The new firmware update Improves the AF performance of the 16-50mm pancake zoom lens.

UPDATE: Source contacted me again and corrected me by saying A1 Firmware update will come in February (and not February 1). He wrote this:

new firmware will come to the Alpha1 in February, include video-af to a7r5

If you can confirm or deny this please send me a message though the anonymous contact box or write me at sonyalpharumors@gmail.com.

You can now preorder it for $3,229 at BHphoto.

In 2022 Sony had the top position in the mirrorless world. But this year they slipped behind Canon. The exact opposite happened in the lens market: Sony is now ahead of Canon.

The Japanese BCN organization collected the exact sales number from 40% of the Japanese stores. And this is the market share of the camera companies:

･BCN AWARD 2023 Category Camera

• Digital camera integrated lens category (*The share in parentheses is last year’s share)
  1st Sony: 22.1% share (23.1%)
  2nd Canon: 18.0% share (34.01%)
  3rd Fujifilm: 17.1% share (11.6%)
• Digital camera SLR category
  1st Canon: 76.8% (59.8%)
  share 2nd Nikon: 17.2% (33.9%)
  share 3rd Ricoh Imaging: 5.7% (5.8%) share
• Digital Camera Mirrorless SLR Category
  1st Canon: 31.7% (28.2%)
  share 2nd Sony: 29.4% (32.0%)
  share 3rd OM Digital Solutions: 14.3% (12.7%) share
• Digital video camera category
  1st Panasonic: 42.4% (43.6%)
  share 2nd place Sony: 34.7% (26.3%)
  share 3rd place DJI: 9.4% (11.2%) share
• Action camera category
  No. 1 GoPro: Share 57.7% (70.4%)
  No. 2 DJI: Share 20.5% (5.3%)
  No. 3 Shenzhen Arashi Vision: Share 7.9% (-)

･BCN AWARD 2023 Category Camera Accessories

• Interchangeable lens category (*Last year’s share in parentheses)
  1st Sony: 16.4% share (17.2%)
  2nd Canon: 15.9% share (17.6%)
  3rd Sigma: 14.5% share (12.6%)
• Tripod/monopod category
  No. 1 Hakuba Photo Industry: Share 30.9% (29.1%)
  No. 2 Videndum Media Solutions: Share 15.1% (15.5%)
  No. 3 Slick: Share 14.4% (12.6%)
• Camera case/bag
  No. 1 Hakuba Photo Industry: Share 41.0% (33.3%)
  No. 2 Elecom: Share 17.5% (18.8%)
  No. 3 Etsumi: Share 5.9% (-)

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* Gary’s personal camera settings, and under what circumstances he changes them
* Over 900 tips and tricks to help you get the most out of each feature
* Every video setting and feature, and tradeoffs between the various gamma curves
* Hidden features that can only be had by assigning them to buttons first
* Shortcuts to quickly navigate through the new menu system
* The phase-detect AF’s little-known blind spot and how to avoid it
* A comprehensive guide to 3rd party adapters for legacy glass
* How to do pixel-shift for 240MB images without a tripod!
* Step-by-step instructions for uploading images and video from the field
* And more!

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