Thanks to Benjamin Gutheil for contacting me and sharing his online Petition for Firmware Update for DSC-RX1 and RX1R , I personally think that Sony must issue a firmware update to resolve the issue of premium compact mentioned below..
SONY´s premium DSC-RX1 camera was released 2012 and there has not been a single firmware update to address even the most basic issues of the camera. The recently released RX1R uses the same old firmware with identical issues.
It is very likely that the RX1 will not be continued and that it will never receive a firmware update in the future. This petition has been created to show SONY that RX1/R owners are interested in a firmware update and that we are upset about their nonexistent customer support.
Other companies like Fuji, Canon, Nikon, Pentax or Samsung constantly try to improve their products and are willing to listen to concerns and suggestions of their customers. Since 2012 SONY has clearly shown that they are not interested in caring about the customers of their flagship DSC-camera.
Some of it´s most basic faults that can be resolved via firmware update include:
– Non-zoom focus peaking: Focus peaking should work without zoom magnification to enable composition and focus of moving scenes (street photography)
– Option to deactivate exposure simulation: Dark Scenes shot with flash are often impossible to compose due to the fact that the exposure simulation is always enabled. Scenes are often displayed too dark which also renders the optional electronic viewfinder useless
– Settable minimum shutter speed when using auto ISO
– Focus Peaking in video mode
– Auto ISO should have the option to go to ISO 50 as well
– Option to disable the focus reset to infinity when entering the sleep mode
– Focus scale / Depths of field indicator in the display
– Slow wake-up after sleep mode or power up
– Option to reverse direction of the focus ring
I am just a single person so please feel free to share and promote this petition! Show SONY that we customers had enough of their lackluster customer support
I don’t like disrespectful attitude of Sony Corporation, and I’ll never buy their product, whatever fancy it is. I watch them for 50 years, and i don’t like what i see. I was always disappointed with their gimmick products with irritating little quirks. The last product i bought was top shelf Vaio laptop 4 years ago, and stopped using it just after 1.5 year. I don’t bother even sell it, cos I’ll not get much return for it. For almost 3000 Euro I paid, I’d get back only 500. I don’t have a stomach to let it go for so little. It gathers dust instead.
The only thing I need/want added to my Sony RX1 = good quality 50mbps XAVC-S format.
50mbps XAVC video is the ONLY thing I want/need added via a firmware update. I believe it is the most important thing it needs to be usable for pro video use.
Everything else (better af, focus peaking, etc., etc) isn’t that big a deal and there’s a work around for them anyways.
I have had the original RX1 since it came out in December 2012. It has some short-comings as are listed – but then don’t all devices?
I just know that when I’m successful with a shot – the quality is outstanding. The RX1 is more an ‘artistic’ camera where you really need to take your time. (Wouldn’t use it for sport or animal photography)
Yes, a software update that improves the list above would be great.
If there never is one I’ll still love using my RX1 that still is my n ° 1 go-to camera.
I think Sony just wants to sell which is reasonable. There’s an RX III coming out soon I have read so I do doubt we’ll see an update.