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 Re: A1 to get firmware update in February? | |
AGeoJO wrote:
k-h.a.w wrote:
AGeoJO wrote:
dallvr wrote:
AGeoJO wrote:
To folks that updated their A1 to the latest FW, which is 1.3.1, does your camera display the FW as 1.3.1 or 1.30? I checked the date when I updated mine. It was on Oct 23 and the FW 1.3.1 came out on Sept 29. I checked the FW on my A1 again and it says 1.30 and according to Sony's website, that an update of cameras on 1.30 to the 1.3.1 is available and recommended. But again, the FW I downloaded on Oct 23 is labeled as 1.3.1 although my camera still shows the FW on it is 1.30. Not that it matters to the reported issue and just out of curiosity... Thanks!
Lucky you! That may be why you haven't experienced the focus problems that those of us who "successfully" "updated" to 1.31 did. I am still going through many photos from my last safari and finding a lot that I am sure would have been in focus, but aren't. Fortunately, I shot SO many that I have a good selection from all of the best sightings, but it still irks me when I come across a few that are trash because of bad focus. I wish I could go back to 1.30.
Shirley, as I said, I couldn’t figure out why my FW is version 1.30 although clearly it was downloaded in October 2022. Not to add salt to the wound but I am truly impressed with the AF performance on the at FW. I have been going to my favorite falcon site 4 times already and last Saturday, I put that combo to the test. I set the camera to 30fps, shutter speed to 1/4000sec AND the AF mode to the entire screen. It didn’t have any issues picking up the eye of the falcon sitting on the cliff first and when it took off, I got 22 images until it flew behind some cliffs. Every single frame is in perfect focus, even the last one when it was about to disappear closer to the bottom of the screen.
I venture to say that the FW 1.30 is even better, sticker and tracking better, in other words than the FW 1.20. I took hundreds of in-flight shots and I noticed only a single frame where the AF drifted away very slightly but in the next frame, it went back to perfect focus. It is that impressive! It seems to me that I noticed the AF drifting away albeit slight more frequently back then on the 1.20.
Here is the deal. I still have the FW on my iMac. I can send that to you if you are on Mac. Who knows since it is labelled at 1.31, maybe it will let you override the existing FW. You may want to do the reset technique described above before installing the FW 1.30 or fake 1.31 that I have. I would say it won’t hurt to try… Please let me know.
BTW, this applies to anyone here that wants to try installing that particular FW. But mine is a Mac version though…
WOW Joshua. You are one lucky fellow!
Which proves to me: "Better lucky than smart!" 
Cheers, K-H.
K-H., yes, I am lucky; thank you! If you are on Mac, you can give this a try. It won’t hurt… There is a guy in Australia here on FM that has a Windows version 1.30. But again, I am not sure whether the existing FW can be overridden or not by that. The unique thing is my version of FW is labeled as 1.31 although it ended up as 1.30 on my A1 after the update. If you are on Windows and if you know someone that runs Mac, you can borrow his/her Mac to update yours using my version of FW. Only a suggestion….
Thank you Joshua. I am afraid for now I am stuck with 1.31. 
I get this weird behavior, visible already in the raw files.
So this is not a post-processing artifact.
Sony ILCE-1 + FE 200–600mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G) @ 600 mm, f/6.3, 1/2000 s, ISO 6400.
The first and last frame have focus on the bird.
The middle frame has front focus to my eyes.
This can switch quite a bit and stay for multiple frames either focused on the bird or on something else.
Sony really needs to address this annoying problem.
Cheers, K-H.
PS: Or could it be an image stabilization issue?
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