The Future of Sony’s A-mount

Gary L. Friedman
Sep 1, 2018 · 5 min read

This article first published July 2015

I get a lot of email from die-hard Sony A-mount shooters, concerned by the seeming lack of announcements for products in the A-mount ecosystem. Will Sony eventually abandon the platform? Should they start to panic? The short answer is “Don’t panic; the A-mount is not going away”; however there is a longer, more nuanced answer. The first thing you must understand about Sony is they are just recovering from a massive corporate reorganization, where several major divisions were sold off just so they could concentrate on being great in fewer…

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Gary L. Friedman is a professional photographer who runs the stock image website FriedmanArchives.com and has written many best-selling camera-specific books.

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