Sony's EVIL GUI revealed (a bit) in CP+

roweraay wrote: I personally would wait a couple of months more and see what the other manufacturers will come out with.....including Sony's own take on EVIL.

And that's a tricky thing with "new things"; we can expect these cameras to evolve fast.
In fact, and unlike most here, i don't think that what we shall see in the next few days from Sony is what many here do hope for. There is another, "high end" EVIL camera that should be provided later. Of course, we can expect other brands to move forward as well and then the question is at what point one should spend the money :)

While I've been a huge proponent of a high end mirrorless camera for a while, I'm warming up to the idea of a very simple, small camera with a touchscreen. Just give me a standard prime and A and M mode, and it'll be a nice A900 compliment for me.

I dont expect them to enter with a enthusiast model either. But I am still excited about these early models. Hd video with r big sensor and r small camera body will atract new folks to alpha.

More advanced models should follow once Sony has built up a userbase.
Hopefully the price is right (lets hope they keep up the tradition of r agressive price model early on)!

It'll be a completely new format.

When it comes out will be anyone's guess, though I do recall the 2/3x0 bodies coming out around the April/May timeframe last year...

But 18 May is a Tuesday and that would fit in with other rumours that are doing the rounds for a May announcement and June delivery date.

So far Gustav has been more right/ less wrong than many others. Anything better than 100% wrong is better than most of us.

Except of course unless you predict an announcement will be made for something about the time of Photokina.

Theresa wrote: They could have taken a lesson from Leica rather than Olympus

I wonder which sells more cameras? Actually I don't.   

Something just struck me ... why is it that when Sony got into DSLRs, everyone laughed, said Sony isn't a camera company, it's a gadget company (despite Sony's pro video division and the fact that they make sensors for everyone else) yet Panasonic has crept into the scene with a reputation for building good cameras for photographers ?

Maybe Panasonic was never the company people love to hate like Sony is. But Polaroid, Casio, Kodak and other "non-camera" companies were never respected. I guess maybe because Panasonic started quietly, started making some better-than-average cameras, including the LX3 (the compact everyone had been waiting for) ?

But except for a couple models, most of their digicams are the same as everyone elses; tiny sensor, slow lens, fits in a pocket.

Maybe because the GF1 is a photographers camera while Sony NEX appears to be a family vacation camera ?

It's just interesting to me how Panasonic managed to "sneak in".