(SR5) Confirmed, two NEX cameras coming late August! Available in October!
Yesterday a new source told us that Sony will announce the NEX-5E and NEX-7 in August. In the meanwhile our trusted sources confirmed that the rumor is correct! They said the NEX-7 price is still not 100% deifnitve ($1.200 with kit lens) but they added that both new cameras will be available in October.
Those are all current NEX cameras:
Sony NEX-C3. Is the newest NEX you can preorder at Amazon, Adorama, B&H, J&R, eBay.
Sony NEX-5. Is going to be replaced by the NEX-5E and is currently discounted (at least in US). Check Amazon, Adorama, B&H, J&R, eBay.
Sony NEX-3. Is dicontinued. Check Amazon, Adorama, B&H, J&R, eBay.
Sony NEX-VG10. This is the NEX camcorder. Check Amazon, Adorama, B&H, J&R, eBay.
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giovanni
11 months ago |Andrea please work on some a77 news/rumors.
Chad Matthew
11 months ago |ditto
Abi
11 months ago |geez what else do you want… you’ve already got its photos, specs, price, lens kits…
Steve
11 months ago |I want LENSES ! If the rumours are true then there will be 5 bodies and 5 lenses. 5 lenses ? Come on…you can’t call it a system…they haven’t even released a 55-200 or other tele zoom yet. How about a 45-135 to keep it small ? How about an ultrawide zoom ? Anything… anything… please !
Lars
11 months ago |+1
All NEX sensors are better than m43.
But I think I will switch to m43, because there is a collection of sharp LENSES available. I don’t want to wait any longer.
Lars
Frosti7
11 months ago |For the same reasons i’ve started a petition for standard lens: 30mm f1.8 compact prime, you are wellcome to sign the petition and write in the “comments” field if you prefer slightly different variation (example: 29-35mm or f1.2-f.8, pancake/normal)
http://www.petitiononline.com/NEX30mm/petition.html
Abi
11 months ago |I’m asking TO giovanni NOT you steve, about a77, NOT NEX.
Blockey
11 months ago |Any news on the A77??
NEX FULL FRAME (24x36)
11 months ago |I’ll replace my old NEX 5 with the new NEX 5E or the NEX 3C.
Sony, start cracking on a FullFrame NEX with E mount.
Not A Mount.
Knock it out of the park, Sony!
Keep up the good work, Andrea!
Don’t mind the trolls on here, they’re just here
to try to rain on the parade.
If you weren’t doing a good job they wouldn’t be bothering you!
Q
11 months ago |Not to rain on your parade, but I think an E mount full frame NEX is unrealistic for Sony. Perhaps an Alpha mount FF NEX..
I don’t think any of the current NEX lens’s are FF, so they would have to start a lens range from scratch and considering how slow Sony are at releasing lenses for the NEX3/5, it may be a pipe dream for FF E-mount.
And i’m not entirely sure why you would prefer an E-mount over the A-mount?
NEX FULL FRAME (24x36)
11 months ago |Because with the Sony E mount I can shoot my Leica and Voigtlander M lenses. The E mount also accepts the older Leice M39 Rangefinder lenses.
The E mount is a very robust mount, practically any lens ever made can be fitted to a Sony NEX camera with an adapter.
The Samsung NX cannot mount Leica/Voigtlander lenses and retain infinity focus. Samsung didn’t design the NX mount as well as Sony designed the NEX mount.
The registration distance is too great on the A mount. It could work if Sony shortens the registration distance on a Mirrorless A mount and includes a spacing adapter so you could still shoot standard A lenses.
The E mount is still larger than the Leica M mount. Leica made it work with the FullFrame M9. I hope Sony can make it work with the NEX.
Carl
11 months ago |Sony want to make money off lens sales (that being the primary point of a system camera), so won’t create such a camera until they have lenses to go with it.
