Five Things Wrong In Sony A7IV

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Our reader Sylvain told me a about a FTP and Smartphone transfer issues with A7IV firmware 2.00

I’m a nobody enjoying my A7IV since it came out and I’ve been using ftp to transfer files from my camera to my NAS as part of my workflow. After upgrading to firmware 2.00 I did a FTP transfer to unload my card and most of my video files larger than 4 gb were corrupted. Being an embedded developer myself I further investigated and all pointed out to the A7IV firmware 2.00 corrupting the data that it sends to any FTP servers (even though the files on CFExpress Type B were OK).

After talking with Sony support today over the phone they confirmed they were able to reproduce the problem only with firmware 2.00 and he told me they would send the issue to Japan for a fix with no more inromation. I also saw someone in the Facebook “Sony A7IV Users” group that had the same issue as me (German guy). The agent that I talked to today said someone else yesterday opened a ticket for the same issue with FTP corrupting files.

The agent told me that sending files to smartphones was also impacted but I didn’t see that issue so far (can’t transfer XAVC S 4K/XAVC S HD anyway…). Probably sending a lot of files would eventually trigger the issue, I din’t try.

Oh, and if you want to reproduce the issue simply have a few files like video files larger than 16gb and transfer it to any ftp. My 29Gb easter video that I made over the weekend never made it through with every attempts that I tried. The file on the CFExpress type B is ok and readable

Hopefully Sony can fix this soon…

Spinn launched the brand new version of their famous Fully self-adhesive protective gear wrapper on Kickstarter (Click here).

The 2022 campaign was super successful but now they have a new 2023 version:

• comes in three new optimized dimensions
• a new colour that hides dust
• and another all-new XL size to safely cover professional, large-format camera accessories.

Check out how this works:

Sony published the latest financial report. The camera business falls within the Enterntainment/Technology/Services segment. And about that Sony writes:

Results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2023 Sales increased 136.8 billion yen (6%) year-on-year to 2 trillion 476.0 billion yen (a 4% decrease on a constant currency basis). This increase in sales was primarily due to the impact of foreign exchange rates as well as an increase in sales of digital cameras resulting from higher unit sales, partially offset by a decrease in sales of televisions resulting from lower unit sales. Operating income decreased 33.5 billion yen year-on-year to 179.5 billion yen. This decrease in operating income was mainly due to the impact of the above-mentioned decrease in sales of televisions, partially offset by the impact of the above-mentioned increase in sales of digital cameras. During the current fiscal year, there was a 9.4 billion yen positive impact from foreign exchange rate fluctuations.

So the camera business is doing extremely well. Interestingly enough my sources a couple of days ago told me Sony would push on the camera business to offset declining TV sales. This report seems to indicate he was right!

Photokiatos interviewed me and if you are curious to learn more about my thoughts on photography be sure to check it out :)

On May 11 Sony will announce the Xperia I V. I really don’t care much about smartphones but the ONE interesting new feature is the world’s first dual layer sensor camera. This tech might find it’s use on future Sony E-mount cameras too. In my video I will explain in simple terms what’s so special about this.

In short: Imaging having current (expensive) medium format quality on Full Frame cameras!

NOTE: As I was just reading a physics text I made a Lapsus and in the video I kept saying electrons instead of photons :)

Sony just posted their new teaser for the new sensor that will be featured on the Sony Xperia 1 V. This could be a game changer and I will soon explain on a new youtube video why we Alpha photographers should be excitef about this!