(SR5) HOT surprise! Super secret mirrorless camera to be announced on September 12th!
UDPATE: This turned out ot be a half correct rumor. The camera will be anmed RX1. it is a FF mirrorless camera but it has a fixed lens 
This is a super hot “little” rumor I got. A surprising new and “professional Mirrorless camera” is going to be announced on Wednesday. I have been told that this is (and now was…LOL) a super well kept secret. I am working on it right now to get some details. I repeat the sources underlined that this is a “Game Changer” camera!!!! If I would be you…and you have the money to spend on a PRO NEX…I would consider to sell your Sony NEX-7 on eBay 
UPDATE: Also Steve Huff “broke” the info although he didn’t write that this is actually a new PRO NEX cameras.
I will work this weekend to get some details but it will be a tuff battle to find out more. Will do my best…you really have to stay tuned on SAR. Things are going fast now. Subscribe our RSS feed and Twitter stream and join the Facebook comunity! Really, this is going to be one hell of a time now on SAR!!!
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see4ey
10 months ago |Lets take a step back and think:
On September 12 ther will be
Sony announcement: NEX
Apple announcement: iPhone
So the secret IS:
the NEXt iPhone!
allyoucaneat
10 months ago |You made my day.
alexander
10 months ago |could be – hope you are right!
bob
10 months ago |Full frame, full frame !!!
peevee
10 months ago |NEX-VG900. Full frame and professional.
tsoe
10 months ago |- bullet proof body
- weather sealed
- Tri-Navi
- AF/AE- Button
- _fast and _reliable Autofocus, even in low light
- high res EV without lags
- usable ISO 6400
- standard hot shoe
- AS-Mode (Auto-ISO in manual _with EC)
- no build in flash
- touch screen, tiltable
- at least 6fps, great buffer
- snappy
- 58/1.4 Zeiss
and i would buy two of them instantly.
john
10 months ago |Built in anti gravity machine no tripod or IBIS required
physica
10 months ago |Maybe a In-body time machine utility is better , you can take a freezing picture even using 30sec. Shutter speed , no more high ISO needed , LOL
Will
10 months ago |When someone first explained raw to me thats actually what I thought it was. I thought it was something where if you left the shutter open to long u could tell it what time frames u actually wanted in the photo. It would be the greatest tool for capturing that precise moment! who needs fps when you can just take a frame out of a time selection in the raw file? =P
Don Cox
10 months ago |Try attaching a gyroscope to the tripod socket.
Varn
10 months ago |Hope it will be the square format FF Nex, to wait 3 days is like 3 years for me.
jon
10 months ago |please do NOT make it square! i dont wanna haveta buy all new hood for my lenses
Allan Olesen
10 months ago |Don’t worry about your existing hood. It is probably wrongly shaped anyway.
I have never seen a correctly shaped petal hood. They all have very sharp corners which are shaped to fit a “pyramid of light”. But the light rays which can hit the sensor actually form a volume which is more like a combination of a pyramid and a cone.
Danonino
10 months ago |YES YES YES ! ! ! FF NEX ! ! ! OH GOD PLEASE ! ! !
alexander
10 months ago |pls not !!!
saiman
10 months ago |It’s so very “Super Secret” that Sony will only show a wooden mockup peaking through a black curtain. :p
Maxwell
10 months ago |Well it is only 4-5 days left.
Time will tell, we don’t need rumors about everything
I believe sometimes it is best to let Sony keep some secrets.
Palp
10 months ago |A FF Nex 9 compatible with the Zeiss 24mm 1.8 e-mount would be my dream system.
jeffrey
10 months ago |NEX 9 comes to my mind
- the first full frame camera that will change the whole industry forever
- With the build-in phrase detection unit on sensor making the DSLR era fade out on the market!
Ivan
10 months ago |Andrea, is it a nex body with foveon-like sensor?
emopunk
10 months ago |Sorry but I already have to sell my car to afford A99, can’t reservate this one too!
Marcohard
10 months ago |I don’t even have a car to sell.
