Atgets_Apprentice wrote:I think that todays' announcements from Sony prove two things:
1: The Alpha 7 & 7R do mean the A mount is all but finished. No matter what Sony say.
Atgets_Apprentice wrote:2: The RX10 shows that Sony have really lost the plot. £1,000 for a bridge camera?
pakodominguez wrote:Atgets_Apprentice wrote:I think that todays' announcements from Sony prove two things:
1: The Alpha 7 & 7R do mean the A mount is all but finished. No matter what Sony say.
I don't think so. But I don't think that even top managers at Sony can give you an straight answer of what's the future for the A-mount...Atgets_Apprentice wrote:2: The RX10 shows that Sony have really lost the plot. £1,000 for a bridge camera?
The Cyber-shot DSC-R1 with a 24-120 Zeiss lens was 999$ at introduction.
The DSC-F828 with a 28-200 Zeiss lens was also 999$ at introduction.
DPR not only "recommended" both cameras, but scored 9 and 8 on "Value for money".
And, before real life test, some people are quite exited about the technology behind this camera:
http://www.eoshd.com/content/11337/surp ... deo-output
Atgets_Apprentice wrote:As for the RX10, in this day and age, for £1,000, you'd expect a bigger sensor.
bfitzgerald wrote:Very limited market for this kind of product that's my view.
Pako you seem to be on some kind of crusade to prove how much cheaper cameras and lenses are nowadays.
I for one am not buying it.
With regards to cameras being electronics goods they have not shown the huge price decreases of other consumer electronics items such as computers (massive price drop in the last decade simply HUGE) hi-fi stuff again big price drops over a period of time, pick just about any electronic product and it's way cheaper today than it was 10-15 years ago.
When it's all said and done we're not stupid, if Sony can kick and APS-C sensor out the door in a camera for £300, there is little reason to pay £600 for a 1" one...
A constant maximum aperture of f/2.8 ... Optical SteadyShot image stabilization... The lens also features 7 aspherical elements... and Carl Zeiss T* anti-reflective coating.
http://sonyalphalab.com/2013/10/sony-fu ... -anounced/
bfitzgerald wrote:One reason the camera industry is now in a big decline is they've milked it for all it's worth, and the market has finally decided that the prices just are not good enough. So expect a long term decline in camera and lens sales over the next 5 + years. The party "is over"
bakubo wrote:I just skimmed over this article by Hogan about all the new stuff that has come out in the past week from just about all the companies.
pakodominguez wrote:http://www.eoshd.com/content/11380/new-sony-a7-a7r-rx10-exclusive-hands-look-video-quality
I had the chance to play with the RX10 this morning at the PPE2013 show. The camera is as big as an A3x. Menus are the same as the others RX/A7(R) cameras. And, as the above article mention, the only minus is the zoom-by-wire: a little slow...
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