{"id":1187,"date":"2007-10-29T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/sony-a700-firmware-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2007-10-29T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T08:00:00","slug":"sony-a700-firmware-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/sony-a700-firmware-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony A700 Firmware Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our efforts to provide the best product experience, we make efforts to reach out to customers not only before but also after making a purchase. At Sony Electronics\u0092 customer support web site at www.sony.com\/support, people can get the latest information on their products. <\/p>\n<p>I\u0092ve invited Mark Weir, the senior technology and marketing manager for Alpha and Cyber-shot cameras in Sony Electronics\u0092 Digital Imaging and Audio Division, to provide an overview of the new upgrades available online on Oct. 30.<\/p>\n<p>Hi, this is Mark.<\/p>\n<p>As Rick mentioned, Sony is releasing updated firmware for the DSLR-&#945;700 camera, as well as updates for the Image Data Converter and Image Data Lightbox bundled software applications.  The camera firmware update improves image sharpness and reduces noise under certain circumstances. It also improves flash control at very short distances with non-ADI control lenses.  The updates for the bundled software applications correct the functioning of such features as image display and file type indication.  These updates relate only to early production Firmware \u0093Ver.1\u0094 models, which were manufactured through early October.  Firmware \u0093Ver.2\u0094 models (press Menu &#038; Display together to check) already include this upgrade.  Although these improvements are subtle, it is recommended that customers make the update to improve the camera and application software performance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/esupport.sony.com\/US\/perl\/swu-list.pl?mdl=DSLRA700\" target=\"_blank\">Download updates here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sel.sony.com\/electronicsblog\/?p=30\" target=\"_blank\">Message from Sony Official Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nch_client = \"masterchong\";\nch_width = 300;\nch_height = 250;\nch_non_contextual = 1;\nch_nosearch = 1 ;\nch_default_category = \"7185\";\nch_font_title = \"Tahoma\";\nch_font_text = \"Tahoma\";\nch_sid = \"L\";\nvar ch_queries = new Array( \"Sony a700\" );\nvar ch_selected=Math.floor((Math.random()*ch_queries.length));\nif ( ch_selected < ch_queries.length ) {\nch_query = ch_queries[ch_selected];\n}\n\/\/--><\/script><br \/>\n<script  src=\"http:\/\/scripts.chitika.net\/eminimalls\/mm.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3613451236603523\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\n\/\/2007-07-07: content\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"5575075088\";\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\ngoogle_color_bg = \"F0F0F0\";\ngoogle_color_link = \"0000FF\";\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\ngoogle_color_url = \"008000\";\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n{mos_ri}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-1036\" src=\"http:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/sony_logo.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"60\" style=\"float: right;\" hspace=\"6\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" border=\"0\" width=\"80\" height=\"60\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"mosimage\"  style=\" float: center; margin: 5px;\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1186\" src=\"http:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/sony_dslr_a700_left.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"513\" hspace=\"6\" alt=\"Sony A700\" title=\"Sony A700\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"513\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"mosimage_caption\">Sony A700<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>To all of our Alpha enthusiasts,<\/p>\n<p>I want to let you know we\u0092ve been reading all of your comments and considering your ideas and thoughts for future product models. We truly appreciate them.<\/p>\n<p>Today I\u0092m writing to let you know about a performance upgrade for the new DSLR-a700 camera. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[3670,6323,3669],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firmware-announcement","tag-image-data-converter","tag-sony","tag-sony-electronics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}