 5d is supposed to have thunderbolt it appears the industry is about ready for this.
Gunnar
2 years ago |i have a mixed feeling about this: as long as the memory cards inside the A77 are not up to the speed of usb3 it wont help you a bit.. except for perhaps being future proof.
for a big body i`d expect a lot more manual controls, i`m still dreaming of what the Minolta D7 offered, it felt like a russian tank while the A55 feels like a Fiat 500 
..also i expected the usability to be far ahead of A55 and not just improved
lollo
2 years ago |Thunderbolt on the 5d is only wishful thinking, by those that are stocked up with Canon lenses.
nothing more than that.
Hopefully it does not have the print button….
if you said that the next 1ds is going to have it, there you have a good reason to hope.
Gunnar
2 years ago |who said anything about canon?? you are on the wrong page i guess
lollo
2 years ago |Yes. i was supposed to answer to Anon.
SonyA77
2 years ago |This comment concerns me:
“There are “almost” no jerk’s when moving the camera fast”.
Shouldn’t that say there are NO jerks?
Gunnar
2 years ago |guess it depends on what they mean by fast
perhaps they just try not to sound like total fanboys
SonyA77
2 years ago |The A77 has got to be “right” first time, in particular the EVF which is very controversial. Those unsure about EVF will jump to Canikon if the EVF on the A77 is not perfect.
WilliamLeong
2 years ago |The EVF on the long awaited A77 will be THE benchmark of all judging on Sony’s future EVF based cameras. So it’s either gonna be real good or suffer the loss of many fan-base currently waiting for the A77 to jump over to canikon.
Sky_walker
2 years ago |Yep, definitely. The A77 in some sense can decide the future of EVFs in pro cameras at all – If it’ll succeed that EVFs will have open doors to the future, even in it’s cheapest version at the entry level cameras. But if it will fail than the doors for SLT introduction into pro market might close forever.
Hope that Sony realize what’s at the stake.
SonyA77
2 years ago |Wireless would set new standards, not USB3.
Adi
2 years ago |Wireless is slow, whatever it is, slower than cable.
By the way , USB 2.0 is already the limiting factor as the readers do not reach the max teoretical speeds. On some cards I’m getting max 15 MB/s with some standard readers, 20 MB/s with newer “high speed SDXC” readers (USB2.0) and same card 24 MB/s with an internal laptop reader connected via PCIe.
SonyA77
2 years ago |Christ on a bike, I didn’t say INSTEAD of USB. Wireless would be incredibly useful on a dSLR.
Sky_walker
2 years ago |Buy this, worry no more: http://uk.eye.fi/
SonyA77
2 years ago |Yes mate, thanks, I had seen those before. Would be nice to have built in wireless though, THAT would be setting a new standard.
march
2 years ago |wohoo… i love you, sony !
Milos Janata
2 years ago |By the time A77 will be in shelves SD cards will already over 100MB/s
remember my words:]
SonyA77
2 years ago |By the time the A77 is available we’ll all have flying cars
Mike L
2 years ago |By the time the A77 is available, we will all have cameras built into our eyeballs, so we won’t need a camera anymore.
Sky_walker
2 years ago |You mean like thanks to Sarif Industries? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDfoQiPEQHo
SonyA77
2 years ago |OK, that was not creepy at all….lol
john
2 years ago |For those with money I give it 50 years.
fjbyrne
2 years ago |“The manual controls and buttons are placed right, he found the usability has been improved too (compared to the A55)”
How about compared to the A700? That should be the point of comparison IMO. Sony got it pretty much right with the A700 and shouldn’t mess too much with success IMO.
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Camaman
2 years ago |Usb3 and usb charging would set new standards…
We already have fast cards 45MB/s today 60 in a few months, 90 a few months later and so on!
Parci
2 years ago |Admin, do you have any info about the SIZE of the EVF? Compared to the current Panasonic m43 EVFs or the A55 for example. I wonder who will be the first manufacturer to create a huge EVF, much like the viewfinder of a medium format camera…
Terryfried
2 years ago |This is Great News !! it Hopfully means the SD/SDHC/SDXC slot is UHS-1 compatable. thes cards already have read speeds in excess of USB2 but few are available yet. but when XC versions arive we will eventualy have upto 2TB of fast memory. If it is UHS-2 compatible(i doubt it) we could see 312 MB/s read speed. for early example check these cards
http://www.ukoptics.co.uk/panasonic-16gb-sdhc-uhs-class-10-memory-card-p-1397.html
then there is whatever “Compact Flash” and Sony have comming next.hopfully it will be compatible with all next gen cards and USB3 WILL be needed.
