Sony A77 review and in Stock in Canada and Japan (and how to recover a dead A77).
Sony A77 stabilisation and AF test from Remi Chapeaublanc // LeCrapo on Vimeo.
I am going to summarize the latest A77 I received from my readers. First of all the A77 is now in Stock at Amazon Japan and Sonystore Canada. And if you are from Aberdeen you will get the A77 body for GBP977.45 instead of GBP1149 (Thanks Kenneth for sending this).
Whatdigitalcamera (Click here) reviewed the A77: “Sony’s uncompromising approach to the Alpha A77 has produced a camera that not only matches some excellent competition, but beats them in a number of areas too“. The camera earns the “Gold Award“!
If you are already an A77 owner and you are experiencing some black out issues try this:
1. Turn off A77.
2. Take out battery.
3. Insert battery again.
4. Press these 3 buttons (Menu+Movie+Ael) simultaneously.
5. Turn on A77 and keep the 3 buttons pressed for 5 seconds. There will be a green spot “blinks” on the lower left corner of the LCD screen. Then “alpha logo” should show up again.
Here is the succes story of some who have tried this (page 5 of the thread): Dyxum forum.
Another SAR reader tested the Toshiba 95MB/s SDHC card on A77. See video on youtube here and here.
Reminder: The A77 1.03 firmware will be released within the next two weeks and fix most (if not all) the A77 isssues!
Preorder: the A77 at Amazon, Adorama, B&H, J&R, eBay
UPDATE: The Sony A77 manual is available in 17 laguages at support.sony-europe.com (Thanks B.)
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Roy
8 months ago |FW 1.03 in Japan and Canada ?
Robby
8 months ago |Any idea when Amazon will have it stock/ship in the US? It’s a little odd that the US seems to be the last place to get the a77 in stock.
Tomasz
8 months ago |“Because of the vast resolution on offer, the SLT-A77 also supports two crop modes: The Smart Teleconverter allows you to shoot with a 1.4x crop at a resolution of 12MP or a 2.0x crop with a resolution of 6MP. This means that as well as the 1.5x crop that’s applied for the APS-C sized sensor, a 200mm lens for instance will provide an equivalent reach of 420mm with the 1.4x crop and 600mm with 2.0x crop – both at good, useable resolutions.”
Can “The Smart Teleconverter” be used while shooting video or just with photos?
genius
8 months ago |Just proves that the Digital Revs review of the A77 video quality was a real hack job.
Would expect it from the presenter, but shame on you camera man… I thought you had better standards then the presenter…
harpo
8 months ago |Yes to FW 1.03 in Canada.
Roy
8 months ago |Ok nice…and now waiting, before it arrives in Holland…
Rogier
8 months ago |Same here… Waiting for Holland or France!
Carlos Echenique
8 months ago |Not being a video person myself, what was the steady-mount this fellow was using in the video? Or are you saying that this is all from the internal stabilization? That camera was very flat in its side-to-side movements like a gyro was being used.
Step
8 months ago |I’m really interested in buying it, but I think I would have to sell the a700 first to be able to afford it.
Uriel
8 months ago |Digitalrev has a77 in stock and shipping to usa now.
Dave Cox
8 months ago |Beware of DigitalRev if you want to legally buy a camera. They falsely document your purchase so you avoid import tax but they charge you ‘import handling duty’ instead. Which is just their extra profit.
Erational
8 months ago |Yes beware of DigitalRev. They try to grab your drivers license info on top of your credit card info. They are charging $100. more than the same model here, to boot.
Uriel
8 months ago |Digital rev has a77 in stock and shipping to usa now.
customercopy
8 months ago |Please be careful, your post is probably libellous. I have bought from them and there was nothing illegal in terms of import charge or handling of tax. The camera was shipped from Hong Kong and all duties/taxes were included in the price. There was no false accounting as you allege.
Dave Cox
8 months ago |Nothing in the post is untrue. The sales invoice says $1439, the customs declaration says $837. I have reported them to Australian customs for false customs declaration.
Dave Cox
8 months ago |You should also be aware that any import duty is always paid by the importer/buyer not the sender. The duty cannot be included in the price – if you paid the duty as part of the price directly to DigitalRev then you have also been duped.
dyna
8 months ago |+1 not only that but your warranty will not be valid in the US as this importation automatically tags your product as grey market. Many manufacturers reserve the right to refuse service on grey market products. It really does pay to wait, man. And, further, buy it locally and stop being selfish with your tax dollars.
revvie
8 months ago |Plus, Digital Rev butchered the Sony reviews where they could with sarcasm and the like.
I was truely enjoying their reviews until they started on their Sony games.
www.MilosJanata.com
8 months ago |This is what men usually do in a bathroom
Crop mode sounds great, especially possibility to obliterate extra resolution in favor of reach.
Think about nex-7 and collapsible 18-50 pancakes which can be expanded to(give me hint now) 100 or 200mm??? with 2x crop.
