Next ILCE-5000 registration (not sure if it’s the NEX-5r).

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Sony registered the “ILCE-5000” at Taiwan NCC (National Communications Commission). This approval is necessary for products with wireless capability. As you know in some countries the NEX-5t has that A5000 mark (see picture below). So I am not sure if that registered name is for a new camera or for the current NEX-5t. The weird thing is that the NEX-5T product has been already registered months ago. So why register it again?

Thanks J. for finding this!

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$100 off on the RX100MII. NEX-6 for $479.

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As a last minute Christmas deal you can grab the new RX100MII with a $100 discount at [shoplink 23662 ebay]CameraLand one Bay US (Click here)[/shoplink]. And there is also one NEX-6 for $479 again at [shoplink 23663 ebay]CameraLand one Bay US (Click here)[/shoplink].

More current US Sony deals:
A99 withf ree extras for [shoplink 23641 ebay]$2,033 (Click here)[/shoplink] or [shoplink 23640 ebay]$2.046 (Click here)[/shoplink].
Free compact camera with the Sony A7r at BHphoto (Click here)
A3000 with kit lens now sells for $279 at Amazon US (Click here).
Sony RX100 for $408 at [shoplink 23618 ebay]eBay US (Click here)[/shoplink]

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SAR note: Wish You Merry Christmas!

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Today is Christmas and I wish you and your family all the best for these days of rest and for the coming year. I Thank You all for the company on this site. It’s a real fun (and sometime it’s a terrific busy fun) to be here with you every day!

And as promised, it’s going to be again a very busy A and E-mount rumors time on SAR. So try to recover soon from the party to be ready for some exciting time ;)

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Sony A7r is the best and Hasselblad Lunar the worse camera of the year 2013 (says TheCameraStoreTV team).

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Watch this great (as usual) video done by TheCameraStoreTV team. As you see Sony-Hasselblad are playing the main role as both best and worse camera of the year :)

The Sony A7-A7r has been chosen as best camera of the year (second place for the Pentax K-3 and third place for the tiny Panasonic GM1).

The [shoplink 22672 ebay]Hasselblad Lunar[/shoplink] is the worse camera of the year and on second place guess what you will find…the [shoplink 22673 ebay]Hasselblad Stellar[/shoplink] :)

P.S.: The best video camera is the Sony F5 and the best lens the 18-35mm Sigma which should be available as A-mount in January

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A7r shutter vibration is a non-issue (test by Ferrell McCollough)

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The shutter vibration measured by Beforethecoffee

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There has been a great discussion about the possible Sony A7r vibration issue posted here on SAR by John Holmes. But SAR reader Ferrell McCollough doesn’t seem to see it this as a real issue. On Beforethecoffee (Click here) he writes:

“I found that there is no discernible difference between an image taken with a strobe while the shutter was open for 10 seconds ie. no shutter vibration and a normal exposure with shutter vibration. I checked with a 35mm FE lens and a Nikon 85mm 1.4 and metabones adapter. I also did not see any difference in the A7R mounted on a sturdy tripod or resting on a table top. Both had image quality matching the strobe image with no shutter vibration.
I feel very comfortable in my conclusion that the A7R is not losing image quality due to shutter vibration.“

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Sony A99 for $2,000. First Sony A7r deal at BH.

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A new Full Frame A-mount camera is on the horizon and the A99 just got the next price drop. You can grab it with free extras at 6ave on eBay for [shoplink 23641 ebay]$2,033 (Click here)[/shoplink] or [shoplink 23640 ebay]$2.046 (Click here)[/shoplink].

And there is also a last-minute special Sony A7r deal at BHphoto (Click here). You get a TX30 for free ($248 value) and a 4% reward which drops the real A7r price down to $2,207.

Reminder: The Zeiss 55mm FE is in Stock at Amazon US (Click here).

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