(SR5) This is the first image of the new Sony A5100!

Soon (on August 19) Sony will have the first of a long series of product announcements. And we will start with the new A5100 APS-C E-mount camera. These are the full specs and images on courtesy of Digicameinfo.

- 24,3 MP APS-C sensor

- Full HD, XAVC-S, AVCHD and MP4 video recording

- Max bit rate is 50MPs in XAVC-S

- Hybrid AF (same as A6000) with 179 AF points (25 of them are contrast AF points)

- 3 inch and 920.000 dot Touch LCD. 180 degree tiltable

- 1/4000-30 sec shutter. 1/60 syncro. Electronic front curtain shutter

- ISO 10–25,600

- Built.in Flash

- Wifi NFC

- APP support

- 6fps

- SD card

- The battery is the NP-FW50. 400 shoots autonomy

- The size is 109.6mm x 62.8mm x35.7mm

- 224 g Weight (body only)

LIke I told you before this is a A6000 camera without EVF and for less $$$. I think it’s a very advanced nice little camera!

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This week SAR readers photos selection.

Sergey Kuznetsov‎

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Sony A7 + Cosina Voightlander 12/5.6. — at Tsim Tsa Tsui, Hong Kong.

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Karem Apaza‎

Huancaya, LIma Peru.

A7r, 16-50

Kenneth Li‎

‘Bellezza’ taken with Sony A99 + 85za

Pedro Santos‎

A7r + FE35/2.8

Stéphane Tranquillin‎

“The birds” – Paris, France

© Stéphane Tranquillin

Sony A99 – Sigma 50mm f1.4 – 1/125s – F7,1 – ISO 250

曾昱民

I see you.

a900＋135za

Austin Towers‎

The Proposal. My Son proposing to his girlfriend where they first met. It’s a yes! Sony A77 with a Tamron 70-300 in disguise.

Dennis Biela‎

Flying high in his ultralight. This was taken during AirVenture in Oshkosh Wis. 2013. The camera was a modified Sony NEX-5n with Rokinon 8mm f2.8 lens set to take a photo every sec. I used a Bogen Superclamp with many nylon zip ties to ensure the camera would not move.

Yuri Afanasiev‎

The 17th day of the moon. Distance to the Moon = 359,420 km. Moscow. A99 70-400 mm + +1.4 Tele Converter. Moon recedes

Odile Ancrenas Photos‎SonyAlphaRumors

3 hrs

Still life – Sony A7

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2014年08月16日のつぶやきまとめを更新しました！

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News about others: Nikon in deep financial crisis. (And sells D610 with A7r sensor for $1399).

A couple of years ago nobody would have ever questioned the leadership of Canon and Nikon in the system camera market. But things are quickly changing and Nikon reported a huge loss and forceast drop at their latest financial report. Why should we care?

1) First question is if Nikon will try to compete against Sony’s A7 series or not by proposing a sort of mirrorless FM camera. I guess we will see soon at Photokina if Nikon will finally react.

2) In the meantime their latest D610 with Sony’s 36MP sensor sells for $1399 only on eBay (Click here). May be a sign that they are trying to force sales. And I bet we will see soon Full Frame cameras for just $1,000 too.

3) Will Nikon still try to rely on Sony sensors or try to break boundaries with something more revolutionary made from their own house or non-Sony partners?

My bet is that Sony will surpass Nikon in terms of system camera sales in two years from now…

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Curiosity news: Sony prepares sensor with 10x Sensitivity for the Auto market.

I guess most of you know how car maker (particularly German car makers) are focusing on image sensor technology to create save cars. And according to Nikkei Sony is ready to conquer the automotive image sensor market too. Aptina and OmniVision are the current leaders but Sony aims to eventually pick up 50% of the market.

The interesting news here is that Sony developed a new special sensor for automotive applications which is “10 times as sensitive to light as existing chips, allowing for easier detection of objects in dark environments. The sensor can provide a color display of the surrounding area even in moonlight, enabling it to detect obstacles more readily than a driver can.”

The sensor will be ready for late 2015.

via Image Sensor World.

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2014年08月15日のつぶやきまとめを更新しました！

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Roger Cicala tests the 40mm f/0.85 Ibelux and says it’s an “excellent lens”.

Image courtesy: Fujirumors

Well, I really didn’t expect this. Roger Cicala from Lensrentals tested that super expensive and crazy fast 40mm f/0.85 lens which is available in E-mount at BHphoto (Click here). And well, he actually said that lens is “excellent“:

Let’s face it, everyone. Right in the center, even at f/0.85, the Ibelux 40mm is as good as, or a bit better than, the Canon 50mm f/1.2. Stopped down to f/1.4 (there’s no f/1.2 click on the Ibelux) it’s clearly better in the center. Away from center, the Canon is clearly better. This is an amazing optical performance, though, and for an f/0.85 lens, simply amazing. In my expectations at the beginning of this article, I never expected this lens to do this well in the center. I didn’t even consider it a possibility.

So maybe now I know why they charge what they charge for it. This is a unique bit of glass. Okay, it’s not a “bit,” it’s a huge chunk of glass. My negative expectations have been completely discounted by a little objective testing. It’s built better than I expected. It’s optically better than I expected. It has far less variation than I expected. My hat is off to the designers at IB/E Optics and the manufacturers at Shanghai Transvision. Very nicely played, gentleman. Very nicely played, indeed.

I can’t tell you that it’s worth $2,000 to you, but I can certainly say it’s not overpriced for what it offers. This is an excellent lens.

The lens costs a bit over $2,000 in US at BHphoto and around 2000 Euro in Europe (here on eBay). Well, that’s the price you have to pay to get that extra bit of crazy aperture!

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