Terryfried
2 years ago |The stats for the cards above (sorry for the advertising I have nothing to do with either company but these are firt sample pages I could find)
http://www.panasonic.co.uk/html/en_GB/287749/module/general/compare/products/displayResult.html?p=RP-SDU04GD1K&p=RP-SDU16GD1K&p=RP-SDU08GD1K&p=RP-SDU32GD1K
Minoltian
2 years ago |the biggest surprise for me is that if Sony announces a77 at July :p
I have a feeling they will announce it at October and it will be available at December or January 2012
admin
2 years ago |This will only happen if the production problems are still here.
emopunk
2 years ago |Andrea do your sources confirm that the camera actually has CF slot? I don’t want to discard all of my CFs when I buy A77
admin
2 years ago |Didn’t ask that lately but yes it should have CF!
Irfan
2 years ago |No, there is no space for CF card in the mock-up shown by Sony.
alex
2 years ago |wireless would be soo nice!
pancanikonpus
2 years ago |This SAR rank to be “mission impossible”! dont you think pay peanut get monkey theory
btw, today is 10th June, 26 days to go orange77 annocement!
btw, today is 10th June, 26 days to go orange77 annocement!
btw, today is 10th June, 26 days to go orange77 annocement!
today talk to the seller, will re-sale 600D soon. he says please used it for few months first
I says 5 months is Sony able to produce enough A77 
ageha
2 years ago |Why should Sony even bother with implementing USB3? That doesn’t make any sense. Sony does favor Thunderbolt with their upcoming batch of notebooks.
Terryfried
2 years ago |AMD put usb3 suport on all there new chips and most cameras use usb2 which usb3 is backward compatible so USB3 is what most of its camera custamers will want. Thunderbolt is in many peoples opineon a unnessery upgrade which requires extra hardwear that takes space and mony most dont think nesecery. As card speeds have only just reached greater than usb2 speeds the choice is purly one of most suport and least cost.
Jay
2 years ago |Accept the fact that we are moving towards 3.0
ChenAlan
2 years ago |I did not expect any less from Sony.
This is a professional camera sending huge 40 mb RAW files from a 32 GB card to a computer… and they still expect us to use USB 2.0 when USB 3.0 is backwards compatible with USB 2.0?
shadowKFJ
2 years ago |USB3 wont make any difference in downloading speed. There is no memory card available that will even exhaust USB2 speeds (~60 mb/sec)
Adi
2 years ago |I did a lot of testings with more than 10 different USB 2.0 card readers. Most of them top at 15 MB/s ( these which you buy for a few dollars). 2 of them which are described as “fastest USB readers in the world” – with a newer chip (SDXC compatible) top at around 20 MB/s. I’m ready to bet that you will not be able to find any reader or which will give you more than this.If you know one, send me the link to it.
Most build in laptop readers (at least in new ones SDXC compatible) are connected on PCIe bus drirectly not on USB. These give you higher speed.
There are already a few USB 3.0 readers which support higher speeds, so USB 3.0 is a good addition.
RB
2 years ago |Correct. Don’t confuse theoretical speed with real speed. In reality, I get about 30 MB/s over my USB3.0 connection between my computer and my external hard drive. Hope that this bottleneck applies only to me. But when I insert my CF Card directly in my built-in card reader of my Sony VAIO Laptop, I get blazing speeds in the first seconds before it stabilizes at 40 MB/s — the writing speed of the hard disk. Should upgrade to an SSD…
Terryfried
2 years ago |Keep UP! I have posted twice info about card that do. Such as these.
http://www.panasonic.co.uk/html/en_GB/287749/module/general/compare/products/displayResult.html?p=RP-SDU04GD1K&p=RP-SDU16GD1K&p=RP-SDU08GD1K&p=RP-SDU32GD1K
LEdgars
2 years ago |Terryfied! It is not about card speeds, but USB2 readers. I also did some tests and Sony A900 is fastest USB2 reader available.
Terryfried
2 years ago |I full agree I was pointing out Shadow KFJ’s error. If anyone actualy read my previous post they would see my point is that if the A77 reads UHS-1 SD cards it will probably be the fastest Card reader. mahing usb 3 conecter to a computer with motherboard USB3 (any of the new AMD comps)will be fastest way to transfare large data from computer to camara.