I’d love an affordable M mount full frame digital compact (to use with the Minolta M mount lenses in my case), but if anyone is going to make such a camera it’ll be Cosina.
Raul S.
11 months ago |+1 on the use of NEX E-mount for Rangefinders and Old MF lenses…but a Fullframe right now it’s not in their checklist I think…maaaaaaaaaaayyybe, in 2 years or more and if they manage to do that..I wonder, How many users that cannot afford a M9 will try that FF NEX? I will.. since I’m happy with my NEX-5 =)
Don Cox
11 months ago |Why does it have to jump straight up from APS-C to 24x36mm ?
There would be advantage in going to a larger sensor such as 20x30mm or 24x24mm (square), without going all the way to full frame. This would actually help with older lenses that may not be quite as sharp in the corners as in the centre.
However, the big jump in quality will be seen when Sony implement full colour pixels instead of the Bayer mosaic.
Nico
11 months ago |+1 Many people would buy it, a lot of Leica lenses owners are using the nex-5 as I do (I’ve sold my M8) ! I want a M9 (mostly because it’s FF) but I can’t afford it so……..
I’ll never buy an AF lens made for E-mount, even if I’ll buy a Nex-7 !!
Anonymous
11 months ago |There isn’t going to be a Full frame NEX anytime soon.
In 3 years time (2014), Sony will release an expensive ‘professional’ Full Frame NEX body.
In 5 years time (2016) we’ll see a dumbed down entry level Full Frame NEX body.
I guarantee it. Check this post again in the future
Nico
11 months ago |All the rangefinder lenses (Leica, voigtlander, Zeiss…) and of course Nikon F, canon FD, Contax Zeiss, Olympus zuiko lenses, were made (and are still made for some) for 24×36 (FF) !!!..
But, even if I dream of it, I don’t think that Sony will make a Nex FF (with E-mount) because of its mass-consumering target… An Aps-c camera is much cheaper to produce…
Leo
11 months ago |NEX-7 and Zeiss 24 F2.0!
Late August!
Waiting here!
NEX FULL FRAME (24x36)
11 months ago |@ Anonymous
Very Insightful!
Keep throwing sh!t at the wall, something will stick!
Do you have any stock tips?
Anonymous
11 months ago |You don’t know how business works buddy. The mirrorless wars has only just begun. Sony created the e-mount last year. It is currently an APS-C system. There is no way they’re going to bring out a Full Frame e-mount body anytime soon. There are no full frame e-mount lens, let alone many aps-c lenses! If they were to bring one out right now, it’ll be a professional body, but that would then take away from Alpha DSLR/SLT sales. Also, all the competition has APS-C sized or smaller sensors (samsung/ricoh/MFT/pentax q/soon to be fujifilm/lecia and nikon). Yes, with todays’ technology they could bring out a FF e-mount body if they wanted to, but business wise it makes ABSOLUTELY ZERO SENSE when they can milk the hell out of APS-C sales at this current point in time.
Jennzhen
11 months ago |Already have NEX-5 and not going to upgrade NEX body anytime soon.
I might buy A77 if the new kit lens is really good though.
I hope all 4 new e-mount lenses will be launched at the same time with the new NEX body.
Waiting for the SR5 on e-mount lens specs and launch date …
Justin
11 months ago |Why don’t Sony make progress with establishing a decent range of lenses before messing with the bodies? Otherwise there’s no proper interchangeable system.
Roman
11 months ago |What a stupid naming! NEX-3/5… NEX-C3… NEX-5E… NEX-7… Sony, are you kidding?
mwl
11 months ago |+1
Too bad everyone can’t adopt Canons mk1, mk2 naming. I can just see the desks in the Sony marketing office: CP1 (Cluttered Pile 1), CP2, CPwCS1 (Cluttered Pile with Coffee Stain 1), FL1 (floor), etc…
Will
11 months ago |Does the “E” mean “Expensive”? Why isn’t it the NEX-C5?
