RUMOR: Sony A7IV is scheduled to be released around September

The Sony A7IV is not coming any time soon. So far it’s expected to be announced in September. No info on specs yet…

The Sony A7IV is not coming any time soon. So far it’s expected to be announced in September. No info on specs yet…

Looks like Sony might want to compete against the Tamron 28-75mm FE and Sigma 28-70mm FE.
The same source that told me about the new ZV APS-C E-mount camera said that Sony plans to launch a new 28-75mm f/2.8 FE lens in the upcoming months…

UPDATE: That 28mm f/1.8 FE G image is a well done fake based on the 20mm G lens.

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 ;)