A77II (A-mount) camera owners can now download the new 2.0 firmware here:
Sony USA (coming in few hours), Sony Australia, Sony Germany, Sony UK, Sony France, Sony Italy, Sony Spain, Sony Portugal, Sony Netherland, Sony Belgium, Sony Switzerland, Sony Austria, Sony Sweden, Sony Norway, Sony Finland.
It adds XAVC-S and speeds up the autofocusing! Share your tests here once you have installed it!
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Just when the rest of the world already has updated. Solid update, though.
I wonder how noticeable the AF speedup is. Somebody cares to test & comment?
I tested with SAL70200G2, can’t find much difference lol
Try low-light, centre AF point. Too late to compare now as you have done the update.
It was noticeably faster using my Sony 18-135.
Yes, I have too. During lowlight it is MUCH Faster. Regular shooting with that lens is fast regardless.
So when’s the A7/S/R turn??
Cannot record in XAVCS on a 16GB UHS-I 95mb/s card? What card do I need ?
XAVC-S require SDXC cards, which is >=64GB
Editor, Do you think you can fix the Sony USA link to point to the correct cameras page. Right now it directs to the original A77, not the A77II.
it’s not available for the a77ii at this moment, later today.
Any word on XAVCs coming to the A6000?
You keep posting the wrong Sony USA link to the old A77.
The correct Sony USA Firmware link for the A77M2 is:
http://esupport.sony.com/US/p/model-home.pl?mdl=ILCA77M2&template_id=1®ion_id=1&tab=download#/downloadTab
No love for the original A77.. Sure I understand this is new fancy stuff, but all we ever got were bugfixes and lens profiles it seems..
Obviously it’s because Sony doesn’t care about the A77, and they want people to buy the new A77II.
Why would they invest time and money into making an old product better when they can force people to buy a new product? It’s ALL about MONEY.
Still waiting for the firmware update to fix the auto-gain problem for audio input on the A77. I they need to do is add the ability to set the gain manually like Canon has done for their DSLRs capable of recording video.
http://esupport.sony.com/US/p/model-home.pl?mdl=ILCA77M2&LOC=3#/downloadTab new link
I just install and try the new firmware and is a noticeable improvement on the focus speed, I’ll be exploring the rest of the changes later on the day. I hope Sony follows the foot steps of Fuji and continues to improve the firmware even on the older models.
This seems like a pretty big deal, Sony releasing a real firmware update for an A mount camera.
Les numeriques review the new firmware and they said : focus is much faster around double in good light and 40% in low light. wait beetween two photos was 0,5 and now 0,3 sec. for video you can record now in XAVC-S. they said at the end now he got 5 stars and its the best apcs now.
http://www.lesnumeriques.com/appareil-photo-numerique/sony-alpha-77-ii-p20457/sony-alpha-77-ii-firmware-2-00-avec-af-plus-rapide-video-xavc-s-n37597.html
Not bad:
” These excellent performances allow the Alpha 77 II pass the Nikon D7100 , Canon EOS 70D and even in the very recent Canon EOS 7D Mark II .
Hi, first of all…can someone tell me if this firmware works on all a77 models? I have first type, not m2…
Second…ouch, I have japanese body and everytime I need to make some deep changes I need to check some online pages with complete menu and try figure out which setting are ok. I have found out that sony australia may be the only country which fight agains this “monopoly” of sony and their firmware may be able to change the language of my body. But, on sony Australia there is only the 1.07 firmware available and I allready have this. my last hope would be that this new 2.0 will fir my a77 model, will be available on Asutralia and be able to change language. If someone knows details about above problems, please let me know. Thank you!
As the A77 and A77ii are two distinctly separate models, I doubt this firmware would even work on your A77, but I would definitely NOT even try it. There are numerous differences between the two models, and firmware is 100% tailored to the specifics of a particular camera. I suspect the A77 is at the end of it’s firmware upgrade cycle with the release of the A77ii. 1.07 will almost certainly be the last firmware for your A77 unfortunately…
Thank you. Yes, I was afraid of this.
Update for the new model, no update for the old one. Understandable, but not the hallmark of a customer-pitched company. Why don’t these guys stick to sensors and leave cameras to those who actually can make them, and also keep their customers happy?
Tried it this morning with SAL30028G. While always a pretty quick focusing lens, It did give me a sense that it was even quicker to lock on!
Thanks. That’s good to know because that my favorite lens.
Could be helpful for A77II FW2.0 too!
http://www.sonyalphalab.com/2014/07/sony-alpha-a7s-using-xavc-s-and-s-log2-gamma-profile-how-to/
WARNING: I’m not sure if this is only me but I just tried doing the firmware update on two separate A77II bodies and both are now dead with the bright red LED lit with the power off. Even as I remove the batteries and then reinstall, red LED stays lit and I’ve got no joy, no menus, no EVF–dead. I just turned two A77II’s into paperweights. I read the directions about ten times very carefully and nada. I’m running Mac OSX 10.9.5 so Mac users beware.
Last, the FW update kept aborting so I kept trying it again. On my fourth time, the first camera locked up. So, I stupidly tried the other one… Now both are down for the count. I hope the warranty covers this!!!!
i followed the instructions to the letter & it consistently refused to acknowledge the camera as being plugged in. Mac was 10.10.1 so downloaded driver first then firmware. Sony Play memories program consistently opened up EVERYtime no matter whether i told it not to open when camera connected. deleted play memories app as its useless anyway & it uploaded first time.
initial thinking is that the focusing doesn’t seem any faster and none of my memory cards work with the new video format.
So that’s a total useless update for me then (& probably the only major update that Sony will give for the A77ii to be honest!)
Sony please please please try to make your software work as well as your camera’s do, I’ve wasted 3 hours pissing around with your play memories rubbish. Oh & while your at it let us connect via USB ramper pro like devices for bulb ramping time lapsing