Trusted sources told us Sony will very soon announce a new Tough SD card series. They will have the same speed of the current world’s fastest SF-G series which you can find here on Amazon US, AmazonDE, AmazonUK, AmazonFR, AmazonIT, AmazonES. But the new TOUGH card is impermeable and has 18x the durability (don’t know what it exactly means).
Now let’s hope this is a sign that Sony will announce a super weatherproof camera soon.
The image on top shows the new Nikon Z7 with the Sony A7rIII (courtesy of Dpreview). And if you thought Sony gear was overpriced check out the prices of the Nikon cameras and lenses:
All that hype for that new Nikon clickbait 58mm f/0,95 lens and than we get this:
– Huge lens – Manual focus…only!
– rumored to cost around $6,000 (via Nikoneye.com).
Don’t get me wrong: I am sure optically this lens will be superb. But will you pay $6,000 (or more???) for that? I love manual focus but how can I focus this lens while trying to keep it in balance? I prefer the much more compact [shoplink 55088 ebay]Leica Noctilux[/shoplink] (granted it’s expensive) or this much cheaper [shoplink 55085 ebay]Canon 50mm f/0,95 lens[/shoplink]:
This is the next Zeiss teaser image. Like I told you before this is what to expect:
– Announcement before Photokina – This is a fixed lens Full Frame camera – It uses Sony tech (probably RX1II based). – Price around $3,000 – Priobably has a prime lens (35mm f/2.0?) – Slightly bigger lens construction than you get on the Sony RX1 series. – lens is autofocus
It says a lot about this company that they basically match the Sony camera performance without adding any ulterior new features. The goal was clearly to keep their own Nikon DSLR base to not buy Sony. And I think they will achieve this. But it’s disappointing to see that the goal was NOT to innovate. The Z7-Z6 really look like a Sony camera with Nikon design. Some might be happy with that (and I appreciate good ergonomic). But it also confirms that in future innovation will come as usual from Sony with Nikon improving their cameras 1-2 year after Sony.
What’s good on the new Nikon Z:
– Well rounded products (ergonomic and usability)
– True weathersealing
– Has Intervalometer
– 4k 2:2:2 (external)
– the 0,95 autofocus lens (but it’s manual focus only!).
– Nice 50mm f/1.2 autofocus lens coming in 2020
What’s not so good on the new Nikon Z:
– Z7 costs $400 more than the Sony A7rIII
– By end of 2020 Nikon will have 15 Z lenses. Sony currently has 29 lenses in the range (I am not counting in the Zeiss-Tamron-Sigma-Samyang lenses).
– No Eye AF
– Nikon Z6 (310 shots) has nearly half the battery life of the A7III
– Sony A7III and A7rIII have dual card slots (Nikon has 1 XQD slot).
– 18/23 shot buffer (at 12 bit compressed RAW)
– Only 5.5 FPS with auto exposure
– they made a huge mount to accomodate larger, expensive and manual focus only f/0,95 lens.
– Only fast autofocus prime is coming in 2020 (50mm f/1.2). And no fast portrait lens on roadmap yet.
