On Sony’s press release for the Creative Cloud app you can read the following line:
Creators’ App will be compatible with Alpha 7 IV, ZV-1F. Spring 2023: FX3, FX30. Alpha7 IV, Alpha 7R V, FX3, FX30 will need software update.
Probably a confirmation the A7IV firmware update is coming soon?
Thanks Kevin!
The new lens is finally in Stock and shipping out at BHphoto, Amazon US&EU, Adorama. Fotokoch. FotoErhardt. WexUK.
And the new 50mm Sigma lens will start to ship out tomorrow at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama, FotoErhardt, Fotokoch, WexUK.
One source claims that Laowa will announce a new 28mm f/1.2 FE lens in March. It would become the widest and fastest Full Frame E-mount lens on the market. Sigma is the current king with their 35mm f/1.2 FE lens.
Specs summary:
Thanks to the source! Hope you can share the images soon ;)
One reliable source told me that the Sony A7IV will get a new firmware update 2.0 within the next couple of days! Another source told me that the new firmware update will include Focus Stacking.
I have no other info about what improvements to expect and if also other cameras will be updated.
Note: Sony A1 owners, I hear your cries for help!
Sony Electronics has announced the next generation of its Creators’ Cloud platform, opening a host of new cloud-based applications and features designed for individual content creators and small content teams.
The Creators’ Cloud platform includes Ci Media Cloud for collaborative media workflows, and Discover, a platform to discover and connect with peers. The Creators’ Cloud platform, aimed at independent professionals, will soon include Creators’ App, a content transfer application from camera to cloud.
Creators’ App will be the successor of Imaging Edge Mobile Plus and will act as an extension of a camera to upload, view, and manage photo and video content shot on select Sony cameras and stored in the cloud. Sony offers 5GB of cloud storage free for any Creators’ Cloud account user, and 25GB for owners of select Sony cameras.
Preorder links: Sony 50mm F/1.4 GM at BHphoto. Amazon. Adorama. FotoKoch. FotoErhardt. Calumet DE. WexUK.
Lenstip tested the new Sony lens and concluded:
The Sony FE 50 mm f/1.4 GM was a surprise for me personally and for more than one reason. First, I didn’t expect such a launch, especially as less than two years ago the system got two other 50 mm devices. Second, I didn’t expect that a new 50 mm lens might be optically more complex than its faster brother, the FE 50 mm f/1.2 GM. Thirdly, I didn’t expect such a high price tag, amounting to 1700 Euro.
If you forget about these surprises for a while and focus on the most important thing, you can only praise the new Sony FE 50 mm f/1.4 GM as it is virtually without any flaws. Its physical dimensions are smaller than these of many direct rivals and yet its optical system is able to correct properly chromatic aberration, distortion, coma, and astigmatism. At the same time it is so exceedingly sharp in the frame centre that it is able to beat all resolution records with a healthy margin and, additionally, it offers excellent image quality on the edge of both types of detectors.
Significant vignetting is something we expected up to a point; as a kind of consolation we should add that the Sony still can outperform some of its rivals in this category.
Preorder links:
Sony 50mm F/1.4 GM at BHphoto. Amazon US&CA&EU. Adorama. FotoKoch. FotoErhardt. Calumet DE. WexUK.
The lens will start shipping out on March 12, which is earlier than I expected. Last year supply issues were so heavy we usually had to wait 2-3 months before a new lens or camera shipped out.
