According to latest reports coming from MR.com, Sony A5100 successor is not coming soon and the biggest reason behind the delay of the camera is 2016 Komamoto earth quake. Sony sensor manufacturing units are highly affected by the earthquake resulting delay in shipments of the sensors
The Sony A5100 camera was announced back on August 2014, and over-due for an update. Earlier it was expected that the Sony A5300 (Name not confirmed yet) will arrive on June 2016 but for now we don’t have a time-frame .
Not only Sony A5300 announcements is delayed for now, other list of camera that may be also delayed due Komamoto earth quake are Fuji XT2 and E-PL8.
As we already know that the upcoming Fuji X-T2 will carry same sensor as of X-Pro 2 , see more rumors related to X-T2 here. Olympus E-PL8 images was leaked few weeks ago, however still there is no concrete info available about the announcement of the product.
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Great news. Sony is putting efforts on development Affordable mirrorless camera.
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