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A mount in the news... will Sony listen?
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techjedi
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I have a feeling if Sony had heavily invested in A-mount and never did full-frame E-mount, this video would be saying Sony's biggest mistake was not investing more in E-mount.
The review has a very good and valid point. He is not blaming only Sony, but also other mirrorless systems for falling behind the AF-performance of dSLR and SLT.
Sony have promised and tried hard too, but the current mirroless (A7rII, A7II, A7sII) can't match the AF-performance of SLT, even old SLTs, especially when it comes to fast long-lenses for action/sport/wildlife.
Sony have probably learned it the hard-way already, because the A99 II seams to around the corner.
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I don't think Sony will listen to Tony Northrup. I do think Sony already knows the strengths and weaknesses of each mount.
I'll add this Petapixel article . The guy seems to be fed up with the attention paid to E-mount.
I'll add this Petapixel article . The guy seems to be fed up with the attention paid to E-mount.
E mount is a mistake and an unfinished product. The only fact the toyish feeling 6000 series is low cost made the E mount more populair. Aditional lenses for Emount are costly and will make the small camera's look funny and bulky as a normal camera. The use of adapters will makes your advanced camera a ps camera.
Sony has a habbit of discontinuing some products and not listening to the customers, let alone communicating about. The loss of marketshare (there was a time every household had a Sony Tv and audio gear like walkman)) doesnt look promissing for the camera's. IF they launch a A99m2 the price should be right, there are many very good FF camera's for a reasonabke price on the moment.
Sony has a habbit of discontinuing some products and not listening to the customers, let alone communicating about. The loss of marketshare (there was a time every household had a Sony Tv and audio gear like walkman)) doesnt look promissing for the camera's. IF they launch a A99m2 the price should be right, there are many very good FF camera's for a reasonabke price on the moment.
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are we sure that isn't Julian Assange moonlighting under that silver rat ?
I mean, we've never seen them in the same room ?
Maybe he felt the need to release completely pointless "news"
for a bit of a breather.
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I think that it's too late for the A-mount. In hindsight, Minolta was finished as a company by breaking compatibly with the new Maxxum mount. Canon got away with it, mostly because the EF mount was genuinely innovative with electronic aperture control and in lens focusing motors. Minolta simply used the same sort of screwdrive AF as Nikon and Pentax and old fashioned mechanical apertures. In short, Minolta served up all of the disadvantages of a legacy lens mount, while absolutely alienating the MD-mount user base.
Sony's rebranding might have worked, if there had been reasonably priced professional lenses available. Instead, Sony branded glass was overpriced and underwhelming, while at the same time retailers were stuck with unsold Minolta branded inventory, some of which still appears on eBay as "new old stock." In short, Sony's rebranding burned former Minolta dealers, at a time when Canon and Nikon were gaining ground. Remember, 2006 was the year when the DSLR broke the $500 price barrier! The Nikon D40 was the hottest product introduction of year at $499 MSRP. What did Sony relaunch the orphaned Maxxum-mount with? A camera that sold $999 with a kit lens - the A100 which was a warmed over Minolta with a 10MP sensor. A dead product with a new name.
The final nail in the coffin was killing the DSLR in favor of the SLT. Canon had tried the pellicle mirror concept twice and dropped it after a short production run both times. A fixed translucent mirror is a bit like a built in 1/3 stop neutral density filter. It blocks light. Enough said.
It didn't help when Sony started cutting costs. Remember the plastic lens mount in the A58 and A68? As it turned out, cheapening things up wasn't the solution. The solution was an entirely new short flange mirrorless mount. Of course, the issue of lens pricing and relative performance remains, even with a new mount. There are also doubts about the long term prospects of any Sony business line outside of finance and insurance. Still, the Sony A7 represents the future of the camera industry and has very lucrative monopoly on the full frame mirrorless market. Of course, it's worth remembering that Sony was relatively dominant at the beginning of the digital era, before Canon and Nikon caught up, and before the failed take-over of Minolta's Maxxum/A-mount.
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actually it's not low cost that got me into the emount system - it's the much lighter camera and consumer grade lenses, a huge plus for those of us with tendonitis or other wrist problems.
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