Sony Japan finally dumps all A-mount lenses from its online inventory
Feb 10, 2022
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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If Sony hadn’t already made it crystal clear that the A-mount was dead last May when they removed all of their A-mount cameras from their website. Minolta’s legacy has now been pretty much thrown into the abyss.
It’s not too terribly surprising, really. The A-mount was created by Minolta way back in 1985. It was inherited by Sony during their acquisition of Minolta in 2006 and they haven’t released an A-mount body since 2016. E mount is most definitely the future of Sony – especially now Sony finally has an E mount flagship body in the form of the Sony A1.
Despite being removed from the main Sony Japan website, a number of A-mount lenses are still listed as being available on the Sony US website. There are also still quite a few listed at B&H as well, although if you want something “Special Order” like the Sony 500mm f/4 G SSM, then I wouldn’t get your hopes up. They probably wouldn’t be able to get hold of one anymore – and that one’s not listed on the Sony USA website, either.
I don’t expect the rest of them will stay up on there for very long, either.
It’s a shame but as I said, it’s not much of a surprise.
[Kunkoku via Sony Alpha Rumors]
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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One response to “Sony Japan finally dumps all A-mount lenses from its online inventory”
Much Sadness. I switched to Sony in the early 2000’s after 25+ years as a loyal Nikon user. Part of the reason for the switch was the Tech side of the company and the other part was the availability of some awesome lenses. It makes me a little ill to think that this amazing Zeiss glass will make wonderful paperweights when my Sony cameras get to the non working stage of their life.