Sony firmware for E-mount lenses, NEX-7, SLT-A37, A57, A65 and A77

I have always liked Sony products.As far as cameras are concerned, I already own Sony DSC-HX7v & 9v ( bought them for my kids ) and NEX-5N and A37. Now , I am very disappointed that Sony DID NOT TRY TO FIX NEX-5N VIDEO BUTTON ISSUE AS THEY DID FOR NEX-7. I am very pleased with NEX-5N except for video button placement which has bothered me ever since I bought it 6 months ago and is still under Sony's warranty.The camera is about a year old and by any standard is almost a new camera model.If sony is in the business of keeping customers , I strongly recommend they extend their firmware update to NEX-5n and any other model that has the same issue.Customers are not responsible for MISTAKES THAT SONY ENGINEERS HAVE COMMITTED. I hope Sony listens and don't loose their faithful customers which is hard to come by nowadays.

NEX-5N good

What about my A55? Its not listed for the update!!! It seems like Sony just abandoned it once it became known that it overheats in video mode. There was no attempt to fix that problem with a firmware update.....or a recall! The A55 has better low light performance than even the newer models and the smaller body is appealing to many. Does anyone know if the firmware update will work on the A55?

Night has fallen again. It's been 16 hours since I upgraded my NEX-7's firmware. I'm holed up in a cheap motel near the border. The door is barricaded. The shades are drawn. All the lights are off. The room is illuminated only by the fluckering of the tv set. I've been chain smoking and drinking all day. On the table before me is a fifth of gin, my Glock, my NEX-7, and a laptop. The phone rang for awhile a little earlier. I didn't pick it up. I was afraid it was somebody from the press - or worse. I haven't been able to sleep at all. Can't really say why. The upgrade went smoothly. But something still doesn't feel right. People want to know what I think. To me, at face value, it seems kind of incidental. Somebody said NEX-7 owners are rejoicing today. But I don't know about that. I just don't know.

Why don't they put the movie disable feature on the NEX5N as an update?

Nex-7 owner: I'm a programmer myself and I know that changes to the user interface are the simplest thing to do when it comes to software development. This is not about creating new functionality for the camera, it's about proper options for existing features and access to them!

I understand that Sony sees features that would make Nex-7 shooting experience just a bit closer to "professional grade" as a threat to it's SLT market. There are no technical difficulties with implementing software ergonomics in the product. It's a pure policy issue of the company: we will not upgrade the product so we can sell the next one and we will on purpose strip down the features of a really expensive camera just so (we think) we have better sales of the big SLT brothers.

After all those sour words I would also like to thank Sony for the update because I already thought that it's a lost cause. Please let cameras with great potential be as they should and stop limiting them (and the successors)!

poor update on the nex for manual focus shooters. Still randomly moves center focus point off center when going into video mode. No spot focus on video mode. Spot focus on camera mode has no indication of where center focus point is when camera is set with af/mf on hold mode. Histogram does not accurately represent metering when in spot metering mode. Lots of bugs that haven't been fixed. But, never-the-less, I still love my nex 7. Just wish they had better photographers working at the company that would fix these functions.

as usual Sony left the traditional guys with something something in their hands hanging :(
what about the A580 ?!!!!! what about it?!!

Dang it where is the Nex-7 Timelapse function everyone asked for???? How can you have a high end camera with no time lapse function or way to enable it remotely?? Bulb ramping please!

Glad they now let me disable that Movie record button on my A77. I never use it and often hit it by mistake.

Let me be among the first to look a gift horse in the mouth.

1. If you're going to increase bracketing flexibility, why not use all 1/3 or 1/2 stops? (But I can live with the improvement)

2. I still need to dismiss the "Movie button is disabled" message to shoot. This is/was an extremely responsive camera. Why slow it down? (I know, too many customers would complain that their movie button wasn't working). This is a high end camera, and Sony's customers should know how to use it.

So, I ordered this camera 1 year ago, finally received it 6 months ago, and this is the piddling software update they cobble together in that time...?