Jennzhen
11 months ago |Could be ABCDE represent 12345 …
Instead of calling it NEX-33 (and get mixed-up with Alpha series A33/55/77), Sony called it NEX-C3.
So 5E (or rather E5, to be consistent with C3) instead of 55.
Will
11 months ago |Oh wait, if the C stood for ‘compact’ then the E stands for ‘enormous’.
NEX FULL FRAME (24x36)
11 months ago |@ Will
The E most likely stands for EVF.
The Sony NEX line is still a lot smaller than its rivals,
the Samsung NX and some of the M4/3 cameras.
Leo
11 months ago |I think so. C=compact, E=EVF.
Carl
11 months ago |Compact, Enthusiast. I wouldn’t be surprised if the 7 is labelled P7 for professional.
Camaman
11 months ago |If only so.
That would exlpain the high price expectations being reported here.
But price not justified by just an EVF imo…
Raul S.
11 months ago |take into account, more manual controls (hopefully), 24MP sensor…mmm what else? Don’t know, the NEX-5 with SEL1855 was 699 when It was launched I think…so having all those extras with maybe another Kit combination (because Kit lens doesn’t always refer to being paired with the standard “cheap” zoom ) could justify the higher price tag…
roman
11 months ago |It could be true but where is logical naming patern? Sometimes letter is the first, sometimes last and sometimes there is no letter… it is rather confusing.
Helena
11 months ago |I think that E= extended, and that they wanted to put “3C” (Compact)and not “C3″ but they had used it on Chinese NEX-3
Boo
11 months ago |Still need to see the actual design of NEX-5E & 7 before selling off my NEX-5 body.
Jordi LM
11 months ago |New cameras without new lenses its still coming to be stupid!!! Whre are the lenses?!?!?!!?!
Raul S.
11 months ago |+1 for that…it’s the first time I have seen more bodies than lenses available…but take into account, it’s more easy to design a new body than optics…for example, Zeiss from the design board to production usually takes a 2 years time frame…now, Sony had a real hard time designing lenses with that short distance from flange to sensor and now it’s struggling with production issues…maybe that explains why their getting so slow…
Thomas
11 months ago |Yep. thats true.
Even Samsung managed to introduce more lenses, and, not only more, but well designed as well. There is a masterplan behind Samsungs lenses, and i really cant see a plan behind sonys lenses. For example this messed up macro… Samsungs offerng a 60/2.8 macro! Well THAT is logical…
Yes the cameras are better then the other mirrorless… but, the present lens lineup and the future lineup, as far as we know it, is simply awefull.
When samsung catch up with its sensor, it will be No1 spot for MIrrorless, even if Sonys new 24 MPix sensor will beat the 18 MP Samsung sensor.
m43 is for those, like me, who need a wide lens lineup. Simply the lack of a Ultra wide angle zoom/prime for the other mirrlorless is a KO criterion for me. but well, fot others it might not, but i guess Samsung will win this race.
NEX FULL FRAME (24x36)
11 months ago |@ Thomas (You sound like Thom Hogan)
Samsung just delayed the NX20 and NX200. NX20 is now 2012 and the NX200 will now be October 2011, at the earliest.
Samsung lenses are no good without a decent camera to use them on. The current Samsung NX line uses a very old and noisy sensor that first hit the market in 2007.
Four years ago!
Sony will get the lenses out. The Zeiss 24mm should be great. Besides, the Sony NEX accepts ALL legacy lenses. I love my Leica lenses on my Sony NEX 5. Putting M Mount glass on a Samsung NX and retaining infinity focus is not possible.
Things must be pretty dead at Thom Hogan’s craptastic blog for all the trolls to come to this site.
Besides, according to Hogan, Fuji is about to enter the M4/3 market (contrary to what I’ve heard).
Then it shouldn’t matter what Sony does.
Is Hogan going to predict Sony’s death next?
Just like he predicted Sony’s departure from FullFrame.
