Now that is a small news that could turn out to be very important! I know of many Canon users that are tempted to join the NEX system. Canurus (Click here) announced a super Canon C-mount to E-mount adapter that will make their choice much easier :) This isn’t just one of those cheap manual only adapters you usually found [shoplink 11174 ebay]here on eBay[/shoplink]. It has electronic aperture control! And Canon lenses with Image Stabilization will also work on your NEX! More info:

• True electronic integration of aperture diaphragm – let camera automatically choose aperture in P or S exposure modes, or dial in yourself on the camera body in A or M modes.
• Powered by camera body. No external power source required.
• Wide open button (opposite of depth-of-field preview function) makes manual focusing easy.

Estimate launch date for the adapter is January 21st!

P.S.: The Sony NEX-5n is back in Stock in limited quantities via third party reselelrs on Amazon (Click here).

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It’s official! The A55 has been dicontinued in Japan (Source: DC.watch). The question now is: Is the A65 the natural successor of the A55 or not? My answer is no! :)

A55 price checks at [shopcountry 3617].

Today Sony made it clear once again that electronic viewfinders are the future while Nikon stated they are committed to optical viewfinders. A year ago I asked if users would prefer Sony to make camera with optical viewfinder or if they bet on the new electronic viewfinder “philosophy” from Sony. And the results were more on less on par. But one year ago we only had that not so good viewfinder technology from the A55 as reference and today we have that super high quality OLED technology from the A77/NEX-7. I am curious to see if you changed your mind and if in your opinion Sony is betting on the right horse:

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In Stock status:
The only new NEX-7 I found is in Denmark and on sale on [shoplink 11147 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
The A77 is in Stock at Sony US (ships end of the month), Expanys USA (Click here), Expansys Canada (Click here), Expansys UK (Click here), Amazon Germany (Click here), Amazon Japan (Click here) and Amazon Cina (Click here).

Imaging Resource (Click here) interviewed Mr. Mark Weir, Senior Manager of Technology and Marketing at Sony Electronics Inc.

– Sony clearly says that Optical Viewfinder DSRL are…dead: “It’s hard to imagine that 10 years from now, cameras will operate the way they did 60 years ago“. The future are mirrorless cameras!
– There is a tremendous demand for our NEX-5N and for the NEX-7: “and that cuts across the grain from what you would expect if the mirrorless segment was originally designed to attract that step-up point and shoot user who wasn’t ready for an SLR.”
– Thai flood and production status: “we’re looking forward to ramping up to meet the demand of our consumers in February and March.”
– Sony is clearly committed to Full Frame even if the vast majority of the market is APS-CI. It’s a big challenge to create a big size Translucent Mirror: “so it’s not for the faint of heart, but we’ll see.”

There is much more in the Interview but the general picture is easy to understand. Sony is working on a Fullframe SLT camera. But the main affords goes to the NEX system.

30mm macro test at Camera.Itmedia (japanese).

Sony NEX-7 vs Sony NEX-5N (Digitalrev).

Sony A580 hands-on review at SonyAlphaLab (Click here).

Gizmodo (Click here) says the best affordable mirrorless camera is the NEX-C3

via DC.watch

Neither DSLR/SLT users nor NEX camera owners could enjoy some real good news from the lens front at CES. We only had those two non spectacular Sigma lenses (with no offense to Sigma that can make some very superb lenses!). Now we have one more not so cool news :)

Kenko announced a new T to E mount adapter for the Tokina 400mm f/8.0 mirror lens (see picture on top). It’s an all silver edition. The adapter should be priced at $200. If you are really in the market for this I would rather go for the [shoplink 11116 ebay]Sony 500mm f/8.0 mirror (Click here to see them on eBay)[/shoplink] or the [shoplink 11117 ebay]Sony 900mm f/8.0 mirror (Click here to see them on eBay)[/shoplink]. Those are A-mount lenses and you can use them with any current [shoplink 11116 ebay]cheap Chinese adapter[/shoplink] :)