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So, according to cephotography, there is indeed some iq improvement on higher iso on 1.04. Quite visible IMO.

I want a JPEG quality improvement on my NEX 5N, too! The colors are better than with the N3, but still, the picture looks smeared, even on ISO100.

It great to see that the latest firmware has made improvements in .jpg and some of the other issue discovered when the camera made its debut several months back and with a little post processing the ISO will look even better— Good job Sony’s and with all of the difficulties with production.

Personally I cannot help to be disappointed with the a77.
Look, its late 2011, almost 2012 and it will soon be four years since Sony released its a900 in Sept of 2008 and Canon launched its widely used 5D mark II and Nikon it D700 al about the same time, and before everyone reminds me that the a77 is not targeted at the same market and know it’s a 7 series not a 8 or 9 Sony product, my point is it’s been four years and Sony is trying to equal or better cameras that the competition has had out for a long time now.
You would think that anything electronic made today, would just blow-the-doors-off, something put on the market four years ago. I could see it not besting a Nikon or Canon costing thousands more but it should really be out performing the Canon 5d in video with all of the changes Sony has made to the overall design of the DSRL. The image quality should be better than the NEX NOT equal or worse, and the overall pour ISO problem; really guys last year the rumors coming out of Sony posted on this site talked about the a77 have incredible useable ISO range. I just think that with four years between it would be a little better that it is.

I guess I’m just use to electronics basically being obsolete after a few years, replaced with new versions that make you wonder how you could have lived with the old model, and maybe camera electronics are just harder to improve on.

Today if someone twisted my arm to force me to buy a Sony it would be the NEX-7 and I would match it up to my Zeiss 85/f14 for street work.

As a long time A-mount shooter I remain hopeful that this spring, the new full frames will deliver the goods, and I’m willing and ready, to spend my cash on a really good performing camera to replace my much loved pair of a850 that I use. And this time, instead of two of the same as I’ve done many times before since I started being serious back in 1985 with I purchased two Minolta 9000 I think it will include a NEX-7

I dont know why people are even expecting significant changes, its 1.03 to 1.04, such small increments in a FW usually have NO noticeable differences what so ever and are usually to fix minor bugs. When we see V2, THEN you can expect a significant change but its unlikely to be turn the camera into a high ISO monster we all seem to pin our lives upon.

Thanks to those who took the time to respond to my query about the viewfinder of the a77 potentially going dark in the studio. SONY a77, I hope you are right, and that there is a fix for this. I am hoping to get an opportunity to check out this camera in the New Year. I am used to using an OVF, but I am not such a “stick in the mud” that I would dismiss the EVF without giving it a chance to do what it does, then make a decision. I have used an EVF before, and it wasn’t terrible or anything like that. The Fuji EVF’s do not seem to have a darkening problem in the studio, and I was quite amazed that the a55 did. So, hopefully the ability to switch effects on the viewfinder of the a77 is not an annoying or awkward thing to deploy. Thanks again.