(SR5) The third mysterious Sony FF camera will be something completely new (Hybrid mount)
For one month now I am collecting the info about a third still very “mysterious” full frame camera. The first two Full Frame cameras that will come in 2012 are the A9x SLT camera with 24 Mega-pixel sensor (80% the rumor is true) and a 36 Mega-pixel SLT camera with built-in vertical grip (65% the rumor is true). The third camera I heard about is still an early prototype only and could be unveiled at Photokina (September 2012) at earliest. It is not a neither a pure NEX camera nor a pure SLT camera. It’s a new kind of camera, with a hybrid mount! Don’t ask me what that “Hybrid mount” camera is because I really didn’t figure it out yet. I even searched on google and here on ebay to see if there is something similar in the camera history. No way 
I am asking my sources to help me a bit on that. Thanks!
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MF
6 months ago |HUH???
Mecha Herc
6 months ago |hybrid mount?
admin
6 months ago |Yeah. A source tried to explain me how it works but I still didn’t get it
Wong
6 months ago |Mind giving us the exact explanation from your source so we may try deciphering it?
admin
6 months ago |I am talking to my soruces right now. I hope to give you a “real” explanation by next week.
Daemonius
6 months ago |Can you write here what your source exactly told you? (how it works)
matgay
6 months ago |e-mount version 2, which has extra pinouts on the mount and is fully backwards compatible with e-mount version 1 for apsc. would totally makes sense!!
in preparation for a full frame mirrorless camera!!
Maveric19
6 months ago |How intricate could it be?
kinki
6 months ago |Well dun care bout that, i want the Hybrid viewfinder similar to X100, haha!
zacao
6 months ago |Maybe a camera body with variable flange distance?
Daemonius
6 months ago |That is pretty amazing idea..
DKNL
6 months ago |That would be awesome! Fingers crossed! Not sure if it is technical possible, though…
Clyde
6 months ago |The Contax AX had AutoFocus at the film plane… This worked with any legacy MF lens.
http://www.ixbt.com/digimage/m39/contaxax.jpg
With Digital, you could even incorporate TS functionality.
Daemonius
6 months ago |Yea Contax was way ahead of time.. even in dSLRs. :/ Shame it ended such way.. 645 system of their is one of best..
zeissdarling
6 months ago |Yes the AX was tremendous.. macro with just about every lens including the 18mm Distagon. Check this picture of that lens in macro mode, you’ll probably never see another of it’s type again:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zebandrews/2329316142/
I had an RX which was an incredible piece of equipment. Zeiss lenses alone in their wonderful quality. Great value compared with the cost of a Leica R8 etc. only let down was the film transport noise which seemed to be a design fault.. not too loud but a bit of a distinctive screech. I think the AX’s was similar. Kyocera corporation is a ceramics expert hence the development of the AX]s focus mechanism.
matgay
6 months ago |that would suck! because it would make the mirrorless camera body MUCH bigger and thicker. why bother when you can just slap on a chunky dslr adapter?
Clyde
6 months ago |Not necessarily. By removing mirror box, camera wouldn’t need to any thicker than an Olympus OM-1.
matgay
6 months ago |18mm flange distance is what let the NEX bodies stay so thin. e-mount by itself is so thin that it is impossible to fit a mirror inside 18mm flange apsc sensor. if it was variable to also be able to adjust to sony a-mount of 44mm, now that mirrorless body must be larger. and even larger yet to accept more mounts.
Daemonius
6 months ago |You realize, that full-frame cameras are about “muscle” not looks or tiny weight? I absolutely dont care if it weights as brick, looks like one as long as it allows me to capture what I want.
Most pros dont do care about this either..
Clyde
6 months ago |I’m not most pros Daemonius. I’m a thirty five year veteran pro, and I want a small camera with high MP.
http://www.ctphotographx.com/
And if they would wise up and put a second shutter release on the front, like the old Topcon Super D…
http://members.cox.net/topconcollection/img2.gif
They wouldn’t even need a VG which throws balance off, adds weight, and a complete second set of controls. Hold your camera vertically the opposite direction and thumb lands perfectly on the existing controls while keeping perfect balance directly above elbow without leaning left.
matgay
6 months ago |leicas arent full frame? oh you mean the biggest “physical” camera to showoff on the block to compensate for a small …
then those “pros” might as well move up to medium or large format.
if sony can make NEX full frame or fuji can make full frame mirrorless …drools
Clyde
6 months ago |No doubt matgay… whoever first releases FF compact high MP WINS…
Game Over… especially if it can adapt universal lens mounts.
