AF

A couple of days ago my friend messaged me and asked when I think all of the Sony lenses will get an update to be compatible with the new A99. I replied saying what do you mean? They are all compatible! This was the start of a discovery for me that I somehow missed during my press release with Sony, my news writing and Chris missed this with his hands on impressions with the camera.

The news is / or at least my impression at the time of launch was that the 102 AF points would work alongside the 19 point AF to ensure a more precise focus. The truth is that the 102 AF points will only work in the new AF-D mode of the camera which can sense depth and continuously track objects very accurately. The big news to me and the staff was that the camera only currently supports 6 lenses at this point of time. [click to continue…]

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Well an adapter for controlling aperture has been around for awhile now which gave the NEX full electronic control. The video above demonstrates how the new adapter will work, it seems like it hunts quite a bit with the 50mm 1.8 shown. There isn’t much detail on the new adapter whether the adapter will work the same with EF and EFS but if its anything like the manual focus version it will support both. The video shows an older model NEX sensor so Im not sure if the new sensor with embedded AF points will improve hunting and performance.

The price in the manual focus one linked above is $250 so I expect the adapter when it is released in a few months will be a bit more than that. Thanks to Sony Alpha Rumors for discovering the adapter.

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