Good news for the A-mount A77m2 camera owners: Sony Japan announced they will release a new firmware update in December. Those are the two great features that will be added:
1. Auto focus up to 2.5 times faster at low light!*
* Internal measurement method DT 16-50mm F2.8 SSM when mounted
2. XAVC-S recording
wow!
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Nice update there… It seems like they’ve a nice listening to us.
Really neat! I almost can’t believe it… for once, thank you Sony for a nice firmware update, now I’m actually moved 🙂
Someone says this every time Sony release a decent firmware update… why this is though I am still very much confused.
So this means that my a77MK2 will support XAVC S resolution up to 3840 × 2160 while recording??
You will get FHD 1920 x 1080 at 50mbps.
1080 60p(50Mbps), 30p (50Mbps), 24p (50Mbps)
XAVC-S doesn’t mean 4K. It’s a recording format.
Still no XAVC-S for the ever popular a6000? Only a a few bug fixes in the last one… Wow, just Wow!
It’s like half the price. Marketing dictates there won’t be an a6000 fw update.
Lower priced A5100 has it, and older RX-10 got it through update….good marketing dictates not pissing off loyal customers.
Not pissing you off? Sony doesn’t owe you new features! You bought a camera with a spec sheet. What do you want?
Yes, you are right. But Sony wants him to buy the next body and more lenses too. So why not doing something for the loyal customer and add some nice features to establish a long lasting relationship? No needs to being pissed, but if one has to buy always a new body because of minor improvements some get pissed. Good marketing dictates to listen to the customer.
Exactly….simply can’t afford to swap new camera bodies every few months to take advantage of incremental new features that could be added through software updates. At least give me the option to purchase the feature, and I can decide if it’s worth the price.
So did RX-10 buyers. What do I want? Isn’t it clear? What they got.
You’re complaining about the fastest/smallest cameras on the planet not being good enough? Let me guess, you want all the features on an entry level camera?
Still no true 50i/60i select (WorldCam spec, NOT PAL with on-demand NTSC)?
Disappointing…
Improvements are a good thing. Thank you Sony.
Seriously…thats it?!?! How about Sony addresses the issues revolving around how it’s limited functionality compared to lower end Sony cameras.
December… can’t wait… 🙂 Thank you Sony!
What about A99? No improvements, no more updates, WTF?
Wouldn’t take a lot to really make the A99 a great camera, but Sony seems hellbent on ignoring it.
+1 WTF Sony
Sony where are the Playmemories Camera Apps?
It would be nice if Sony approached FW updates in a similar way that Fuji does.
it seems the firmware is already available on the Sony India website : http://www.sony.co.in/support/download/595425/product/ilca-77m2m
The program doesn’t run on Mac OS X Yosemite yet.
Ari,
The 1.02 update shown on the Sony India website is not THIS update. The 1.02 update on the Sony India page just adds the hindi language as an option. That was released in Sept. 2014
I can confirm that the XAVC-S format is amazing.I recorded a short video clip using SanDisk Extreme Pro SD 64GB with XAVC-S 50p (50mbps) on my a77ii with SAL1650 and its really amazing. Full HD with video bitrate of pure 50mbps 😀
http://www.sony.com.my/support/download/598621/product/ilca-77m2q