Reuters reports that Sony sold 50% of their Olympus stake. Now Sony owns 5% only of the Olympus company. The 46.8 billion yen ($390.4 million) capital gain will be used for investments in the sensor and video games business. Sony also said it will maintain its partnership with Olympus despite the lower stake.
New Sony Livra. A FF camera for 300 Euro at Lepidi.
Sony PXW-DCI at CameraDoe.
Some kind of joke I didnt get from Sony Japan.
If you find more of them let me know!
For the very first time the new Zeiss Distagon lens is in Stock at Amazon US (Click here).
Zeiss can be bought here:
in USA at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
in Europe at Sony Germany, Sony UK, Sony FR, Sony IT, Sony ES, Sony NL, Sony BE, Sony AT, Sony CH, Sony SE, Sony FI, Sony NO, Sony PT.
in Asia/Australia at Digitalrev, Sony Australia.
I got one more confirmation from another trusted source that Sony will indeed launch new products on April 23. He also added that there will no E-mount camera or lens announcement on that day. These leaves us with two options:
1) Sony will launch new RX cameras. Very likely the RX2 with curved sensor and 35mm f/1.8 Zeiss. Or a new RX10 successor (The grat Panasonic FZ1000 does 4K and costs less). Don’t think there will be a RX100m4 already…
2) Sony will launch a new A-mount camera. The A77II is only one year old so I guess we can either hope for a new A99II or a new A58II. Certainly a new A99II would be a strong signal that A-mount is alive!
Just for fun let me know…
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Reminder: E-mount stuff (a7rII and so) is likely going ot be announced in May!
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Oriental Hobbies announced that smart cap for the 16-50mm E-mount lens. It opens automatically when you “Open” the lens. The bad news is that you can buy it in Japan only.
P.S.: A curios coincidence: The Olympus OM lens caps fit E mount (SonyAlphaForum).
