The Zeiss teaser at Zeiss Lens Russia (here on Facebook).

We got a confirmation that Zeiss has scheduled a product announcement event on April 14 at around 11am London time. It’s yet not 100% confirmed but it’s highly likely they will announce at least a new Batis 18mm lens!

Just least hope Zeiss will increase the production of all current Batis lenses too!
Batis 85mm in Stock status at [shopcountry 45791].
Batis 25mm in Stock status at [shopcountry 45790].

I just got this from a source. And I really do hope he got a wrong info as it would make the 70-200mm GM lens rather expensive:

“I’ve just got an initial quote for our local supplier in Australia on the GM lenses including the 70-200 F2.8 as follows (All in AUD). I’m not sure if they are retail prices or might include a slight discount as they told us lenses are still around 4-5 weeks away in Australia and we would need to confirm pricing closer to when stock is available as they should be able to hopefully offer slight better pricing…
– 24-70 f2.8 GM – AU$3099
– 85mm f1.4 GM – AU$2899
– 70-200 f2.8 GM – AU$5999
Pricing on the 70-200 F2.8 seems rather crazy!”

If the info is correct the 70-200mm GM lens will cost almost twice as much as the 24-70mm GM lens. This would mean:
– USA the 24-70mm GM lens costs $2,200 at Amazon. This would put the 70-200mm GM price at a bit over $4,000
– In Europe the 24-70mm GM lens costs 2,400 Euro at Amazon.de. The 70-200mm GM would cost a bit over 4,500 Euro.

This would make it a very expensive lens! The [shoplink 46652 ebay]Nikon 70-200mm[/shoplink] and [shoplink 46653 ebay]Canon 70-200mm[/shoplink] do cost about the half of the rumored GM price!

The new A9 is supposed to be a more “DSLR” alike sized camera (image above is a rendering)

About the source: This one comes from a very top source. It’s the same source that gave us the RX1rII specs months(!) ahead. So this is highly likely to be true!

The Bomb Sony A9 rumor: The source sent me this:

“The next generation flagship mirrorless camera from Sony will be a giant leap. It will drop a huge bomb in the imaging industry. It will not be A7III or A7RIII. It will be a new model above A7 series. I would say A9 (let’s name it as the new model). So the new A9 will have [shoplink 46602 ebay]dual XQD card slot[/shoplink], no CFast version, only XQD. A9 can do UNLIMITED RAW burst, UNLIMITED. The camera wont pause for buffering.”

Just recently Sony announced a new generation of [shoplink 46609 ebay]XQD cards (specs and prices)[/shoplink] which are now for sale bundled with the Nikon D5 (here on Amazon).

I repeat this one is a very top source. I hope he will send me some additional info soon like when will it be announced? What’s the sensor? Thanks :)

SAR readers are welcome comment this post with their wishlist for the A9 camera! And join the Sony A9 facebook group ;)

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Image above shows the current HX90v

A source just sent me this (Thanks!):

Sony will anounce a new consumer camera this spring/summer as a true succesor of the HX90V
The stacked CMOS image sensor with 22.5 effective megapixels image sensor features built-in hybrid AF, as fast as 0.03 seconds*2, and 3-axis electronic image stabilization.
It is the first consumer grade camera to feature 4k and high fps
4K (3840 x 2160) 30fps
1080p 120fps
720p 240fps

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I got first hints about the next A7rII successor. The source said that Sony Japan managers said the

“a7Riii the new sensor will be between 70 – 80 Megapixels. They are working on improved IBIS as well. Although officially the new lenses per the 24-70 F2.8 GM and the others have been tested for QC at 60+ Megapixels and 6K+ Video they achieve even better results than that.“

Well sounds likely this could be the A7rIII (or A9)!

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Well the fun is over guys! Hasselblad CEO just confirmed their Sony luxury clone cameras project is dead. There will be no more funny cameras like the one pictured above :)

Instead the new CEO Perry Oosting will redirect the company back to it’s original history. And he says “Without breaking the news embargo, I can say confidently that, in the case of one wholly new model in particular, photography fans will be over the moon.“

Hasselblad confirmed a couple of months ago they will strengthen the partnership with Sony. So it’s not impossible that the “new model” will feature the new Sony 100 Megapixel medium format sensor. And I bet it will be a mirrorless system camera! My dream could become true soon… [shoplink 37985 ebay]Hasselblad X-Pan (here on eBay)[/shoplink] with 100MP sensor?

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Finally our Ghostbusters dreams are becoming true! Nice to see Sony enter that new kind of business!

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Spoiler alert: It’s a nice day today :)