But I am going to buy this NEX-pro if it is truly a game changer.
klw10
10 months ago |What of the a99? Will this camera even trump it? Will it include and adapter to use A mount lenses? Or could this new camera be the one with the hybrid mount???
klw10
10 months ago |Perhaps it has many on chip phase detect sensors for super fast AF. hmmm
LR
10 months ago |Another guess could be a 100% view coverage EVF. like the A77 or canon 7d OVF. I used to compare nex7 and a77 viewfinders… A77 is mindblowing and nex7 is not so comfortable.
Raph
10 months ago |NEX7 and A77 have the same 100% EVF as I know, are you talking about the eyepiece itself?
LR
10 months ago |a77 and nex7 has the same OLED technology (that give clear white and dark blacks) and the same resolution. But the screen is bigger (or nearer) on the a77 and farther on the nex7.
The eye piece is also more confortable on the a77, the nex7 eye piece is narrow and can pop-up in the eye.
Esa Tuunanen
10 months ago |While viewfinder display component is same viewfinder’s optics differ and not for the better in NEX-7.
Small size of optics causes lot smaller eye relief and image size unless you cram eye very close to it.
When I first tried them A77′s viewfinder gave “What a huge view!” impression and after that NEX-7′s viewfinder felt as completely mediocre.
T man
10 months ago |I bet Sony is just going to release another NEX camcorder but it will be able to shoot 4k video
Poke
10 months ago |I doubt it will be that. Steve Huff would not get that excited over a camcorder. He seems to be all about cameras. It almost seems to be a FF/hybrid mount but this almost has the air of something top secret or a super surprise. We heard rumblings on this site regarding both FF and hybrid nex. The only true surprise would be it is coming much early than expected. It sounds like something we were not expecting. I knew I was going to get the 99 but may have to reconsider or it may be a two camera purchase. Whatever, it is Sony seems to be producing a buzz in the camera world for Photokina.
documensony
10 months ago |The kind of buzz that made Andrea sell his Nex7 —
Dennis
10 months ago |Maybe a new $2000 uber-camera you can use with the 18-55 kit zoom.
Hamed
10 months ago |Let’s imagine FF NEX with 36mp like nikon D800
Ping
10 months ago |I am thinking about the same thing. 36mp D800 sensor in a NEX body. Then again, the availability of E-mount FF lenses hinders it. Unless there is also a big announcement of lenses along with it. Come to think of it, it is quite possible. Carl Zeiss just announced that they will bring out a series of AF lenses for mirrorless systems. They can be for NEX, and they can be FF.
documensony
10 months ago |That would be dramatic news indeed
Rick
10 months ago |Personally I’d rather see the new 24mp FF sensor over the 36, look at the DPreview comparison between the 5d3 and D800 noise levels. Especially since it seems the new Sony sensors will have the dual AF system.
Dave
10 months ago |I do really line the NEX series cameras, but what good is a pro version without the lens support?
klw10
10 months ago |+1
Dave
10 months ago |The real “game changer” would be 6-8 quality lenses.
Samony
10 months ago |That’s right! If they suddenly announced a 3 or 6 Zeiss AF E-mount lenses, that would certainly be a “game changer”.
Peter
10 months ago |Sony Cybershot DSC RX100
Friends of my and I have bought above compact. This is an excellent pocket-camera but the firmware contains a fatal error which should be repaired by SONY. Once you change to Clear Immage Zoom you can return to only optical zoom as long as Image Size is set at 20M without problem. As soon as you change Image Size to 10MB, the Clear Immage Zoom can no more be deaktivated. It remains unless you change to Image Size 20M.
I am disapointed and so are my friends.
Sahaja
10 months ago |Wrong thread. This isn’t about the RX100.
Anyway have you and your freinds reported the problem to Sony?
FredA
10 months ago |A FF Nex9 that can drive Nikon and Canon lenses with its sensor AF.
That would be “pro” and “game changing”
And mitigate a bit the lens absence…
Peter
10 months ago |Comment before > Above Compact means Sony Cybershot DSC RX100. Sorry!
