Sony a6400 - "World's Fastest Autofocus"??! (not exactly)

Sony brought a bunch of press to San Diego for a press event - Join us as we go through the motions and find out about the new a6400 and the latest updates to the a9, a7r3 etc.
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TIMELINE
01:46 Press conference
04:26 Spec run through
06:45 AF Fail
10:19 ANIMAL AF
10:37 Future Timeline
11:10 But what about…?
13:10 More testing
15:10 Conclusion
Now, It may seem like I am being overly negative on the a6400 - I mean why compare a $900 camera to $3000+ Sony a9 and Nikon D850 and Z7? Well - because thats what I had on hand. Sony loaned us the a9 and a6400 and I had the Nikons with me. Do I expect the a6400 would really outperform them in AF? NO. But Sony are promoting the a6400 as having the fastest AF in the world* and hype up the fact that it has the same real time tracking and eye af that the a9 is also getting later this year... BUT - the *** is important... they clarify in the appendix of the press release that it has the fastest AF.... "Among interchangeable-lens digital cameras equipped with an APS-C image sensor as of January 2019, based on Sony research". For what that is worth.
I certainly heard people before the announcement saying this needs the new body style, dual cards, the new battery, ibis etc etc - to be an epic success. But... it has none of them.
That said - I genuinely think it is a GREAT buy for $900 and you cannot expect to get everything from an entry level APSC camera that you do from the flagship. I just want people to be clear on what they are really getting, once the marketing hype dies down you will have an excellent entry level apsc camera - not something that surpasses what Sony/Canon/Nikon have in higher tiers.
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