Chad
6 months ago |My Olympus XA is “full frame” and it is clearly tiny and not about muscle. I think digital has warped people’s perception of what quality should be available in a given form factor.
SonyA77
6 months ago |Indeed, perhaps Sony are answering the lens critics by simply supporting every lens on this mount!
sonyboy68
6 months ago |++1
Sony NEX FF will support any Full Frame lenses ! The Top !!
minoltian
6 months ago |probably NEX FF with advanced LA-EA3 adapter and super steady shot mechanism
hence we can use E and A mount lens
Wong
6 months ago |Same idea here too, except that I thought it would be an Alpha FF that would support both E and A mount. Just hope that it’s not some kind of complicated mechanism that uses numerous adapter/accessories just to make it work.
Looks like my waiting game may be elongated once again.
PEN
6 months ago |Why would you need a FF to accept E mount?
Minoltian
6 months ago |because apparently it is easy to produce the body and the sensor for Sony… lens can be produced later :p :p :p 5 years after NEX FF :p
Pablo
6 months ago |Uuuuuh. I really hope, they were listening :>
FF with IBIS would by THE camera king… :O
Leetyx
6 months ago |Maybe a mount with the capability to put any lenses from other brand. Don’t ask me how ^^
Camaman
6 months ago |The 3rd FF camera?
Where’s the 1st?
admin
6 months ago |1st is 24 Megapixel
2nd is 36 Megapixel
3rd is the mysterious cam.
Daemonius
6 months ago |36 mpix is like SR5 .. it will be, you can bet on it.
Tristan
6 months ago |The most thing I care about is really “comming in 2012″.
tailor
6 months ago |Damn, I love Sony’s creativity! Canikon are like prehistoric piece of stone to me reading these rumors
Rob
6 months ago |I thought that the circle of illumination of a nex lens would be too small to use with a FF sensor….
Marek
6 months ago |I do not think so. Problem with FF NEX is rather too short flange distance. May be a hybrid mount is the way to overcome this limitation.
Rob
6 months ago |They’re made for an aps-c sensor, like a DT lens. If I use a DT lens on my 850, then the small circle of illumination will not be large enough to cover the FF sensor….
Don Cox
6 months ago |The camera can easily be switched to use only the central part of the sensor if an APS-C lens is mounted.
For example, the whole sensor could be 36 Mpix and the central region 16 or 24 Mpix.
Solo
6 months ago |then what the hell is the point.
Ollder
6 months ago |Really SR5!?
Sounds more like SR1 to me, but I won’t argue if your sources are reliable
admin
6 months ago |It’s coming from multiple trusted sources. Deifnitely SR5
Dennis_photo
6 months ago |My little wild speculation:
A solution where the sensor is moved internally on a rail or something.
Normally it has the same setup as todays SLT cameras. But then the mirror can flip up so the sensor module can slide forward towards the mount and take the same position as in NEX cameras.
So the camera can use both A and E mount lenses, and of course all adaptors available for NEX cameras.
Maybe you can also mount an E-mount lens and control the amount of sensor slide, thus you won’t need extension tubes for macro shots.
Froo
6 months ago |This would be a silly solution, as the same could be established with simple adapters. Your idea is actually much more complicated.
Dennis_photo
6 months ago |Yes, of course it is more complicated. And technically challenging – something I have a feeling appeals to Sony’s engineers.
Autofocus is also more complicated than manual focus
Vytas
6 months ago |My guess would be a camera with two mounts – alpha mount and e-mount recessed deeper inside the camera. (?)
hiepphotog
6 months ago |Impossible considering the throat size of E-mount is pretty big.
klw10
6 months ago |I will have a collapsible A mount to adapt the camera to e mount!
James
6 months ago |My money is on it being something like the new Canon video system. A hybrid stills/video chassis that supports PL mount and either/both of A and E mounts.
This would sit between their FS100 and F35 cameras, to compete with some of the new hybrid stuff coming from RED and Canon.
emopunk
6 months ago |I see the most reasonable answer in your words, James. +1 for me
c.d.embrey
6 months ago |Many PL-mount lenses won’t cover Full Frame. Professional Digital Cinema cameras use Super 35 sensors, about the same size as APS-C (DX). So PL makes no sense at all.
James
6 months ago |Hence the hybrid. Shoot video with PL then go take photos with A mount. So you end up with a crop if PL is used, just like you get from the A900 when you shoot with APSC A-mount lenses.
