You surely remember the big discussions on Dpreview because of the A7III stripe issue that appears i certain limited conditions. Well there is good news for you! This comes in straigth from today’s Dpreview post:

This fix is courtesy of Professor Hank Dietz, who is none other than the guy who developed a fix for Sony compressed Raw artifacts. His tool is available here. For now, it only works on compressed Raw files, but it works on any compressed Sony Raw file. That’s important, because this issue is not isolated to the a7 III by any means (though its predecessor the a7 II doesn’t appear to have any issues). It occurs with the a7R II/III, a9, R100 V – pretty much most cameras with masked pixels for on-sensor phase-detect AF (and that’s not just limited to Sony).

Higher resolution bodies are less problematic because a single pixel stripe is a smaller proportion of the image. The a7 III and a9 also have more phase-detection pixels than any other camera Sony has introduced, which makes the issue slightly more of an issue on these cameras.

Download link: http://aggregate.org/DIT/KARWY-SR/karwy/test/karwy.html

To take advantage of Professor Dietz’ work, you simply drag-and-drop a compressed Sony Raw file into the web application, wait a few seconds, and download the resulting file (you’ll want to add ‘.ARW’ to the end for your Raw software to read it properly). And voila – almost every trace of the striping is removed. Oh, and if you have any feedback, please PM Hank via his DPReview profile.

We’ve been in touch with the good folks at RawTherapee as well, and they have confirmed that they have implemented a fix internally, which will be released to the public in due course. There’s even a Photoshop fix developed by DPR forum member Magnar W, if you’re past the Raw development stage.

Thanks Rishi for this!

Sony A7III in USA at Adorama, BHphoto, Amazon, BestBuy, FocusCamera, BuyDig.
Sony a7III in Europe at Amazon DE, Calumet Germany, Amazon UK, ParkCameras UK, WexUK, Amazon FR, Amazon IT, Amazon ES.

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Sony issued a new firmware update for the Sony A7III (download here).

Benefits and improvements
– Resolves a “blinking pixels” phenomenon at the bottom edge of the image during XAVC S 4K (PAL 25p) recording (depending on the combination of camera settings)
– Resolves an issue where the touch panel could occasionally become unresponsive
– Improves the overall stability of the camera

And here you have a size comparison with the Canon 1DXII:

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Ein Beitrag geteilt von Andrea Photographer-Explorer (@andrea_pizzini_photographer) am Apr 17, 2018 um 4:20 PDT

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Ein Beitrag geteilt von Andrea Photographer-Explorer (@andrea_pizzini_photographer) am Apr 8, 2018 um 11:20 PDT

Dpreview posted a new article summing up what they learned from the interview with all company managers at CP+. For them it’s clear that:

The reign of the DSLR is almost over…Full-frame mirrorless will become the norm, and it will happen pretty soon

Yes, I think that statement is 100% correct. But the big question is: How will Canon and Nikon’s FF mirrorless be? This is where they go a bit into the wild speculation:

Canon has a slightly easier task ahead of it, since the EF mount was designed from the beginning to be fully automatic, and to support very wide-aperture lenses. As such, it could presumably make a relatively simple adapter to allow continued use of legacy EF lenses for as long as necessary. Nikon’s transition to mirrorless will probably be trickier. It’s worth remembering though that the Sony E-mount is an open standard – Nikon already has a relationship with Sony, could it adopt the company’s lens-mount? It’s an intriguing thought…

I give it a 0,00000001% chance that Nikon will adopt E-mount :)

What are your thoughts on this?

Imaginary Nikon FF mirrorless vs Sony A7. I guess at Photokina in September Nikon will finally show their cards… #sonyalphagear #sonyalphaphotos #sonyalpha #nikonmirrorless #nikon #sonyalpharumors

Ein Beitrag geteilt von Andrea Photographer-Explorer (@andrea_pizzini_photographer) am Mär 14, 2018 um 1:12 PDT

Marc Alhadeff reports:

A little gift from Adobe , not even present in the release notes of Lightroom:
The Lightroom Classic CC 7.3 issued in April 2018 and that was announcing the support of the A7III, also supports the display and editing of the ARQ files of the A7RIII
As a reminder an ARQ file (343Mo) is created from 4 ARW files created via the Pixel Shift Option of the A7RIII
You still need Sony software View/Edit to transform the ARW files into an ARQ, but then this ARQ file is directly readable and editable in Lightroom , no need to convert it anymore to a dng proxy (see below)