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are you serious? "to show how rich you are"? Co´mon :)
Its quite well in balance with for example Nikkor equivalents.
 
Whatever is coming from Sony, it will rattle the industry.
I have been in commercial television production for 40-years.
No camera maker in those years has established itself like Sony.

It is like RCA in the old days. But, Sony won't get bought out by General Electric.
(Which incidentally, was one of the companies, along with Westinghouse,

A T & T and the U.S. Navy that established RCA in 1919-1920 and made David Sarnoff the boss)

If Sony markets right, eases its demands on inventory minimums, ( not everyone is B & H) allows vendor discounting, gets liberal in giving vendor incentives, gives freebees and low-leasing availability to the right targets...the newspapers and their web masters, photography schools, etc.... it won't take a generation to reach the top. I believe this.

More On Discounting and Pro Service:

Sony discounts its video products to its established vendors. Sony must do the discounting with the DSLR vendors and not keep trying to get shooters mostly into Sony Style stores or the Sony Style Website to do their buying. Expand availability, allow vendor discounting and make rebates more common.

One more thing...Sony's professional service to TV stations and production companies is excellent. It must be likewise for still pros....who may find themselves, like it or not, shooting HD video with their Alpha 1000's, whether they like it or not.

Yes, this is a lot to expect. Sony has already done it for its enormous video
products line...it can do it again and quickly...if it wants to.
 
Lot's of rumors here. But this is Dpreview.com, equipment talk so it is maybe
the right website to chat about rumors here.

But when will Sony actually talk again?
Is it in september? What is the "photo equipment show" in september and when?
 
05_GD7 said:
A700 is already the D300 equivalent. Perhaps A730 = D400/D300s?
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I would disagree with that - the D300 is more advanced in certain ways, such as the OVF, speed, and most notably AF. And, of course, the A730 would be the D400 equivalent. I meant that it would raise to the D300 level.
 
Maybe some think their monitors would magically transform into the Uber-Alpha when clicking on the thread :)

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Alpha Jack said:
First of all let me say that I am not taking this rumor very seriously. That said, how I read the statement about not caring what Canon is doing is that the statement is specific to video technology. I don't think anyone would believe that Sony doesn't care what any manufacturer is doing marketing wise, especially Canon and Nikon.
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Agreed.
Alpha Jack said:
If Sony were to rush out video just because Canon did it, they could lose in the long run if they know they have superior technology to release within a reasonable time frame. Either way it's a gamble, but if Sony can do video markedly better than the competition, then the risk of losing sales by releasing video a year or so late might be worth the gamble Vs rushing sub-par technology out which sucks development resources and risks becoming the important first impression.
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So you think everyone else is happy standing pat on their video implementations? I doubt it. With the GH1 setting the current standard for video, I'm sure everyone else is hard at work, too. Not just Sony. If they can get better than GH1 video out earlier than Canon and Nikon, though, and priced less than the GH1, then they can very well carve a nice niche among those looking for a video+stills DSLR.

I don't think Nikon got any heat from their flawed video implementation (so-called Jello effect + no AF in video mode), and if their wonky video mode gets a free pass by people, that's not such a high bar for Sony to achieve and surpass. Sony knows video. It's largely why they are the electronics giant they are. :)
 
That was one of the dumbest things I have ever read.

No basis to any of the writers rambles. Any rumor that says Sony is reacting to RED is automatically bunk. Sony most certainly cares very little about RED, RED is barely a real company.

This is just the ramblings of someone obsessed with the idea of video in a DSLR.

And most of it is obvious stuff we all know. We know the A200 wasn't a replacement for the A100. That's why folks still shoot with A100s waiting for a true 5 series replacement. And we know the entry ones are made cheap because they are entry level.

It's also clear that someday, probably soon Sony will have video in some DSLRs. But them bringing video out and this rumor have nothing to do with anything.
 
VLampa said:
Alpha Jack said:
First of all let me say that I am not taking this rumor very seriously. That said, how I read the statement about not caring what Canon is doing is that the statement is specific to video technology. I don't think anyone would believe that Sony doesn't care what any manufacturer is doing marketing wise, especially Canon and Nikon.
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Agreed.
VLampa said:
If Sony were to rush out video just because Canon did it, they could lose in the long run if they know they have superior technology to release within a reasonable time frame. Either way it's a gamble, but if Sony can do video markedly better than the competition, then the risk of losing sales by releasing video a year or so late might be worth the gamble Vs rushing sub-par technology out which sucks development resources and risks becoming the important first impression.
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So you think everyone else is happy standing pat on their video implementations? I doubt it. With the GH1 setting the current standard for video, I'm sure everyone else is hard at work, too. Not just Sony. If they can get better than GH1 video out earlier than Canon and Nikon, though, and priced less than the GH1, then they can very well carve a nice niche among those looking for a video+stills DSLR.
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I do not think anyone is standing pat.
VLampa said:
I don't think Nikon got any heat from their flawed video implementation (so-called Jello effect + no AF in video mode), and if their wonky video mode gets a free pass by people, that's not such a high bar for Sony to achieve and surpass. Sony knows video. It's largely why they are the electronics giant they are. :)
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Canon and Nikon can more easily weather the bad reports of their video implementations than could Sony. Sony will be judged more harshly because they still have a lot to prove in the still world and because the expectations will be very high for what they do with video because of their reputation in video. Imagine what critics would do if video was not at least equal to Nikon and Canon. Of course being first also helped the others and then there is Ashton Kutcher. He wouldn't lie to his fans about how great Nikon video is now would he? ;-)
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