NEX-FS700 Camcorder 4K Update from Sony Professional USA on Vimeo.
That is likely the only bigger A or E-mount related news of the NAB show: The Sony NEX_FS700 E-mount camcorder can shoot 4K with the new external HXRIFR5 unit. Anyway, don’t worry, regular A and E mount rumors are coming soon on SAR and Hasslebald and Zeiss should announce their E-mount stuff soon too!
Tamron will ship the new SP 24-70mm f/2.8 A-mount lens from April 18th in Japan and subsequently elsewhere.
Source: Tamron (Thanks Mistral for finding the news).
According to Amazon (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here) the new SLT-A58 will ship from April 21.
UPDATE:
The Black 20mm pancake lens for NEX is now in Stock at BHphoto (Click here).
The new Sigma E-mount primes are also now in Stock at BHphoto (Click here).
The video on tops shows you the new 4K Sony prototype. While there are no official specs the camera is “rumored” to have an FZ mount (like the F5 and F55 Cinealta cameras) an 8 Megapixel sensor and definitely no SLT or optical mirror. This is a pure mirrorless camera with Electronic Viewfinder. It’s going to be release sometimes in 2014 and it will compete against the Canon EOS-1D C .
I am not a big fan of videocameras with DSLR shape. Doesn’t really make a lot of sense. I think Blackmagic did a smarter move with the Pocket Cinema Camera ($955 at BHphoto). A compact video only mirrorless camera with CineRAW DNG recording and 220MBs Pro RES. Sony should so a camera like that in E-mount!
Egami spotted the next patent showing a Full Frame lens for the mirrorless NEX or the fixed lens RX system. It is a 35mm f/1.8 lens that has one big characteristic…it has been designed to be ultra compact! A perfect street photography lens! I want that :)
And there is one more particular thing to see on that patent: The lens has been designed for a curved sensor! The main advantage is that the sharpness through the full frame is increased.
via PR.
While we are all waiting to see what’s coming next from the RX series (the RX10?) we can now grab the RX100 with a $35 discount (and free shipping) via third party resellers directly at Amazon US (Click here).
And two brand new NEX-6 with kit lens are for sale with a $50 discount at [shoplink 17797 ebay]CameraLand (Click here)[/shoplink].
The friends over at Engadget (Click here) posted some nice new pictures of the Sony prototype camera and lenses. As you see from the image on top Sony displayed what looks to be a Full Frame DSLR shaped camera. I am not sure this has SLT technology..it may be that this is a pure mirrorless camera with DSLR shape. The camera could be a 4K competitor of the Canon EOS-1D C (here at BHphoto). Engadget reports that “Unfortunately, Sony says that these devices won’t make it to market for quite some time, so photogs will have to make do with this eye candy for now.”
So this is not a pure A-mount photographers camera but more of a FZ or PL mount 4K camcorder.