Hexx
10 months ago |Admin,
Could you at least say if the controls are more like on fuji or more like on NEX-7?
My dream mirrorless camera would be:
- full frame sensor
- controls like X-Pro 1
- many adapters for FF lenses
- focus peaking
- brilliant EVF (OVF would be too much hassle)
So more of a full frame platform for any lens, built like a tank, weather sealed.
legoland
10 months ago |I think that Fuji and Sony are seriously taking the lead over Samsung NX, which seems to be now a dead system. Pity.
Hello
10 months ago |It will announce the new panaSONYc GH3…
Steve
10 months ago |So, people are ready to sell their NEX-7’s
If overall image quality is more important than anything else I would sell my NEX-7 or even a77 to replace it. Sony may not advertise it as such but I see the NEX-7 and a77 as first generation products or maybe version 1.1b. Stuff coming to market now will be much improved over the early 7-series releases.
I believe that this next NEX generation will signal the future direction of image capture, and this is not to say that the future is small as I think future A-Mount sized bodies will incorporate NEX architectures in a professional ergonomic full-featured system and If I’m correct the a99 will be the end of the professional body SLT camera.
Mirrorless is the future of pro cameras, I just question if Sony will be the camera maker to do.
fotowolf61
10 months ago |I assume that A99 will not be the end, it will eb the beginning of a new SL/SLT technology. Flip the SLT mirror out of the light pass and you have an EVIL in a DSLR body.
Great news than, because it has PDAF on sensor like all new Sony NEX and SLT will have in the future.
Steve
10 months ago |I agree, sorry for my sloppy writing, as I should have said that the a99 could very well be the last high-end SLT as future designs will somehow no longer have the “T” in the SLT.
Maybe that is why Sony is using a99 and not something like a97 or even a88 for this release.
roger48
10 months ago |Well, it certainly will not be Kodak!
Max
10 months ago |I agree with Steve. Ok we are in Sony web site but we take a look to the incredible Fuji X Pro-1 or Olympus OMD. Or the pro Nex-7 too.
The Zeiss company will make some professional lens for mirrorless system, i think that reflex will be dead in the some years.
Yes, mirrorless with a 35mm sensor will be the future of professional (and not) photographers.
Walter Knapp
10 months ago |New lenses will be a different mount, incompatable with any other mount: 11mm 12mm 13mm 14mm 15mm 16mm 17mm 18mm 19mm 20mm and 21mm. And if you use any lens of longer focal length the camera will brick permanently unrepairable. Because Sony’s photography advisors have told them that’s all anyone needs ever. Only need to take one photo in their lifetime because the lenses will cram everything in the world into the one photo. And all the lenses will be locked at one focus distance, which you have to choose when you buy them and never can be changed, who needs more than that.
And the label on the camera will be A99 so everybody will be happy with the perfect camera!
MM
10 months ago |Not bitter then, eh, Walt?
documensony
10 months ago |Don’t follow these sites, Walt
News seem to disturb you, so remember to protect yourself and please go hug your old Minolta gear at least once per hour to maintain your full senses and sanity!
Boooe
10 months ago |Go and get laid, or hire a slut. Maybe this will make you happier.
plasmo
10 months ago |OK- i’m putting my NEX-7 up on Ebay.
You better be right that this is a game changer!!!
WM
10 months ago |Walt, you really are sounding more and more like a Canikon troll
bloodsucker
10 months ago |game changer should mean people will flock and switch to sony?
otherwise it’s just bs.
Douglas
10 months ago |Sony is too desperate to became rentable, and it think that the flooding the market is gonna work with the cameras. I don’t think so.
The Nex 5r, is for nothing desired as the Nex 5n was the last year, because they the Nex 6 is coming. The best mirrorless camera of the last year the Nex 7 was leaved in the oblivion, same apply to the a77, no great firmware yet, and now the attention to this cameras will gonna lower because the a99 and this new super Secret Nex appear in the scene.