Disinto
2 years ago |I can’t wait this camera to be released… We’re hearing so many good stuff about it
khai
2 years ago |just jizzed in my pants..oh my cant take this load..if i have a time travel machine i would….
Ahmed J.R.
2 years ago |so far so good
PhotoNut
2 years ago |Another BS tester rumor. What does USB connector on the camera body have to do with image capture/download speeds? After all, when last did you connect your camera body to the computer? With the exception of tethered shooting, the camera body connector is irrelevant to performance.
What is more important is what format of memory card is supported by the camera. But then I notice that the BS tester’s rumor does not say a word about this.
Please less BS more rumors!
admin
2 years ago |Photonut, firstly moderate your language. Secondly, once the A77 is out with USB 3.0 I want you here to confess that you were wrong
admin
2 years ago |P.S.: You don’t know how many people like you I met back in the days when I were the only one saying that Sony would make new cameras with translucent mirrors. It was back in November 2009. And I had to tolerate you trolls for months. Of course rumors can be wrong, I don’t knwo everything. But please trust me a bit.
PhotoNut
2 years ago |Sorry about the language. I just don’t like these so-called testers providing tidbits that are not answering the more important questions. Like is Compact flash supported? Is the studio/strobe EVF probem fixed etc…
That is why I think these “testers” are Sony marketing people who want to create excitement/anticipation without revealing any information that is useful.
A real non-Sony marketer tester would tell us more relevant information than “emotional feelings” and throwaway tidbits like this or stuff like “autofocus is very fast”.
SonyA77
2 years ago |Agreed. If any of us here actually had the A77 in our hands, the LAST thing we would mention is USB speed!
Edgars
2 years ago |Just think, if A77 handle usb3 it could manage much fastest next generation memory cards (500mb/s). I would be happy to connect camera to PC to increase download speed for 5 times.
There already was rumour from bashed tester, that a77 have CF slot. Are you expecting testers lumping around with studio strobes?
SonyA77
2 years ago |@Edgars, I would certainly expect testers to test this camera in a studio!
Irfan
2 years ago |PhotoNut, if you are NOT happy with what’s posted here, why on earth are you clicking and reading this site? Get a life, moron. And sell your Sony stuff and buy something that makes you happy, instead of constantly weeping on the internet forum.
SonyA77
2 years ago |@Irfan
Thing is, PhotoNut has a valid point. The rumours, although welcome, are very vague considering these are meant to be testers. They do sound like marketing rumours rather than solid end-user tester rumours.
Edgars
2 years ago |I think all testers are signed papers and couldn’t disclose anything at all. Therefore at least I’m happy with pieces of information what is possible to get. I couldn’t imagine that pro level camera will have any problems in studio and there is no need to compare it to crappy entry level A55.
The only thing which is worse to worry about is that after 3 weeks you will know all specs, but you should wait for additional 5 month to get a77 camera…
SonyA77
2 years ago |@Edgars
I couldn’t imagine that the A33/55 would have problems in the studio, but here we are…
Irfan
2 years ago |@Sony77, but photonut is weeping all the time though. Every time he posts here, he is weeping about something. If he is so unhappy with Sony’s direction, why does he not sell his Sony stuff and buy something that makes him happy?
Bruce Bachand
2 years ago |“After all, when last did you connect your camera body to the computer?”
I started doing this quite often now because of the faster read/transfer times in the A55 and A550. This is also plugged into an iMac… the iMac transfer the photos exceedingly fast… but when I back up on my PC rig the transfer is much slower! YEAH, APPLE!
Mike/canada
2 years ago |@Irfan hey irfan if your not happy with what Photonut posts here maybe your the one that should stop coming here! And stop with the name calling! Its not the first time you’ve done that here! Maybe your one of those msg board bullies! Is that true ? Hmm talk shit about me now ? Hmm ?
PhotoNut
2 years ago |Look Irfan, if you or Sony will refund all the money I’ve spent on Sony bodies,lenses and accessories (over $10K) then I will take the money and buy a Canon 5D MkII and compatible lenses and never look back or come here again to disturb you.
But you won’t/can’t.
Since I have investment in this gear I have every right to communicate my displeasure with Sony’s future plans just like you have a right to communicate your love of Sony’s previous, current and future plans. I don’t insult you for doing so.
Live and let live.
Terryfried
2 years ago |most usb card readers dont operate at full speed and few are usb3 compliant. many on board card readers arnt to fast as they were designd for old slow cards. so imagine this you buy a A77 record a 256GB video them take forever to tranfere it to your PC. insted you plug the A77 direct to your PCs USB3 sockey and save loads of time.
