p.2 #1 · What Cameras and Lenses Do You Wish Sony to Launch in 2025?
I just wish wish they would update the screens and menu system. Menu systems on all these cameras feel like they're from 1999 to me. My A7RV screen is also mediocre at best.
Only lenses that are really lacking are affordable sport primes, and maybe compact light weight "primes" like the handful of small RF lenses. 3rd party lenses are incredible now days.
p.2 #3 · What Cameras and Lenses Do You Wish Sony to Launch in 2025?
600/4 with built-in 1.4x TC. The probability of that in the next decade is zero.
There is a higher probability that Nikon will intro a camera that is competitive with the A1II. The probability of that is slightly above zero.
p.2 #8 · What Cameras and Lenses Do You Wish Sony to Launch in 2025?
I want the same camera that I have wanted for over ten years, but curiously it never appears - a small, light EVF camera with superb engineering and a laser focus on manual focus lenses. It comes (in my imagination) with class-leading adapters so it can use 99% of all lenses made in the format. It introduces an OEM autofocus adapter that simply works - no firmware or mechanical glitches, or Chinese quality issues, but made to Sony standards.
It uses a boosted version of the a7rV EVF with custom eye surrounds and fine diopter controls, has elegant yet customizable controls and features an array of focus aids, lens specific and adjustable magnification ratios, step views in suggested compositions for a scene, easy and well-considered aperture bracketing with preview of stops up and down from set aperture, warnings for breathing and crop fixes for them, DOF computations for a range of Airy disks and hyperfocal, high end IBIS, curvature maps, EVF heads up info, corner resolution and vignette inclusions and warnings (zoom displays), intelligent self-aware peaking, subject type selection and much more.
A chat bot module to assist new entrants enter the dark side world of manual focus lenses. Standards of lens information to meet these information interactions.
Two cameras really: one a scaled down unit for video with flow-down features from the FX series; the other a stills only device. Excise all AF widgets, and build it around a sensor with no AF tech inside it.
The aim is to reinstate manual focus lenses to their place at the top of the heap. Sony would reinvigorate their partnership with Zeiss on new lightweight Otus/SL/DZO level lenses to promote the cameras with. A sensor development program optimized for non-AF usage.
p.2 #11 · What Cameras and Lenses Do You Wish Sony to Launch in 2025?
I would like an
* A7CRii with the A1 sensor in it and a tad bigger EVF for the confused nay-sayers,
* version 2 of the compact line G lenses, a notch faster, 20/4, 24/2.0, 40/1.8, 50/1.8, 75/2.0, and
* somebody please re-design the AF-MF switch on the lenses making it possible to use it with gloves on
p.2 #12 · What Cameras and Lenses Do You Wish Sony to Launch in 2025?
A new body with interchangeable "modules". A sensor module. An EVF module. A "chip" module for AF, one without AF, one with video, one without. A screen module. Etc.
The body essentially would just be the mount, and the battery. And we pick the necessary "peripherals" to make it into a camera each of us wants.
And next year we will only buy the new sensor module. Oh, and the new chip module, without which the new sensor would not work...
p.2 #15 · What Cameras and Lenses Do You Wish Sony to Launch in 2025?
philip_pj wrote:
I want the same camera that I have wanted for over ten years, but curiously it never appears - a small, light EVF camera with superb engineering and a laser focus on manual focus lenses. It comes (in my imagination) with class-leading adapters so it can use 99% of all lenses made in the format. It introduces an OEM autofocus adapter that simply works - no firmware or mechanical glitches, or Chinese quality issues, but made to Sony standards.
It uses a boosted version of the a7rV EVF with custom eye surrounds and fine diopter controls, has elegant yet customizable controls and features an array of focus aids, lens specific and adjustable magnification ratios, step views in suggested compositions for a scene, easy and well-considered aperture bracketing with preview of stops up and down from set aperture, warnings for breathing and crop fixes for them, DOF computations for a range of Airy disks and hyperfocal, high end IBIS, curvature maps, EVF heads up info, corner resolution and vignette inclusions and warnings (zoom displays), intelligent self-aware peaking, subject type selection and much more.
A chat bot module to assist new entrants enter the dark side world of manual focus lenses. Standards of lens information to meet these information interactions.
Two cameras really: one a scaled down unit for video with flow-down features from the FX series; the other a stills only device. Excise all AF widgets, and build it around a sensor with no AF tech inside it.
The aim is to reinstate manual focus lenses to their place at the top of the heap. Sony would reinvigorate their partnership with Zeiss on new lightweight Otus/SL/DZO level lenses to promote the cameras with. A sensor development program optimized for non-AF usage....Show more →
This is a really extensive re-imagining to create an Alpha MF body, very cool. I use Loxia lenses for my landscape work, but prefer AF for most other things because of lack of modern MF aids that work for me. I would love to see what Sony engineers given free rein would come up with...digital split image, picture-in-picture with magnification and a focus aid while being able to see the whole screen, automatic infinity indicator, accurate lens specific DOF scale for a given aperture, etc.
p.2 #16 · What Cameras and Lenses Do You Wish Sony to Launch in 2025?
Like many, I'd like to see a 28mm, either a 1.8G or a 1.4GM.
A new 70-300G would be nice too, with all the modern optical goodies and trickery. I just bought the Sigma 70-200/2.8 so I care less about this now, but a compact tele zoom would be great. I'm guessing Sony feels that the new 70-200/4 Macro with a 1.4X does the same job, at healthier profit margins
On that front...make new cameras compatible with third party TCs.
p.2 #17 · What Cameras and Lenses Do You Wish Sony to Launch in 2025?
An a7Cx that does NOT have the stupid "vlog" screen. And a larger EVF if possible. And either fast enough electronic shutter or a fully mechanical one for fast speeds without crap bokeh.
p.2 #20 · What Cameras and Lenses Do You Wish Sony to Launch in 2025?
Honestly, I need more time to take pictures, not more lenses .
The two holes in the line-up I'd like Sony to address are on the UWA and long end:
1) A compact, relatively fast UWA prime that takes front filters.
2) A compact 500 5.6 that takes the 1.4x TC well would be a nice alternative to the 200-600.
3) Update the RX1R line: 28 or 35mm FL, 50-60MP sensor, update the AF, and an ever so slightly bigger, more efficient battery.
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