Two new Sony APS-C cameras expected this month, including long rumoured A7000
Aug 13, 2019
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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When Sony announced the A7R IV last month, many were expecting it to be the long-overdue A7S III or the “Baby A9” high-end APS-C body that’s been rumoured for a long time. Neither of those things happened, but according to Sony Alpha Rumors, at least one of them will before the end of this month.
They say that they’ve received information from trusted sources confirming that Sony will announce a pair of new APS-C E Mount cameras at the end of this month. The A6500 is apparently going end-of-life, and so a replacement, naturally, would be on the way.
SAR says they have no specs for the two new cameras, nor whether one of them is the anticipated “A7000”. But, if the A6500 is on the way out, then now would definitely be the time to make the announcement for its replacement.
And it also makes sense for them to kill off the A6500 if an A7000 or similar is on the way. There’s no point having them compete with each other on sales, except to sell off all the unsold A6500 stock. And I imagine an A7000 would have to be a pretty significant upgrade to steal sales over the more recent, but lower-end A6400.
For many Sony APS-C shooters, the only real advantage of the A6500 over the A6400 is IBIS. So, I think we can be pretty sure a theoretical A7000 would have that. But it would need to be a lot more than just an A6400 with IBIS and a bigger buffer for continuous shooting if it wants to convince people to upgrade their old A6500s.
As to what the other camera would be… Well, that’s anybody’s guess, really.
What do you want to see in a new APS-C body? Do you want something high end or entry-level?
[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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10 responses to “Two new Sony APS-C cameras expected this month, including long rumoured A7000”
APS-C sensor with IBIS in an A7 style body would be awesome!
A7 is too big
That’s what SHE said. (Sorry. Couldn’t resist.)
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Keep the A6xxx form factor. Keep IBIS and add 10-bit internal for video at 60 fps. The latter would one-up the Fuji XT-3, which I plan to buy if Sony doesn’t deliver.
lets finally get some more touch screen capabilities and a flip out screen. That to go along with IBIS and the bigger battery with an A7 style body would be awesome in my opinion!
What do I want? Same form factor. Rather higher resolution. 6 stop IBIS. Dual card slots.
I suspect we are going to see one camera that is an APS-C version of the A7R4, the other an APS-C version of the A9. The third putative camera will be an A-5200 and will be purely optimized to be an inexpensive blogging camera.
I agree with everything you said…. I love my a6400 but lack of IBIS is sometimes frustrating. They need to continue at least the full flip up screen for vlog life
Can we place get an APS-C point and shoot from Sony? Something a bit more sensible and compact than the RX1, with a fast prime and fast shooting.
It is being said that the new A6700 will have a bigger hand grip to accommodate the new NP-FZ100 battery. It is said also that the A6700 will compete with the FUJI X-T3. Well, the battery used in the FUJI has a CIPA bat life of 390, less than the A6400 (410) with the original FW50 battery. The hand grip in the X-T3 is ridiculously small, worse than the A6500.
A bigger hand grip means a bigger camera. The main advantage of the APS-C format should be his compact size. FUJI doesn´t have FF cameras, but SONY does. If someone like or need a bigger camera should buy an A7 series, and even can crop to APS!