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Last week I wrote about a possible new SLT A-mount firmware release in early July. Now SAR reader Laszlo (Thanks) spotted that hint about a new 1.05 firmware update for the A57 on Sony UK’s website. So many times we were a bit disappointed about the Sony firmware update fixes because they didn’t actually improve the JPG engine. But if the rumor we posted last week is correct than we will finally get a noticeable improvement on the JPG engine. These could be the new fw updated:
1) Added Lens Correction
2) Updated Jpg Engine (based on the honami smartphone project).
3) Revisions to menu structure
4) Revisions to video capture rates
keep fingers crossed!
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I’d be much happier if it said “Ver. 2.00”, having only 1.05 suggests a minor update for lens corrections.
I hope for some new feature for the update, that would be nice 🙂
Andrea do you have some (good) news for the Nex-7 firmware?
Thanks
We are already at 1.07 at least for most of the new Alpha cameras, 1.05 was the update that included the 500mm f/4 updates if I am not mistaken. The picture of the A57 may be meaningless.
The latest A57 firmware is 1.04.
Checked some of the other camera compatibility tables and they do not mention a firmware version for the new 500mm f/4 lens. So perhaps the 1.05 for A57 is eminent.
Yep, that is the whole point of this rumour post.
Crap, where’s AUTO-ISO in M? Remove the crop in video mode with stabilization Off. Though updated Jpeg engine would be a welcome addition, many people shoot raw, so not much of a deal. Correction for new lenses – pff, sony adds it in every firmware, and calls it “new”. A77 needs something like a Canon 7D firmware brought, real things.
+1
Auto ISO in Manual would be awesome for the A77.
Nice idea – finally update A mount crap jpeg engine to a better one, and do nothing for same crap jpeg engine for NEX series. What a genius thinking Sony, bravo!!!
Do they (in Sony) even know that most anticipated and wanted feature in NEX (after lenses and FF NEX) is good jpeg engine?! Currently its themost crappiest in industry, everyone is ahead: FUJI, OLY, PANA, Canikon. 🙁
Indeed, no real need to shoot RAW with a Fuji. Sony take note.
Why can’t they just borrow olympus jpeg engine ??
This is so funny how NEX guys want the A-mount to die. I dont see A-mount shooters to demand to kill the E-mount. It always tells me a lot about the poster which says such thing. Yes, go, demand that only your mount is the right one!! All other mounts must be destroyed! We will send the Spanish inquisition on anyone who is using an A-mount camera! Oh yeah!
Come on, grow up, Sony will improove the NEX as well via a firmware if a new JPEG engine comes out. So stop such childish talk and hope that the rumors come true
“This is so funny how NEX guys want the A-mount to die.”
Err… nobody said anything of the sort.
whistler, no one said anything of sort you are speaking. In fact I want Sony to succeed in A mount as well. NEX users use a lot of A mount lenses. You must have mistaken me for some Canikon fanboy. I don’t know what can you see about the poster judging from that posting, but dude you are way off.
I must be out-of-touch. I’m surprised how many people seem to care about jpeg rendering on here.
Because you should be able to shoot most of your stuff as jpeg and let the camera do the work for you. Raw should only have to be used for the MINORITY of shots where the camera or you have messed up and the image needs saving, not the majority of shots.
I have a Fuji and I never need to shoot raw with it, it is quite a difference from the Sony.
Let me put it simple for you. RAW is not something you need most of time, or it shouldn’t be (but unfortunately it is for Sony, due to its jpeg sucks). You can always use it at times when you screwed up the image and need to do adjustment. For all other times – there’s JPEG.
RAW isn’t so much about the ability to deal with “screw-ups) but the versatility to style your image in any way you see fit after the fact without the camera’s settings baked in as well as maximize image IQ (dynamic range, sharpness, etc) and future proof my images. Plus, I prefer to use my own, uncompressed recipes. I export to JPEG after I process for backup and clients.
I figured RAW was more popular for slr shooters given the extra effort being put in to shoot with a larger, ICL camera versus compact or P&S cameras. Now I know.
Tethered shooting and let me reprogram the “?” button.
I want that button to be reprogrammable to AF range limiter, just like it does on the A99! I shoot a lot of motorsports with my A77, and there are a lot of fences and poles and other junk around a race track, and they always throws off focus when panning by. The AF on the A77 is a little bit too fast and sensitive at times. 🙂
Still waiting for Auto ISO in M! And a Favorites menu….
I don’t see how you could NOT have the camera crop during video, without going back to 3:2 video…
Of course there has to be a vertical crop to make it 16:9, but there is an even further crop (1.86x) on top of that to allow for stabilisation.
SONY SUPPORT YOUR USERS HVL-60F Flash Overheating MUST BE ADDRESSES NOW
HVL-60F Flash – This Is NOT a Flagship product.
We Absolutely Need a Firmware Update for the
It overheats after very few shots Locking up
Rendering it useless
We miss so many shot waiting for it to Cool Down
that we CAN NOT RELY ON ANY CAMERA ATTACHED TO IT.
What an incredible Piss Poor Design and Engineering –
No Heat Sink – It is useless
The 60Flash is the current flagship (what a joke)
and only flash TTL that fits on the
for the A99, RX1, nex6, A58 – Any others?
SONY COULD CARE LESS ABOUT US AND REFUSES TO RESPOND TO ANY OF OUR EMAILS
Check out these two separate DPReview Threads
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3497509#forum-post-51579857
or
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3497509#forum-post-51579871
Sony could have engineered a Heatsink for it
Sony could have used Cooler Quartz Blubs
SONY it sticking it to the user again.
SAR Forum Fanboys, If you keep telling SONY how wonderful they are
Do you think they will ever fix this HVL-F60 Flash or anything else?
SONY SUPPORT YOUR USERS HVL-60F Flash Overheating MUST BE ADDRESSES NOW
I couldn’t agree more with this. I had to bring two f60s for one camera when I shot a wedding last week. I missed shots swapping the damn things every 5 minutes. They each “overheated” 10+ times. In 6 years of using Canon flashes I had a single overheat.
Are there any non-Sony flashes that fit the multi-interface shoe? I don’t care about ttl or any other bells and whistles more than I care about it being able to fire.
Hmm, I’ve recently had the HVL-F60 overheat at an outdoor concert, with the temp around 90F, but I chalked it up to the heat. I just knocked down the power a little bit, and it seemed to go fine for the rest of the event. Other than that, only once indoors when thoughtlessly popping off 100% power flashes, and my lower powered Sony flash (F42) would do the same. I haven’t owned other flashes and thought that was normal.
All flashes overheat. Canon compensate by detecting imminent overheat and reducing recycle times to 20 sec. That isn’t really ideal either. If you are popping full power flash on camera, god help you and the quality of your work. If using off camera, I’d just pick up yongnuos because yet again Sony left a sync port off the darn flash… Overall I still like the flash, I did experience the overheating but I was shooting in 95 degrees in the carribean. The video lights are handy for low-light portraiture when even 1/128 is not dim enough.