Zeiss are releasing more hybrid lenses, like the CP range, that are full frame for photography but support a range of mounts (including PL) to allow for video use.
I could certainly see Sony + Zeiss marketing teaming up with some cool RED-beating product. Good for Sony. Good for Zeiss.
Clemens
6 months ago |james you are absolutely right! +1 for me
rf-design
6 months ago |E for FF does not make sense because:
1. There is no E lens for FF
2. The microlenses on the sensor need a minimum distance so a FF-A lens is at the right distance
3. The IQ would be higher if NEX is simply scaled up to FF but everthing is new
There is another idea which has to do with the distance. The FF sensor could be moved in z-direction while shooting multiple snaps. I guess the processing is powerful enough to make a macro-like stitching to extend the focus to everything you want. The question is that feature better implemented in
1. The lens focus motor
2. An intermediate z-moveable optic between sensor and lens
3. Similar to antishake also in z on sensor
Minoltian
6 months ago |I guess it will be announced in 2012
planned to be marketed in 2013
but eventually delayed until 2014
:p
Andy
6 months ago |My guess is that the 3rd camera will be similar to the Nex 7 but with a FF sensor. As Sony have already stated such a camera would require yet another mount so they have designed one which also allows for A mount lenses to be used.
David
6 months ago |Andrea, Please post the explanation of your source. We might be able to understand it!
SRL
6 months ago |As I’ve said before…
Sony’s not about creating a platform and supporting photographic “needs” Sony is a marketing company that develops new ideas and pushes the most profitable and easiest to manufacture and to sell in volume (marketable) pieces on to the market.
Sony is not about filling the gaps , if it was, the A-mount would look more like Canon or Nikon’s line, complete and supported.
So, sure why not bring out something new, as it too will sell and never mind supporting the customer when he or she is ready to expand outward.
Carl
6 months ago |That’s both a strength and a weakness, though.
Canon has the most full lens lineup, but suffers terribly from corporate inertia.
Dulaney Ward
6 months ago |So how did Sony come to have such famous support for its professional video customers?
Your theory, SRL, oft-stated as though it were an absolute fact, is highly-exaggerated. Sony understands the need for a full system and for professional customer service, and will put itself in a position to provide those things when the market demands it. I take that to be very soon.
usch
6 months ago |Contax rangefinder cameras had a dual mount with an inner and an outer bayonet decades ago.
http://www.antiquecameras.net/images/412_zc5.jpg
http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Contax_rangefinder_mount
http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/display/16753502
http://www.antiquecameras.net/zeisscontaxrflens.html
But honestly, I wish they would build a hybrid viewfinder rather than a hybrid mount.
Dulaney Ward
6 months ago |We will forget the OVF cery soon.
Clyde
6 months ago |So no NEX-9-ish body on the short plan?
Disappointed that the 36mp is only available with built in VG.
We want DMC-L1 sized A-Mount package with 36-48mp.
http://www.cameralabs.com/reviews/PanasonicL1/images/PanaL1_main_slant.jpg
Come on Sony just do it!
Beer_Stalker
6 months ago |A built-in VG would be a big mistake. I think it would lose more sales than it would gain.
Anonymous
6 months ago |An a-mount SLT in a ‘rangefinder-styled’ body like that DMC-L1 = YES PLEEEAAASSSEEEE!!!!!!!
matgay
6 months ago |really hope sony come out with a really special sensor technology no other company have yet instead of just a one upper on the specs. at least maybe adopt the technology from their 8K sensors in the F65?
leica have ccd
sigma have foveon
fuji have binning and organic
nikon have pdaf mirrorless.
canon have same old
…
hiepphotog
6 months ago |Well, they do have the highest MP/sensor size ratio
. But to be honest, the only interesting sensor tech out of those is the Fuji’s one, though I have to see it first.
TTT
6 months ago |mount with posibbility to change sensor. Want high ISO = one sensor, want resolution = another one…
Jay - SonyAlpahLab
6 months ago |Very Exciting news!! 24mp sounds very interesting, I wonder if the low noise will be significantly better than the 36mp model?
jfirneno
6 months ago |If they took a ff sensor on an SLT body with an e-mount connection you can mount your e-lenses for an APS-C mirrorless experience. Then you could attach LA-EA1 and now you’ve got a full frame mirrorless camera with SSS and it’s perfect for your full frame alpha lenses. Or add on the LA-EA2 and you’ve got a full frame SLT. And finally you can use specialty adapters to mount any full frame alternate mount lenses (Nikon, Canon, Pentax etc.) that you currently can’t get on your A900 or A850 because of the alpha registration distance. I’d buy one in a heartbeat.