Obviously Sony prefer to sell a new camera than fix and improve the already on the market cameras, this has been the problem of the Sony mentality. Apple became a great and rentable company (on Steve Jobs hands), because they respect the products they have created, and try for the day one to be a great product.
Always Sony announcements create great expectations, but fail to impress. And to win do you need to impress.
I’m a Sony follower, behind Apple for me Sony is the giant of the technology innovation. Just it look like some products are mere lucky hits.
My two cents.
SonyHemuda
10 months ago |The admin only using the word PRO. Are pro and ff synonymous?
documensony
10 months ago |He did not say. We don’t know yet.
Fants
10 months ago |I’ve never had a camera depreciate in value farther and faster than my NEX-7. I’d be lucky to get $800 for it now…a 33% drop in 6 months! I fully expected this, mind you, but it doesn’t make it any more fun. The 7 had so much potential, but Sony effectively abandoned it the second it was released and there are still precious few lenses that can do justice to the sensor.
Beaur
10 months ago |nex-7 was out for almost a year the floods just stopped things up and sony held it back.
Maxwell
10 months ago |Game changer?
That could be new sensor technology or maybe a square sensor.
Time will tell.
Hans
10 months ago |I think it will be a Full Frame Nex with completely new sensor technology. I remember some rumors about Sony sensors that can take HDR-Video. I don’t wanna know what dynamic range this sensor has compared to the actual models, but it it’s a game changer I expect it to be double! I can’t wait to see Sony boning Canikon right away in their asses!
Arnold
10 months ago |New sensor technology will be first used on small sensors.
mnorris
10 months ago |please be right on this one!! game-changer baby!!
nandadevieast
10 months ago |Goodness of 36 megapixels in a FF NEX body…
EddyH
10 months ago |Interesting fact: Steve Huff has updated his ‘Photokina’ blog post, with the Sony announcements at least two times since it was published… When I read it yesterday evening (CET), he was bragging about his visit to Sony USA and that he saw something there that had not yet been leaked and that it was fantastic and that he really wanted to pre-order it as soon as possible. And that he was going to tell us all before Photokina. This morning when I visited his site again, it was already a lot more vague, talking about the fact that he was sure that Sony was going to release at Photokina, but no suggestion what it could be. But he still promised to give a report pre Photokina. Now (Saturday evening CET) it is even more vague… And no more promises that he will tell us before the official announcement. Just check his blog post and the comments (the oldes post reference his first version).
My guess: Sony really, REALLY wants to keep it a secret untill the last moment. And they told Steve Huff that he better checked the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) he (probably) signed. These kind of contracts have severe consequences (I know, I’ve already signed multiple). So Sony is REALLY, REALLY serious about this new thing. So Andrea: be carefull with what you publish… You are not under NDA, but others might be.
So signs are that it is something really significant…
But (on the light side): I hate waiting!!! I want to time travel!
admin
10 months ago |Hi Eddy! I will be very careful. No need to create troubles a few days before the announcements. It’s alreayd good to knwo that a super ncie NEX camera is coming!
John Thomas
10 months ago |Yes, I just saw the same thing. He must have gotten his pee pee spanked by Sony for touting he was going to get to see everything today!
His blog now says absolutely nothing about visiting Sony or anything.
hexx
10 months ago |now there’s even less, but opening sentence is what’s quite interesting (he didn’t mention FF NEX before):
“We all know Sony is releasing new products at Photokina..with rumors of a FF NEX camera and NEX-6 floating around I wonder what they have in store?”
plasmo
10 months ago |Yes, yesterday Steve Huff tweeted that Sony just left his house, and he said “I left drool all over one of the items”.
…today I see that he deleted his tweet!
plasmo
10 months ago |Here’s his tweet, which I dug up from cached memory:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/24/photooeh.png/
Gamechanger for me would be
Video Recording without having any more OVERHEATING
Sky_walker
10 months ago |O_o just get A77 – simple as that.
Dirk
10 months ago |My guess is an FF-Nex with Alpha Mount and standart hotshoe for flashes.
Atlasman
10 months ago |To me, a “game-changer” would be a sensor that has film-like characteristics and enables smaller lens designs.
