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Sony Alpha hacks talk
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  • @Saeba

    It is low level stuff, as far as I understand.

    Do not remember about such hacks for Sony.

  • Bonjour y a t'il un développement pour supprimé le star eater des sony pas mal d’astrophotographe seraient prêt a payer un petit plugin

    Hello is there a development for deleted the star eater of the sony quite a lot of astrophotographer would be willing to pay a small plugin

    Thank you

    Good year 2019

  • Has anyone tried to connect to this UART ports? My camera's motherboard is dead it flashes screen three times and turns off. I'm trying to restore it. Maybe someone already tries connecting to this ports to work with serial console?

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  • Hello guys. I just recently bought an A7RII. What existing hacks I can install to get the full power of this machine?. I already installed: https://github.com/ma1co/Sony-PMCA-RE and some hacks from: https://sony-pmca.appspot.com/ But is it anything else that can improve my camera or unlock some features?. Thank you!

  • Hello

    This will be very usefull:

    1. Focus Stacking
    2. High resolution shooting mode: sencor makes shift for second shot and than camera unites both shots

    Thank you

  • @sonyknipser

    For now no one is doing it.

  • It's possible to make hack to add the aspect ratio 6:7 and 4:5 for the ILCE-7?

  • Do you have the Japanese language firmware of SONY A7RM3 and A7M3 modified? If so, please send it to my email, ok? E-mail: 572017317 @qq.com

  • @Ravi

    Just get proper camera (can get even cheap Z-CAM E1), such things won't happen.

  • Hello. I just got an a7ii and feel out of tune after getting to know that there is no 4k. I've heard that it is possible to remove 30 minutes limit, but how about 4k, is that a chance to switch it on? or there is hardware/firmware limitations? Thank you.

  • Can we work on an app for video based A7 cameras.

    Some really useful features would be: The ability to auto pull focus from a "C" button. Saving focus points and then recalling them. Setting the focus duration from point A to B.

    Similar "macros" for automated aperture control and optical zoom on lenses that support it would also be cool.

    I'd love to know if this is possible. Thanks

  • @doremon2010 Try to use Command Prompt instead of Powershell

  • @doremon2010

    Please stop posting many messages.

  • @Kiwi303, @Mannokia, @ma1co, @nonor Or someone could help me! Tks a lot!!!

  • But i dont know i wrong what a step make me fail to repack this Fw!

    Who has successfully this created PLZ HELP ME :(((! IM NOOB.

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  • HI everyone! Someone can help me! I'm a new mem! I have Sony A77 Janan and i follow the topic http://192.163.210.236/talks/discussion/86/firmware-unpacker/p3 to change my lang to English!

    "1. place you (update file).exe in a new folder. place fwtool.exe in same folder.
    2. Drag and drop update on fwtool.exe
    3. You will get new folder with same name as update.
    4. Go to /(folder with update name)/nexhack/level3 . You should have FDAT_fs00.fsimg here. make a copy of this to your desktop, rename it to FDAT_fs00.mod.fsimg and copy this back to level3.
    5. For trying language hack, go to /(folder with update name)/nexhack/level4/FDAT_fw and do the region file replacing and checksum file editing. (skip this test if this is your first time, just to see if you are doing everything else correct and you can successfuly repack and flash a original firmware). MESSING THIS UP CAN BRICK YOUR CAMERA.
    6. Download 7zip if you dont have. open it, select all folders in /(folder with update name)/nexhack/level4/FDAT_fw and add to a .tar with compression set to 'store'. name it FDAT_fw.mod.tar and copy it to /(folder with update name)/nexhack/level3
    7. Go back to the folder where fwtool.exe is. hold shift, right click and select "open command window here". or just open a command prompt and navigate here.
    8. Use this line (without quotes) - "fwtool.exe -i 9 -c /(destination of update name folder)" replace 9 with a number greater than the last digit of your current firmware version on your camera. with 9 our new firmware version becomes v1.09 for example my update and fwtool are in a folder called nex in my D drive. My update.exe is called Update_NEX5RV102.exe. i would use - 'fwtool.exe -i 9 -c D:\nex\Update_NEX5RV102"

  • has anyone else run into a 2GB file size limit on .mp4 video recording? I want to be able to record footage at conferences, and right now I can't get past this issue. AVCHD works, but the file sizes are too much for my current setup. (128GBs are okay, but 256GB's are too damned high!) I have an a5000 and a6000.

  • Does anyone know if there are possibilities of adding a9 or a7rm3 support? my understanding is that a9 doesn't have playmemories app, and a7rm3 has it but it is disabled?!

  • I am looking on some info on how to reconfigure an a7s after i changed the image sensor (imager unit section) and main board (SY1039 - the backup battery BT0601 was replaced too) - seems the board needs to be calibrated and there is some reference in the service manual of an 'adjust sw'. As is, all works (all menus and buttons), but the sensor image is very dim - I have to have the ISO at max to get the some image out of it. Any of you has done this before or can point me to the right post (if exists)?

  • help me guys , need firmware with Russian language for NEX-5, in my NEX only Japanese ....

  • @jeffcostello If you're not up building an app using the PlayMemories hack, you could just go with a low-tech solution and tape a small piece of acrylic to your camera's screen with the cropmarks drawn in. If you want it to be semi-permanent, you could just draw them on a screen protector after sticking it to the screen.

  • Or does somebody has an idea how to create Cropmarks on a Sony Alpha Camera?

  • Thank you. I already posted my question there but unfortunatly never got an answer...

  • There has been some work along those lines.

    https://sony-pmca.appspot.com/