Short update to the new A68 US release: A source told me the camera will ship in April in USA. As mentioned previously camera preorders will start on March 1 at BHphoto (Click here).

On January 5th Sony will livestream their CES product announcement. You can follow it live here on SAR. And what can we expect to get?

Our sources confirmed there will be a new Action Camera and new Handycameras. They also confirmed Sony is ready to launch a new A99 successor but it’s unconfirmed if that’s coming at CES or a month later at CP+.

But today I got the full AS50 action camera specs. So here they are:

-Same as usually Zeiss lens
-XAVC-S 50mbps codec
-FullHd recording 60p
-New menu with icons (much easier and faster to navigiate)
-Waterproof up to 60m with included case
-Batery compartement is similar to the one in az1, but as50 works with same batery as as20
-Bluetooth (to power on camera with the remote)
-Electronic zoom
-There will be new remote rm-lvr3 but will not be sold with as50 and will be relised later in 2016

Back in August Sony registered a new 24-70mm GM lens in Russia. I have no clue what “GM” stands for. But an anonymous source claims to knwo what it is:

Sony will release a new lens called SEL2470GMa cheaper version 24-70mm with smaller size, it will be sony’s future kit lens, possibly electronic zoom

By the way, he also added this:

also, the A9 body, which is higher than the A7rII does exist, but I’m not sure if sony want to release it or not

Still, this is a new source and rarely those kind of rumors become true. But I would certainly like to get a compact zoom for the A7 cameras. And you?

I got this from a source:

“There was a email send by Sony Taiwan to some of their employees. It said that A68 will not be introduced in Taiwan due to decreasing demands of mid-level DSLR from the market.”

So after Australia and New Zealand also Taiwan will likely no more sell any A-mount stuff.

I guess Soy’s startegy now is to sell their new A-mount cameras only in “DSLR-friendly” markets.

Two more sources confirmed the next Sony High End Camera is the Sony A99 successor. It is yet not 100% confirmed if it will be announced at CES or at CP+. I have no info and specs about the A99 successor. So it’s not clear if it’s a High Megapixel camera or an A-mount camera without pellicle mirror or whatever. I do hope to get some info about the camera before the announcement comes. Let’s hope Sony will add some exciting features on the camera!

Reminder: Sony will have a press event on January 5th at the CES in Las Vegas. The US market is still very DSLR-centric and it certainly makes sense to announce a new A-mount High End Camera on that event.

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The Vitenamese site Keh.vn shared the image samples shot on a new E-mount lens: The Zonlai 25mm f/1.8 APS-C E-mount lens. A full image gallery shot on the Sony camera can be seen on Flickr.

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Features:
Focal Length: 25mm
Aperture Range: F1.8-16
Focusing Range: 18cm-Infinite
Dimensions: Ф60mm X 33mm
Weight: 142g
Materials: Multi-coated Optical Glass / Metal body
Color: BLACK/SILVER

Found via Mirrorlessrumors.

It’s not an Alpha news but I know quite some SAR readers are a fan of action cameras. So I thought I will share you this one. A trusted source sent me the first picture of a new Sony Action Camera that will be announced on January 5th. The same source has yet not heard any specs of the camera.
I hope to get some pics of the possible new Sony A99 successor too…

We are talking about non Alpha stuff so let me add some more info: There will be new Xperia phones from Sony. But the future of photography may be this: Samsung interchangeable lens smartphones (on Mirrorlessrumors.com).