The FX5 by Sony is delayed. A lot of questions online about the rear screen, and now many are canceling orders and heading to Blackmagic. What speculations might our panel have for the delay of this camera?
ASKED BY · Rajan Shandell · LOS ANGELES · 16 OCT 2026 · ▶ 00:00:24
Notes that Sony is an established manufacturer unlikely to have fundamental design issues, and suggests the delay may involve screening first production batches rather than a fundamental problem.
Discusses production constraints, chip shortages, and supply chain disruptions as likely causes for delays in camera manufacturing.
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0:24Alexander. First one coming in is from Rajan Shandell in Los Angeles. The The FX5 by Sony is delayed. A lot of questions online about the rear screen, and now many are canceling orders and heading to Blackmagic. What speculations might our panel have for the delay of this camera? It's a flood. They're running, Courtney. I was just briefly looking at this. I think, I mean, it looks pretty good.
0:52Let's take a look here. These are the key features. Full-frame camera, compact design. I don't know if it's got a global shutter or not. Let's see, dynamic range, ISO 15 stops. But the price is like $5,000. What is it? $4,000. And looking at the 899, $4,900 without a lens. But it's styled like a DSLR, but it's full-frame, mirrorless. Dynamic range, 15 stops, has triple native base ISO of 800, 4000, and 12800.
1:35Shoots in super low light, body and control share similar compact features of the FX3. With a 5% weight increase, 3.5 inch variable angle touchscreen. Maybe they have some problem, you know, with those connectors to the touchscreen. screen. Yeah, if you look here at the, if you look here is an image of it, it looks like it's got a little fold out. This is from imagingresource.com. They had a article out a few weeks ago that was
2:02reporting that the device itself had been delayed. It was going to be originally out in August, then delayed to September, and now delayed to October. I'm not sure when. So not surprising. We've got in 2026 going into 2027, everybody's talking about production constraints and how many chips are getting built and how much components are constrained. And even if you don't directly use those components, all of the shuffling around of trying to source things for your product that aren't from your typical manufacturers creates a lot of uncertainty and a lot of kind of, it takes that still lake and makes it really turbulent, which can cause a downstream kind of hiccup in what would seemingly be an unrelated production.
2:56Alexander? Yeah, we can sit here and there could be a lot of conjecture on what the issues are, but Sony's a big company. So obviously everyone knows they've released cameras for many, many decades. It would be very unlikely, I think, this late in the game that they're running into actual issues. Those things usually get ironed out pretty early on in early prototypes.
3:23you know, once they start getting mass produced, I'd be shocked if there is an issue with the screen. I don't know what people are complaining about with why they think the screen is an issue. I'm sure there's a legitimate reason for the delay, but I'm sure this thing is going to ship. Sony, while they have cited production concerns, they have not cited a specific production concern.
3:46So the conjecture part is that it is the screen. We know that there's something going on, but at the end of the day, we'd rather them do it. We'd rather them do it right than have to deal with having to claw back stuff and recall. And it very well could be, because remember, they are mass producing these, so it very well could be, well, the first batch, the first 500 or whatever that came off the production line
4:10had maybe one too many issues, and so they're now trying to look at where did it go wrong in the production. So I'm sure they'll get it handled. Courtney? Yeah, I mean, they could be hung up by the chip shortages that are going on everywhere. It could be because it's got to have some local memory in it and or just chip, you know, large scale chip production is taken, is bought up by all the AI manufacturers.
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