That’s why Sony is bringing out at least two FullFrame cameras next year and new FullFrame lenses.
Like the old saying, you throw enough sh!t at the wall, something is bound to stick.
That saying suits Hogan really well.
He’s completely full of it.
lorenzino
11 months ago |“Things must be pretty dead at Thom Hogan’s craptastic blog for all the trolls to come to this site”
I was reading your answer with attention, untill I bumped into the last lines.
I do not know what is wrong in the photographic world, that makes adults spitting and insulting each other like little children. Does it really bother you if someone appreciates other cameras more than your beloved ones?
Besides, 1) lenses you mention are very good, but are full manual lenses. Nothing inherently wrong with that, but there are many situations in life when I prefer AF lenses. And those lenses are very expensive as well. So, not necessarily they are a valid alternative to lenses designed specifically for the system;
2) FF Nex: I would like it very much. I am in fact waiting that at least one of the contenders try smth like it, not exceeding crazy price points (otherwise we could all well go Leica). But it will not happen soon, so we have to adapt to this fallible reality;
3) Nex cameras are not great cameras. They are decent cameras with magnificent sensors but ugly and problematic UI. And everybody is convinced that Sony will manage to fail on the UI camp also in the Nex-7. I can tell you that with that price point (1200 for a kit) and with a decent lenses in the kit, I will certainly buy the camera, IF the UI (and the overall camera) is usable without permanent struggles. God only knows how come sony has guessed right on the most important and difficoult aspect to create, the sensor, and is screwing up almost everything else: few, big and not excellent lenses; cameras too small compared to the lenses (esp. the C3); catastrophic UI.
Will this change in the near future?
Anonymous
11 months ago |I totally agree.
Samsung has some very nice primes:
16/2.4, 20/2.8, 30/2 Pancakes
60/2.8 Macro
85/1.4 Portrait
Now, what does Sony have?
16/2.8 Pancake (poor quality, pretty much a toy lens)
30/3.5 Macro (is this a joke? too short for macro, too slow for a prime)
24/2 Pancake CZ (The only good one, but expect to pay $$$$)
40/2 (60mm equiv? Too short for portrait and too long for a ‘normal’ lens)
So far Sony has 1 (very expensive) practical prime vs Samsung that has 5 practical primes.
It won’t be long before Samsung has some better bodies, then BANG, it’s over for Sony before it even begun.
NEX FULL FRAME (24x36)
11 months ago |@ Anonymous
Samsung hasn’t even released most of the lenses that you mentioned! They were delayed along with the NX20 and NX200!
“Samsung has some very nice primes:
16/2.4, 20/2.8, 30/2 Pancakes
60/2.8 Macro
85/1.4 Portrait ”
16mm – Not Out, Delayed.
60mm – Not Out, Delayed.
85mm – Not Out, Delayed.
How can these lenses be so nice if
no one has even tested them yet???
Frosti7
11 months ago |I’ve couldn’t sum it better then you did,
sony lens lineup is a joke, and sony fanboys that argue with that are a joke as well,
for anyone who missed, i’ve started a petition for standard lens: 30mm f1.8 compact prime, you are welcome to sign it&write in “comments” field if you prefer different variation (example: 28-35mm or f1.4-f2, pancake/normal)
http://www.petitiononline.com/NEX30mm/petition.html
Helena
11 months ago |I feel a connection with NEX, even thinking that m4/3 is more practical in various manners. I feel comfortable with that camera, and Panny’s G bore me. But in lenses field, resigned to take what is offered (and things must be other way): a 18-200 zoom? unaffordable and uncarryable, that lens is only for Hi Video, if I can pay for it, will bought the G standard zoom and crop in the computer… a 50 mm prime? there is a 40 mm (at least, it have OSS), a 30 mm pancake for taking the nex with me in the bag? well, there is a too wide 16 mm and a wonderful Zeiss 24 mm, wish that Zeiss will be affordable, at least.