Avesta
2 years ago |CF and MS all the way. Fuck SD.
Terryfried
2 years ago |See my ealyer posts. Latest SD are fastest and largest capacity so many people will want them.
Sky_walker
2 years ago |Nevermind that CF still rules the SD speeds, even despite of being X-years old standard?
Terryfried
2 years ago |has no one read any of my posts?
show me a CF that can beat 90 MBs. I havent folowed them latly so mayby your right but prove it please.
Sky_walker
2 years ago |http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-world-fastest-high-capacity-compactflash-card.html ? First result from google.
With latest CF standard (published 2010) the CF cards can achieve up to 167MB/s write speed and 128 petabyte(!) of storage space thanks to UDMA 7 on ATA standard or up to 300 MB/s on SATA standard, but that’s just theory.
SDHC/XC should be capable of beating speed by a very small margin on the theoretical level, but… so far in SD case it’s just a theory close to 128 petybyte CF disc
.
Meanwhile Sandisk, Sony and Nikon work on new generation of CF-based memories that instead of ATA shall use PCIExpress what should allow transfers up to 500 MB/s and a HUGE chance of being implemented into Sony Alpha cameras (Sony is much more willing to implement stuff it worked on itself rather than Sandisk-Panasonic-Toshiba-owned Secure Digital cards commonly used right now)
Terryfried
2 years ago |besides surly the ideal is to the choice of wichever next gen version is best.
Ahmed J.R.
2 years ago |“Is the studio/strobe EVF probem fixed”
!
I’m worried about that too
Marfat
2 years ago |Who needs to see what you’re shooting in the studio anyways? If you like that, you should stay with the OVF. We EVF shooters like to guess our way around. Just take 5-10 shots while the model is waiting and make your adjustments that way.
SonyA77
2 years ago |No EVF makes macro shooting a little difficult
E
2 years ago |Deep insights after hours of using the a55?
PhotoNut
2 years ago |But you still won’t be able to actually see the model when you’re shooting her because the EVF will be too dark. That is the problem and chimping before hand won’t help here.
Another issue that I don’t like about EVFs is that unless the camera is on and consuming the battery, you will not be able to use the viewfinder. This means that went calculating battery life, you just can’t base it on number of shots, you have to base it on number of shots *and* amount of time using the viewfinder or camera is on because if the viewfinder is on, the camera’s entire imaging pipeline needs to be turned on as well. Its like taking a video constantly even though the camera is simply hanging on your neck. The sensor heats up and that increases noise on the pictures you take.
I like the implementation of AF video via SLT/EVF on A55 but that solution is not without downsides. If you are only interested in digital pictures for the most part then you’re sacrificing so much in exchange for something (fast video AF) that you don’t even want or need. That is why Sony should not have eliminated OVFs in higher end cameras because their SLT solution trades off reduction in digital image quality and overall handling compared to large OVF cameras. This matters a lot at the high end.
Finally, fast video AF is only good for home movies with slow lens and some documentaries. Afterall, when last did you watch a movie where the camera kept on changing focus by itself? Obviously, when shooting high quality or professional cinematic video/film, the director needs to be in control of what is in focus and in fact is also in control of where the actors are in time. Thin depth of field (large aperture lenses) is simply not compatible with autofocus — you get a horrible effect as the camera’s lens keeps on changing focus as it cues off different things in its changing field of view. In the case of Sony screw-mount and SAM lenses, you will also get the loud noise of the lenses focusing.
The The best solution for home videos with autofocus is a camera with a small sensor and thus large depth of field. Even canon has a camcorder that has phase detect autofocus (external) that is combined with contrast detection to provide much better focus control and video quality than anything that you can get using Sony’s SLT cameras.
Irfan
2 years ago |The transfer speed will still be limited by the SD card used in the camera. That will be the bottleneck, not the USB port itself.
juan
2 years ago |Is showing us they’re full statements an option?
juan
2 years ago |Their*. Sorry
PhotoNut
2 years ago |Exactly! The USB port is not relevant when talking about requirements for 24Mpx high frame rate camera. The SD/CF card interface and the card you install is more important.
richard
2 years ago |about time, video and image do use large file, faster transfer is nice, but prefer had build in wifi even better.
Ren
2 years ago |As a working photographer who shoots out of my studio and on location almost exclusively with strobes, I am VERY concerned about how the a77 will perform.
