(SR5) A Nex-C3 with lens size comparison (Announcement tomorrow!)
The A35, the NEX-C3 and the 30mm macro will be announced tomorrow -> YES I am sure that time 
The image on top shows the NEC-C3 with the new macro lens. As you see the 30mm macro is as big as the current 18-55mm lens.
I will stay up the whole night to see if there are some last minute news and rumors. I hope that also new NEX firmware will be announced tomorrow! At what time should we expect the announcement? I think sometime between 7 and 10 am London time. So stay tuned!
Those are the most important NEX-C3 specs:
16, 2 Megapixel,
ISO100 – 12800
5.5 fps
video: 1280X720 (29.97fps/Progressive, Std/Fine appx 9/6Mbps)
3 inch 921.6K LCD
Scene selection: Portrait, Landscape, Macro,Sports Action, Sunset, Night Portrait, Night View, Hand-held Twilight
The body weights 225g.
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emopunk
3 years ago |..and how long before we can see/hear anything concrete about Zeiss 24mm 1.7? That could be a reason to get my first NEX..
Alfonso Cuitiño
3 years ago |Indeed! It’s going to be autofocus, right?
Gunnar
3 years ago |i have to say i find this software-limiting policy of sony pretty lame. still no full HD and such. they should just separate their lineup by the hardware instead of this.. i would still have bought the NEX 5 if the 3 had full HD. i guess a person doing mostly video would still prefer the VG10 if the 5 and 3 had better manual video control.
it just feels wrong, like a car manufacturer puts the same v6 in all its cars, but the cheap ones can only use 3 cylinders
Pacman
3 years ago |exactly! now you know the answer.
Captain
3 years ago |Admin,
Long time no see any rumor about NEX7 release.
Any update around release date ?
IS July 7th still possible or unlikely ?
Cheers
C
admin
3 years ago |I am trying to find some info. Yesterday a source confirmed the NEX-7 will have the same A77 sensor. But now word yet about a July release confirmation.
GJH2
3 years ago |Wow, that 30mm is quite a bit bigger than I thought it would be. Wish they could have done something like the Samsung 30mm f2 pancake instead.
NEXfive
3 years ago |…just compare the two cameras and you might see that one with the macro lens is much bigger than the one with the 18-55. So the macro lens should be definitely smaller than that if both cameras were scaled the same.
Nevertheless since I’m loving to use my old and mostly fast Canon FD lenses on my NEX-5 (including a 100mm macro), the only lens I’d really love to buy would be something like a 12mm pancake. The Voigtländer Ultra-Wide Heliar 12mm f5.6 Aspherical II seems a little bit too bulky and SONY’s SEL-16F28 plus VCL-ECU1 does not really convince me for quality reasons.
But so far I’m hoping for firmware 04 tomorrow…
Steve
3 years ago |When it comes to analog devices like optical camera lenses it appears to be difficult to get all of the geometry correct to get the required optical quality, and to make it as small as many would like it to be.
Contributors like Carl can speak better to this belief I hold.
I bet there is a tradeoff to some extent between the physical size of the lens and its overall performance and not just the speed of the lens.
If what I believe it true, then maybe Sony needs to release two different versions of it lenses. One for serious photographers that need or want the best optical quality and a second smaller lens for those whose major reason for buying into the NEX platform instead if the larger Alpha is because of the smaller footprint of the NEX body and except that the speed is slower and corner sharpness is suspect.
I sure that larger size doesn’t always mean a better sharper lens but all other things being equal I’ve learned to expect it.
NEXfive
3 years ago |Well, Steve, especially the two lenses above would have allowed to put much faster glasses or at least better quality into the same size with only some increase of weight, of course, but how comes that modern IT making difficult calculations or grinding glass so damn easy this does not really improve the lens quality I’m used to from e.g. that Canon 50mm 1:1.4 I bought in the 80′s? So I don’t agree to your suggestion SONY should offer two different versions of lenses beyond these most popular ones usually available in different price ranges anyway. I guess that simply cameras like the NEX-FS100 will make sure there’ll be better E-Mount lenses in the future…
Chris
3 years ago |btw..when will NEX 3C release in the market Admin..??
which one should i buy..NEX 5 or NEX 3C..?? i still confuse with it..
I love the NEX 5 design rather than NEX 3C..but..how bout the specs..?
Thanks in advance..
SonyA77
3 years ago |The web is going to be full of NEX-3C vs NEX-5 debates like it will A35 vs A55. Just wait and see what comes out of them.
Chris
3 years ago |do you know when it will be released in the market..?? will it be 3 months later or something..??
Jimmy
3 years ago |I think it’s interesting to know for how long Nex 5 will be kept on the market and when (and of course if) a replacement will be available.
PhotoNut
3 years ago |That’s bull. There are no optical design restrictions that force Sony to build such a large and slow 30mm macro. That lens shown is even as large as the Sony 50mm f/2.8 macro and that one has to deal with f/2.8 and a longer flange distance for a-mount.
Steve
3 years ago |If your referring to my comment, I believe what I said is in general the faster and higher quality optics tend to be larger, no opinion about if Sony could have made the new 30mm E-mount any smaller.
I just know that all of my Zeiss full-frame lenses and Sony G lenses are larger and heavier than my standard Sony and my older Minolta lenses.
I have no opinion about this lens till it ships and gets reviewed by someone like Kurt Munger.
kevin
3 years ago |I’ll bet that the SEL-30M35 is a sharper lens than anybody here expects it to be. Some of the best lenses in the world incorporate baffles at strategic locations, effectively restricting the maximum aperture, but also increasing sharpness throughout the remaining aperture range. This could be a big boon for a macro lens where the DoF is almost uselessly thin at maximum aperture–would you make the trade if you could?
NEXfive
3 years ago |Macro lenses are never fast, so kevin could be right expecting good quality, nevertheless I’m wondering about the focal length to be quite short for a macro.
BTW are the specs right ISO starting at 100 instead of SONY’s NEX standard 200?
GJH2
3 years ago |The Tamron 60mm f2 is an exception. A macro that is fast and can double as a portrait lens. Would have been great if Sony came out with something like that.
Jon
3 years ago |still no word on the firmware 4 tom?
Alfonso Cuitiño
3 years ago |The posts says that it will be out tomorrow
Alfonso Cuitiño
3 years ago |So, the firmware is going to be available in this link, right? http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/swu-list.pl?mdl=NEX3&SelectOS=41
pancanikonpus
3 years ago |A77 annoucement will be on tomorrow!!!
A77 annoucement will be on tomorrow!!!
A77 annoucement will be on tomorrow!!!
ops… counter reset!
Portmixus
3 years ago |I thought the leaked manual said that the iso range started from iso200, not iso100 as stated here?
Myst
3 years ago |that macro lens looks bigger than the current 30mm macro f/2.8 made for a mount… not really a nice lens for nex, wonder why it’s so big, maybe the autofocus system takes up a lot of space.
Gunnar
3 years ago |i rather suspect its optically the a-mount lens with integrated e-mount adapter
i would not be surprised at all
kevin
3 years ago |I would be! The SAL-30M28 does not focus internally. This lens is definitely a fresh design.
Gunnar
3 years ago |AVESTA
3 years ago |yuck!
Marc
3 years ago |Only a few hours left until the official announcements, I don’t want to wait any longer
Most of the A35 specs are already known, but I wonder if it is missing a tilt-able screen like on the A33/A55. I know this is not a requirement for everybody, but kinda useful in different situations. Especially when standing in a crowd of people or for taking self-portrait snapshots.