I think that NEX can be the system where worldwide, more users take lenses of other brands (older, but well crafted, with manual focus) in their cams XD Well, joy for they, with peaking in FW4, cant be better.
passer-by
11 months ago |-deleted-
Jennzhen
11 months ago |Must be … better ask her to confirm some of the rumors
lorenzino
11 months ago |Dear Helena,
I must confess I did not understand what you are trying to say
Helena
11 months ago |Sorry for my english… In a few words: the NEX cams are wonderful, the NEX lenses range is a crap.
Hellven
11 months ago |i just hope that Sony doesn’t release a FullFrame Nex, at least for the next 5 years, if they take so long to release lenses on the current APS-C line, and the ones released are a complet sh*t! i cant even imagine the time that they will take to make a FF line of lenses
the current Nex line (APS-C) is so delayed and incomplete!!
its the worst Evil system out there: the worst lenses, the worst bodies, the worst UI, only 3 crappy lenses…
if Canon, Nikon or Pentax release a good APS-C Mirrorless System E-mount will only survive in Video cameras
lorenzino
11 months ago |Well, I would not say so.
It would be enough for Sony to spit out three good and small primes, fix the UI, and show a better balanced camera. The last two should be fairly easy to do, if the photographers working for Sony managed to do a coup, and throw out the too many engineers takind crucial (and wrong) UI decisions.
Producing three good and small lenses should not be difficoult either, for a brand that inherited Minolta’s designs.
But apparently, so far, this has not happened.
I wonder that Pentax, Canon and Nikon will do. Well, if we have to judge from the Q, and Nikon’s designs looking like Q’s lenses, we can be preatty sure that Sony will keep on having an edge on just everything…
Hellven
11 months ago |Pentax is not dead, they have the best aps-c DSLR in the market. Hoya never wanted the photo division from Pentax, but they got the all package.
Pentax Q is not the Mirrorless system that will compete with the nex, but the other larger sensor one, and if Pentax have the capability of making the best Pancake Lenses for SLR’s, i cant even imagine what will the do wit a shorter register distance.
Sony’s biggest (and only) advantage so far it´s the sensor, but Pentax and Nikon also use the same sensores in their current SLR’s line, so using in a future Mirrorless system will be a predictable step…
oh, and i have a Nex-5, but with the comeback of fuji and their great hybrid viewfinder, and future mirrorless interchangeble system, it jut makes me think if sony has what it needs…
lorenzino
11 months ago |Alexandre,
I like what you write in theory, but in practice none of the cameras you kind of mention exist… nor they are announced… nor there is any reliable rumour about them.
1) Fuji m43? or APS? so far vague rumor
2) Pentax aps mirrorless: rumor? or hope?
3) Nikon mirrorless: not even a reliable rumor, so far
as we live in this world, and not in the world we would wish to live in, we have to chose between what we have, or between what we can reasonably expect.
The only use I see for the Pentax pancakes is an adaptor to something else, or (in the best of cases) a module for the Ricoh GX system (which would not be bad, btw, if the sensor could be improved).
Huh, en passant: Pentax produced the best aps dslr on the market? Oh c’mon… Excluding I guess Canon 7D and Nikon D7000? To mention a few…
john
11 months ago |http://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/surprise-the-nikon-q-is-not-a-joke/
lorenzino
11 months ago |oh no, please no. Puhleeez no
Alfonso Cuitiño
11 months ago |What?!?! Nikon is going to use that shitty sensor? OMG!
Steve
11 months ago |No, rubbish rumor. Most info points to a 1″ sensor.
NEX FULL FRAME (24x36)
11 months ago |Pentax is dead. If the Pentax Q is any indication of what Pentax has to offer then Sony and Samsung have nothing to worry about.
Hoya bled what they could out of the Pentax photo division before it was sold to Ricoh. Ricoh now has the daunting task of trying to revive the corpse that was Pentax. I wouldn’t expect any serious products in the next 18 months. After that, things might change.
