Top line from left ro right: 50mm f/1.8 Black (new lens color), E PZ18-200, E16-70ZA (new lens!), E18-200LE, E PZ18-105G (new lens!), E18-200 (first edition), E55-210, E50.
Bottom line from left to right: E20, E PZ16-50, E35, E10-18, E24ZA, E30, E18-55, E16.

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Next week Sony will announce the new NEX cameras and lenses. And on the picture on top you can see the new NEX-5T, the new Zeiss 16-70mm F/4.0 OSS lens and the PZ 18-105mm F4G OSS. What you don’t see is the new ILC-3000 camera which will be announced too.The picture also shows a new Black colored version of the current 50mm f/1.8 lens.

Here is the full product announcement list:

• Zeiss Vario-Tessar T * E 16-70mm F4 ZA OSS
  – Filter diameter of 55mm
• E PZ 18-105mm F4G OSS
  – Filter diameter of 72mm
• NEX-5T
  – Look almost the same as the NEX-5R (It has NFC, FN-button control like on SLT cameras, new Menu Interface and a couple of more things.)
  – Same NEX-5R sensor
• α3000 (ILC-3000 in EU and US).
  – Looks like a classic Sony SLT camera (but is E-mount has no SLT tech).
  – Has a new  20.1MP APS-C sensor
  – built-in EVF (230K)
  – cost around 300 pounds. Target-group is beginners.
  – it will be also available with the 18-55mm as kit lens.
• 50mm f/1.8 new Black colored version

These products will be announced next week (Still not sure about the date but it could be August 27). On September 4 Sony will announce the Cyber-shot QX10 and the Cyber-shot QX100 (lens-cameras) and the Z1 Honami. Major NEX-FF news and maybe some A-mount news will come in late September.

Source of the image: Xitek (Thanks Zhiyi, Andrei and an anonymous source for sharing the link!).
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A nice source ;) sent me more useful info about the new NEX sensors:

NEX-5T
The NEX-5T is using the same IMX080AQM-13 CMOS sensor as the 5R. But it has been slightly “improved”.

ILC-3000
The ILC-3000 is using a new 20MP sensor-IMX156AQL-13 and it’s new.

Stay tuned on SAR! These new stuff will be announced next week (likely on August 27).

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A trusted source (Thanks!) told me that the A3000 body  cost around 300 pounds. it will be also available with the 18-55mm as kit lens. The EVF is 200K only(!). That is not much but the target-group is beginners.

Will take the chance to ask the source if he heard something about the NEX-FF cameras. Thanks!

UPDATE: Another source said Have read the ILC-3000 has the lowest resolution screen in the E-Mount lineup at 230k and no fast PDAF, only contrast AF system. Battery is the NP-FW50 used by the NEX series and SLT-A33/35/37.

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Digicaminfo confirms the lens and cameras we wrote about the past weeks. Here are some more info about the next week NEX announcement:

And finally we got the list fo products that will be announced soon by Sony. Here it is:

– NEX-5T (same camera as the NEX-5r but with some minor new features)
– Α3000  (this is the name in Japan. In US and Europe it will be ILC-3000)
– Cyber-shot QX10 (the lens-camera)
– Cyber-shot QX100 (the lens-camera)
– E 16-70mm F4 (Zeiss lens for around $1,000)
– E PZ 18-105mm F4G OSS

The new stuff will be announced next week (we don’t know yet if on August 27 or 29 or on both days for different products). The QX cameras may be announced along the Honami Z1 on September 4. Major NEX-FF (and A-mount?) stuff could be announced in late September. More about that soon on SAR!

Thanks Digicaminfo for your help and stuff list!

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Since Sony acquired the Minolta A system there were many dreaming a sort of comeback of some great Minolta lenses for the A (and now also E) mount system. But it sounds like Konica-Minolta doesn’t feel addicted to Sony at all. Recent patents spotted by Egami prove that they will indeed restart to make lenses but they will be made for the Micro Four Thirds system only!

I still hope Konica-Minolta will design some lenses for the E-mount system too. Why not make a [shoplink 20428 ebay]50mm f/1.2 MD Rokkor-X (here one eBay)[/shoplink] as E-mount lens? :)

Last year Zeiss announced a new series of High End Zeiss lenses capable of resolving all the resolution needed for 30+ Megapixel sensors (like the Nikon D800). The first lens they will launch is the Distagon 55mm f/1.4 for Nikon mount (release in late 2013). More info about that lens can be read at Zeiss Blog.

Now according to one source Zeiss will expand their lens offer in 2014. And there will be A-mount versions too! This will happen because Sony will launch 30+ Megapixel cameras soon. Both APS-C and FF cameras are planned to come with either the new 32 or the new 36 Megapixel sensor (not the same from the Nikon D800!).

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