(SR4) Sony A77 to be announced in January 2011

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All our most important sources confirmed that there will be no A77 announcement at Photokina. Maybe Sony will show a A77 prototype but they will definitely NOT launch the camera now. Anyway you don’t have to wait years to get the new semi-professional camera. The A77 is scheduled to be announced in January/February 2011. The sources told me that Sony needs that time to analyze the impact of the new translucent technology on the market. They are currently reviewing the press and pros reaction. They will certainly fix some of the A55/A33 limits. As you have seen with the MLU petition Sony is listening you.

The [shoplink 3228]Sony A700[/shoplink] successor will be a translucent model. The current prototype name is A77 (we don’t know if that will be the final name of the camera). The sensor is also new (the prototype has a 18Megapixels sensor).

One of my sources told me that Sony also has a A7xx with optical viewfinder. He doesn’t know if that model will be released.

Let Sony know what you want! Feel free to suggest me some more poll options. I will add them quickly!

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Sony TidBits (and new A55v review at Imaging Resource)

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[youtube width=”560″ height=”340″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdMvJBUlEW4[/youtube]

Sony Alpha SLT-A55V review at Imaging Insider!

[shoplink 3058]Sony NEX-VG10[/shoplink] at SonyInsider

Sony Alpha A390 review at Techradar

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX7 Review at InfoSync

[shoplink 3003]Sony NEX-5[/shoplink] The ideal Note Pad ? Seen by an AkihabaraNews Fan, 100% subjective and fully assumes it.

Sony Alpha NEX-5 High ISO JPEG Noise preview (Cameralabs)

NEX fisheye lens image samples on PConline

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The a560/580 has Mirror Lockup!

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After adding the DOF preview Sony also added Mirror Lockup! This has been one of the most requested “features” by Sonyfolk! As you might remember we had a Sony MLU petition (SonyAlphaRumors supported the petition). I guess your pressure did the job and Sony did the great job listening to you!

Source: http://forums.dpreview.com

Official Sony A560/A590 product specifications are available at Sony.net (click here to download the .pdf). Also the A33/A55 manual is available for download

Something else: See the Sony A55v “naked” at CNET Asia ;)

P.S.: Sounds like Kagoo has some A580 cameras in Store

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NEX & Voigländer love: The 35mm and 40mm f/1.4 lenses

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As you know we started a new SonyAlphaRumors section. Many manufactors are building more and more adapters for E-mount cameras. And we want to see how those third-party lenses do work on our NEX cameras! I would be happy if you send me your images taken with third party lenses and also some nice cameraporn pictures :)

Today we show you the Voigländer 35mm and 40mm f/1.4 lenses. They are both M-mount lenses so you need to use [shoplink 3491]the Leica M-mount to E-mount adapter (just click here to check out the whole list of available adapters on eBay)[/shoplink]

[shoplink 3717]The Voigtländer 35mm f/1.4 lens[/shoplink]
Let’s start with the cameraporn: An image of the Sony NEX-5 + 35mm lens is available here at Flickr and here again at Flickr. As you can see it’s a pretty compact and nice combination!
Image samples are available at Flickr.
To buy the lens and for price informations just [shoplink 3717]check out for current eBay auctions (click here)[/shoplink].

[shoplink 3718]The Voigtländer 35mm f/1.4 lens[/shoplink]
We found some nice images on Clubsnap. Pictures were taken handheld, edited but without noise reduction done. All taken at f/2-2.8 aperture. There is also one image on Flickr
To buy the 40mm lens and for price informations just [shoplink 3718]check out for current eBay auctions (click here)[/shoplink].

Do you have some more image samples or camerporn pics to share? Comment this post or send us an email!

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UPDATE: Sony UK says the “Sony A850 is a previous model” !

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Sony UK do mark the [shoplink 3028]Sony A850[/shoplink] as a “PREVIOUS MODEL”. I checked oder sonystyle stores and couldn’t find similar results. Don’t know if that is just a BIG mistake. We from SonyAlphaRumors didn’t get any rumor about a Photokina FF introduction. But we really don’t know everything from Sony!

UPDATE: J. from UK phoned Sony: “They told me that both models are discontinued (previous model). They have NO A850s in their warehouse and 2 A900s left in the UK. So does this mean that Sony really are withdrawing from the FF frame market or does it mean that they are going to reveal something unexpected between now and Photokina?”

P.S.: All important stores do have the A850 in Stock. I found a new Sony Alpha 850 $55 price drop on Amazon :)

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Sony A55/A33/A560/A580 news roundup (+ preorder news)

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There have been so many news that I thought I should make a “resumee” of all recent news about the new Sony cameras

1) A full list of press releases, reviews and image samples are available here “New Sony cameras announced!” and here “more reviews”

2) Videos taken with the new cameras are available here “First video taken with the Sony A55!!! + more videos!” here “More new Translucent videos!” and here “Hear the Sony A55 shutter sound!”


PREORDERS:

BHphoto has the Sony Zeiss 24mm f/2.0 (click here!), the Sony DT 35mm f/1.8 SAM Lens (click here), the Sony 85mm f/2.8 SAM Mid-range Telephoto Lens (click here!), the Sony A55 on BHphoto, Sony A33 on BHphoto and the Sony A560 on BHphoto

As you know every Country has a different Sonystyle shop. I can’t link to every product from every country. Just search for Sonystyle on google and you should find the right store address for you (click here).

For UK: Jessops has the cameras available for preorder

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