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A new source just sent me this: “Sony has just released FW 1.04 a few hours ago. expect it to be available for download in a few hours…improve IQ, response time, usability.. and others…”
If that turns out to be true than this would be the second good news within 12 hours 🙂 The first good news is that Sony restarted the A77/65 and NEX-7/5n production!
UPDATE: The source told me that Sony Japan notified that the firmware will be out that week.
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A65 at [shopcountry 8459].
Sony NEX-7 [shopcountry 8454].
Sony NEX-5n [shopcountry 8452].
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78 Responses
I JUST JIZZED IN MAH PANTS!!!!!
LOL! Hope its’ true news! Don’t piss to much for now! 😉
Piss =/= Jizz.
Thank you Sony it’s going to be an early Christmas for many a77 owners!
I love you all!
ohhh gawd, ohhh lawd
Good news, but unfortunately I can’t touch my a77 again until December 25th 🙁 lol
The first time was to check it worked, then it went away 😛
Why so?
It’s a Christmas present 🙁 lol
So was mine and I am playing with it now… 🙂
Jon Miller is playing with it
You should tell your parents the camera’s going to rust and stop working if you don’t use it for more than a month. They should let you use it and put the empty box under the christmas tree and you should act surprised and happy when you find it.
Remove the camera, replace it with a brink or canned good then wrap the BOX!
Domt think it will happen japan is about to sleep now
I can only hope that sony have removed the crop in video mode, then I’ll buy an a65 but for the moment, the crop is a dealbreaker. It would be nice to have the option to turn off whatever is causing the crop be it image stabilization or rolling shutter reduction.
I have to aggree!
O M G !!! i love this rumors !!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe tethering? Volume control? Better ISO? No video cropping? I hope is not too much to ask
I don’t think 1.04 will have tethering, Sony UK are still waiting for feedback from Japan about if they are going to add it.
OMG! I’ve just dropped all the test tubes and petridishes in front of me. HELP!!!
Where is FW2.0?
What is it with 2.0? It wasn’t real it was a TYPO!
Sorry guys, but I am still waiting for my A580 firmware update.
This will not happen.
Don’t bother waiting, it isn’t happening.
according to sony you have to buy a new camera model if you want an update SONY HAS THE WOST CUSTOMER SERVICE !!!!!!!!
er, no. Firmware updates have been released for several models of Sony cameras. Nikon and Canon don’t exactly add new features through firmware updates to their cameras…
if this is true that would be awesome…fedex is delivering my camera today 🙂
Any rumor on the new firmware release for NEX-5N?
Oorah~!!!
How about the same for NEX-7?
I’m another one of those waiting for tethering before I part with my cash. Come on Sony, you know it makes sense.
Let’s all hope that all of the unfortunate image and performance issues that can be fixed through firmware are now fixed, and the a77 and other new Sony releases now live up to the potential many of us here have seen in them. And, all of this recent sad history of disaster rooted in both Mother Nature and man, is over and the people tormented by earthquakes, tsunami, meltdowns and floods see their lives come back to normal.
With this now said; Sony, where are the lenses?
With this now said; Sony, where are the lenses?
I second that!
As will be discontinued, it would be very good for an A850/900 V3 firmware would be great!
Now that would be a nice thing to do…., if Sony just happened to have better code lying around….
The problem is, that Sony might fear that it would start a precedent that we as consumers of discontinued products (like me a proud owner to two a850) would come to expect.
just wish for better IQ
WOW … can’t waiting … thanks a lot for the news
Please Sony, better ISO in RAW before I photograph a fashion show catwalk tomorrow night. The noise at ISO 400 is awful. Plus I’m having problems with my flashgun overexposing.
I still love the camera though.
I have the same thing, with the flash that is. A900 is more consistent and doesn’t drop the “ball” as many as the A77 in TTL flash metering.
FINALLY I found someone with the same issue as me. Flash overexposing VERY often. The only way I could control it well now is to use full manual with flash-TTL. My old A700 didn’t have that issue. Flash was very reliable and consistent. Now, it’s a bit of a nightmare.
Wouldn’t it be nice…
+ Faster Turn-on & Shut-Down
+ Faster overall responsiveness
+ Tethering
+ PAL & NTSC no matter where you buy
+ customise stupid “?”-button
The ? button on a camera in this class makes me mad 😀 What a waste of a button!
agreed!
+customize “exposure compensation” button also,we can compensate the exposure using the rear dial.
Not when you are in Manual mode.
Is it important to use the button in Manual mode? You can simply rotate either dials to change the exposure value, no need to compensate right?
With this update, all the Sony owners will be taking amazing photos of their backyards and bookshelves!
Go Sony!
I can’t wait to see more 100% crops of cats at 6400…
and one day there will be a huge surge in demand for photos of backyards, bookshelves and cats and us Sony users will have cornered the market!!!….WE WILL RULE THE WORLD! muhahahah!
+1
YES!!! that’s what i’m waiting for
Keeping my fingers crossed.
Response time – this is the key word.
remember this is just 1.04 not even 1.1 never mined 2.0 So don’t expect massive difference they are just showing that work is continuing every little helps.
Improved iso performance(noise pattern, noise reduction off option), fix the stupid dialogue pop ups(tracking on/off), customizable ? Button, improve the Jpeg engine, shutter trigger for starting and stopping movie mode, improve response and startup/shutdown times.