Froo
6 months ago |This makes a lot of sense and I also believe it is exactly this. Is Sony haven’t noticed the enthusiasm for adapted lenses on the NEX, they are daft.
jfirneno
6 months ago |Froo:
I believe they have finally figured out that they need to find a niche that takes advantage of flexibility. Give us access to their sensor and allow us to use whatever good glass we can attach. I don’t think that Sony will match Canikon on AF. They need to sell their cameras as digital backs.
Clyde
6 months ago |I do think a FF sensor would fit inside E-Mount… Offer TS function on APS-C with moveable sensor… and LA-EA1/2 allows FF coverage.
E-Mount is similar size to OM and M42. No reason a FF sensor couldn’t fit.
Walt
6 months ago |Going to yet another mount is a way to free up your customers to go to a company that supports a stable lens mount as well as body. Folks with a large lens set won’t be eager unless their lens set is primarily supported. Otherwise they might as well go to a more stable and supported mount if they have to start over.
hiepphotog
6 months ago |Well said. But we’ll have to wait and see what Sony really wants. To me, E-mount was just Sony’s fun project to gauge the market. This hybrid mount, on the hand, might be a big flop if it’s simply another mount standard.
TTT
6 months ago |Instead of remove mirror between lens and sensor put sensor between lens and view finder
frosti7
6 months ago |Hybrid mount will be a NEX + slim adapter for FF lens with SLT mirror,
its a natural way for sony to progress
usch
6 months ago |Unfortunately you cannot make a “slim” A/E-Adapter – it has to be exactly 26.5mm deep because that’s the difference between the two flange focal distances. I think the LA-EA1 is as slim as you can get.
frosti7
6 months ago |it will have the necessary depth, but otherwise will be slim – unlike the current one which has a huge bulge on the bottom
usch
6 months ago |You are talking about the LA-EA2. The “bulge” is the AF motor. The LA-EA1 doesn’t have that.
compositor20
6 months ago |the ideia of that contax rangefinder with double mount is the best one!
2 sensors one aps-c and the other FF and it could record video with one and stills with the other… at least with small lenses side by side (PDAF on sensor of course)
Renato S.
6 months ago |If you have the FF you don’t need the APS-C, you just crop it.
Renato S.
6 months ago |I would say a mirrorless FF camera with variable flange distance with possibly a built-in phase detection AF like Nikon1 has.
With that you will have a mirrorless camera that doesn’t suffer from the lack of lenses.
And if Sony was to do this right, it would be 24MP tops with a NEX-7 like feel but much better low light performance.
peterv
6 months ago |Please no bulky built in grip for any FF…
emopunk
6 months ago |OMG FF rumors set us people on fire; do you see what you do, Andrea?
Jonathan
6 months ago |Good News !
this would be the answer to a simple issue with nex mount: the flange distance (18mm) is TOO short even for aps-c, thus it is almost impossible to design good lenses that covers FF even if the nex could physically sport a FF sensor. that’s why there is few lenses available for nex, and IMHO i suspect the last nex lenses to cover FF like the 50mm 1.8, 24mm 1.8 and 55-210mm 4-6,3. Tell me if i’m wrong, but this would be easier to redesign these lenses at no cost for a new longer flange distance mount. The new mount could be 8 or 9mm longer and it will match leica M (27mm).
Sony will have just to use a new sensor with special microlenses design or use a brand new foveonish tech.
Sony could just redesign at a few cost all existing ZEISS M lenses with autofocus just as they did with zeiss ZA lenses (85mm 1.4 ZA for instance).
Arnold
6 months ago |The short flange distance isn’t a problem at all,
the lenses just need to get longer if necessary,
just think about it, more space in the lens or inside the camera is exactly the same !
Jonathan
6 months ago |I agree with you, and the new 24mm 1.8 has more space in the lens … So it make no sense to keep a short flange back. Think about it ^^
.
matgay
6 months ago |except when u slap on a leica summicron lens to the NEX body. cant do that with long flange distance. who said the lenses must be big if short flange??
emopunk
6 months ago |Still that lens is not supposed to cover a FF sensor, or is it able to do it?
matgay
6 months ago |they are all full frame m-mount lenses, m-mount has been around since 1954 for full frame film 35m cameras. fully usable for the digital full frame leica m9 camera. i have m-mount lenses to my nex5n. the m-mount adapter is only half inch thick (dslr to nex adapter is a few inches thick!). and the m-mount lenses themselves are so small they are cute! but they will still outperform big bulky dslr lenses.
