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 Re: Sony A7RV FW Ver. 4.00 (Nov 26 2025) | |
Erictator wrote:
Wow, that seems like the biggest new feature and fix list I've seen for this body so far. Yeah, any brave souls who go for it, let us know how it goes. The new xl spot tracking sounds interesting... I've experienced the focus bracketing stopping short of infinity, so that could be a legit reason to upgrade as well. So much stuff here it almost makes me nervous like this might be the last fw update we'll see for this body for a long time, if ever... but that is probably just my paranoia showing, heh.
Eric
fun things I've found so far:
There's a new overlay menu that covers part of the shooting screen, which you activate by swiping. But swiping to remove the overlay menu doesn't work. Once you get rid of it by swiping randomly for 15 minutes and getting lucky, you can go into setup -> touch operation -> shooting screen and disable all the "swipe" actions to prevent it from happening again accidentally. It does also go away if you disable the touchscreen entirely.
If you do use the overlay menu, the icons/functions presented don't mirror the ones in the Fn menu if you've changed any of those, and don't appear to be configurable. For instance if you don't want a "start recording a movie" button taking up a chunk of your still photo shooting screen, that's too bad.
in custom key settings, you can now just press a key (other than Menu) to see/set its assigned function. However the key name/number displayed when you do this doesn't match the key you pressed, seems like it's off by one.
in playback when displaying a saved photo, the icon showing the play button and a "back" symbol (i guess to show that you can press the play button to go back) is always on screen and can't be removed, even in the "no info" playback screen which used to be just the picture and nothing extraneous. (you can return to this behavor by disabling touch for the playback screen entirelty, but then you lose all touch functions.)
After updating and rebooting, the remembered menu positions (i.e., go into Play mode, press Menu, you normally end up at the same menu page, for instance Delete, that you were in last time) are randomized, so instead of Delete i found myself in some other random Playback menu, i think the settings for slide show mode, which I've never used. This isn't a big deal but seems careless.
Various screen touch operations seem to now cause the whole screen to back out for a half second or so, inexplicably.
If you go to a particular settings page, leave settings mode to take pictures, then press menu again, you find yourself in a different settings page from the one you were in before. This is actually quite annoying.
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