If you like me already own the Sony A7rV and want to use it with Lightroom (no official support yet), here is a small “Hack” to convert the RAW files. Sparris on Dpreview forum wrote:

Magic Wedding Photographer on Youtube has found a workaround to convert the raw files from Sony A7R V so they can be opened with Lightroom and Camera Raw! I just tested it and it works. I suppose it rewrites the header of the file to the one found in A7R IV.

Download Exiftool from https://exiftool.org/ and use the command line in Windows:

“exiftool -sonymodelid=”ILCE-7RM4″ -ext ARW -r” followed by the file name, for example

exiftool -sonymodelid=”ILCE-7RM4″ -ext ARW -r 011.arw

if 011.arw is in the same folder as exiftool.exe

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This is how it works:

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— Jordan Koman (@jordan_koman) November 17, 2022

Today Sony issued a new FX3 and FX30 firmware update. But plenty of SAR readers reported that there is a huge BUG that causes the camera to reboot repeatedly!

UPDATE 2: Other readers reported the update did go well:

I have updated and it's fine! Now it's a bomb and it goes even faster 🚀

— Alessandro Pavanati (@APavanati) November 17, 2022

Sony issued a new firmware update for the FX3 (download here) and the FX30 (download here). UPDATE: SAR readers reported about issues after the firmware update…don’t perform the update now!

FX3 Benefits and Improvements

• Fixes an issue where the movie file rotated in the camera may not be rotated on the computer
• Fixes an issue where the touch operations do not work in the Imaging Edge Mobile apps when DISP (Screen Disp) Set option is set to No Disp. Info.
• Improves the operational stability of the camera

FX30 Benefits and Improvements

WARNING! Make sure that there is only one BODYDATA.DAT file on the memory card. If you have used the card for a previous update, format the memory card in the camera before downloading a new file.

• Fixes an issue where the movie file rotated in the camera may not be rotated on the computer
• Fixes an issue where the touch operations do not work in the Imaging Edge Mobile apps when DISP (Screen Disp) Set option is set to No Disp. Info.
• Improves the operational stability of the camera