Canon’s weakest spot compared to Sony is the fact that they have “closed” their mount not allowing third party manufacturers to easily make lenses with full electronic support. Sony correctly has done the exact opposite and it’s also one of the main reasons why the E-mount success has been a full success.

If the rumor is correct Canon will change course and the official announcement will happen by end of 2023.

In my opinion the L-mount alliance is the perfect example of how you should do it: Open the mount for both camera and lens manufacturers.

I do believe Sony should be open to the idea to allow third party manufacturers to make E-mount cameras too. Full Frame OM Digital cameras with their nice Olympus bodies could be an option. And so some of the Chinese manufacturers…

Fujirumors reports that Sigma will also announce the 10-18mm f/2.8 DC DN on October 5th. Every DC DN lens is available for E-mount so I am sure this will be coming for E-mount too. This means we can expect two new lenses next week:

• Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 E and L-mount lens
• Sigma 10-18mm f/2.8 DC DN  X, E, L-mount

On October 5 at 9am London time Sigma will announce a new product. And I was the first to tell you ahead of time that we are likely getting a new 70-200mm f/2.8 lens for both Sony E and Leica L-mount ;) Below you can find the Japanese YouTube teaser:

Stay tuned on SAR…as soon as I can I will share more info about this lens!

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In the meantime I am relaxing by doing this kind of (a bit crazy) tours:

Below you can find the specs which are close to final. Sony is still discussing the memory size in the integrated grip with newly developed body and also can fine tune some performance spec. Has been always the case.

Sony A9 III specs

– 36Mpix Global shutter sensor with 16 bit image pipeline and 15.5+ Dynamic range (Sony resolved the issue in last 18 months with dynamic range finally)
– Improved RAW noise performance by real 1EV step with new groundbreaking chip design
– 40 fps uncompressed/lossless RAW, 40 fps compressed RAW, 50 fps with APSC crop due to Dual BionzXR+ processor, sRAW option finally developed and should be scaled down to A1 soon
– ISO from 100 to 409.600 (option to go with ISO 25 as well)
– Hybrid AF with 1440 AF points, phase sensor covering 98%
– Newly developed IBIS with 7 stop compensation when combined with specific lenses (no corner wobling like Canon, improvements made due to bigger body)
– 9.44 mp oled viewfinder with refreshrate up to 240 hz
– Improved battery life of 2000 images (Cipa) with new battery type NP-FZ200 (testers has been doing easily 3500-6000 images)
– Weather sealing for extreme conditions

ISO25 and so forth…this is NOT going to happen on the A9III :)

So folks, I am officially back from my holiday and ready to start a new rumor season. The first thing I want to walk you through are the thirteen new E-mount lenses coming this autumn via third party manufacturers. But I am sure there will be more down the road in October/November. And hopefully Sony will finally release the 300mm GM and 85mm GM :)

These are the lens specs:

• AF 20mm F2.8
• Full Frame
• Shortest shooting distance: 0.19m
• Filter diameter: 52mm
• AF: STM
• Weight: Less than 200g
• Sony E・Fuji X・Nikon Z
• Officially announced for Sony E in early October

via Weibo