Nikon’s rumored system was reported to use a smaller than M4/3 sensor. Nikon wants to protect its DSLR and lens sales, not detract from them.
Canon is your last hope. Who knows what the are up to.
Why is everyone out for Sony’s blood? The NEX is just a camera system for crying out loud. All the complaints about the UI, it’s not perfect but it doesn’t stop me from taking great photos with my camera.
Sony please give us more video options!
It’s nice to see the Samsung marketing department is alive and well on this thread. Maybe they should look into advertising for the next generation of NX. Outside of a few National Geographic ads, there were none.
SonyA77
11 months ago |Indeed, Ricoh are now in the position that Sony were in when they obtained Minolta’s camera division. They will be a while away from producing something game changing.
Hopefully in five years time Pentax will be innovating like Sony is now, but are Ricoh the right company? Hmmm.
lorenzino
11 months ago |Sure is that Ricoh is a strange company. Completely unwilling to sell cameras or lenses. But once in a while producing decent stuff. If the fusion is done the right way, we could see smth interesting coming out. Otherwise pentax is dead.
Carl
11 months ago |They’re more right than Hoya, at least. How much so we won’t be able to say until their seeds start bearing fruit, which will take a number of years.
lorenzino
11 months ago |I said it once, and I will say it again: how old are you? 13? ya know, you sound like.
No Samsung marketing dep here. Just photogs (or or photoamateurs) who do not like Sony’s designs. Nex is certainly the most PROMISING system, but so far lacking in many aspects. What helps Sony is that all other competitors are lacking even more.
My personal hope is that at least one of the three contenders (m43, samsung, sony) will manage to allign all together in one system 1) good sensor (so far only Sony), 2) good lenses (so far none, though m43 is what comes closer), 3) good UI (so far none, although some m43 and some samsung bumped into smth right), 4) overall compactness (so far m43, less so Samsung, not at all Sony).
What I hope (in order of importance): 1) Sony produces good and compact lenses and improve UI (by far); 2) Samsung produces the announced lenses, and, at last, a competitive sensor; 3) m43 produces a small camera à la epl3 with a usable UI. Untill at least one of those will not have been accomplished, we cannot say the quest for a DECENT mirrorless system is over. Fact is: we are quite far from such a system. Pretending everything is ok with what we have does not help anyone.
Thomas
11 months ago |I realy hope the same.
For me, the g3 comes darn close to the “perfect” camera. Nice IQ, good body, EVF( its kinda important for me).
Im really curious about NEX7. And NX20.
And yes, the 24/2 will be a nice lens! Thank god they changed their mind and made it pancake, or close-to pancake! But Sony has to increase lens lineup significantly. Samsung has, even more then m43, the most logical lens lineup.
16/2.4
20
30/2
60/2.8
85/1.4
What still lacks is the nice ultra wide angle, thats why im on the m43 place. SOmething like a 11-18/f4, at the size of the 7-14/4 by panasonic. and then i would instantly switch. If the new sensor will be at least G3 level! and i bet it will.
Sony will have a very nice camera, the NEx7 (well i predict this^^) but crappy lenses, besides the Zeiss.
And regarding Fuji joining m43. i really really doubt that. it would be awesome, yes. But i guess it will be a NIkon-Fuji Cooperation, like in the past.
Anonymous
11 months ago |Hey NEX FULL FRAME (24×36), why are you such a biased Sony fanboy? Seems like you’re the one who works for Sony or is getting paid by them. No one here is disputing that Sony has the best sensor out of any of the mirrorless cameras. But new bodies with better sensors in them get churned out every year as sensor technology improves. Lenses on the other hand, don’t. MFT has an excellent line up of lenses and so does Samsung. Sony’s only saving grace is a premium grade prime that will be out of alot of peoples reach and 3 other funky primes that don’t make sense. Yes, so far Samsung has made bad bodies with poor sensors, but they just need to make 1 new body with an excellent APS-C sensor and they’ve got Sony beat.
