Foggy And Hazy – Sony a77 Extreme Low Light from Heikki Kivijärvi on Vimeo.

There is a new A77 review at DC.watch (google translated), at Slashcam.de (google translated) and at Colorfoto.de (google translated).
Sony A700 versus Sony A77 at jimmartinphotoblog (Click here)
Sony Alpha 77, test complet #2 : bruit numérique et erreurs de protocole (Alpha Numerique).
A new A77 Flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/alpha77/pool/with/6223530148/
My new A77 with my old Minolta 75-300mm lens (dpreview forum)
Popular Photography magazine wrote a full A77 review (you can buy it here).
Sony A77 RAW samples thoughts (SonyAlphaLab).
One more A65 test at Colorfoto (german).

USA:
A77 body with 18-55mm lens and 29 accessories at [shoplink 2097 ebay]Arphotovideo (Click here)[/shoplink]
A77 body with 18-55mm and 75-300mm and 36 accessories at [shoplink 2098 ebay]Arphotovideo (Click here)[/shoplink]
A77 body with Secret Handshake Minolta 28-135mm [shoplink 2099 ebay]Yibum (Click here)[/shoplink]
A77 body with 16-105mm lens at [shoplink 2100 ebay]Yibum (Click here)[/shoplink]
A77 body with Carl Zeiss 16-80mm[shoplink 2101 ebay]Yibum (Click here)[/shoplink]
A77 body with 8 lenses(!) for $5999 at [shoplink 2102 ebay]Yibum (Click here)[/shoplink]

Europe:
A77 body at [shoplink 2103 ebay]fotoheibel (Click here)[/shoplink] – Germany
A77 body at [shoplink 2104 ebay]qf-foto (Click here)[/shoplink] – Germany
A77 body at [shoplink 2105 ebay]cameracentre1315 (Click here)[/shoplink] – UK
A77 body at [shoplink 2106 ebay]0123aggiudicato (Click here)[/shoplink] – Italy
A77 body at [shoplink 2106 ebay]0123aggiudicato (Click here)[/shoplink] – Italy
A77 body with 18-55mm lens at [shoplink 2107 ebay]badblock_group (Click here)[/shoplink] – Estland

Sony Japan confirmed that there will be a new NEX-5/3/C3/VG10 firmware in mid-december. It will bring the support for the new LA-EA2 adapter. But I do hope there will be also other major new features and improvements coming along the update.

And now also the A65 is out of Stock in most stores. At least there is an useful news posted by Amazon (Click here). It says that the camera will be back in stock on December 31 only. But this date may be important for the availability of the A77 and NEX-7 too. Let’s take a note of it!
Only a few cameras are still in Stock at Adorama and B&H. Availability is a bit higher in Europe at Amazon.fr, Amazon.de, Sony.it, Jessops, Amazon.co.uk and Warehouseexpress.

P.S.: The Sony VG-C77AM Vertical Grip for the A77 is in Stock at Amazon (Click here).

There are a couple of interesting news about the Sony sensor and camera relocation. First, the flooded factory in Ayutthaya (Thailand) will be closed until January 2012.  (Source: AP).
To solve the production problem Sony moved the sensor production to its Japanese semiconductor factory in Kumamoto, Kyushu island. Another factory in Chonburi (Thailand) will than assemble the Sony NEX-5/C3/7 and A77/A65. Sony should soon release a press information to communicate the new NEX-7 A77 availability info (Via Photoscala). I hope there will be Stocks of cameras ready for the Christmas sales!

One more news: Image Sensor World reports that “Sony will boost its image sensor production capacity by 50 percent within two to three years starting next spring.“

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A new source just sent me this: “Sony has just released FW 1.04 a few hours ago. expect it to be available for download in a few hours…improve IQ, response time, usability.. and others…”

If that turns out to be true than this would be the second good news within 12 hours :) The first good news is that Sony restarted the A77/65 and NEX-7/5n production!

UPDATE: The source told me that Sony Japan notified that the firmware will be out that week.

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All new Sony cameras and lenses links:
A77 at [shopcountry 8461]
A65 at [shopcountry 8459].
Sony NEX-7 [shopcountry 8454].
Sony NEX-5n [shopcountry 8452].
Zeiss 24mm f/1.8 [shopcountry 8450].
Sony 50mm f/1.8 [shopcountry 8448].
Sony 55-210mm [shopcountry 8444].
NEX-5n viewfinder [shopcountry 9110].

Image on top: The Sony Chonburi factory

Sankei.jp (Click here) reports that the camera production restarted at the end of last week! Sony is using the Chonburi factory in Thailand which usually produces car radio. Now they “transformed” it into a fully operable A77/65 and NEX-7/5n production factory. Sankei also reports that Sony will move the compact camera production in China.

Some of our japanese readers can confirm the news? If it is true than dear Sony managers and workers…Chapeau!