The Sony US site now shows the full Sony A68 presentation page. The camera is now listed at Adorama and BHphoto. But preorders will be accepted from March 1 only with shipment in April.
In Europe the camera can be already preordered through many sellers like Amazon Germany and soon Amazon UK too.
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Thanks Mike for sharing the Sony US link!
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Last week a Sony manager said: “E-mount won’t replace (and kill) it since there are things you can do with the longer flange distance in A mount that you can’t with E mount” (article here).
I tried to figure out what the possible A-mount flange advantages could be. What came to my mind is the following list:
Please let us know if you have some more points! Thanks!
Sony ILCA a9x Mirrorless Apha, Global Shutter, Z Shift User Concept:
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Reminder: Recently Bruno from Lesnumeriques told us about Sony’s A-mount strategy: “They focus on FF lenses for A-Mount and consider that their APS-C line up is enough for now.” (article here). This sorts of confirms A-mount could continue as a “premium” system.
As you know on January 5 Sony will have a livestreaming to announce new products. I am trying to figure out what’s coming but so far I only heard about new smartphones, camcorders and actioncameras.
Actioncameras are the most sold kind of cameras and therefore very important for Sony. We Alpha users probably couldn’t care less…But some of the new actioncamera tech may will find his way in Alpha or RX cameras too.
So far I have been told there will be two new actioncameras: AS50 and FDRX2000.
I got this from an anonymous source about the FDRX2000:
It will be the best action cam on the market. The improvements are mainly a better sensor with improved frame rates and low light capabilities
And those AS50 specs and image from a trusted source:
-Same as usually Zeiss lens
-XAVC-S 50mbps codec
-FullHd recording 60p
-New menu with icons (much easier and faster to navigiate)
-Waterproof up to 60m with included case
-Batery compartement is similar to the one in az1, but as50 works with same battery as as20
-Bluetooth (to power on camera with the remote)
-Electronic zoom
-There will be new remote rm-lvr3 but will not be sold with as50 and will be released later in 2016
To learn everything you need about the new Commlite Nikon F to Sony E-mount adapter check out their new page (Click here). The adpater is currently being updated and will [shoplink 43313 ebay]be sold on eBay[/shoplink] in mid January.
You can see the new version at work on a video posted on that facebook page.
One lens to rule them all :) The FE 24-240mm lens got an additional 10% reward at BHphoto (Click here). it means you get a $89 credit to spend on other BH products. Not a bad deal!
A-mount users (or E-mount with adapter) should also grab the superb 50mm ART lens at BHphoto (Click here). $100 off and 4% reward on it!
The BH up to 10% reward offer is running on both Sony cameras (Click here) and Sony-Zeiss lenses (Click here).
MAny deals including a new and limited double Sandisk SD card deal can be found on that BH deal page.
The new SLR Magic 50mm f/1.1 is now shipping at Adorama, BHphoto and on [shoplink 43532 ebay]eBay[/shoplink]. And as you know SLR Magic improved the performance of the lens right before the first shipment. Cinema5D published the only review of the new lens and tells us what has been improved:
One of the problems were the very soft left side corners of the lens when the aperture was wide open. (The right side looked sharper). As you can judge from the above photo (crops from the upper left hand corner of the image produced by the lenses), this is no longer the case. The optical performance of the SLR Magic Cine 50mm f/1.1 was significantly improved and now is matching the right hand side of the lens.
Well done SLR Magic!
UPDATE: Judd Weiss early thoughts on the new SLR Magic 50mm f1.1 E-mount can be read on his Facebook page!
So what can we hope to get in 2016 by Sony?
Here is the possible list of cameras:
A6000 successor (95% chance to get this for real)
High End Sony A9 camera (75% chance to get this for real)
A99 successor (75% chance to get this for real)
A5100 successor (60% chance to get this for real)
RX100IV successor (60% chance to get this for real)
Here is the possible list of lenses:
Wide angle Zeiss Batis (99% chance to get this for real)
FE telephoto zoom lens (95% chance to get this for real)
Loxia tele lens (80% chance to get this for real)
FE 24-70mm f/2.8 (80% chance to get this for real)
FE 85mm f/1.4 (80% chance to get this for real)
FE 50mm f/1.4 (60% chance to get this for real)
Of course there will be also some stuff we have no clue about yet. Let’s hope Sony will surprise us all!
And now the poll:
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