About those rumors: I have no idea who sent them and 90% of the times they turn out to be wrong. But, it happened in the past that a couple of those were right. So I will post them today, and we all together can eventually keep track of this. If one of the sources turns out to be right than we will know we can trust it a bit more!

Source 1:

There is an Alpha with 100MP,   1/125s ,  10fps@14bit .

Source 2:

42.4MP full-frame Exmor R™ back-illuminated CMOS sensor
Low noise images w/ ISO up to 204800 and 15+stop dynamic range
8x more powerful, next generation BIONZ XR™ image processing engine
759 selectable phase-detection points covering about 90% of the image
Next-generation full-frame 8K 24p 10-bit 4:2:2 chroma subsampling recording
Up to 4K 60p 10-bit 4:2:2 w/ Super35mm 5.2K full pixel readout in all rec. formats
8K oversampling full-frame 4K 30p 10-bit 4:2:2 w/ no pixel binning
Up to 10fps continuous shooting at 42.4MP with AE/AF tracking
Real-time AF tracking, Real-time Eye-AF (humans, animals, birds)
S-Cinetone, S-Log3, HLG and 10 Creative Look presets in-camera
5-axis in-body image stabilization and Active Mode for handheld movie

Source 3:

I know that you posted this while ago (www.sony-semicon.co.jp/e/news/2021/2021121601.html), but just wanted to say this tech may be available soon according to someone I know that works at sony.
I do not know if it is gonna start with their cellphone or camera. Person has said “soon”.
By the way, sony semicon has two new apsc sensors, one of them has more than 40MP.

Source 4:

Hello i have infos about the a9 iii
24 mpx stacked sensor
30fps burst shooting
same af as a1
6k 60p 12bit raw video
10 bit 4 2 2 4k up to 60p full frame oversampled from 6k
4k 100/120p in s35 mode.

43rumors leaked the images and specs of the new OM-1 Micro Four Thirds camera that will be announced on Feb 15. the interesting bit for use is that it uses the new 20mp IMX472 Quad Pixel sensor from Sony (You can download the PDF here).

If I got it right the OM-1 will have a high dynamic range mode that allows to combine 4 pixels in 1 and create a 20Mp image with 2 stops of dynamic range gain.

This month we got two new lenses, the Sigma 20mm FE and the Samyang 135mm f/1.8 FE. But there is more tom come:

• Tamron said they will announce new lens(es)
• Laowa said they will announce new lens(es)

Regarding: Sony, this is what I can say:

• With 99% certainty no new E-mount camera will be announced at CP+.
• The next camera to be announced is a new ZV-1 styled camera in Spring
• The 85mm f/1.2 may be announced some time after the CP+ show in Spring.

I know this doesn’t sound exciting for now, but I have been told there is a lot to come particularly during the second half of 2022!

Sigma will announce the new 20mm f/2.0 DG DN Full Frame E-mount lens on February 9th!

Not online Cosina, but also Tamron is expected to announce new lenses at the CP+ show that starts on February 22.

Their last E-mount lens was the stunning 35-150mm f/2.0-2.8. Me being humble I pretend to get a 14-35mm f/2.0 fE now :)

CameraBeta posted this rumor:

Sony A9 III may be released in the fourth quarter] There are new rumors, the new Sony A9 III is expected to be officially released in the fourth quarter of this year, the new camera still uses a 24 million pixel sensor, with a new menu, equipped with a tiltable angle screen, support 4K video shooting at 60 frames per second is expected to cost $4,999, or about RMB 32,000.
At the same time, there is very little information about the A7R V, but it is expected that the new machine should be released in the fourth quarter of this year.

As far as I heard the timing of the A7RV release isn’t true which leads me believe that this rumor might be not correct at all, because it will be announce long before the A9III. But I see all other rumor sites posted it without questioning so I figured I have to share my two cents.

The lens will be announced within a few hours. And it has the astro-infinity focus button like the 24mm f1.8!