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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According to one source Sony will unveil a “new special entry camera” on August 27. It’s my guess that he is talking about the new DSLR shaped E-mount camera named “ILC-3000”. Am I right?

This camera will compete against the Canon REBEL series and this is also the first E-mount camera that will get rid of the “NEX” brand name.

I know it’s hard to get used to the new definition, the “ILC-3000“! It quite remembers me the “HAL 9000” computer from Stanley Kubrick’s movie “2001: A Space Odyssey“. I do hope the ILC-3000 E-mount camera will not be as unkind to human being as the crazy gone HAL 9000 :)

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As I told you many times before the future is the A-mount mirrorless system. But that said it seems that Sony will still announce one (or more?) last SLT camera(s). An anonymous source reported that an updated A65 with same camera house, same functions will be announced in late August. The good news is that the price will be reduced by 20%. Let’s see if other sources can confirm or deny this…

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The last weeks were extremely busy. As you have seen I posted many QX and NEX rumors. Now I wanted tow write a short note just to say that I am working on A-mount news too. Within the next 2-3 weeks I should be able to get more concrete (and hopefully SR5 rated) info about the upcoming products. In very short this is what I am working on:

1) A-mount lens roadmap: as I told you there are definitely a 70-200mm II and 400mm lens to come. But I heard about two more lenses…

2) Firmware update: There is a silence around it. probably because there are bigger rumors at the moment. But I will try to ask my sources to tell me something about it

3) SLT vs A-mount mirrorless: While it’s almost sure that A-mount mirrorless is the future I am still not 100% sure that there will be no other SLT camera.

So be patient, I am on it :)