Showing up on German Sony site first:

http://www.sony.de/support/de/product/NEX-7/downloads/FW_NEX7_V101_WIN

This utility upgrades the NEX-7 firmware to version 1.01, and provides the following benefits:

1. Addition of capability to enable or disable the MOVIE button
   
2. Addition of exposure settings of bracket shooting (three frames /1.0EV,2.0EV, 3.0EV)
   
3. Improvement of response for showing auto review image.
   
4. Improvement of image quality when using a wide angle lens
   
5. Improvement of indication when setting “Flexible Spot”.
   

Here it is on the UK site, Firmware update 17/10/2012:

http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/product/NEX-7/updates

I'd expect video guard collar sales to drop off now.

Seems like Sony grew up as a camera manufacturer quite a bit this last year. Good!

What exactly means 4.? Some kind of colorshift-correction? Will it work with any lens or only electronically coupled lenses?

Wow! Interesting. Phillip, I'm guessing it only means with E-mount lenses. I don't know how they could correct for non-native lenses. I mean it'd be awesome if you could take a calibration shot then say "apply this to the following pictures until I say stop". But, I doubt that's the way it works :-)

At least on cameras with "Apps" you could potentially download/buy something that does that.

OMG! Downloading now!

I noted the German link as it was just posted up on DPR; went hunting for an update link at the UK site next; perhaps other European Sony support sites have it up too. The America's Sony support site still has no mention of this release.

One DPR user reports purple fringing showing up with a Samyang wide angle lens has been removed by the new firmware.

michaelwatkins wrote:
Showing up on German Sony site first:

http://www.sony.de/support/de/product/NEX-7/downloads/FW_NEX7_V101_WIN

This utility upgrades the NEX-7 firmware to version 1.01, and provides the following benefits:

1. Addition of capability to enable or disable the MOVIE button
   
2. Addition of exposure settings of bracket shooting (three frames /1.0EV,2.0EV, 3.0EV)
   
3. Improvement of response for showing auto review image.
   
4. Improvement of image quality when using a wide angle lens
   
5. Improvement of indication when setting “Flexible Spot”.
   

Woud love to hear how this is working out for WA RF lenses...

Maybe this will solve some of the terrible 10-18 performance

can't wait to try it.

WOW, this makes me swoon. Didn't expect this at all...

This update, however tardy, does make me feel much more positive about Sony as a provider of higher end equipment.

michaelwatkins wrote:

1. Addition of capability to enable or disable the MOVIE button
   
2. Addition of exposure settings of bracket shooting (three frames /1.0EV,2.0EV, 3.0EV)
   

Can someone walk me through how to get this on to my Nex 7.Thanks
-Jim

Just save it to your hard drive, get the hard drive out of the computer, drill a little hole in the corner, open the SD-Card door on the camera, and shake the firmware from the hard drive into the camera. I am pretty sure that is how it goes. YMMV.

But seriously, usually it is a question of copying it to a freshly formatted SD card, putting it in the camera, and finding the right menu option to start the update, unless the camera detects the firmware on there by itself, like the Leica M8 and I presume M9.

However, the NEX-7 seems to require the following process:

http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/product/NEX-7/downloads/FW_NEX7_V101_MAC

Just for your information.
I use the new firmware in my Nex 7 today; the issue colorshift remains with Contax G biogon 21mm.
May be it just me ?

Convert, I think the correction is only for the E-Mount lens such as the new 10-18, the 16mm (w/wo) wideangle, and the kits at the wide end. It will not be able to help much with corner smearing... That is my complaint with the G21 (even on the 5N)...

Thanks for your input.
It means "Improvement of image quality when using a wide angle lens " with their product only , WOW , really a clever strategy !

They can't fix the problem with every legacy lens out there. Corner smearing is a hardware problem, while colorshift can be fixed with a firmware, but I don't see Sony would spend time and money to do.

hiepphotog wrote:
They can't fix the problem with every legacy lens out there. Corner smearing is a hardware problem, while colorshift can be fixed with a firmware, but I don't see Sony would spend time and money to do.

also, how would they know which lens you have mounted on the camera to correct for?

i'm pretty excited about the bracketing increase, i thought they'd never do it. still no auto iso in manual mode though. :/