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New Sony alpha and lenses PMA 2010

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Digitalcamerareview: Hands-on with Sony TX5 and Sony H55
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Engadget Sony PMA report
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The polish website Fotopolis.pl posted the MTF graphs of the new Sigma 85mm lens.
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The hungarian website pixinfo made a nice ISO comparison table of the Sony A550. (no translation available)
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Sony Alpha A500 Review at TrustedReviews

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(SR4) What Sony didn’t tell you about the mirrorless camera

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The Sony press release and mockups do not reveal anything about concrete specifications and release date. So we thought it would be nice to make a small summary of all the rumors we received from reliable sources.

Important note: What we post here are rumored specs, not official Sony specs! We collected the rumors from reliable sources (which gave me correct informations in the past) and added a probability percentage.

1) 50% chance this information could be true -> The System name will be “NEX”

2) 50% -> The first two cameras will be on market within June-July (The NEX3 and NEX5?)

3) 50% -> A more advanced mirrorless camera should be unveiled at Photokina and compete against the future Panasonic GH2

4) 80% -> In Lens stabilization (Sonys goal was ot make the mirrorless cameras as thin as possible)

5) 80% -> Built-in Flash

6) 80% -> Body price under 1000 USD

7) 80% -> First three lenses: 18-55/F3.5-5.6 / 16mm f/2.8 / 18-200mm (900-1000 USD)

50% = rumor comes from one trusted source only (the trusted soruce gave me correct informations in the past)

80% = rumor has been confirmed by one trusted sources + one or more new soruces

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(SR5) Zeiss will make lenses for the new Sony mirrorless System

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In an interview with dpreview Masashi Imamura (President of Sony’s Personal Imaging and Sound Business group) said that “the company’s relationship with Carl Zeiss will extend to lenses designed for the mirrorless interchangeable lens camera

There is no concrete information about future lenses specifications and timeline.

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Continually updated -> Sony new products roundup!

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The Sony mirrorless mockups!

Press release and images:
NEW -> alphamountworld.com coverage
NEW -> For our french friends. The Focus Numerique report!
NEW -> New images at Photographybay
Quesabesde (spanish)
Photoscala.de has a reporter on PMA and they are continually adding new photos of the Sony stand (nice work guys!).
Images and forum discussion at DYXUM
Some REAL images of the lenses an dphotos at p3newsreviews.blogspot.com (via noisycamera)
engadget.com
Sony.com
Photographyblog (same press release as on Sony.com)
One more press release on dpreview

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Short video of the press release:

The future Alpha cameras and new lenses
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