Sony A7 IV Firmware update 4.0 for A7iv

[evacguy]

Has anyone updated to V4.0? I believe this time it actually has some useful new features - I believe it has support for focus bracketting. I haven't used this before, but it may be useful to update. I'm currently on V1.11 so I'm not sure if I need to do an earlier update to jump to V4.0.
Any comments, opinions or suggestions?

 

[Tim Mayo]

It does seem like a decent update for a change. I’ll probably wait a few days before updating mine though, just incase there are any issues like with the recent A7RV firmware.

If you are on v1.11 you should just be able to install v4.00. It’s v1.01 or earlier when you need to go to v1.05 first before v4.00.

 

[AlphaWorld]

It does seem like a decent update for a change. I’ll probably wait a few days before updating mine though, just incase there are any issues like with the recent A7RV firmware.

If you are on v1.11 you should just be able to install v4.00. It’s v1.01 or earlier when you need to go to v1.05 first before v4.00.

Note that Sony re-released the recent updates (FX3 and A7RV) without change. I’ve read some speculation that the reported problems were not real - perhaps malicious false reports of problems?

No harm in waiting a week, though :-D

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

V4.0? I read it here first! Thanks for the update.

I'll leave it more than a week. A month would be safer, whether there are really good features or not. I hardly dare hope for focus-stacking, but hey, it is not going to change the pics I take tomorrow.

I'll run over to the Sony support page to see what's there.

 

[jmb5121]

The 4.0 update went smoothly for me, and the focus stacking is worthwhile. I was able to take the attached image via a 10 image stack, handheld. Lens was the 70-200 Gii macro.

 

[Hank]

The 4.0 update went smoothly for me, and the focus stacking is worthwhile. I was able to take the attached image via a 10 image stack, handheld. Lens was the 70-200 Gii macro.

Very nice. Focus stacking was something I was really jealous of other cameras so am very happy to have this included in this update. I have seen that Samyang lens users have complained that they lose autofocus after installing this update so another update might be coming again soon.

I'm pumped about the focus stacking though.

 

[Jeff A]

I did the Firmware updates to my A7IV and my A7RV. No apparent issues so far but have not been doing any shooting.