SonyA77
11 months ago |Sounds like a blitz of camera announcements in August. Hopefully the A77 will be one.
Dee
11 months ago |I’m hoping either are out before Oct 1st as that’s the day I’m travelling overseas and would love a new camera by then.. if not I’ll be getting the NEX-C3
NEXfive
11 months ago |I don’t really expect a FullFrame NEX either. It would only make sense as an offer for some α users to continue with their A-Mount lenses when switching to E-Mount.
WT21
11 months ago |Repeat after me Sony:
LENSES
LENSES
LENSES
Keep saying that over and over until it sinks into your head
NEXfive
11 months ago |They’re waiting for Third Party to offer E-Mount lenses especially for professional use. If you’re a film maker you’d prefer something like Zeiss CP.2 with an adapter or native anyway. So why should SONY try to compete with these highly specialised companies? SONY offers all what’s necessary for consumers: A Wide Angle Pancake with Super Wide Angle and Fish Eye options, a Standard Zoom, a Video Zoom and a Standard Macro. There’s no need to hurry for SONY at all…
WT21
11 months ago |To sum up your comment Sony doesn’t need to make lenses, every lens a consumer could ever want is already there, and NEX is really for video.
Sony better be glad you aren’t running their product direction…
Or maybe you are?
NEXfive
11 months ago |E-Mount is made for Photography and Video finally growing together including professional film makers as proofed by the NEX-FS100. Very soon with the SEL-30M35 SONY fulfils more than only basic consumer needs. But professionals will prefer Summilux-C or CP.2 lenses anyway, while I’m much more happy with my old Canon FD 50mm 1:1.4 on my NEX-5 already than with anything I could expect from SONY in the near future. So with my SEL-1855 plus six mostly fast Canon FD lenses all I’m missing is a Super Wide Angel around 12mm.
Who do you think should buy all these lenses a few people asking here thinking they’re a big crowd when meeting in blogs like this one? Most of the consumers are having from SONY all they need or will have more than they’re interested to buy in the near future with that roadmap we all know. Professionals have other needs anyway. I think SONY is doing a clever job serving basic needs at first and leaving the rest to third party especially by licensing the E-Mount standard for free. There’s no need to hurry for them.
Beside a fixed 12mm Super Wide Angle all I’m looking forward might be the G Series Lens announced for 2012 to replace my SEL-1855 Standard Zoom if there’s really a big quality improvement…
WT21
11 months ago |I see — and videographers are a big market?
You have defined two markets — consumers who like kit lenses, and high end videographers. There’s nothing in between?
If this is Sony’s view, then that’s fine — it makes my decision as a hobbiest easier. Sony is not for the amateur/enthusiast. Only for high end and soccer moms. Thanks for letting me know! If only the vendors were actually this truthful!
Personally, I would like to see a macro more around 60mm (not 30!). A portrait lens. A more reasonable zoom, or even a fast zoom. How about those?
NEXfive
11 months ago |Yes, WT21, professional film makers are a big market, because they’re also buying expensive other equipment including software and audio devices also sold by SONY. This is only my personal analysis, needn’t to be true, but at least it convinces me that SONY is establishing E-Mount as standard for professional video and photography growing together.
Like you I also wondered about the Macro at first. I’m using my Canon FD 100mm f/4 Macro, which has been the better choice already than the FD 50mm f/3.5 Macro, while the FD 200mm f/4 Macro was even more famous. I guess SONY simply wanted to sell a (near) standard lens around 50mm Full Frame equivalent and decided to combine it with Macro. I guess photographing ants or animals like that would have been more comfortable if SONY would have made a 135mm Macro, but since (near) Macro Shots with my SEL-1855 aren’t that bad already I’m expecting the SEL-30M35 to be a really nice lens, nevertheless I don’t need it myself having my old Canon already.
