BCNranking collects about 40% of the sales info from Japanese stores. And in 2021 Sony has lead the mirrorless market with 32% of the share with Canon following with 28%.Sony is second in the fixed lens camera segment with 23% and also second in the video camera department with 26% of the share.

Here are the detailed results:

• Fixed lens cameras (* The share in parentheses is last year’s share)
  1st place Canon: Share 34.01% (39.08%)
  2nd place Sony: Share 23.1% (19.65%)
  3rd place Fujifilm: Share 11.6% (11.41%)
• DSLR
  1st place Canon: Share 59.8% (51.91%)
  2nd place Nikon: Share 33.9% (44.78%)
  3rd place Ricoh Imaging: Share 5.8% (3%)
• Mirrorless
  1st place Sony: Share 32% (27.44%)
  2nd place Canon: Share 28.2% (23.78%)
  3rd place OM Digital Solutions: Share 12.7% (23.37%)
• Digital video camera category
  1st place Panasonic: Share 43.6% (32.17%)
  2nd place Sony: Share 26.3% (37.27%)
  3rd place DJI: Share 11.2% (-)
• Action camera category
  1st place GoPro: Share 70.4% (70%)
  2nd place Sony: Share 7.3% (7.49%)
  3rd place DJI: Share 5.3% (-)
• Lenses
  1st place Canon: Share 17.6% (18.29%)
  2nd place Sony: Share 17.2% (15.87%)
  3rd place Sigma: Share 12.6% (14.89%)
• Tripod / Monopod category
  1st place Hakuba Photo Industry: Share 29.1% (30.91%)
  2nd place Vitec Group: Share 15.5% (17.45%)
  3rd place Slick: Share 12.6% (10.74%)
• Camera case / bag category
  1st place Hakuba Photo Industry: Share 33.3% (33.13%)
  2nd place ELECOM: Share 18.8% (16.68%)
  3rd place Vitec Group: Share 5.8% (5.92%)

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For those of you owning Pentax lenses: The new Pentax K Lens to Sony E-Mount Monster autofocus Adapter is now in Stock at BHphoto (Click here).

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Full press text here: tokinalens.com/product/sz_super_tele_500mm_f8_reflex_mf/

Kenko Tokina Co., Ltd. is pleased to announce the sales release of the Tokina SZ SUPER TELE 500mm F8 Reflex MF lens. With the debut of the SZX SUPER TELE 400mm F8 Reflex MF, the SZ series offering a range of exciting products with specific features and valuable advantages.

Sales will commence on February 18, 2022.

Tokina SZ SUPER TELE 500mm F8 Reflex MF is a 500mm super tele lens that adopts catadioptric type optical design with a constant F8 aperture. The lens offers a compact alternative to standard tele photo lenses as more and more photographers are looking for easy-to-carry gear. Keeping in mind active travel photographers that seek outdoor landscape, wild nature or birds, the 500mm F8 Reflex MF is designed as a compact and lightweight mirror lens – a type of lens to be rediscovered in this new era of also compact but high-tech mirrorless cameras. The Tokina SZ SUPER TELE 500mm F8 Reflex MF adopts a T-mount standard (pitch 0.75mm, thread 42mm) that allows the lens to be attached to any camera by using mount adapters.

Highlighted Features

• Extremely compact and lightweight super tele lens.
• Macro shooting with 1 : 2.86 magnification.
• Specific donut-shaped and super smooth bokeh.
• Easy and precise focusing.
• Super compression effect.
• Versatile mount system for 6 camera mounts including 4 mounts for mirrorless cameras.

Today Canon announced their new R5c video focused camera version (specs at BHphoto and Adorama). This might be considered an official competitor of the Sony A1 and you can find a full R5c vs A1 spec comparison on that special BH page. On the pro side this camera shoots 8k60p but on the downsides it doens’t have IBIS, a huge cooling vent and only a micro Hdmi.

Sony ZV-1 at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.

The first camera to be announced in 2022 should be a new kind of ZV-1 compact camera model. The camera will start shipping out in Q2 (April-June). I have no specs yet but it doesn’t sound like a successor of the current ZV-1, but more likely a (cheaper?) variation.