Sony adds silent mode and 15.3 stops in RAW via fw upgrade on the new Sony A7S!

Our friend David from Photoclubalpha got a confirmation from Sony that the Sony A7s has a complete silent shutter mode! Early beta testers of the A7s got a firmware upgrade that adds the feature. The firmware fixes and upgrades are:

- α7S now offers a ‘Silent Shooting’ mode

- ISO range for Movie Shooting extended to ISO100 – 102400, expandable to ISO100 – 409600

- Dynamic Range extended to 15.3 stops as sensor RAW output

David writes:

This is not the same as the Electronic First Curtain shutter found on the A7, A99, A77, A6000 and so on but conspicuously absent on the A7R. Nor is it the same as the near-silent leaf shutter terminated exposure mode of the RX100 models, RX10, or RX1 models. It’s completely free of all mechanical action and totally silent.

Sounds terrific!

A7s and RX100M3 Preorders:

Sony A7s preorder in USA/CA at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Sony USA, Sony Canada.

Sony A7s EU pages at Sony DE, UK, ES, FR, IT, NL, SE, FI, PL.

RX100M3 preorders in USA at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto, Sony USA.

RX100M3 preorders in Eu at Sony DE, UK, ES, FR, IT, NL, BE, AT, CH, SE, NO, FI, PT.

RX100M3 in Asia at Amazon Japan and Sony Australia.

———

Message to sources: You can send me more info anonymously by using the contact form you see on the very right of your browser. You can also contact me directly at sonyalpharumors@gmail.com.

For readers: Subscribe the RSS feed (Click here) and Twitter (Click here) stream and the Facebook fan page (Click here) in order to not miss any news!

——–

Reminder (SR = Sonyrumor):

SR1=probably fake rumor

SR2=rumor from unknown sources

SR3=50% chance it is correct

SR4=rumor from known sources

SR5=almost certainly correct!

from sonyalpharumors