My sources told me the new A900 firmware will soon arrive to bring support for the new super expensive 500mm f/4.0 lens. The firmware is still not online but it will be soon. Same for the NEX-7 firmware update which we should expect to be launched wihtin the next weeks. P.S.: The NEX-7 with kit lens is back in Stock at Amazon (Click here).
Stay tuned on SAR!
P.S.: No this is not the big news I am writing on facebook 🙂
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let’t not have exclusive news on facebook, shall we
for those who are not on FB, the big news is apparently Full-Frame related, let’s hope Sony is pushing up the release to put an end to this Canikon nonsense 😉
What a stupid comment.
Go take some high iso pics of your cat
Some people can’t be or choose not to be in facebook. So what’s the story there?
All we get is extra warning when something big is coming.
That’s about it.
don’t worry, there’s no story and there’s no rumor on facebook
So now this site is just for trash & old news? SAR driving people away to FB? Think simply just shut this blog down would be a lot easier than “paddling” between sites. Make sense? Geez….
When can you announce “big news”?
I’m not on Facebook and don’t want to be. Please keep this site updated!!!
Is this a change from what was posted on the site only a few minutes ago??? Then it said that A900 update was released, but the link was to the 2010 update! Afraid this does not give me much faith in the credibility of what appears here…
It was a mistake. That post shouldn’t have go online. Sorry. Hit the wrong button 🙂
Ok, I can accept that, these things happen! But you raised my hopes temporarily!
Mike
I was worried I might have to by a Windows computer… 😉
being a webmaster mayself…this things happens..
But since i dont own a a900..i diddnt take much notice when i read that post
So what do we know about the NEX 7 update…?
Facebook starts becoming like the old AOL : a “gated” community for the ones to lazy or to stupid to get out to the real world (WWW). I hope that it will have the same fate and in a few years hardly anybody will remember them.
it is: too lazy or too stupid to get out
this site is updated, all the rumors posted on facebok are links to this site!!
Wow~ does it include the A850?
I would say so.
What about A700 and A850?
Same generation.
No, the a850/a900 are the same
The a700 is not the same
@ admin
In no way do I mean this as a complaint against the overall great work you do here, but I do find it a bit annoying when you continually hint at “BIG” news coming, where in most instances this big news never seems to surface. I can only assume the reason you will hint at big news, but not post it, is because you’re are mostly likely trying to validate the information with other known sources…which is smart. However, it would seem to me that if you had valid information, you would simply post it with no hesitation. Where as if the information is still not completely trustworthy, you wouldn’t say a word about it…and not even hint about it.
I guess Andrea is in Europe, and that the rumor won’t be announced until morning as it’s getting late now.
Ok a900 update for use of 500/4 is ok
What is in there for nex-7? 500/4 support? why bother? Some fixes to interface? Improvements to AF like selection of small and big AF zones? Or may be fixes to the directions of dials in A and P mode? Improved jpeg? Selectable 24p/30p/50p/60p for all regardless of region? Improved RAW? 12fps? HDR RAW mode? User presets? All buttons customizable – why do we need fixed EV on the rear dial, when one of the top dials is dedicated to this function? Improvements to manual focusing due to lack of AF lenses? Improved operation of LA-EA2 (I have hard time taking sharp portraits yet focus is tack sharp on things like boxes, coins, bottles etc.)
I’d add saving custom presets for video! 🙂
Hmm, for A900/850 users, is there anything other than 500/4 compatibility? I am not interested/able to afford 500/4 lens am but very interested in anything Sony can improve the current A900/850.
+1
Improve A900 -> you are less likely to spend money on a new FF camera
Improve 500/4 compatibility -> you are more likely to buy the 500/4
That’s the way Sony marketing thinks. It’s probably even correct, but extremely shortsighted.
It would be so funny if this fw upgrade improved the a900 by a massive leap.
All the people who sold their cameras would be pissing a river of flame for some time.
Funny how the troll/togs that said that Sony has abandoned the Pro and FF market… Yet they released a 500mm f2.8 and is still dishing out updates to their FF OVF cameras…
If you feel a little heated/flustered by reading this… Yes! I am laughing at you.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Just picture a little kid with a stupid cheeky grin on his face.
Yes that’s me, laughing at you!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! BURRRRRRN!
What will be add in/fix for the Nex 7 firmware?
Anybody interested in the first of three videos comparing the D800 to the 5DMk III?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omTo7UxbJX8&feature=player_embedded
Great video. Great cameras.
I love how when he shoots in the garage, he lays flat on the ground; that’s when a Sony user would just flip up the LCD screen instead of getting all dirty 😉
+1
It would be most hilarious if they could somehow update the a900’s AF to be on par with d3s. Those who sold off may be cursing now.
The reason I posted the video is so we can see what the 36 megapixel sensor is capapble of. Looks like it has surprisingly high iso/low noise and extremely high resolution. Also, the video seems to show very good dynamic range, which is verified by some of the people making comments. That sensor,likely a Sony in whole or in part, is a real winner!
Alright! Now I can finally use the 500/4 on my A900! ………..no wait.
I know that 1.5 for the a77 just came out, but has a 2.0 update been confirmed. It’s something that’s been discussed on here but is there anything confirmed at all to bring new functionality? Or anything about hacking attempts (like the gh2 or magic lantern)?
Why even ask?
Still waiting for word on the NEX-F3. The FS700 is a BIG announcement. Now, for the smaller one with a large impact…
The a700 is the same generation sensor, etc as the a900. They were both previewed originally at the same time. So where is this firmware update for running the 500mm on the a700. Or is Sony just proving that they don’t support users once again?
Until Sony makes an official announcement, I wouldn’t be too hard on them. They support their users pretty well. Not perfectly, mind you, but not badly either. I would hope that they make the A700 compatible with the new 500f4. On the other hand, does anyone have an A700 and a 500f4 to test together at the moment?
Maybe an update for A55 to, would be Nice. 😀
@Admin: Andrea, do you have more details on the A900 update? Is it also good for the A850? What will be included? When will it be release?
What about the BIG RUMOR that will happen soon on SAR ????
Just a teaser to follow your website?
There’s plenty of a700s in use, but I don’t think many, if any outside of Sony’s hands of the 500mm. Wasn’t it May before you could get one?
How could one say they support their a700 users pretty well? No other group were so poorly treated by Sony.
DJ!!! The record’s stuck aain
Those who constantly ask for 500/4 compatibility are the same who never going to buy it. 🙂
Any idea when the update will be available?
Still waiting for the firmware update…..
Where is-it ?
“…NEX-7 firmware update which we should expect to be launched wihtin the next weeks. ”
That was 3 months ago! C’mon Sony!!!
I say the same thing, where is the firmware!?
I send e-mail to Sony today and I am hoping to get a reply next week
dch
Sony reply to my mail asking for date of firmware release saying no plans till fourth quarter. Could anybody can confirm if it is true or just another Sony snubbing to customers
We will not see a firmware update for the Nex-7. Sony puts it’s updates in the form of new model cameras. I have owned Canon’s Nikon’s and Pentax,always with good tech support. Sony should take a lesson from them. My Nex-7 will be the last Sony camera that I will ever buy.
Ed
Same here. Sony is pushing new camera bodies, but does not care about the deficiencies of existing models. No matter what price, they drop it into the market and never look back. It’s still a consumer electronics and not a camera maker in its original sense.