JakobR
2 years ago |@Ren may I ask why, for studio work I would not expect that A77 will be any better that A900. I will buy A77 for action, lowlight and video shooting, but will keep A900 for a long time for studio work.
SonyA77
2 years ago |For a 1000 camera it better had work in the bloody studio!
Edgars
2 years ago |In general I agree that A900 is already excellent for studio.
A77 blows A900 away for macro work. APS advantage is sweet spot on FF lenses, I expect corner sharpness will be dramatically better for a77.
PhotoNut
2 years ago |Edgars. That is also a bit of a myth. Sure the corners will be better but unless the lens in question has very high resolution (LPH) to begin with, then the center quality will be less because you have now doubled the expected resolution by doubling the sensors resolution from 12Mpx to 24mpx.
So a 24mpx APS-C sensor will tax the central resolution of a lens several times more than a 12 or 24mpx full-frame (35mm) sensor.
So expect to have to buy more expensive lenses if you actually want to see the full 24Mpx APS-C sensor quality.
PhotoNut
2 years ago |Edgars, also with Macro work. with a very high density sensor, the diffraction limit will be hit quicker. so instead of shooting at f/16 on a full frame sensor you may be forced to shoot at f/8 or less on this new high density sensor. So no free lunch.
if you really wanted good Macro, you would large format camera with movements.
abc
2 years ago |FYI, SANDISK, NIKON AND SONY PROPOSE INDUSTRY STANDARDS FOR NEXT-GENERATION HIGH-SPEED MEMORY CARD FORMAThttp://www.dpreview.com/news/1011/10113004memoryformat.asp
Ren
2 years ago |@JakobR – Because I do also shoot weddings and events where it would be beneficial to have a camera that performs better in low light. I currently use an a700 and I have thought about getting an a900, but for studio work the a700 is all I really need, and in low light the a900 is no better, so why spend the $2600? It isn’t practical for me to always have two cameras at the ready, so a good a77 all-in-one solution is what I really need.
By the way, if the a77 DOESN’T preform well with strobes Sony will probably lose the pro shooters they do have. Guys like Brian Smith who are paid to use a900′s will be forced to use the latest cameras, and if those cameras aren’t up to standard they will probably have no choice but to move to another brand. They can continue to use their a900′s while they are still on the market, but as soon as the a900 is discontinued and replaced by the a99 SLT they will have a choice to make. Sony won’t want their sponsored pro shooters using the a900 once the replacement hits the market.
The a77 is very likely going to set the stage for what we can expect from the a99, and if the a77 doesn’t perform, not only will Sony likely lose a lot of the top pros, they will also lose a lot of working guys like me.
The thing that does give me hope is the fact that the a900 replacement is probably already in testing and I would guess that Sony is HOPEFULLY listening to the pro shooters who are testing them to make sure they are as good as they need to be.
SonyA77
2 years ago |Agreed.
PhotoNut
2 years ago |Actually I don’t really believe that Sony listens to the people who use their cameras for serious purposes or in advanced ways. For example how could they have released the A33 and A55 with the EVF strobe problem unless nobody that tested it ever used a studio strobe with it OR they did and they ignored the complaints.
Then what about the original problem with the A900 where they crippled the aperture priority mode metering so that if you connected a non-chipped lens (like the Samyang 85mm f/1.4) it would refuse to work. Yet, the A700 didn’t have that problem. Years after releasing the A900 they finally fixed this crippling with a firmware update. It was a previously working feature that they disabled to promote purchase of Sony lenses. They also refused to fix it via firmware even after years of complaints by A900 owners.
Sony Digital Imaging has engineers who can build world class products. But the company also has to contend with marketing and sales people who are convinced that Sony is purely a consumer brand that caters to the young girls , soccer moms and those with too much money in their wallets to shop around.
Right now, my local long established camera store is doing a product expo and almost all the vendors (Nikon,Canon,Panasonic,Zeiss, Leica etc..) will be present but not Sony. Can you explain this? Why would Sony not send representatives to a major camera event even though this store stocks, promotes and sells the Sony Alpha line including the A900?
Sony just believes that the word “Sony” on a product will sell it. Today, the word “Apple” or “i”-something on a product will sell it but you still see Apple making sure to seriously advertise its products on television, explains in a very easy to understand way how they can be used to make your life better and also provide Apple stores so you can experience its full range of products with knowledgeable employees there to guide you.
