I am getting conflicting rumors about the new A6500 successor. Here is the story:

Source 1 (first time asian source):

Told me the A6500 successor will be announced on July 17 and be a sports oriented camera. It would be announced along two new APS-C lenses (I had ranked this SR3 which means only 50% reliable. Article here)

Source 2 (usually reliable source):

This usually reliable source heard nothing about a possible A6500 successor announcement on July 17. So he for now thinks it might NOT be announced on July 17. All he heard is that Sony would announce a new RX camera and another secret model which he thinks is not APS-C. He has a very good track on rumors so I had this rumor posted as SR5 – 90% reliable (article here).

Source 3 (usually reliable source):

Today a third reliable sources told me this:

“July 17 Sony A6500 successor announcement. FZ100 battery, slightly larger body, A6500 appearance.”

UPDATE: Source 4 (usually reliable source):

The announcement on the 17th is the successor to the α6500. The camera shape is the α6000 series, not the center EVF.

As you see Source 2/4 and Source 3 (all with good track record) have somehow conflicting info. Let’s see who will be right on July 17 :)

SAR summary:

I will keep the A6500 successor rumor at SR3 for now (50% chance this is true) until I can solve the riddle. But one thing is sure…we will get new cameras on July 17!

As I have told you before Sony will have a major product announcement day on July 17. And while we are not sure what they will announce we know that Sony has registered a total of FOUR new camera models!

Today they registered the fourth new model with the code “WW642826”. It usually takes between 1 day up to 2 months between a camera registration and the official announcement. So while it’s unlikely that all those four models will be announced on July 17 for sure we will all get them til September. Here is the full list via Nokishita:

There are some unexpected news we learn from this list:

1) I have to say I don’t recall ever having seen so many registered (and yet not announced) new models. For sure something BIG must be behind this…
2) Pure speculation: Sony patented a Drone (see here). There might be something like that too?

Stay tuned on SAR to follow the Sony announcement live on July 17 at 3pm London time!

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