A hybrid mount is a great step in the right direction, but it won’t cause the disintegration of Canikon.
An NEX-9 could bring Sony a successful product, but it won’t take down Canikon.
Stephen Linhart
10 months ago |It seems almost inevitable that it will have the same sensor as the A99. So support for the new A99 lenses seems likely, and weather seal.
Adaptors to use other lens mounts with AF and IS would be a bigger deal, but doesn’t seem possible (other than A mount).
Dubious
10 months ago |The revolutionary camera only can be a 100mp NEX. Remember Sony has patented a 100mp sensor. If it’s a “game changer” it has to be this 100mp sensor.
spaceman
10 months ago |Please please let this PRO NEX be FF. If that is the case then they should incl. the EA1 adapter at least, so that “pros” can utilize the FF sensor by using their G and Zeiss A-mount lenses.
Using legacy glass on a FF NEX is truly a dream.
Because of this camera this was going to be Sonys Photokina according to Steve Huff. We are talking about a show that will bring us Leica M10 and new stuff from Fuji. My expectations are already sky high!
Ivan
10 months ago |So, foveon?
Patrick
10 months ago |What game will it change?
A mirrorless game changer…FF E mount with 1 or 2 included M mount adapters.
Each adapter can be customized to send specific information to the camera for the lens it will be attached to (say you have 3 lenses and have 3 adapters) for which the camera will already have the profiles it needs to avoid vignetting, colour casts and maybe distortion.
The camera will have downloadable profiles from every M mount Voigtlander, Zeiss and Leica M lens. This way, it will be even more complete than the M10 or M9.
To compliment this, it will have IBIS similar to that of Olympus, so it will easily cater not only to the low light crowd, but also to the video crowd.
For the video crowd, AVCHD 2.0 (that wont molest the A99 super video advantage) at less compressed frame rates and better video than Nikon D800.
That would be a game changer.
Joel Richards
10 months ago |I agree except that I doubt it will IBIS. The mount is big enough for a full-frame sensor but IBIS is stretching it plus that adds size and weight to the body. I think IBIS will be a distinguishing characteristic of the Alph A9X line. With a PDAF/CDAF hybrid full-frame mirrorless (ie 30% more light–remember NEX-7 vs A77?) the SLTs need a few features like IBIS and weather sealing to stand on their own.
I predict that the Full-frame NEX will have NO NEW LENSES. However, before everyone tries to crucify me, Zeiss IS announcing a line of ZM variants with auto-focus. I think Zeiss and Sony have been working on this for a long time and what we’re seeing is a digital Ikon in everything but name. I am excited. Not sure I will be able to afford it but excited…
hexx
10 months ago |agree with zeiss cooking something together with sony, maybe demand for aps-c zeiss e mount lenses kick-started it. what i’d go for is some standard zoom AF FF lens as a walk around option and then I’d go for few adapters and old glass like contax g, minolta, nikon… for times when you really want to take good photographs and want to fully enjoy it.
Joel Richards
10 months ago |Hexx, I see the appeal but I certainly don’t think that will happen. Zeiss has a lot of ready-made ZM designs but (unless the pull something from the cine department) no zooms that will work at that registration distance. Plus, Sony won’t develop a FF NEX zoom (although I could be mistaken because of the VG-900 in which case the zoom with be 5-10X equivalent and massive). They are more likely to develop a LA-E3 adapter that uses the on-sensor PDAF of the new 24mp FF sensor but has a motor drive and support for all full-frame lenses. That way they can justify not announcing another line of lenses by directing users to their existing A-mount lenses.
Personally, I’m hoping its a FF NEX that’s comparable in size to the NEX-7 (if not in the same body) with an option to buy a AF Zeiss 35mm or 50mm f2.0 prime. THAT plus my legacy glass would keep me very happy. I’d have a small AF lens for walk-abouts and a great set of options for specialty work.
