The a mount is going mirrorless according to SAR

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bfitzgerald
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Re: The a mount is going mirrorless according to SAR

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Maybe Sony thought demand would be so high for the A58 in Europe/USA that they shipped most of their inventory to those regions :mrgreen:
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Re: The a mount is going mirrorless according to SAR

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bfitzgerald wrote:Maybe Sony thought demand would be so high for the A58 in Europe/USA that they shipped most of their inventory to those regions :mrgreen:
Or maybe they thought better of inflicting a shoddy, substandard product on the home market.

BTW, the recent issue of AP gave the a58 a score of 79/100, one of the lowest scores I can recall for a Sony/KM product. In the same issue, the Canon 100D got a creditable 84/100, and that is a pretty strange camera, priced just below the 700D.
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Re: The a mount is going mirrorless according to SAR

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So SAR has pinned together some information on Sony's new FF A-mount strategy
http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/sr4-the- ... e-in-2014/
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I am now working on the new A-mount roadmap. And I got some reliable info about the new Full Frame strategy:

1) Two new A-mount Full Frame cameras coming in 2014
2) There is a third A-mount Full Frame camera planed but it may be released in early 2015.
3) All new Full Frame cameras will be mirrorless (this means DSLR shape, A-mount, but no SLT mirror).
4) Both cameras will use a new generation 30+ MP sensor (yes, I said new and not the same of the Nikon D800…it’s better!).
Would be interesting if that new sensor was a Foveon type job. I wonder how the AF would work in that set-up.
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