Sony A7II announced!
Sony Japan announced the A7II! And it will cost around $1,500 and ship on December 5 already!
It has an amazing fast hybrid AF and the Olympus “Borrowed” 5 axis stabilization!
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!
Adobe adds RAW support for all new mirrorless cameras.
If you own one of the new cameras like the NX1, E-PL7, LX100, Leicas and so on than you should download the latest Adobe update which adds full RAW support to all those cameras:
Download Lightroom 5.7 for Windows (Click here) and Mac (Click here).
Download DNG converter 8.7 for Windows (Click here) and Mac (Click here).
First time shipping in US: Graphite X-T1 and 16-35mm Zeiss. Gold Box on PNY SD cards.
For the first time these two new “Photokina” high end products are shipping in USA:
Graphite Fuji X-T1 at BHphoto (Click here).
Zeiss 16-35mm FE at BHphoto (Click here).
And today’s Gold Box deal of the day is the up to %50 off on PNY SD cards at Amazon US (Click here).
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.