In case you missed it Sony A7III and A7rIII owners will get a major 3.0 firmware update in April. Press text:

Firmware Ver. 3.0 for α7R III and α7 III

Sony’s popular α7R III and α7 III full-frame cameras will both receive enhanced Real-time Eye AF performance with the upcoming firmware version 3.0. This will be available in AF-C mode with a simple half-press of the shutter button. Real-Time Eye AF for animals (i) will also be available.

The cameras will also receive interval recording functionality that will allow for simple creation of time-lapse movies (vii). The new feature can be set for anywhere between 1 and 60 seconds, with a total number of shots from 1 to 9999. AE tracking sensitivity can also be adjusted to “High”, “Mid” or “Low” during interval recording, allowing for reduced changes in exposure over the shooting interval.

The new system firmware update version 3.0 is scheduled in April 2019.

Here are the differences between the Sony A9 and the A7III-A7rIII firmware upgrades:

The most happy people of todays Sony announcement should be the current Sony A9 camera owners. They will get a ton of new features with the two new updates that are coming soon:
update version 5.0 is scheduled for launch in March 2019, and version 6.0 is scheduled for Summer 2019.

Check out this video from Patrick Murphy-Racey to learn more about the new features:

Sony A6400 preorders (open on Jan 17):
Sony A6400 at BHphoto, Adorama, FocusCamera and Amazon.
Sony A6400 in Europe at Calumet Germany, ParkCameras UK, Jessops.

Sony has officially announced three things:
– A new Sony A6400 (press release here). It has Animal Eye-AF, Intervalometer and cost $900 only.
– A new massive A9 firmware update with Animal EYE-AF (press release here).
– New Imaging Edge Features for both Desktop and APP.

Sony A6400 Key specs:

• World’s Fastest (i) 0.02 seconds (ii) AF acquisition speed plus 425 phase-detection and contrast-detection AF points covering approximately 84% of image area
• Advanced Real-time Eye AF
• New Real-time Tracking for object tracking
• 24.2MP(iii) APS-C Exmor™ CMOS image sensor and latest-generation BIONZ X™ image processor
• 180-degree fully tiltable LCD touch screen for self-recording
• High-speed continuous shooting at up to 11 fps(iv) mechanical shutter / 8 fps(iv) silent shooting with continuous AF/AE tracking
• High-resolution 4K(vi) movie recording with full pixel readout and no pixel binning, plus advanced AF speed and stability
• Interval recording for time-lapse videos

Sony A6400 coverage:
Full A6400 Brochure. Full presentation page at Sony. Press at Dpreview. Image samples at Sony USA.

Effects on the Sony A6500 and A7000
– This is not the Sony A6500 successor. This is more of an entry level succesor for the A5xxx and lower end A6xxx series
– The A6400 price of just $900 makes it clear there is room for a new higher end model which I believe will be named A7000.

Vloggers test Videos:

Like I told you in my rumors the A6400 main target are Vloggers. And they already published their first test videos.

And here are the other A6400 videos:

New Imaging Edge features

Sony A6400 product images:

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