You asked me to update you about the long awaited Sony Alpha firmware update. One of my trusted soruces confirmed once again that in will come in May.

That comes very unexpected!
According to informations we received the Sony NEX cameras will be sold with an optional optical viewfinder. We have no details yet, but we are certain the viewfinder is not electronic!!!

The Panasonic GF1 and the Olympus E-PL1/E-P2 do have electronic viewfinder.

Dear readers,
as you can imagine I am receiving many emails with “rumors”. And only few of them are probably correct. So don’t be angry with me if I don’t post a rumor you send me. I need to check everything I get before to publish it.

One thing I noticed is that it seems that many people do believe the real camera name won’t be Sony Alpha NEX but something else…like for example Sony Alpha GP. Have no idea why many of you do believe that.

UDPATE: Sony GP is “just a code name”

If you find something interesting on forums or somewhere else please send me an email at sonyalpharumors@gmail.com. Thanks!

The Sony mirrorless cameras are going to be announced on Tuesday May 11. The cameras will be in Stock earlier than we expected (late May)

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Based on the rumors we received we tought it would be nice to make a simple comparison table between the future Sony NEX cameras and the compact MicroFourThirds models.

Small update about the lenses: All Sony lenses are made of Chromium. As I told you yesterday the Sony lenses are a little bit bigger compared to Micro Four Thirds Lenses. But they are very well made, they have a very good image quality and they are cheap.

We already know two of the three lenses:
The 16mm f/2.8
The 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
One unconfirmed rumor says there will be also one more zoom, the 18-200mm lens.

One more thing: A trusted soruce told me that there is a very nice surprise (one more lens?). He won’t tell me more but I tought it would be nice if I share my frustration with you :)

UPDATE: The adapter allows the use of “classic” Alpha Lenses with AF!

According to our sources the Sony pancake is a 16mm f/2.8 lens. With a diameter of 49mm it has a bigger size compared to the Olympus 17mm f/2.8 Lens or Panasonic 20mm lens. The Lens comes in silver (not sure if it comes in black also) and compared to the Olympus or Panasonic MicroFourThirds lenses it has a superior build quality (chromium?).
According to the sources the image quality is very high and the price very low. In fact the NEX3camera + 16mm lens will be cheaper than the Olympus E-PL1 + kit lens.

Along with the pancake lenses two zooms will be launched. The 18-55mm and one more tele lens. Also this lenses do have the same high-build quality.