RiceHigh's Pentax Blog: Sony A900 Discontinued; No More Sony DSLR of Any, FF or APS-C!

Monday, October 03, 2011

Sony A900 Discontinued; No More Sony DSLR of Any, FF or APS-C!

Further to the official discontinuation of the A850 back to May, now Sony has announced the discontinuation of the A900:-

http://www.sony.jp/ichigan/products/DSLR-A900/

See the Japanese words "生産完了" which just means "discontinued".

And a glance to the current Sony SLT/SLR lineup reveals that the A900 is actually the last Sony SLR that has been discontinued, which implies that Sony will have no DSLR in their lineup, at least in the meantime, and the future is yet unknown.

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Simon · 704 weeks ago

Even if Sony would not build FF cameras any more, the Minolta crowd had at least the chance to buy a FF camera. The remainders will last a few months. Last chance to pick up a FF body for the Minolta bayonet ?

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bandymelis · 704 weeks ago

Why do you say that "no more Sony DSLR of any, FF or APS-C"? They just released the A77.

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RiceHigh 110p · 704 weeks ago

A77 and A65 are only SLTs, not SLRs.

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bandymelis · 704 weeks ago

Sorry, correct.

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RiceHigh 110p · 704 weeks ago

So, Canon, Nikon and Pentax are the only popular DSLR brands. I hope under the new leadership of Ricoh, Pentax could do better and a re-planned Pentax K-mount DSLR system could be seen in the near future.

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Chris · 704 weeks ago

SLT is a toy; maybe great for movies but toy-like for still pictures. Why? Because it is inevitably combined with a digital viewfinder, which is (with current technology) far worse than an optical viewfinder. So Sony is saying goodbye to the pro and semipro market. Sony has therefore killed Minolta.

It's down to Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax - did I forget anybody?

Pentax and the K mount - I'm optimistic about that - will prevail in the long run.

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RiceHigh 110p · 704 weeks ago

Olympus 4/3 SLR system is also dying.

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tipentax · 704 weeks ago

In fact, now only Canon and Nikon for the pro, Canon, Nikon AND ... PENTAX for the semi pro, this is great news ... if Pentax could attract some of the Olympus and Minolta/Sony desesperate users.
I like it !
But on the other side,since Sony itself fails, we won't see any FF in the Pentax line-up ...