2015年2月19日木曜日

Sony publishes the Mid-Term Strategy plan. Focus on High End Mirrorless!

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The Mirrorless strategy slide posted back in late 2014.


Sony released their Mid-Term Corporate Strategy for FY2015 – FY2017 (Full press text here: http://ift.tt/1G73K6s). Here are some of the key info:


1) Overall it looks very good for Sony. They target for consolidated operating profit of more than 500 billion yen for the Sony Group in FY201.


2) Focus on High Value mirrorless cameras. The actual words used by Sony are: “While Sony does not anticipate overall market growth in these areas, the Company will target certain areas within each market that are unlikely to experience commoditization by continuing to offer new, high value-added products such as its advanced mirrorless single-lens reflex cameras and high-resolution audio products.


3) Customer attention: “Sony will seek to reinforce its deployment of “recurring-revenue business models…also for interchangeable lenses and accessories within the Digital Imaging business.” Recurring revenue models provide a way to reach out to customers more frequently and build a more loyal customer base.


There is no other info in their report about particular products. But it’s also important to underline that their Imaging Sensor sales are booming and Sony plans to invest more resources in research and production. We should all benefit from that strategy too because it means Sony will lead the digital system camera sensor market too.



Thanks Dicahub for sharing the news.


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Adobe Lightroom 6 gets leaked. Will ship on March 6.

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Lightroom 6 will ship on March 6. The French store fnac.com leaked all info about the new LR6:



  • Windows Compatibility: Windows 7, 8, 8.1

  • Mac OS Compatibility: Mac OS X v10.8, v10.9 or v10.10

  • Designed for both amateur photographers and professionals

  • Merge to HDR

  • Fusion panoramas

  • Performance gains

  • Facial recognition

  • Sophisticated video slideshows

  • Optimized web galleries

  • Filter brush


found via CanonWatch.com.


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月刊「大人のソニー」2月号 4K編リリース http://bit.ly/1EfFEoW 『GHOST IN THE SHELL / 攻殻機動隊』、『イノセンス...

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2015年02月18日のつぶやきまとめを更新しました!

Rokinon 50mm f/1.4 now in Stock!

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Bildschirmfoto 2015-02-18 um 08.05.07


The cheap and still high quality Rokinon 50mm f/1.4 A-mount lens is in Stock at BHphoto (Click here). And shipping soon is also the E-mount version at BHphoto (Click here).


Deals listed at Amazon US:

1) Save Big on Select Sony RX Series Cameras with a Qualifying Trade-in (Click here).

2) Free Premium Jacket Case with the RX100m3 (Click here).

3) Free case with the A7,A7s,A7r cameras (Click here).

4) Up to $200 off on A5000/A5100/A6000 double lens kits (Click here).


Sony US deal reminder:

Sony A7r cameras for $1,669 on eBay (Click here).

Save $200 on the grey imported but with full 3 year US warranty coming 55mm FE lens sold at GetDigital on eBay US (Click here)

Open Box Sony A7 for $1,150 at Samys eBay (Click here).


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2015年2月18日水曜日

Sony says they will update many A-mount lenses. And they know internal 4K recording is highly requested.

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The Japanese site Mapcamera interviewed Sony. The interview is in Japanese but our SAR readers Kuonji and Chaika translated some of the key info for us (Thanks!):


1) Currently, Sony has no plan to implement 4K internal recording on the A7s. However they recognize there is a huge request to get this feature in future cameras.

2) Sony is planning for making a new mark II A-mount lenses to replace old popular lenses i.e. 70-300, 24-70, 16-35. More to come in the future

3) Sony is still quite young in terms of mirrorless market, they think of themselves as a challenger, but because they are a challenger, they believe they can do a lot of innovative stuff.


Sony also said they cannot share any details about when the new FE lenses will be released.


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