Sony PXW-FS7 Unboxing / Review / Test from 12FPS on Vimeo.
There is an E-mount camera we don’t talk a lot about here on SAR. But it’s a hell of a great camera: The 4K E-mount FS7 camcorder. There is a good news to report: Dan Chung from Newsshooter got word from Sony that they will fix the FS7 slow aperture response. Hope that fast way to fix stuff will be streamlined to all current Alpha cameras 🙂
The camcorder is also in Stock for the first time in US via Amazon third party resellers (Click here).
Camcorder preorders:
Sony PXW-FS7 body only at BHphoto (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and Amazon (Click here).
Sony PXW-FS7 with 28-135mm lens at BHphoto (Click here).
Sony VCT-FS7 Lightweight Rod Support System for PXW-FS7 at BHphoto (Click here).
28-135mm at Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here), BHphoto (Click here).
28-135mm powerzoom in Europe at Sony DE, UK, ES, IT, FR, CH, AT, NL, BE, FI, SE, NO, PT.
Sony 128GB XQD Memory Card G Series 400MB/s at Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Sony 64GB XQD Memory Card G Series 400MB/s at Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
Sony 32GB XQD Memory Card G Series 400MB/s at Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
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Wow, actually admitted a problem.
Things are looking up!
Sony would do well to spend a little less money on hardware r&d and a little more on software development. It’s time for these sophisticated electronics to have a proper software platform (akin to iOS / android / et al.) that gets updated with new features regularly. Cameras can get model-specific features but still all would have the proper alpha unification of interface, etc.
Good idea.
And why do you think they don’t have this already? Have you used any of the latest Sony E-mount camera’s?
Recently – A7r and a7s. No hey do not have this. Can you run a6000 software on an a7? Does an update to the platform add new features to a7 II and a77 II?
No. I’m not referred to the general aesthetics or organizational structure but the underlying foundation – making all alpha cameras run a sort of alpha OS.
I don’t think it’s possible, perhaps too many different hardware?
I would call that more a eco system issue because it looks like they all run a similar or same version of the same OS with specific features for that cameras hardware. Besides there also seems to be a rights/ region difference, I can’t get any of the apps US users seem to be able to buy. My guess is the succes of these camera’s was a bit of a surprise for Sony and they are now catching up. Probably working on standardising the hardware making sure the chips to run XAVC and other fancy software is inside the new camera’s.
If only software, firmware and hardware development was left to forum bloggers. There is always a know nothing jack a$$ here to set things right.
And there will never be a shortage of wannabe know-it-all jack offs who need a way to boost their ego by trolling said forums to shout stupid at the world.
That would be easier if they’d use freely programmable processing units for more of the work. Sounds nice until you realize that those draw more power for the same work. Whether that first causes problems with the heat sinking(the A7s has no internal 4K-recording, would mandatory external live view processing be acceptable?) or if depleted batteries avoid that issue is up to debate.
These are all good points. Samsung’s entrance to ILC cameras running android should prove an interesting experiment.
How do simple issues like this get past Sony in the first place? It’s not a minor obscure bug…its pretty much an “in your face” bug that is aparent right away when you start shooting.
Reminds me of Sony NX70 zoom rocker flaw scandle
Used the NX70 for three years, it was no scandal and a relatively minor issue. We don’t actually do much zooming whilst filming!
Yeah, Sony released the NX70 with the original firmware that only allowd for 2 speeds of zoom, medium and fast.
They finally fixed it a later release and blamed it on the weathersealing of the zoom rocker.
They tried to fix a hardware defect with firmware mod.
So why did you buy the NX70? This issue was widely known from the off, and not really an game-stopping issue all said & done. Caveat Emptor. Do your due diligence or hire someone who will on your behalf!
Yeah, i preordered it and got it right when it hit the streets. I kept and worked around it. That camera gave me tons of great footage over the years.
Still, am I not allowed to be supprised that Sony screwed them all up on release?
Could you imagine if all the new A7II’s had defective shutter release buttons? Or would it be wrong to find that odd too?
Because the camera was designed as a kit with the 28-135 I can imagine they prefer to release it and then fix it with an update, instead of waiting for 2 months. Considering how stable and full featured the camera already is I think it is an amazing camera. Blows every sub 20K camera out of the water and gives the F55 a run for its money. Can’t wait to get my kit version, and if you think all this stuff is as easy as shouting a few dumb cliche’s in a comment section: checkout the archives on the RED forum and see how much crap you can run into developing a camera.
Totally agree!!
Amazing 4k footage… lol