It looks like Sony will have the next major camera and lens announcement, as they have scheduled an event for November 19, 2024. For now it looks like Sony is gearing up to launch two new professional level products.
Sony will announjce the Alpha A1 II, which will become their new flagship camera body. It will use the same 50MP image sensor from the original, but add a bunch of new upgrades. This probably isn’t a big deal, we’re seeing that both Sony and Canon are making sensors that are pretty close to each other. We’ll let the comment sections around the web go fanboy with the charts and graphs.
Sony will be added an “AI Chip”, CFexpress Type A 4.0, which should increase read/write performance along with the usual frame rate increase and claimed autofocus improvements we get from everyone.
Ergonomically, it sounds like Sony will be going with the A9 III design, with the new camera body is rumored to be available in early 2025, but will come with a higher pricetag than the current A1.
That pricepoint seems pretty interesting, considering the current A1 is still more espensive than the EOS R1 by a few hundred dollars and a couple of thousand dollars more than the EOS R5 Mark II. With the rumored re-used sensor, there’s gotta be something in the camera to justify the price increase. Canon added all-new everything to both the EOS R1 and EOS R5 Mark II, so we’ll see what Sony have come up with. A camera is a sum of its parts, not one specific specification.
Sony will also announce an FE 28-70mm f/2 GM, which was one of the marquee lens designs that launched the RF mount back in 2018.
Sony is rumored to have shaved just over 500g of weight over the Canon RF 28-70mm f/2L USM, which is pretty impressive if that information holds true. I’d welcome that!
The filter thread on the Sony will also be smaller than Canon at 86mm.
There are the usual claims of “better IQ and better autofocus”, but we’ll wait and see on that one. However, it’s been 6 years since Canon dropped their cinderblock, so there should be some advancements in that regard.
The FE 28-70mm f/2 GM is expected to launch at $2999 USD.
A friend of mine that shoots Sony professionally (yeah, we’re still friends) has told me the lens is more exciting than the prototype A1 II thus far from a stills perspective, and has been using the a1 since it launched in 2021. Opinions are simply opinions and we’ll have to wait and see.
Source: Sony Alpha Rumors
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Is the a9iii the flagship or a1ii?
The inevitable comparisons to R1 and R5ii will be a lot of click bait with few people actually switching and even less with both systems
Actually, that’s not true. They’ll just claim it’s soooooo much better than the Canon version. That way, they can sleep at night until DxO gives it a higher ‘lens score’ on a 61 MP Sony camera and they can feel all vindicated and stuff.
Sony fanbois would massively die of a heart attack.
I never realized how garbage DxO was..I haven't been there in a couple years. I just browsed and they rate the sharpness on the RF 50 1.2L as pretty much lowest of any "pro" series lens. They have some prosumer lenses rated above it....
By then, I should be able to look at images from my R1 on the new Mac.
So what you want to do with DxO's sharpness measurement is compare the perceptual MP with the actual MP of the camera on which the lens was tested. So for example, the RF 50/1.2 has the same 22 pMpix as the EF 50/1.4, but the latter started with a 50 MP camera and the former with a 30 MP camera. Next you might ask, then why is the RF 85/2 STM showing better sharpness than the RF 50/1.2 since both were tested on the EOS R (26 vs. 22 mPix)? In fact, if you look at Canon's theoretical MTFs for those two lenses, the 85/2 is actually sharper in the center of the frame.
To be clear, I'm talking about their measurements. DxOMark's Lens Scores are crap – they are based on the use case of shooting in lighting equivalent to a dimly-lit warehouse, and are influenced by things like the dynamic range of the sensor behind the lens.
Sony FE 28-70mm f/2 lens patent - Photo Rumors
As soon as I read they were keeping the ergonomics I stopped reading the article.
Is that a typo that Canon filter sizes are greater than 86mm? The RF 85 f/1.2 is 82mm.