arbitrage
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Check your "Shoot Start Display" setting in the 7th yellow menu. It should be set to OFF. Also check that Auto Review is Off in that same menu.
Sony a1 2.0 firmware finally out
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Spot on man, it was set to on that corrected the problem. Maybe you have some advice for another problem. I’ve had to pull the battery out of the camera twice to shut it down lol
arbitrage
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Don't know about that one...hope that isn't a consistent thing. Haven't shot mine yet. Sunrise not for another hour out west here.
This was something that happened with the first firmware on the A7rv which I experienced a few times, but never on the A1. I am just leaving it on for now, but I had to physically pull the battery out twice earlier to get it to shut down. On that shot result preview I have that programmed to c1 on top because I use flash a lot for macro photography and whenever I entered that yesterday I hit toggle instead of hold so I had turned that on accidentally.
I hope that when Sony releases a 2.x corrected firmware, we will be able to load the Settings backups and that we will not have to enter everything manually again 
Man, that’s for damn sureI hope that when Sony releases a 2.x corrected firmware, we will be able to load the Settings backups and that we will not have to enter everything manually again
I just want to preface what I’m going to say by stating I don’t claim to be a Sony camera expert, but I have shot with the A1 for well over two years now 5 to 7 days a week 3 to 4 hours at a time. Having stated that, I do consider myself very familiar and proficient with the camera. I’ve had four issues this morning after loading 2.0 software. The first one with the LCD and viewfinder blacking out was my fault because I had said my shot result preview to Toggle instead of hold, the next issue is I’ve had to remove the battery three times to power the camera down, my 600 G master lens has completely quit focusing twice and thirdly, It is my opinion. The auto focus has taken a hit and seems more sluggish. I have absolutely no explanation for why the lens stopped focusing but I literally had to power the camera down twice in order to get it to takeoff again. I have taken about 1100 images this morning and I definitely feel like the auto focus has suffered from this update.
BigD
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I have a question, does anyone have a .dmg update file that I can download? Sony has removed the update from their web and I would like to try using my Mac instead of windowed PC. Perhaps I can push the upgrade again and get some of my problems resolved, otherwise I am dead in the water.
Thanks
Glad I didn’t have time to do an update. Looks like my a1’s will stay with 1.32.
I have a question, does anyone have a .dmg update file that I can download? Sony has removed the update from their web and I would like to try using my Mac instead of windowed PC. Perhaps I can push the upgrade again and get some of my problems resolved, otherwise I am dead in the water.
Thanks
I will look once I get home because I do use Mac and if I have it, I can try sending it to you
Yeah, I would absolutely not recommend anyone putting this in their camera and frankly, I’m shocked that a camera this old has many problems with a firmware update
BigD
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Thanks so much...
BigD
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Mine I got as a Birthday Present last week, shutter count 4.
Man that really stinks. I sort of know the feeling cause I’m pretty disgusted right now. I actually changed the lens over to my second body while out because I got so aggravated with it. I just hope and pray that the fix doesn’t require wiping the camera again and entering all the custom settings because that whole process took me a little over three hours and almost an hour of it was letting the software upload.
Go to my website (see my signature below)I have a question, does anyone have a .dmg update file that I can download? Sony has removed the update from their web and I would like to try using my Mac instead of windowed PC. Perhaps I can push the upgrade again and get some of my problems resolved, otherwise I am dead in the water.
Thanks
Go to the contact sheet
Send my your email address and I'll send you a Dropbox link where I've loaded the 2.0 version for Mac.
I've provided the file to BigD
Doug Herr
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My initial sense is that SteadyShot is better with the 300 GM, at 1/15 sec subject motion will be the limiting factor.
The version I have is the European one and it looks like it's not working for BigD. So you’re back in the loop
LTK
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I took the camera out today , focus seems stickier I was getting more flight shot keepers than normal (wide with bird eye priority enabled) Tracking speed 2 with the 200-600 .
Downside spot focus small seems worse for static stuff ,I have this set to back button focus recall . Usually if the camera grabs onto background tapping the spot small gets it to grab subjects in foreground. Today this didn’t work well at all and it just stayed on the foreground.
Other thing I live noticed is faster battery drain , this was at one of my usual locations in usual conditions.
Stabilisation slower shutter speeds seems better
I tried many times , the pre focus recall does not work with my 200-600
Downside spot focus small seems worse for static stuff ,I have this set to back button focus recall . Usually if the camera grabs onto background tapping the spot small gets it to grab subjects in foreground. Today this didn’t work well at all and it just stayed on the foreground.
Other thing I live noticed is faster battery drain , this was at one of my usual locations in usual conditions.
Stabilisation slower shutter speeds seems better
I tried many times , the pre focus recall does not work with my 200-600
That's exactly what I experienced this morning with medium and small spot. It is noticeably worse. I was trying to photograph kiglets and had to switch over to zone to acquire focus. Man I really regret updating mine. Did you experience any issues with not being able to power down the camera or the lens stop focusing?
Unfortunately I already deleted it yesterday. Perhaps someone else kept the file.
LTK
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No issue regarding power down but I did think the focus hesitated more than usual , once it grabbed onto BIF hit rate was great . I'm quite annoyed about spot small it was something I used a lot and was reliable . Normally one battery lasts me a day , today I got through two !