Today (6pm Los Angeles time) Sony will announce the new Cine Alta FF camera (early specs here). I am yet not sure if there will be something else.

If reliable rumors is what you are looking for please stop reading here :)

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Today I got this completely unverified rumor. I post it as usual in the hope to get some feedback on this. The new source said A7sIII (or A9s) will come soon:

The interesting thing will be that is will house the worlds first full frame RGBW backlit stacked sensor. Giving us around 68% better low light performance over the original a7s sensors. It will also be capable of 4K 4:2:2 10bit color and 4K 60p but only at 8bit 4:2:0 full sensor readout. These are the things I am mostly sure of.

But like I said, it might be completely BS :)

Teaser of the Cine Alta launch (today at 6pm LA time)

I am starting to get more and more hints that today Sony might announce more than the CineAlta FF camera. I have no details yet but this seems to be something “major”. You can speculate if it might be an A7sIII, new FF E-mount camcorder, new FE lenses or medium format camera.

But like I wrote, this is SR3 for now and completely non confirmed. I am writing this in the hope to get some more details from sources reading this. Stay tuned!

UPDATE: There is a major press event in Japan with reporters and bloggers flying over to Sony.

There is an image going around the web of this Phase One XF camera with a Sony logo. Don’t know who did this and why. It’s still a long time to go for April 1 jokes:)

Just funny speculation: Is Sony going to take over Phase One? For Sony it would make more sense to make a mirrorless MF than having to work with Phase One bulky camera system…

Back in April Zenit displayed this 50mm f/0.95 E-mount prototype lens. And I did post some image samples and hands-on review reports on SAR (Click here). But the past months we got no info about the possible release date of this lens.

But there is one major news posted via MR: Zenit announced they will launch a new Full Frame mirrorless system camera in 2018. On the forums I saw people speculating that Zenit might use Sony’s E-mount based on the fact they announced this 50mm E-mount lens back in April. I have no solid info on this but my best guess is that the Zenit will have a new kind of mount.

That said, I surely would like the idea to have a Zenit E-mount camera. I think there is a market for a well-built, manual focusing and low-cost FF camera. What do you think?

Panasonic announced the release of a major firmware update for the GH5. This one will add:

– 400mbps All-I 4K/UHD and 200mbps All-I FHD
– 72mbps LongGOP 10bit 4:2:0 HEVC
– HLG HDR + HLG View Assist
– HLG in 50/60p 10bit 4:2:2 over HDMI

No Sony camera in the GH5 price range can even come close to those specs. I do hope Sony future A7sIII (or A9s) camera will be able to at least match those specs. I know it’s harder for Sony to manage the processing and the overheating of a sensor that is twice as big as the Panasonic. But there is no way back. Panasonic did just show us the way to go.

This is the first image of the Opteka 12mm f/2.8 HD Multi-Coated Lens. It’s an APS-C E-mount manual focusing lens and those are the specs:

12 elements in 10 groups
9 aperture blades
3.9” (0.1m) minimum focus distance

Unlike the current Opteka E-mount lenses on Amazon and Amazon.de this new lens is designed specifically for mirrorless.

Last week I told you that the next Sony camera will be an RX. I can now confirm via multiple sources that this is the case.  One of the sources sent me a message right now to tell me that this camera might be announced today at the IFA event in Berlin (1pm Berlin time livestream here on SAR).

UPDATE: RX0 announced!  The anonymous source who said this would be an RX10IV was wrong. The trusted sources saying this would be a camera in the RX100 price range were right.

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This was the original text before the RX0 update:

One trusted source told me this:

Some RX was planned at least a year ago to be realised arround Oct. Pricing wise it would be RX100-RX10 level.

A new source told me this (UPDATE: Now debunked!):

It’s an upgrade to the RX10III with a wider focal length on the short end but same on the long end

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