What is it with that damn beercan everyone is raving about??
I have 2 copies, and yes it's a nice lens, but it's nothing like a G-lens.
All of a sudden this is THE hyped lens for Sony DSLR's, why really?
I repeat, it's a nice lens, but most Minolta lenses from that era are quite good.

You just can't compare this to the G-range.

@egotman & ihatemorons(ironically):I know this is perfectly possible to be real, and no I don't feel like a dick, I even watched the video first and I do read stuff before making preliminary conclusions. I'm just not happy with a source like this.
These might as well be rebranded CPU's, and you'd have to be naive as sh*t to believe something nowadays to be genuine because they write it on the box. It's a pretty bold statement to say Intel is selling these things based on images of posters and boxes of products you don't know are genuine.
@wayne: And how on earth did I "slander" all asian countries for ripoffs? Educate myself? Maybe don't be so shortsighted yourself by assuming I live "here in the good ol US of A".

Seriously ... the source is one of those small shops in what appears to be a huge mall?
Wait a minute, gotta get some info over to Luxist.com, the mall over here has stores just like that selling 20$ Louis Vuitton purses too.
They must be real!

Maybe Engadget should start with a "list of used terms" or something.

Although this looks like a DSLR, it really isn't like one you've ever seen.
It's not full frame, it's above that ... this is medium format.
Every decent medium format camera will cost you several times the price of a full frame canon/nikon/sony/ etc.

MP's are still very very important in this range of cameras. They use these things to blow images up as big as apartment buildings.
One of the uses for example is with all the post processing happening today, you want to be as precise as possible.
But there are much more advantages to it.

It's not because something looks like something you know, that it is what you think it is.
... even if your uncle is a wedding photographer ...

He impressed the folks at sports illustrated?
That's a load of BS ... Most of their photogs will probably shoot with equal or even better lenses. I'm not saying his pictures aren't good, but they manage to get the same or better quality as your uncle. If they would have been impressed, it would have to be because of composition or subject.

This won't be a camera for the pro sports shooter. Neither is a Hasselblad or Mamiya, ... but they would set you back about the same amount ... and these ain't obscure brands. A lot of portrait-photographers would laugh in your face when you would tell them to use a Canon with "Luxury" lenses.

And yes they are overpriced ... but have you ever held a Leica in your hands?
It's like comparing Honda's (very good and well built cars, and the high end models aint cheap either) to a Bentley.
Both will have more or less the same features, but built quality for one is indeed very very very much better.
(At least it used to be, dunno if this model will live up to the Leica name/fame)

I saw this at a 3M conference a few months ago. Nothing spectacular really.
The one I saw was holding 2 round things at boobie-height ... really awkward.
... and they were spinning.

PS: it was motion sensor equipped. So when someone approached it started doing it's sales-pitch

A universal remote app ... would really love it!

They really do need a new icon. The app looks very nice now. The interface changes are very nice.
I love the network monitor!

Can you hear me sighing?
Boy Apple-fanboys are a pain in the ass, but anti-apple-fanboys are even worse.

Well Mr. Gates should have told him such a thing is just simply not done at microsoft.
People do such things all the time, in other offices.