The Chinese weibo account Xjrumo posted the image of the new Hasselblad X2D. What I wonder is if it uses the new Sony 126MB global shutter sensor that Sony announced last year. Would be stunning!

We are still in the midst of the worldwide sensor shipment crisis, so timing still is a bit unsure. But from what I gathered til now this is what we can expect in 2022:

1. A new ZV-1 alike styled camera and a new A7rIV are going to be announced before the A9III
2. And only if sensor supply issues permit it, the A9III will come as last camera of the year (or in early 2023 if things go bad)

I have been told there is room for some surprises, but I don’t know what’s meant with this. I hope to get more tidbits about this soon.

Sony 50mm f/1.2 GM at BHphoto. Amazon. Adorama. FocusCamera. Fotokoch Germany. Calumet Germany, Foto Erhardt. ParkCameras UK. Jessops.

Last year on October 21 we got the last Sony announcement (A7IV). Today we officially mark four months of long pause with no new camera and no new lens. This is rather unusual for Sony. By comparison, last year Sony made two announcements in January (Sony A1 and 35mm GM).

The worldwide chip shortage may lead Sony to make a short “break” and postpone the announcement. But I am certain that pause will be over soon. Last year we got the 50mm f/1.2 GM lens in March. And 12 months after it would be nice to get the new 85mm f/1.2 GM ;)

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!