But there’s no need to worry, since I remember 50mm f/1.8 portrait and 55-200mm f/4-5.6 zoom had been announced for this year at photokina 2010 plus three zooms in 2012 plus several Third Party lenses including Zeiss 24mm f/1.7:
http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/sr5-the-nex-lens-roadmap-and-30mm-macro-specs-nex-flash/
http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/sr3-cosina-voigtlander-working-on-a-ultra-fast-lens-for-the-nex-system/
So why complaining or feeling betrayed?
WT21
11 months ago |Pros videographers are buying NEX bodies? Not really. I’ve got three on my street and none are shooting SONY. They are renting REDs, supplemented with 7D and 5Diis they own. I know a lot more through work. None are using Sony e-mount. All these guys make primary or secondary living through video.
NEXfive
11 months ago |Yes, of course, the NEX-FS100 isn’t a consumer product at all: http://www.philipbloom.net/2011/05/05/bloomshootout/ – and what I’m saying is simply that SONY is trying to establish E-Mount as (their) standard for photography AND video. I think they’re quite clever, selling the consumers E-Mount cameras and making sure that professional lenses are already available from third party with simple adapters or will be native soon, so if anyone wants to go further it’s just a small step to the next level with SONY technology…
WT21
11 months ago |“what I’m saying is simply that SONY is trying to establish E-Mount as (their) standard for photography AND video. I think they’re quite clever”
But as a someone who doesn’t hold Sony stock, why would I care? I’ll read about their brilliant marketing maneuver in an HBS case study sometime in the future. Now, I’m looking for a good camera system, so Sony needs to release better lenses outside the CZ24.
Bully for soccer moms and also Sony’s (future hoped for) high end video customers. I’m neither.
So, Sony, repeat after me…
Lenses
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NEXfive
11 months ago |Good luck, but you won’t get more from SONY than the known roadmap anyway, while I’m having a lot of fun with my old manual lenses already…
WT21
11 months ago |Just sold my NEX3, 16mm, 1855 and FE attachment, and adapters and shooting mainly with Oly EP series(20/1.7 and 14-150), awaiting the arrival of the 25/1.4, 45/1.8 and 12/2.0, which are all on preorder. Also have legacy lenses, but I get tired of MF all the time.
If NEX put out some AF lenses I could use, I’d reexamine them, but a NEX7 isn’t going to bring me back (neither is a 30mm macro). A portrait lens might do it. In the 60-100mm range.
NEXfive
11 months ago |Well, a portrait lens 50mm f/1.8 plus a telephoto zoom lens 55-200mm f/4-5.6 are on the E-Mount roadmap for this and next year, but you need to know yourself where to find your fulfilment. Since Firmware 04 brought Focus Peaking I’m mostly into portraits with my Canon FD 50mm at f/1.4 while the SEL-1855 is quite enough for many other needs, while I’m only missing a Super Wide Angle around 12mm. Still very pleased with my decision for SONY NEX-5 and expect to stay this way even after slightly improved models in late August…
Chris
11 months ago |woooahhhh…!! GREAAT NEWSS..!!! but the price…hmm..kinda too high i think..could get a77 if pay lilbit more..
ekaskus
11 months ago |NEX-7 body only for $800 seems OK, but where is Zeiss 24mm and 85mm for E mount?
Jennzhen
11 months ago |Where did you get $800 from? Is there a special discount that none of us are aware?
bene
11 months ago |Any news on Nex 7 with regards to flash work?
butch
11 months ago |now that i am thinking about mountain biking an my std. hiking lens is a 30 2.8 macro on my a330 a 35macro thats fairly bright on a nex and an adapter to put a beer can (for now ) on even if i have ot hand focus would work
as i would have a quick as i see things shot and then a long lens in my bag. maybe jsut maybe in could deal with this as a “pocket” camera