The bright side is the new adapter might even be included and/or cheaper than the LA-E2 which has the pellicle mirror and AF unit.
hexx
10 months ago |was thinking about sony made zoom – cheap one and primes from zeiss specifically made for e mount
Patrick
10 months ago |I think the Zeiss variants will be for APS-C rather than FF because they already have the M mount lenses. I think they will see how it goes with those first and then they will develop the AF versions.
If anything, Sony will develop the AF lenses first though not at launch.
Properly priced ($100) memory chipped adapters will make any M mount lens combo a winner with a FF NEX.
Video, however, will then depend only on stabilized A lenses or crop mode E lenses. Anyways, to shoot high quality video you don’t need 24 or 36mp sensors anyways so buying the 35mm 1.8 and 50mm 1.8 along with any of the zooms will give any FF NEX owner a full working video cam with a full frame stills body.
Sounds like a good deal if they sell it for around £1500 (slightly more than X Pro 1)
Sahaja
10 months ago |£1500 ??? – Fuji’s excellent prime lenses for the X-Pro cost around $600 in the US. That would be _far_ more than a “slight” difference.
The Sony-Zeiss 24mm 1.8 for the NEX, at around $1100, already seems way over priced in comparison to the Fuji lenses.
Patrick
10 months ago |The 24mm sonnar is expensive to you maybe because you haven’t used it. No zeiss lens is cheap and they are worth what they cost
documensony
10 months ago |“I think Zeiss and Sony have been working on this for a long time and what we’re seeing is a digital Ikon in everything but name.”
That’s a nice vision!
Sahaja
10 months ago |@Joel
How do you know the autofocus Zeiss mirrorless lenses will be “ZM variants” and not new designs?
Nabotronic
10 months ago |FOVEON resolution combined with Sony DR and low-light = GAME CHANGER!
Oz
10 months ago |Perhaps a 1.1x crop Pro NEX with matching Zeiss autofocus lenses?
Or could it be a Sony / Hassy combination?
John
10 months ago |Full frame nex like camera with a alpha mount and and takes E mount lenses with an adapter could be a game changer.
Patrick
10 months ago |It will have to be the other way around, mate.
Joel Richards
10 months ago |No offense, but I disagree. I think the ZE 24mm “proved” that there is interest and the M mount lenses would need less work reconfiguring for AF then designing new lenses from the ground up. That said, either way if this camera is the FF Nex it should be an excellent alternative for mounting M-mount glass.
You could be right on the price although I think it will be at least $2000–don’t know if Sony does that 1:1 pounds-dollars conversion ALA Apple.
Patrick
10 months ago |If $2000, then around £1800 for the UK but 2000EUR.
I hope they think of competing with X Pro 1 and the marketing department doesnt smell platinum eggs when we need just gold.
Joel Richards
10 months ago |Here’s hoping!
Actually my dream would a kit of a FF Nex with Zeiss 50mm for $2500 but then not many of my dreams are worth betting on . . .
James L
10 months ago |My dream specs for the NEX-9 (SONY please read)!!!
1: 36mp FF sensor
2: E mount with A to E adaptor bundled with camera and has no translucent mirror but does have a motor.
3: High speed media ALL THE WAY: UHS-1, WiFi, USB 3.0
4: Contenporary styling (like the NEX-7 but more bad ass)
5: All Magnesium body with machined aluminum tri-navi dials and levers.
6: All dials have click stops instead of turning smoothly.
7: mind blowing 5mp OLED view finder
8: Apples retina display for the rear screen
I could go on for days, if sony made this camera I would buy it (I will probably buy it anyway regardless of the dream features) and I would only wear clothing and accessories that have a “Sony” logo on them for the rest of my life.
Jon R
10 months ago |Steve did leave this up though. I wonder what it really is.
http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2012/09/07/photokina-2012-it-may-be-the-best-ever/#comment-202132
Linh
10 months ago |Hm, if it’s really a pro NEX with FF and PDAF, I will preorder instantly. Otherwise.. I’ll wait for the next 7.
kingrenas
10 months ago |For me maybe the surprise will be a medium format camera like Hasselblad H4D with 60MB or 100MB and with 2K or 4K video capability.
