Sony will release a firmware update to the NEX FS100

[Junior Pascual]

Mark & Doug,

Thank you for the exciting news! This firmware announcement makes my purchase of the FS100 much sweeter!

[Scott Caplan]

That is one sweet freebie. :)

Scott

Originally Posted by Doug Jensen

Here's the details.


Scheduled for early 2012. No cost. You will download package from FS100 webpage, connect PC to camera via USB and run user installable update.

Additional Camera Features (subject to change)

1. Added 50Hz recording system (PAL): 1920x1080 50p, 50i, 25p and 1280x720 50p.
2. Camera Profile (camera settings can be saved to and loaded from a memory card).
3. Additional 4x and 8x Expanded Focus magnification: (with user selectable focus area).
4. Selectable ISO or GAIN sensitivity display.
5. Selectable Focus indication in FEET or METERS (E-mount lens only).
6. Selectable Shutter indication as EXPOSURE TIME or SHUTTER ANGLE.
7. Added the following Aspect-Ratio markers: 2.35:1, 1.85:1 and 1.66:1.
8. Display ON/OFF button enables Zebra and/or Histogram overlay onto video output.
9. Compatible with the new A-Mount to E-Mount adaptor, model LA-EA2. One push Auto-IRIS and Continuous 15-point, Phase-Detection Auto-Focus operation with most Alpha A-Mount lenses is available. Lens metadata is displayed onscreen and stored real time to image file.

Mastering the Sony NEX-FS100 training DVD

[Dennis Murphy]

I don't think I've ever seen a firmware update offer so much... like seriously, that's epic!
Cheers Sony.

[Drazen Stader]

I owe the sony f3 but I can say that the fs100 is currently the best price performance camera outthere...
and would be a great to have a fs100 as b camera to the f3...even for just shooting slow motion shots in full hd...it is still worth it...

does this firmware mean it will become a PAL or NTSC selectable? if I buy a PAL version it will work as a NTSC as well...I live in europe but shoot quite a lot NTSC especially the 60p is vital to me...so will this firmware upgrade allow that?

thanks for the info..

[Jean-Philippe Archibald]

Yes, this is what I understand. This will be a unique firmware for PAL and US version, which will include every frame rates.

[Evre Ergun]

This might be a stupid question but I'm assuming there will be PAL video outs as well, right?

[Gerardo Campos]

can you tell Sony to add 120fps at 1280x720???

[Chris Johnston]

"Camera Profile (camera settings can be saved to and loaded from a memory card)."

I wonder if this means I can also NAME the PPs

(I don't want PP1, PP2, etc.......I want Outside Hi lite, Indoor hi contrast, etc)

[Ben Fullerton]

Originally Posted by Gerardo Campos

can you tell Sony to add 120fps at 1280x720???

Second that motion!

[Gerardo Campos]

Sony | Micro Site NXCAM & AVCHD
I hope that they put 120fps at 720p

[Alvin Remmers]

Sony reps at F3 and FS100 demo in Bay Area last week in response to a question told the group the FS firmware update would most likely come late Febuary or early March. I certainly hope they were being ultra-conservative with that forecast.

[Frank Glencairn]

So no 24/30/60 fps for European cameras?

[Jeff Troiano]

Originally Posted by Frank Glencairn

So no 24/30/60 fps for European cameras?

Yes, there will be an upgrade for PAL models. You'll have to look on the Sony Europe site, if I remember correctly.

[Mike Watson]

Originally Posted by Alvin Remmers

Sony reps at F3 and FS100 demo in Bay Area last week in response to a question told the group the FS firmware update would most likely come late Febuary or early March. I certainly hope they were being ultra-conservative with that forecast.

Sadly, it doesn't really work this way, in my experience with Sony (and particularly the salesgeeks that come to those schmoozers), what they meant by "late February or March" is maaaaybe by late March, but probably not until April. In reality, this means sometime around November 2012 but even then isn't guaranteed.

For my XDCam, I waited probably close to 12 months, and at the point when I'd given up all hope and started looking for alternatives, it just showed up one day. No call, no e-mail... it just appeared on an obscure link on their website. That version was rough, but the better version arrived quickly.

[Gerardo Campos]

you don't ask nobody, the answere is on the web page right now: Sony | Micro Site NXCAM & AVCHD

And will be fantastic if they put 120fps at 720p, and HDR system, as you know this camera can record 60fps over 60p with audio, so you can make a system to choose the best exposure for dark areas first and then a second exposure for hightlights areas and melt it in an smart way as in the NEX-5 or nex-vg10, to obtain a 30p HDR with 2 diferent exposures... tada!!!