Sony has released Sony a7R III Firmware Update FW 1.01 to improve the ‘Set File Name’ function and overall camera stability. This update is recommended for all Sony a7R III users.
Benefits and improvements from Firmware Update 1.01
- • Solves cases where the ‘Set File Name’ function does not work properly
• Improves overall camera stability
File Version
1.01
Release Date
12/11/2017
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Brian Smith photographs portraits of Hollywood A-List and Fortune's 500 for magazines, corporations and advertising. He's a Sony Artisan of Imagery, Profoto Legend of Light, Adobe Influencer and X-Rite Master Coloratti.
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System Requirements
Operating Systems
The latest version of the system software update is compatible with the following Macintosh versions:
Mac OS X v.10.10 – 10.11 / macOS 10.12*
* macOS 10.13 is not supported.
I wonder if Sony could change their system to one like Canon, where we upgrade via the SD card, this current Sony system is a little frustrating to say the least.
#notsupported
It has been suggested.
Other than that, a very big “hat tip” to Sony for the A7Rlll……. a job very well done!!!
Be careful with this firmware update.
I installed it onto a brand new A7r III using Windows 10.
The installed crashed at around 60% complete 🙁
I ran the installer again and it went all the way to 1000% and crashed again.
Then I ran it a third time and it said I was already at the latest version.
However, the red light stayed on for 10 minutes until I bravely just turned off the camera and pulled the battery.
This is not what I would expect from Sony and it was pretty scary to think I could have bricked a brand new camera 🙁
Luckily it came back up running 1.01
You could have skipped your third attempt. Once the firmware updater shows the firmware is that n the latest version – you should not run the update again.
It stopped at that point anyway and wouldn’t proceed.
It’s just a bit scary that their firmware is this flaky?
BTW, can you ask Sony to add back the ‘Deactivate Monitor’ menu item please?
This was one of my most used functions, tied to C4. Now I have to use DISP and 3 presses to achieve this.
I also have had numerous instances of the camera showing a black rectangle with ‘Unable to write to memory card’ when shooting continuous and swapping between normal and crop mode via C1.
Cheers
How do you know it “stopped”? Updates take 15 minutes. It’s best to simply walk away until it’s done.
so how do we update if we have high sierra 10.13.2?
Find a friend with 10.12 or earlier or Windows.
That’s what I was afraid of! Thanks for your help, was trying for hours to get the update to work.
Brian, do you know if we can do the a7R III firmware update using Windows 10 running on Parallels on a Mac running High Sierra?
As suggested before, doing firmware updates via SD card would eliminate this OS issue. Sony, please change this.
I have no idea, but you could try it.
Got it done on my wife’s MacBook Pro running El Capitan. Thanks for everything you do for the Sony photography community.
Installed flawlessly on the first attempt and I don’t know anything about Sony camera firmware. I am used to many Canon firmware update and it is easy on Windows 1 with a USB cable.
After reading some of the comments I was a bit scared to mess with this upgrade, but I’m happy to say that it was a fast process and successful. Thanks.
Yup, they’re pretty simple if you follow all the do’s and don’t’s in the linked post.
I somehow missed this firmware update. And now the update file is no longer available on the Sony eSupport. Can I skip right to 1.10 Firmware?
Yes.