Jonathan
6 months ago |I just dream about a Digital ZEISS Ikon, with Autofocus and completly compatible with M mount and even A mount lenses with a sort of LC-EA3 adapter.
Mike
6 months ago |The main reason why cameras up to now had the sensor fixed in the camera is that it needs to be aligned with PDAF sensors. Any misalignment causes back or front focus.
If this new camera were to use CDAF or on-sensor-PDAF, a movable sensor could be implemented, making it possible to support multiple mounts like E and A.
Maybe Sony’s going into this direction…
Seeky
6 months ago |I really hope Sony is going in that direction, but not necessarily for the multiple mount support.
But why all the fuzz about a double mount? It would be very nice of Sony, but I expect OR one existing mount, OR one new mount (=profit).
However, a hybrid mount sounds to me like one body mount compatible with different lens mounts.
I personally hope on-sensor PDAF/CDAF combination will be applied, so we get rid of the SLT mirror. In combination with SSS this will be the camera of the decade (or century…)
Imagine what this could do, it makes the a DSLR obsolete, and that is really a technological achievement.
Any objections to this concept?
Mike
6 months ago |No, I fully agree, except that I’d jump ship if Sony were to introduce yet another mount.
matgay
6 months ago |cant imagine theyd make another mount without backwards compatible mount adapters
Antonio
6 months ago |i think that is a mount that can use different kind of lens(canon,nikon)?
Solo
6 months ago |No.
Leica Dreamer
6 months ago |My guess of this hybrid mount is the ability to use E mount lenses, the FF camera will switch to crop mode
More logical to me & makes more sense.
So you can use FF lenses, DT lenses with cam in crop mode & E mount lenses also in crop mode. Cool huh?? Best investment protection ever!
Quobetah
6 months ago |I think its just basically a Nex 7 with a full frame sensor in it, the mount will beable to take in A-mounts as normal, but can also fit in any other full frame lens from any other manufacturer. Its like they are taking the designs of all their adaptor makers and making a hybrid one of their own and building it into the body of a ff nex.
ausserirdischegesund
6 months ago |There has been a “hybrid mount” at least once in camera history: Theo original Contax rangefinder (from the 1930ies to the 50ies) had a special mount with *two* bayonets, an “outer” bayonet and a “inner” bayonet. The inner bayonet would mount 50mm normal lenses (yummy Zeiss Sonnars
exclusively, while the outer bayonet was there for the rest.
http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Contax_rangefinder
This was a quirky thing of beauty, but severely overenineered like anything Zeiss.
jackau
6 months ago |i think this mount is like having E mount and A mount together in ONE camera
SO it maybe a camera that has a special attachment so it can handle A mount much like that of the connectors.
It will have a bigger body, full frame. so it can use NEX e mount in crop mode and switch to Full by attaching some sort of ring which sold together in the package.
sopp
6 months ago |I guess it is just NEX FF, not hybrid mount
Jonathan
6 months ago |It makes no sense to use E mount lenses on a crop mode.
Plus, the new FF hybrid mount will target a pro market not a consumer market like nex.
Just think about canon, their EF-S line lenses ARE NOT compatible with their FF body despite they use the same mount… for profit reason.
And you also forgot that A-mount require a step motor, a AF coupler gear shaft and the diaphragm drive mechanism… Seems complicated to have it all in one “hybrid mount”.
A mount => nex (Lc ea2)
A mount => FF hybrid mount
FF hybrid mount (longer flange)+ sort of step ring adapter => nex
But no nex to A mount or hybrid mount.
Petty
6 months ago |This is just confirmation that they know they screwed up with the short register distance. How to fix? Come out with a new mount! They’re doing an Olympus, but at least trying to bring all those legacy NEX lenses along with them.
Petty
6 months ago |This is just confirmation that they know they messed up with the short register distance. How to fix? Come out with a new mount! They’re doing an Olympus, but at least trying to bring all those legacy NEX lenses along with them.
GH
6 months ago |Short registration distances are never a disadvantage. You can always add length to the lens, if necessary, and you’re left with the same overall system length as a shorter lens with a longer registration distance.