Maybe open/release API/Sdk for people to build apps and interfaces for using the USB port to allow remote tethering or over the network(wifi/Ethernet) tethered shooting?
Yeah. And I want in-camera mobile TV, Sonic the Hedgehog game, espresso machine and perfect noise free images at ISO 12800.
Get real!! It’s a small firmware update.
Have to admit though, the espresso machine would be a nice update.
Button reassignment. Display prompt changes. Button-to-response timing. And changing the pattern/signal handling and rasterization algorithms are NOT unrealistic expectations.
Adding in a mode/hook for USB based tethering/control is likewise NOT an unrealistic thing to ask for.
They are running a modified version of Linux, as indicated by their GPL fulfilling source code releases, so they should be able to implement control of the USB port to operate in a master or slave role, so the idea of a wifi usb connector or a ethernet usb adapter is likewise NOT unrealistic. Granted,they might need to reduce the frame buffer space to use as USB buffer space to make that happen, especially if they will be implementing a TCP/IP stack and/or web stack, but for tethered shooting, that is a reasonable expectation.
I’m still curious regarding the whole fixed number of frames in the buffer, as I would have thought they would have implemented the buffer slots as logical ram devices to dump the sensor data to. The idea of a implemented in hardware distinct memory slots seems excessively limiting.
Why is Sony so secretive about Firmware updates? Why don’t they say they are planning on releasing version X on or about some date and what it improves… The way they go about it seems like there’s a guy working partime in a garage somewhere and when he has time, he will get to something, maybe.
Yeah I don’t understand why they aren’t more open
Say “ok guys we realise you want X, Y and Z features. We can’t implement X because of whatever reason, but Y and Z will be in a firmware update”
I don’t think it’s them being secretive, just poor corporate communication.
There will be many levels of management between the people writing firmware updates and the people who operate the web site and news content on it.
Sadly in a large company you simply lose the will to live trying to get anything done due to the bureaucracy, so you end up doing your “bit” and leaving it to others to communicate it. Departments simply don’t talk to each other!
I want autofocus with apertures, faster than f3,5!!!
Of course, i have GH1!!!
Well, the Sony UK website has an update for Picture Motion Browser to 5.8.02. It appeared today – perhaps this was what the new source had heard about. I too hope for an A77 update sometime soon though!
David said: Yeah I don’t understand why they aren’t more open.
I said on a different thread: “I hate the Sony Corporation. Sony Inc. is a arrogant company that doesn’t really understand photography or photographers and don’t seem willing to change their ways.”
I love the cameras, car and home audio stuff I’ve owned, but they’re a difficult company to work with.
I don’t think you realise that the people who develop cameras/audio stuff don’t actually get to speak to the end-users. By the time they get to know the specifications of what customers want, it has been through many levels of management, each with their own agenda.
Have you heard the expression Chinese whispers? That’s what Sony will be like. When “you” don’t get what you wanted from a camera it isn’t because Sony are arrogant and don’t understand photography, it is because the message changes by the time it gets to the designers and developers of the cameras!
It is also possible of course that what “you” want from a camera isn’t what the majority of other people wanted. 😀
Finally , people ARE concerned about the cameras inability to tether!! When I bought the A77 I didn’t think to ask , just assumed it would be there:( the camera is supposed to be an upgrade!! It’s the best way to shoot studio fashion!! Come on Sony Fix this major oversight …. NOW!!
Please release V 1.04 already, A77’s high ISO Noise Reduction is still way below 2011’s standard..
new firmware would be great,especially as my A77 has just decided to hang and think forever when I want to take a multiframe-noise-reduction picture 🙁
apart from that bug to be fixed I wished Sony would work on button customizability.. The video record button gets on my nerves,I keep hitting it accidentally and don’t need the whole video stuff at all..
also a timelapse feature like even in the Nikon 1 would be nice to have. Otherwise i`m pretty happy with this awesome camera.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4176 Pretty sad when My Canon T2i is supported & not my A77 🙁
Get the latest update.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1473
About Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 3.9
This update adds RAW image compatibility for the following cameras to Aperture 3 and iPhoto ’11:
Canon PowerShot S100
Nikon 1 J1
Nikon 1 V1
Nikon COOLPIX P7100
Olympus PEN E-PL1s
Olympus PEN E-PL3
Olympus PEN E-PM1
Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FZ150
Sony Alpha NEX-5N
Sony Alpha SLT-A65
Sony Alpha SLT-A77
My A700 has tethered shooting.
So where is the firmware update…. I stayed up 16 hours checking the Sony site every 5 mins…. Nothing….
It was posted 16 hours and 1 minute after you started checking….ok not really…
so why not the a77?????
Pssst Pete…
… I think Timmay may have been talking about the Tethering not being supported.
As for this firmware, I wish it would hurry the hell up! (if indeed it is coming)
i wait 19hours already…….
why no news about v1.04??????
why so serious…
1st) it’s just a rumors.
2nd) it’s just SR3
I QUIT MAH JOB JUST TO WAIT FOR THIS UPDATE!!!!!
That’s nothing. I went ten rounds with Chuck Norris to pay for my internet connection, just so I could download it.