I hope someone of Sony read these messages. Here are guys who like Sony verry much and have al lot of ideas to do it better! This is pure marketing!

Cheers Sony, please don't stop with one firmware update ... keep them coming like Canon does for their cameras!

For the Nex 7, Sony states: " Improvement of image quality when using a wide angle lens". It would be nice to get more information on that, or an example shot.

I am mortified the NEX5N is just trampled over and doesnt get a freshen up. Almost a great camera with some duff firmware that could easily be fixed and should have been ages ago . ESPECIALLY the stupid avoid inadvertently starting movie recording button, better exposure control settings, some tidier menu logic between screens. But now the new NEXs' are out I suppose the 5N will be consigned to the no support bin - a disgrace and probably a reason for me NOT to buy another of their camera products.

Well I hope they bring out a bracketing update for all models; just because I chose a NEX-C3 over the 5, doesn't mean I should loose out should it ... for what is simply a software update and my biggest bugbear with the NEX range (and the reason why I still keep my Samsung NX11 as its bracketing function is damned good!)

I guess we have to be grateful that Sony pretends to be listening at last, but this update for the NEX-7 is disappointing nonetheless.

The bracketing is still useless because you can't combine it with delayed shutter or remote, so you can't use it with long exposure times on a tripod. Have these people never taken pictures themselves?

And why they didn't take the opportunity to let the user re-assign the movie button instead of merely disabling it?

I guess it would have been hard work. This update looks like a cheap and half-assed quick fix, the sort of thing that I'd come up with after one afternoon to pacify the customer "until the real thing comes along."

Having had to wait almost one year for this "update" doesn't elevate my opinion of Sony very much.

It's six in the morning. Just got through installing the new firmware. I was a little worried, because I live in rural area, but the operation went smoothly enough. Think I'm gonna have some breakfast pizza now, and then maybe go out and do some exposure bracketing.

Improvement of wide angle edges - does this mean the magenta fringing has been reduced or eliminated?

Where is the update for the 5N?

I'm glad to see that people are never happy.

The 5n has the same video button issue, and the bracketing improvement would be nice as well

WHEN Bracketing - the ±3EV UPDATE FOR NEX-5N??? WE ALSO NEED IT SO MUCH!!! THE CAMERA IS JUST AN EXPENSIVE TOY WITHOUT THIS USEFUL FEATURE.

Nice, but if they were going to add functionality to the movie record button, why didn't they just let you map out another function to the button.

the absence of 1/3 stop iso adjustment is disappointing for a flagship. auto iso should be up to 3200 instead of 1600.

Happy about them movie button, however they could have assigned one of the unused buttons in playback mode to switch between still and video playback.

Don't know if it could be done on the NEX-7, but Sony MUST provide custom settings (not just custom button assignments) because they are REALLY NEEDED when shooting under rapidly changing conditions.

Things that still need fixing on NEX7, or this is more like my wish list:-
- wake up faster, especially when using legeacy lenses and third party lenses like Sigma.
- fix the sleep mode for EVF, ie. it doesn't go to sleep even if the camera has been idle for a long time.
- ability to load new applications onto the camera without using wifi, eg via SD card or USB
- ability to use soft key B (the bottom key) for the customised functions instead of soft key C, as people prefer to assign C to change the shooting mode instead
- customise one of the top navi dials into the shooting mode
- allow the setting to be changable on the LCD display page that shows all the camera settings.

I'd love to have seen clean (uncompressed, 14-16 bit color) HDMI output enabled on NEX-7 to facilitate video recording on my Atomos Ninja II.

I have been a Minolta / SONY user for a long time, now operate a pair of A900s, but had to get a Nikon D800 and 3 lenses just for the video.

And the Nex 5n ???????

Excited to hear Sony is committed to doing what they can to keep lenses compatible with new bodies -- this speaks loudly for the company.

Think you may have meant v2, not v01 for the E-mount lens Firmware.