Bill
8 months ago |I am not sure why people like the in camera cropping. The only advantage would be if you just need to preserve space on a memory card, otherwise cropping can be done easily with any photo program as well as the printing kiosk if you do not own a computer. It does not increase the focal length of the lens just reduces your field of view.
With a crop sensor you do sometimes get more pixels in the field of view than a FF sensor might give, but that is dependent on the two cameras in question not a general condition. Comparing an a55 with a theoretical a99 with a 36MP FF sensor the a99 has just as many pixels in the field of view of the a55 as the a55 has. The a77 would have more pixels in its field of view than the cropped image from the a99.
Maxwell
8 months ago |Around 4 second “clear buffer” time with JPG was good.
But would be nice with some more images possible in the buffer.
Dan
8 months ago |**Regarding Video AF**
(With a Darth Vader Voice) Impressive, most impressive.
321
8 months ago |now that sony drop the dslr that means that sony inside a studio is dead?
that is very sad ovf does NOT work inside a studio
anthony byron
8 months ago |what are you talking about? the new efv is better than the ovf because you can actually also see in the dark for studio if you dont have ambient light around the place to.
how does that kill sony off for studio?
321
8 months ago |do you need to set the iso at max ?
f1.4?
Josh
8 months ago |there is a setting in the camera to make the viewfinder bright for studio work.
Zstan
8 months ago |Read the a77 specs sheet before you start shooting blindly. Thanks.
sonyboy68
8 months ago |Excellent AF !! SONY A77: the best APS-C of the Year 2011 !! YES !!
Alfonso Cuitiño
8 months ago |yess Digital Shutter in Argentina is having 5N in stock next week
Guide
8 months ago |Best of the Best faulty camera. hahaha
Ben
8 months ago |It’s not really “in-stock” at Amazon JP. It is being sold by “Cyber Station” through the Amazon site and says it will ship in 4-5 days, which I doubt, since everywhere else in Japan is sticking to the October 14 street date.
Strange that Amazon JP has not even tried to take pre-orders for this thing. It’s as if it doesn’t exist in terms of direct Amazon sales in Japan.
Sporeo
8 months ago |Sony.ca keeps changing the date. It’s been all over the place, but it has been consistently moving forward a day for the past 3 days now. My local store doesn’t know when they’ll get them in still, so I’m starting to wonder if I should order direct from Sony since I know they’ve shipped at least one =P
Wing Wong
8 months ago |hmmm so looks like it can take advantage of te 80MB/sec uhs-i cards. 22 seconds for raw+jpeg to fully dump after a full buffer burst(mspd hx 25MB/sec write, 50MB/sec figure for read only) dropped down to like 9 seconds with the toshiba 95/80MB/sec sdxc. very nice…
Albert
8 months ago |http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g09aGLm2gB8
should clarify it
Terryfried
8 months ago |As the write speed of the 50MB/s is only 25 I would like to see a “SanDisk Extreme Pro SDHC UHS-I” which is 45/45MB/s tested against “Delkin Elite 633″ 95/80MB/s Most SLRs top out at about 45MB/s so this would test max write speed. I expect little or no difference. but the test I saw previously of a 30MB/s vs the 45 did seem to do better than this test in pure speed terms. ie I have seen 6.5 sec quoted.
Ollder
8 months ago |There’s SanDisk UHS-I 90/95 MB/s too, 8, 16 and 32GB SDHC and some SDXC as well. Gonna have some of them with A77.
Doraemon
8 months ago |omg the video look so cool.
danny
8 months ago |Buffer clearing time of 9sec, that’s fine, but I still think it’s a big mistake from Sony to make the buffer so small. Just 13RAW images is not enough. Should have been at least 24RAW images, so you can shoot for 3seconds at 8fps. This is the main reason I won’t upgrade from my A550.
Ollder
8 months ago |Then the clearing time would be some 18 sec. For full buffer… but yes, I agree. Would be own choice to use it all or partial.
José Magalhães
8 months ago |http://atributos-1.blogspot.com/2011/10/sony-a77-uma-desilusao-sony-a77.html
Am I Wrong?
Ollder
8 months ago |Wouldn’t say so. I’m also a bit disappointed when comparing early promises to reality. But still A77 is THE camera for me!
It’s not on its best in high ISO, has not 2 memory slots, no USB 3 etc… But it has all – and more – properties I really think I need. And the final perfect all purpose camera still hides behind horizon. No, A99 neither will be it
And I don’t eat everythin the dpr is feeding, without biting.
Guide
8 months ago |Lol, Sony really doing good job. thanks Sony. I love Sony very much, but will not buy anymore!
John Spenser
8 months ago |Just FYI…. Sony store USA has completely removed the ship date and pre-ordering capability for a77 cameras
Wenorg
8 months ago |What was the point of the video??
John M
8 months ago |Digital Rev is reputable (as far as US is concerned. I do not work for them but have purchased their products they are fine! However, when I personally emailed them about the a77, I was told they are selling the PAL version only for now. So that should be the only real concern for US buyers. & does anybody have an answer to Carlos question about the type of steady mount used in the video?
John M
8 months ago |answer for Carlos: steady mount is L’AIGLE TITAN