Booe
6 months ago |>Just think about canon, their EF-S line lenses ARE NOT compatible with their FF body despite they use the same mount… for profit reason.
Wrong. Lenses with reduced back focus distance are easier to design and manufacture.
>It makes no sense to use E mount lenses on a crop mode.
If it does make sense to use DSLR APS-C lenses on crop bodies (you complained Canon doesn’t support this), why wish the same with NEX lenses?
Jonathan
6 months ago |>Lenses with reduced back focus distance are easier to design and manufacture.
That’s true, i’ve never said the opposite. Canon has used this advantage on some of their EF-S lenses, and their rear or exit pupil lenses could hit the mirror if mounted on a FF body like 5d, that’s why EF-S lenses couldn’t be mounted on FF.
Also, if it was possible just as Nikkor DX lenses could be mounted on FX bodies,
then you won’t buy a new Wide angle lens for example, and that would be loss for the company, they’ll sell less lenses.
>It makes no sense to use E mount lenses on a crop mode.
I just meant, who wants to use an APS-C lens on a FULL FRAME sensor ?? You would use only the half surface of the FF sensor.
Would you like to use your nex lenses with 8MP straight out of a 16MP FF sensor in crop mode ???
Booe
6 months ago |>I just meant, who wants to use an APS-C lens on a FULL FRAME sensor
The same guy with DX Nikkors on FX bodies from YOUR example above
>Would you like to use your nex lenses with 8MP straight out of a 16MP FF sensor in crop mode
I think future FF NEX would have about 32-36 Mpix, not 16.
You seem to misunderstand that exit pupil is imaginary thing (you should have said “rear lens”).
Having lenses close to focal plane does not necessarily mean that exit pupil is close too. It might be the contrary: see “collector lens”.
Alexey Ozerov
6 months ago |I think its simple – EMount couldn have FullSize sensor simply because of its mount size. So – Nex with full frame sensor will have A mount – but will have size similar to nex camers.
emopunk
6 months ago |Too good to be true, I guess.
Booe
6 months ago |What an ignorance… Look at this: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eC7DgvA7hZs/TfFZpR_ujWI/AAAAAAAABz8/SkR_dQyw270/s1600/nex-C3_e_mount.jpg
In fact, some mounts for FF lenses (39 screw and Leica M) are narrower than E-mount…
obican
6 months ago |E mount is almost EXACTLY the same as Nikon F mount.
Jonathan Geach
6 months ago |So this is now obvious to me. E mount lenses do not cast a large enough circle to cover FF. So the new mount will accept both a new FF standard and E mount. If you mount an E lens, you get the crop sensor, if you mount an EX lens, you get FF. Also, this will be completely compatible with A mount using the LA-EA2 adapter.
Sounds good to me
Booe
6 months ago |They don’t say that hybrid mount camera would be FF.
Probably that’s a camera with retractable dual E-A mount, where mount retracts, or sensor moves. Or maybe could be even turned in a OVF DSLR via additional module (current E-mount doesn’t allow this)
FT
6 months ago |The Sigma SD9 and 10 also had a sort of outer bayonet .. usefull for using adapters for Nikkor lenses.http://www.ephotozine.com/article/sigma-sd9-digital-slr-review-4389
hahah
6 months ago |Bullshit… SR5… Hey Wake up and go to school!
FF
6 months ago |Maybe it’s like Ricoh’s GXR?
svyatoslav
6 months ago |Предлагаю выпустить Nex 9 FF с байонетом А, EVF, дизайном как Mamiya 7 и размерами, примерно, 140/90/65. Если к ней выпустите еще объективы 16-40/4, 40-140/4(2.8) и 18/3.4, 21/3.4, 24/2.8, 28/2, 35/2, 45/2, 90/2, 135 /2,8, то мы вас, Sony, на руках носить будем.
Joe
6 months ago |I hope the new FF camera comes soon. I just picked up the 85mm f/1.4 and it works brilliantly on my A77. Looking forward to unlocking the full potential of this beast.
Danonino
6 months ago |A Nex 9 with Full Frame sensor would be my dream come true.. OMG.. As usual I cry like a baby just thinking about it.. Wow.. Sony would really kill a whole market with one camera.. It would be AMAZING!
thundersha
6 months ago |just wondering…
will it be APS NEX with “FOCAL REDUCER adapter”???
if so, this camera can use all the lens of A/E-mount,
so cool!!
the Crop Factor will be 1.5x for E-mount,
and 1x for A-mount with the FOCAL REDUCER