Sony today launched the second generation model of its flagship Alpha 1 camera. Sticking with the company’s famously bad naming conventions, the new camera is called Alpha 1 II.
The original Alpha 1 was the Swiss Army knife of mirrorless cameras and was critically acclaimed for its incredible high speed photo and 8K video capabilities. The Alpha 1 II borrows the same 50.1MP full-frame stacked CMOS sensor but combines it with a new AI processing unit.
This improves the autofocusing capabilities, which can now detect a more diverse range of subjects apart from humans, including…