Hi,
My take is that there clearly is a slot or two in the FE series naming scheme for a top level camera.
An impression I may have is that leaks may be a part of Sony marketing strategi.
Personally, I have a mixed bag of feelings about a coming A9. There are some features I would like to have, like a larger battery and more presets.
On the other hand, I wouldn't like a camera that doesn't work with my HCam Master TSII.
A new camera could be resolution champ, or optimised for fast work. But, I don't think sensor based PDAF is there for things like sports.
Anyways, here are some guesses:
- Larger battery
- More presets
- Dual memory card slots
- Slightly larger body
Regarding sensor size, the A7rII sensor seems to be the best one Sony has in full frame. I would rather expect a higher MP sensor than a lower MP sensor. Going to 72 MP, as rumored, may be a big step. The 6300 is at 24MP and that would scale up to 54MP. If the resolution is needed, going from 42 to 72 MP would make a lot of sense.
There could be an A9 and A9r combo.
Question is of course how many of those cameras Sony may be able to sell.
Complex decisions…
Best regards
Erik
As someone that used to have regular early access to alpha, beta, and "gold masters" copies to software when I ran a console and computer game web site about 10 years ago - the last thing you'd want to do is reveal sensitive details that you are under NDA about to a random guy off the street. It just rarely (if ever) happens.
Now there are times where people may hint about details closer to release to drive web traffic, pique interest, or reveal details to a close select collection of friend/industry colleagues. These are case by case scenario's though and not always the norm for everyone. Case in point as it applies to cameras I caught an early glimpse of the Leica Q about a year ago before it was released from a 3rd Party source with close industry friends and they let me know about the insipient Leica SL around that time too. The SL didn't come in the form factor I expected (based on the Q shots and the description of the SL as a Q without the lens attached) but this is an example of how people would "leak" sensitive information - again not to random people in the street.
This is probably click bait and I'd expect the A9 to come in at around 30 Megapixels, the A9S to be around 20 megapixels, and the A9R to be around 56 Megapixels or so... in my mind.. if it happens.