Category: Sony NEX

  • Sony NEX lenses for 2011-2012

    Sony NEX lenses for 2011-2012

    Today, we know more about what Sony is preparing for the coming year in terms of supporting lenses for the ever-expanding NEX family of hybrid cameras. We can expect the following 6 lenses from Sony and Zeiss: Sony 30mm macro lens Sony 50mm f/1.8 Zeiss 24mm f/1.7 Sony 55-200mm f/4-5.6 zoom Sony medium telephoto lens…

  • Is the Sony NEX-5 as good as a Leica M9?

    This is the interesting question asked by Steve Huff on his blog. As a matter of fact, he took a Leica Noctilux ASPH f/0.95 lens on both the Leica M9, and the Sony NEX-5 (with an adapter). Surprisingly for some, the Sony small inexpensive NEX-5 is giving pretty much the same results in quality even…

  • New NEX coming: Sony NEX-C3

    According to a leak published in a DPreview forum, Sony is about to launch a new photo camera in the NEX series (hybrid cameras distinguished by the combination of a small exterior size, interchangeable lenses and a large APS-C digital sensor). The NEX-C3, as it will be known, will have a 16 MP digital sensor…

  • Discontinued Sony cameras

    Discontinued Sony cameras

    Messages from all over the world are announcing that Sony is currently discontinuing a number of SLR cameras: Sony Alpha 580 (from Singapore and other) Sony Alpha SLT 33 The most common interpretation of such news is that Sony is preparing a large number of official launches in the coming weeks. Most probably they will…

  • Sony NEX7?

    According to SonyAlphaRumors, there should soon be a Sony NEX-7. But they can’t give any indication of the specs.

  • Sony NEX lens roadmap (E-mount)

    Sony NEX lens roadmap (E-mount)

    Quite interesting: Sony Japan published a roadmap of the future lenses for the NEX line-up. Even in Japanese, it is quite easy to discover what is being prepared for the next two years:

  • Sony opens the NEX lens specification

    Sony opens the NEX lens specification

    Sony has announced officially and publicly that they are going to completely share the specifications for NEX series lenses. It will become possible for third-party lens manufacturers to create optical products for the Sony NEX hybrid mirror-less photo cameras. Here is very good news for the Sony customers. But it’s even better when we read…

  • Sony NEX in 2011

    I heard indirectly that a new NEX camera will be presented by Sony. As always, it will be an ultra-compact photo camera but with an APS-C digital photo sensor installed in it. Apparently, it would hold a 16.7 MP sensor (already seen in the Sony Alpha SLT-A55). I think that it could be named NEX-4.…

  • News for the Sony A77

    The interview that Mark Weir, Senior Manager of Technology and Marketing at Sony Electronics, gave to Imaging Resource is choke full of relatively precise informations about what will be the Alpha 77 (forecasted successor to the Sony Alpha 700, as high-end for the APS-C sensor SLR photo cameras for Sony). You may read it all,…