Sony posted new videos about the new cameras. On top you see the A58 presentation. And click here to see the NEX-3n video. If you speak German you may check out the nice presentation made by Chip.de and ClubSonos.

The A58:
The A58 should be seen as the successor for the A37. If you see it from that perspective the A58 certainly is a nice camera and also priced well. Price for body with new 18-55mm SAM II kit lens $599 but preorders at Amazon and BHphoto will be online on Monday only. I know it sounds weird but the official US presentation will be made on Monday!

The NEX-3n:
The main coolness of this camera is the incredible tiny size (check the size comparison at ePhotozine)! It’s the smallest APS-C mirrorless camera of the world and the $499 price includes the 16-50mm pancake zoom. That’s a good price if you consider that the current NEX-F3 with the less good and much bigger 18-55mm lens has the same price (here at Amazon). Also the body quality has been improved over the NEX-F3 with a less “plastic” feeling.

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The new Sony cameras just got announced! Stay tuned on this post! I will update it as soon as I find new info and the first reviews! Let me know if you find something I didn’t post here…Thanks!

Press release:
A58 at Sony, ePhotozine, Dpreview, Whatdigitalcamera, Techradar, Lemondedelaphoto (french), Photographic Central, Photographyblog, Photoscala.
NEX-3n at Sony, ePhotozine, Dpreview, Whatdigitalcamera, Techradar, Lemondedelaphoto (french), Photographyblog, Photoscala.
The three new A-mount lens news at ePhotozine, Dpreview, Whatdigitalcamera, Techradar, AlphaNumerique (french), Lemondedelaphoto (french), Photographyblog, Photoscala.
New Cybershot cameras at Sony, Techradar, Photographyblog, Photoscala.
News also on TheVerge, Alphanumerique (french).

Preorders:
The new Zeiss 50mm at Sony UK store, Sony DE store, Sony FR, Sony IT, Sony ES (available in June).
Preorders will be up at Amazon US on Monday!

Hands-on and previews:
NEX-3n at ePhotozine, Techradar, Photographyblog, Pocket-Lint.
A58 at ePhotozine, Techradar, Pocket-Lint.
Sony NEX-3N Verses Sony NEX-F3 Comparison at ePhotozine.

Description in short:
NEX-3n: 16-megapixel sensor, 180-degree tilting screen, zoom lever. Sony markets it as the “world’s smallest, lightest interchangeable-lens camera with a large APS-C sized sensor” (it weights 210g). It has “Triluminous Color” for an expanded gamut when images and videos are played back on the company’s Triluminous Bravia displays. The NEX-3N will ship next month.
SLT-A58: Brand new 20-megapixel that Sony says will produce excellent low-noise results. New OLED viewfinder and a new 15-point autofocus system with “more accurate subject tracking“. On market in April.

Pricing of the new A-mount lenses (in Pound):
70-400mm F4-5.6 G SSM II telephoto zoom – £1800
Carl Zeiss Planar T* 50mm F1.4 ZA SSM – £1300
DT 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 SAM II zoom – £180

Technical specifications (Click on it to enlarge)

The little confusion on the Sony A58 and NEX-3n announcement date continues. I just got a short notice that Sony have sent out two different announcement dates. One for Monday the 25th and one for tomorrow (Feb 20th) at 4am London time. I am not sure why the heck they sent out two different dates. In any case if you don’t live in London this means:

5am in the morning Berlin time zone.
11pm (23:00) in New York today (Feb 19th)
8pm (20:00) in San Francisco today (Feb 19th)
1pm (13:00) in Tokyo (Feb 20th).

if you can be online by 4am in the morning (UK time) on SonyAlphaRumors.com. I will be here to give you live updates on all new Sony cameras if there is one :)

Again, there seems to be a confusion around the announcement date and the cause seems to be Sony itself. So I don’t know if all cameras or no cameras or just one of the two cameras will be announced tonight or on Monday.

UPDATE: Another source told me the announcement is tomorrow while there seems that other countries got another announcement date.

This is the image of the brand new Contax G to E-mount adapter that should be on sale within days at [shoplink 16463 ebay]MXcamera on eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. The Contax G lenses are amazing quality lenses. Not so Sony friendly Ken Rockwell reviewed these lenses here: http://www.kenrockwell.com/contax/g-system.htm. The adapter supports full aperture and autofocus control.

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Reminder: list of great G lenses with links to eBay price:
Hologon 16mm; 1:8 on [shoplink 16235 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink] -> (will not work on the DEO TECHART adapter).
Biogon T* 21 mm; 1:2,8 on [shoplink 16236 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink] -> (will not work on the DEO TECHART adapter).
Biogon T* 28 mm; 1:2,8 on [shoplink 16237 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
Planar T* 35 mm; 1:2,0 on [shoplink 16238 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
Planar T* 45 mm; 1:2,0 on [shoplink 16239 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
Sonnar T* 90 mm; 1:2,8 on [shoplink 16240 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
Vario-Sonnar T* 35 – 70 mm; 1:3,5-5,6 on [shoplink 16241 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].

OFFICIAL | DSC-RX1 Full Frame Cyber-shot Sample Footage from Sony

First Impressions: Sony 35mm f1.8 OSS E-mount (ThePhoBlographer)
16-50mm PZ lens tested at Photographyblog.
5mm F/1.8 OSS review by KurtMunger.
Sony A99 night shots at SonyAlphaLab.
Sony RX100 test at SonyAlphaLab.
Cine Lens shootout at Matthewduclos.
The hidden improvements of firmware 1.07 for the SLT-A77 (Mhohner).
Sony RX1 review at Cnet Asia.
RX1 vx RX100 vs E-M5 on Flickr.

Robert: “I thought I would pass on a link to my newest site and a review of the NEX-7 I did. I love the camera and the fact that you can mount any 35mm lens ever made. It’s a great little camera. It’s a new site. Bob http://24mmpov.com/my-sweet-little-nex-7-a-personal-perspective/. I love the manual focus versatility of the Sony NEX-7 camera, I got mine about 8 months ago and here’s why the NEX-7 makes photography fun again for me.”

Mocha: “Just some sharing of using Sony NEX-5N/ 7 with Olympus 15mm f/8 on a M4/3 to NEX adapter. Enjoy! :)
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151161313861511.429942.694456510&type=1”

Martin: “Da ich gerade gesehen habe, dass du das erste NEX Buch gezeigt hast: hier ist das erste NEX-5R & NEX-6 Videotraining! Sprache deutsch. http://blog.martindoersch.at/2013/02/praxistraining-fotografie-sony-nex-5r-nex-6/ Übrigens läuft noch ein Gewinnspiel auf meinem Blog.“

Image and creation by Brendan Taylor.

Nikon 1 mirrorless system sucks and the NEX cameras look is to boring for you? Than just squeeze your NEX camera into an old styled and good looking [shoplink 16947 ebay]Nikon F camera[/shoplink] chassis! You can see the full “How-To” pics on Brendan Taylor’s google plus page. Great work Brendan!

Luca Rossini just finished the 365 days project with the NEX-7 and started a new one by using the Sony RX1. For the next 365 days he will take one picture per day with the Sony RX1. And we will keep a close eye on you Luca to be sure you will not miss one single day :)
More about the project at lucarossini.it/the-project-2/

More RX1 related news:
Sony RX1 vs Canon 5D Mk III / Sigma 35mm f/1.4 at Photographyblog (Click here).
Short test at DC.watch (japanese).
$2650 is the chepaest price for the RX1 ([shoplink 16935 ebay]by top rated Photo4less eBay seller[/shoplink]).