The full Sony FE body attack: Sony A7II coming in these days. A9 coming in January!

Well, Sony is really crazy busy at releasing new bodies. According to Digicameinfo they will announce the Sony A7II soon (within days) and the A9 in January (according to SonyAlphaRumors).

And these are the A7II specs:
– 24.3 million pixels FF sensor
– 5-axis in body stabilization (same as the Olympus E-M1)
– LCD monitor 3.0-inch 1.23 million dot. 107 degrees up, and tilt 41 degrees below
– EVF 0.5-inch 2.36 million dot
– ISO100-25600 (extended with ISO50). Video ISO200-25600
– The shutter speed is 30 seconds -1/8000 seconds
– 270 sheets at the number of possible shots EVF use. LCD monitor when using 350 sheets
– Continuous shooting 2.5 frames / sec. When speed priority continuous shooting 5 frames / sec.
– Video XAVC S, AVCHD, MP4
– The battery is NP-FW50
– The size of 126.9mm x 95.7mm x 59.7mm
– Weight 599g (including battery and memory)
– Vertical position grip VG-C2EM (sold separately)
– Media Memory Stick PRO Duo / PRO-HG Duo / XC-HG Duo, SD / SDHC / SDXC (UHS-I compatible)

The A7II is basically a Full Frame OMD :)

 

High End Sony A9 to be announced in February.

A rendering of an imaginary Sony A9r posted at SonyAlphaForum.

The Sony A9 will be announced in February and be the first real Full Frame DSLR competitor. The mirrorless E-mount A9 will have all the things needed to be “PRO”:

– Worlds fastest autofocus in normal light conditions
– Close to 50MP FF sensor
– weather sealed body

The last bastion of DSLR market is now getting competition form the mirrorless world!

January and February announcements coming from Sony, Olympus, Fuji, Samsung and Panasonic!

As far as I know there will be certainly new product announcements from those companies right before the CP+ show start in Mid February:

Sony: New PRO E-mount FF (100% sure it’s coming), maybe a new APS-C E.mount (50%). And certainly the lenses that have been already presented at Photokina.

Olympus: New E-M6 (100%). Maybe also the 7-14mm PRO lens.

Panasonic: No news on cameras but the 30mm f/2.8 macro is coming.

Samsung: NX400 with NX1 sensor (100%)

Fuji: Not sure yet what’s coming but we have been told “something” is coming for sure.

I have no news about mirrorless stuff from Nikon Canon Sigma and Ricoh-Pentax.

 

 

Samsung to drop NX1 prices in January (preorders lower than expected).

SamsungCameraRumors (Click here) got their hands on some interesting NX1 sales details:

– Worldwide Sales (or preorders) of the NX1 are lower than expected
– Sales are high in some countries like Korea and Germany

More important there will be a price drop on the NX1 in January.

Some more NX1 info:
Full Lab test at Cameras.Reviewed.
Readers test at Dpreview forum.
NX1 autofocus imrpession at SCR.
Image samples by ePhotozine.