Knurd
2 years ago |My vote is also for Thunderbolt and wireless transfer (Airdrop). USB 2 sucks and there has not been a major push on 3.
david safier
2 years ago |This is a good idea because theatering is slow on the a700 and a850. When it transfers images to the laptop it take a lot then just transferring images in mass storage mode
sleek
2 years ago |what’s the point? not impressed. it’s still wired. sony should get their act together if they want to future proof their camera, they should build the camera with: “wireless capability”
if a wireless chip fits in an eye-fi memory card, or on a cell phone, how much more in a well-built full-body a77? this is the way to go. with wireless-N built-in? count me in!
it could even go further. with those new fun effects from the NEX firmware (that i’m sure it will be also in the a77), there could be a menu option to directly upload pics to facebook, flickr, twitter, etc. That’s really huge plus especially when you want to share your photos right away after shooting it (3G/4G? yes!!)
Mike/canada
2 years ago |What’s the word on the built in GPS that was in the original A77 rumor ? Anything ?
Bill
2 years ago |Yes, wireless is the way to go. Wifi in camera would be great, I have an eye-fi card that is very unreliable in direct mode, but ok uploading to the computer. But in the field we need 3g or at least wifi in-camera to send pics immediately like a cell phone. And not just to the main sharing sites, but to your own ftp space as well. I don’t know why no one gets this yet – I think Samsung is the only one who has made a P&S camera with wi-fi in it so far. Apple will never seem to give us a decent camera in their iPhones nor has anyone else yet and people want to upload good quality pics on the fly, hence camera mfgs need to integrate this inti their cameras. Not expensive not a big deal – JUST DO IT and lead the pack!! Let us either resize them smaller for e-mailing in camera or let us send .jpgs of our size choice to one of 2 cards. Or let software resize automatically when you go to mail them like iPhone does.
Zstan
2 years ago |If a55 has gps the a77 should have one too. Maybe a Real gps.
Roger
2 years ago |This doesn’t surprise me. My new Sony 3D laptop has two USB 3.0 ports and one USB 2.0 port.
frankwick
2 years ago |Here are some facts to clear up confusion I read above:
* USB3 support in the camera will require USB3 support in your computer to operate at USB3 speeds.
* Even if your computer doesn’t have USB3, you will still be able to transfer photos at USB2 speeds.
* Thunderbolt is a new data transfer tech made by Intel.
* Apple has paid Intel for Thunderbolt exclusivity for 6 months.
* The theoritical speeds of all the above data transfer techs cannot be achieved ude to many factors including disk speed, processing delay, file operations like open/close, and cecksum validation.
Now for my opinions:
* Thunderbolt is the next firewire or betamax. Intel created a good product, but it will not be adopted except for a few people.
* Thunderbolt requires a new cable. Had Intel created Thunderbolt with a USB interface, then it would succeed.
* I see a growing trend (slowly growing) of some backlash against Apple. Someone mentioned that any product with “i” in front of the name will sell to millions. We may see some changing attitudes in he near future. Android is already outselling the iphone and Gartner predicts that evenWindows Phone will make a serious push in 2012 and surpass iphone within a couple of years.
Wing Wong
2 years ago |Fastest card on hand, 90MB/sec read/write. On USB2.0 reader, tops out at 40MB/sec. 7200rpm hard drive in a USB3.0 ext enclosure hooked up to a usb3.0 port, 125MB/sec. So, yeah, USB3.0 would be awesome for me as I do tethered shooting. If tethered implemented as direct to computer, then you suddenly have tethered shooting at higher speeds than to a fast expensive card. Fast to computer for review = faster completion of job. Big win.
I agree on fixing the BS issue of sync flash on the EVF view and the delayed release when flash present. Would also be nice if a standard mono audio jack was provided instead of a pc-sync port for better support of off camera flash and flash triggers. Give some more love to the pro and semi-pro users!
Robert Konegen
2 years ago |I have had USB 3.0 for about 3-4 months now and use it to back-up with my “omega eGo” 3.0 external HD. The problem is (for me) the drive only comes with NO on/off switch and only a 18″ USB 3.0 cable, so one end needs to plug into the USB port in the rear of the CPU and other into the drive. My desktop system has the CPU in a cabinet and it is somewhat tight, so it makes it very difficult to plug and unplug the drive. Also the USB hype is not true that it’s 10 times faster than the USB 2.0 in tests it showed only 2.5 times as fast and that is about what I am seeing. So it is somewhat overrated.
There is a newer technology coming down the pike that also shows promise though and is supposed to be TRULY? faster, here’s the link.
http://www.intel.com/technology/io/thunderbolt/index.htm