Andy
10 months ago |yeah – sure – in a NEX body
))))
john
10 months ago |So a third mount from Sony who can’t provide lenses to fill the two mounts they already have?
Joel Richards
10 months ago |I would agree but read my other comments I think Sony is announcing this specifically BECAUSE Zeiss is now in the mirrorless game on their own terms. I imagine Zeiss has agreed to have AF ZM style primes ready the day the FF NEX ships.
Now if the VG-900 rumors is correct I think it is possible that Sony has a 28-140 or 28-300 zoom in the works but I doubt it. I think the real idea behind the FF Nex is that you use crop frame NEX lenses or FF A-mount lenses with a updated LAE adapter.
This is that hybrid that’s been rumored for months now. No need for new lenses, in Sony’s mind its a camera that will actually use every lens they already make.
Name Required
10 months ago |I just bought a bloody NEX7 last week!
Frosti
10 months ago |I know I know!!!
ITS A SQUARE FF SENSOR!
(frosti7)
manu fugs
10 months ago |A square FF sensor. With a lot of pixel, so when you crop horizontally or vertically you still have plenty of them.
This square sensor will have a diagonal of ~43mm (same as 24x36mm diagonal) so you can use existing 24x36mm lenses esp sony A and Leica with an adapter, and of course the new Zeiss autofocus lenses that Zeiss advertises on its blog. (and also nex lenses with a crop mode, but that’s not the main point). 30×30 or 31x31mm sensor.
The new Nex pro system will be advertised as a medium format system in the body of a little mirrorless camera with little high quality lenses (leica M and new zeiss AF).
A game changer !
Just my 2c, but I think it really makes sense. At a reasonable price, I would buy one, and keep one of my nex 3 or c3 as a backup camera.
My voigtlander Heliar 15mm tells me that he would love to marry a 31x31mm sensor, but my old Zeiss for Contax lenses and my very old Zeiss for rangefinder contax won’t let him be the only one !
manu fugs
10 months ago |Plus, the square FF sensor as five advantages on its competitors :
1. it does not compete frontally against the Leica M9 or M10
2. It’s in vogue (is it english ? I’m french, not sure) Hipstamatic, instagram and other smartphones apps are square.
3. you don’t have to rotate your camera ever. I love portrait orientation but I hate rotating my camera, not you ?
4. It’s medium format-like, so people read : PRO
5. it has never been done before in 31x31mm so it’s original and it defines a new segment. No camera can compare. Other brands may follow.
davidlam
10 months ago |Would it be a 28mm x 28mm square sensor ?
28×15.75(16:9) for 4K Video, 4096 x 2304 pixels
28 x 18.67 (3:2) or 28 x 18.67 (2:3), 5384×3590 (5.2um pixel pitch) approx 19.3M for APS-H Still images
In APS-C cropped mode, 23.5×15.6, 4500×3000 approx 13.5M – just about the right size for most applications
Lars
10 months ago |Hasselblad, Zeiss and Sony cooperate and bring a new system! Right?
Fritz
10 months ago |Sold my Alpha 850 as it had no live view. Sold my NEX 7 as the focal length of my primes and the crop didn’t match. And the camera was really hard to use with cold fingers and tiny buttons. Though I loved the EVF and the sensor. Now I have a 5DMKIII. The colors are much worse than Sony’s and the dynamic rang is limited. Pushing will always deliver noisy darks. See Lloyd Chambers on that. I would trade the 5DMKIII immediately for Pro FF NEX.
acolyte
10 months ago |Is it just me or did Steve Huff changed the wording in his blog post to not refer to the ‘new’ product? (RX1)
I thought he mentioned about the new product he’s interested in and is not leaked yet – but now I don’t see any wordings like that from his post.
Did he just happily cut it out?
Consuelo
4 months ago |Wow that was odd. I just wrote an really long
comment but after I clicked submit my comment didn’t appear. Grrrr… well I’m not writing all
that over again. Regardless, just wanted to say wonderful blog!