Small update on the Sony A7sIII camera. A long time Asian source sent me this:

The development of α7sⅢ has been postponed because of heat issue (SAR note: That’s why it’s not coming in 2018).
α7sⅢ will have stacked CMOS sensor but the sensor is different to α9’s.
α7sⅢ will be sold in 2019’s early.

The A7sIII will surely have 4k60p and 5.6 milion dot EVF.
Before the As7III gets launched we should get the new High End APS-C camera along with new lenses.

To be sure to not miss any of the upcoming news do this:
Subscribe our RSS feed (Click here).
Join us on Facebook (Click here).
Follow us on Twitter (Click here).

For potential SOURCES:
If you know “something” and want to share it anonymously please use the anonymous contact form on the top right of the sidebar. Please use a nickname so that I can recognize you in future messages. You can also contact me directly at sonyalpharumors@gmail.com. Use remailer.paranoici.org to send me an anonymous message if you prefer to do so.

I got this image last week but I didn’t post it because I know with 100% certainty this is fake. But some sites posted exactly theses specs and readers asked my opinion on this. So here is my opinion: It is fake as you can see from the image showing the FF sensor inside the body. Moreover I know the source of this image and I know it has a long history of sharing such fake spec lists.

–

The only 80% reliable info I got so far is that the new APS-C High End camera will be Sony’s next announcement (and before the A7sIII). And it will have the EVF in the center and NOT be the A6500 successor but a new kind of model. It’s unclear when it will be announced although one single and usually reliable source told me he heard Sony has one more announcement before Christmas. But I got no other confirmation to back this up and it might be that this one source may be mislead by Sony…

Zeiss 35mm f/1.4 versus the Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 S via CameraSize.

Many SAR readers asked if Sony will do more affordable lenses. And here is a good news I got from a very good source:

“Sony 35/1.8 G is in the long roadmap”

So it is on the roadmap but we will have to wait til 2019 to get this lens. Before that we will get the new 135mm f/1.8 GM.

Time for a recap before we post some new rumors:

Sony A7000:
One source heard the camera might be announced before Christmas. But so far I got no confirmation from other sources and no new Sony camera has yet been registered in Asia neither.
The little we know about this camera is that it has an EVF in the center and that it’s going to be a sort of mini-A9. Likely specs: 4k60p, 5.6 milion dot EVF and 20fps. Sony officially confirmed that developing professional APS-C camera is a must.

Sony A7sIII:
As told by Sony this camera will arrive in 2019. For sure it has 4k60p, 4:2:2 10bit (external), 5.6 milion dot EVF, new stacked sensor. Sony also said it will have some “unexpected” features. Unclear what they could be.

Sony FE lenses:
135mm f/1.8 likely to be announced along the A7000 or in early 2019.
New APS-C E-mount lens will be announced along the A7000.
Sony patented a new 500mm and 600mm f/4.0 FE lens. One of them could be announced in 2019.
Sony 200-600mm FE is also on the roadmap.

Tamron FE:
100-400mm 5-6.3 and 70-200mm f/2.8 FE could be announced in 2019.

Sigma FE:
Sigma will announce the first FF lenses exclusively designed for mirrorless in 2019.

An anonymous source sent us this first image of the new 7Artisans 60mm f/2.8 macro APS-C E-mount lens. There is no info on the pricing and availability date yet.

Just recently 7Artisans launched the 35mm f/1.2 lens which is now in Stock at Amazon US, Amazon DE, Amazon FR, Amazon UK, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.

Note: The description above contains an erorr when describing the Lens construction. This is a screenshot from a beta page. So It is still under construction and mistakes will be fixed.

also via Mirrorlessrumors

The current Sony 100-400 GM vs the Tamron 100-400mm EF lens (CameraSize).

A source told me this:

I got some info that Tamron should release native 100-400/5-6.3 mid next year.

Would be nice to get a cheaper alternative of the Sony 100-400mm GM lens!

Well I just found a brand newly published Sony patent describing a foldable drone camera. And it’s quite innovative as you will see:

The image below shows you the Drone folded:

You then detach the cover part which is actually a full touchscreen remote device!

The touchscreen device is used to fly the drone:

And obviously you can use the screen to zoom in and zoom out on the subject:

The camera also has the Sony famous “Eye-AF” function we all know from Sony Alpha cameras:

There is also a variation of the patent with a bigger drone:

There are no specs of any kind and no info about the Image Quality. But to me it makes a lot of sense for Sony to do this. They have the sensor technology, the autofocus technology and lens technology from the Alpha series. And why not use an E-mount on the drone similar to the DJI Zenmuse? That would be nice :)