Here are a couple of firmware/software updates:
RX100 firmware update (Sony).
Remote Camera Control Ver.3.4 for Mac OS X (Sony)
DxOmark now supports the A7II Raw files.
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That’s proof that Sony DOES support their older cameras. In this case nearly 3 years old original RX100.
Release date:
20/01/2015
Benefits and improvements
Improve the vibration and sound noise of the lens during auto-focusing
“DxOmark now supports the A7II Raw files.”
It is not DxOmark, it is DxO OpticsPro 10.
Wow, an RX100 MKI firmware update? Maybe an RX1 firmware update coming soon?
just pray Sony firmware update team just woke up from long coma, I am praying for RX1 fw update too 🙁
Does anyone understand how a firmware update can improve sound noise a camera makes while auto focusing? One is software and the other hardware. Does it just process the noise pickup differently
I’ll offer an educated guess. The “Servo system” in the camera was “underdamped.”
This means the signal being fed back from sensor to the motor moving the lens was not responding fast enough to the the motor to stop moving the lens. Hence, the lens would overshoot back and forth before settling into the the position it needed to be in.
A mechanical analogy would be the shock absorbers on a car. If you lean down hard with all your weight then release the car. That corner should return up a little higher then is original was then drop back to where is was very quickly. If it does respond this was the car’s shocks are “Critically Damped”. If the car continues to bounce up and down more than once, it’s “Underdamped” Where the car to slowly return to correct position and finally stop, it’s “over damped.”
Damn, somebody finally asked me a question I could answer and use what I learned as a student when I was in school studying analog servo systems. This may be the first time I used it. All that expense and time spent in school finally paid off. 😉
Thanks. I would think Sony should have known that already but I guess some things can be improved later. Glad to have justified your schooling.
There is also an update to the RX 100M2 to improve noise while autofocusing. I downloaded it, there are 2 files, one is the update, the second one is if u have a Mac & it’s on 10.10. I could not get it to work, the screen on my M2 kept saying that it didn’t recognize the camera, check connection. I can’t tell u how frustrating it is when u follow the instructions to the best of your ability & it doesn’t work, I tried like 10x! Any help would be appreciated. 0, I also emailed Sony, do they have a good rep for cus ser. ?
i wish the RX100 update had a remote control or a wider bracketing range.
And again the FW update fails on Mac, but works on Windows – same Computer (MBP with parallels W7). Always the same – the update tool doesn’t recognize the camera. Was the same with my A99, and my A7R. Only camera where the Mac version worked was the A7II.
The hotliners have no ideas than the ones I have by myself. Grrr.