Those are the camera market shares for the year 2018 in Japan

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The image on top shows the full power of the Canon machinery. With their new M50 and EOS-R cameras they made a +10% jump on the Japanese market. Sony had a small increase of 2% and is no getting closer to the second place.

I bet in 2019 those shares will change dramatically with new Canon Nikon and Sony mirrorless cameras being released one after another.

Below you can find the shares in the fixed lens camera market:

Source: Bcnaward.jp

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Sony has released a new firmware update for the 16-35mm GM lens

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16-35mm GM owner can download the latest firmware at Sony Support. It has one single fix:

  • Solves a rare issue where some SEL1635GM lenses are not properly initialised when used with ILCE-7M3 or ILCE-7RM3 cameras

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Deal reminder on this  lens:

EU readers save quite big on the 16-35mm f/2.8 GM lens sold on Amazon Spain. The price is 350 Euro lower than the best price I found in Germany. As usual all EU citizen can buy from the Amazon Spain store and correct VAT applies too.

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Chris Niccolls from DpreviewTV: you should not buy the A6500 and wait for the replacement!

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Sony A6400 preorders:
USA at BHphoto, Adorama, FocusCamera, Buydig, Amazon.
Europe at Calumet Germany, ParkCameras UK, Jessops.
Asia at Sony Australia and Sony Japan.

DpreviewTV just posted their Sony a6400 first impressions video:

What I like most of this video is his conclusion where he says don’t buy the A6500…wait for the replacement!
I don’t think he got some insider info…I believe it’s just his guts telling us that we should wait for Sony to finally give us this A6500 successor.

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Sony A9 Firmware 5.0 Real Time Tracking Example Footage

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Patrick Murphy-Racey:

These are two clips that I got to shoot when testing the new Sony A9 5.0 Firmware in Los Angeles last week. The new tracking feature is already inside the Sony A6400 bodies that will start shipping in February of 2019. This was a test of how the A9 was able to use the new hybrid tracking feature by combining the use of distance, movement, Face Detection, Eye AF, color, and pattern. By using all of these together the AI (artificial intelligence) residing in the camera’s programing is able to see the human body type, pattern of clothing & hair, movement, employ Eye AF and Face Detection all at the same time. This creates a very easy to use and even scary combination of auto-focus. I call it the “Spider-Monkey” AF setting. You kind of have to see it to believe it so I’m posting this video to show what it’s like in real time. There are two clips. Each clip is shown once in real time, and then the same clip is repeated at 45% speed so you can see what the camera is accomplishing. When you see the large rectangle flash, it is me shooting stills at 20 frames per second. Needless to say, I cannot wait to be able to employ the Spider Monkey AF system on most of my shoots once I get hold fo the firmware update again in March!

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