I have been told the Sony ZV E-mount camera price will be around $899 (900 Euro). Journalists are already testing it and they told me the announcement was expected to happen on May 26 but for unknown reasons it was postponed by a couple of days (maybe because of the Panasonic announcement?).
Below some quick thoughts by Gaston Shutters about the new camera:
Multiple journalists were first told the camera would be announced on May 26th. But the announcement has been postponed by a bit. So the camera will NOT be announced next week. Unlike my previous mistake on rumors this isn’t a mistake….it’s Sony that changed the date and journalists out there know it ;)
I also have been told the camera name starts with “ZV” and is followed by three numbers. So it really is a sort of E-mount version of the ZV-1.
Also, I have been told by those journalists that this camera is really nothing exciting :(
Image on top shows the ZV-1 vlogger camera
Next week Sony will announce their first of the line new APS-C E-mount Vlogger branded camera. It has a compact A5xxx shape with no integrated viewfinder, it has similar A6xxx features (24MP sensor, IBIS and so forth) and the new A7c fully articulating screen.
So it’s not a successor or replacement of any current cameras. This is branded as a new High End Vlogger camera.
The one part that was wrong of my Sony APS-C camera rumors was the info that this would be a new High End camera. But indeed my source got mislead by Sony marketing that will present this camera as a higher end vlogger camera and the first of a new line. So this is not the A6660 replacement. And as far as I know there is no A6600 replacement coming any time soon.
So again, my apologies for that piece of wrong rumor. Understand that Sony is quite secretive on leaks…and as far as I know I am the only website on the world that at least could tell you that there is a new APS-C camera coming (and this weeks ago). And moreover you also know this will now be a new kind of model (first of it’s line in terms of naming). So you can either bitch me on the glass half empty or relax a bit and enjoy the glass that is half full. With the hope that now that I am back from my 6 month long COVID-19 project I will have more time to spend on rumor work ;)
Image on top shows the ZV-1 vlogger camera
Just like the ZV-1 replaced the Sony RX100 series this new APS-C E-mount camera will not have the A5xxx ot A6xxx nomenclature but be the first APS-C E-mount camera of a new line. Sony marketing really wants to brand is as “something different” from the previous cameras. I don’t know yet if this means that from now on all new APS-C E-mount cameras will use the new naming structure and I don’t know if from now on we will only have that kind of APS-C cameras and no more A5xxx and A6xxx.
One more thing: The camera will be announced next week!
Known specs:
Image on top shows the current Sony A7c. The new APS-C camera will take many bits from it but be smaller
Recently I rumored info about this new camera model and divided the rumors between “confirmed” and “Still to be confirmed”. Among the rumors that were NOT confirmed is that it might uses a new 32MP sensor. Well this sensor rumor turned out to be wrong while the “confirmed” rumors turned out to be correct.
I now have been able to see the real camera and I am now 100% sure about what I can tell you here:
What’s very clear is that it looks liek Sony wants to move the APS-C segment towards VLOGGING like they did with the RX series!
I should be able to tell you more about it soon…
About those rumors: I have no idea who sent them and 90% of the times they turn out to be wrong. But, it happened in the past that a couple of those were right. So I will post them today, and we all together can eventually keep track of this. If one of the sources turns out to be right than we will know we can trust it a bit more!
Source 1:
Source 2:
A7 iv = 30MP
A7r5 = 61MP
A7s4 = 40MP
A9s = 20MP
A9R = 100MP
Source 3:
70-300 G , 24-70 G, 16-35 G, 16-70 G
Source 4:
New gossips from China
A7 iv = 30MP
A9 iii = 20MP
A7s iv = 40MP
A7r V = 60MP
A7c ii = 24MP
Source 5:
Sony’s New ILCE-9S is Coming for the Olympic Game. It use a 20 megapixels Exmor RS without Mechanism Shutter to achieve 1/500s Flash Sync and 1/600s Readout Time. So It will be the most lightweight sport-camera.
Source 6:
Just saw comment about this today : 300mm F4 G OSS, 200mm F2.8 G OSS, 2x TC
Source 7:
A7rV
£3800/US$3500
BIONZ XR processor
ISO 40-81920 (native 80-32000)
61 million pixels Exmor R sensor
759 points PDAF
real-time tracking eye focus for birds/animals/humans
26 million pixels APS-C Mode
10fps continuous shooting
5.5-speed five-axis image stabilization
9.44 million pixels EVF
2.36 million pixels flip LCD screen
new menu
dual CFE-A/SD compatible card slot
10Bit HEIF photos support
lossless compression RAW photos support
Pixel shift (2 photos/4 photos/8 photos/16 photos) (not yet determined)
16Bit RAW photos in Pixel shift (not yet determined)
full-frame over-sampling 8K/24p, 4K/24p video,
Super35 over-sampling 4K/30p video
1.24x crop mode 4K/60p video
XAVC HS/S/SI encoding video color depth up to 10Bit 4:2:2
supports multiple creative modes including S-CineTone
flash sync interface, no full-size HDMIFF 9.504K Oversampling: 8K,4K/24p
FF 4.752K Binning: 4K/30p
FF 3.168K Binning: HD/24,30,60p
1.24x Crop 3.84K Binning: 4K/60p
1.24x Crop 1.92K Binning: HD/120p
S35 6.336K Oversampling: 4K/24,30p
S35 3.168K Binning: HD/24,30,60p2) Coding format:
– XAVC HS:
8K: 24p 10Bit 4:2:0
4K: 24/60p 10Bit 4:2:2/4:2:0– XAVC S:
4K: 24/30/60p 10Bit 4:2:2 / 8Bit 4:2:0
HD: 24/30/60p 10Bit 4:2:2 / 8Bit 4 :2:0
HD: 120p 8Bit 4:2:0– XAVC SI:
4K: 24/30/60p 10Bit 4:2:2
HD: 24/30/60p 10Bit 4:2:2
