Ep. 481: Guinea Pigs Are Useful and This Proves It – and more
Lens Shark Photography Podcast
Sharky James
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Episode 481 of the Lens Shark Photography Podcast
In This Episode
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Sony releases firmware updates…then pulls one. (#)
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This new tool is useful, but so are these. (#) (#) (#)
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| 0:00.0 | helping you become a more informed photography consumer since 2014 as guinea pig saved us once again. |
| 0:06.7 | You're listening to the Lenshark Photography Podcast with Sharky James. Enjoy. |
| 0:12.2 | This episode is brought to by our friends at Roberts Camera, UPP, Benro, Calibright, and Fuji film. |
| 0:18.7 | Further details and discount codes later in the show. |
| 0:22.5 | Welcome to the Lenshark Photography Podcast, episode 481. Gini Pigs are useful, and this proves it. |
| 0:35.1 | In this episode, Sony updates its firmware, then has to yank it. |
| 0:40.8 | This 50 is crazy fast, a body's dynamic range, and how stellar it is, a more affordable |
| 0:47.4 | tilt shift emerges, a few tools every photographer should consider owning, and this 28 is retro gorgeousness. All that and more in |
| 0:57.5 | episode 481 of the Lenshark Photography Podcast. As I was readying this episode, the first story of which |
| 1:10.6 | is about Sony's big firmware updates, |
| 1:12.9 | the company announced that it had paused distribution of version 6.00 of its A7 Mark4 firmware |
| 1:20.5 | after having confirmed that it could cause serious issues on some bodies. The company is |
| 1:26.4 | encouraging everyone who installed the update |
| 1:28.9 | and is having issues to contact the Sony support team via their website. Now, if you're not |
| 1:34.8 | having issues, then disregard until you are apparently. The two problems identified involve |
| 1:41.3 | affected bodies entering a reboot loop right after installation, thus rendering |
| 1:47.1 | the body useless. And with the other issue, affected cameras will enter power saving mode when the |
| 1:53.5 | rear LCD is closed regardless of what settings you've chosen. Both very much not appreciated |
| 2:00.5 | and not ideal problems. Sony says that |
| 2:03.7 | you can do a full initialization, bringing the camera back to factory settings, but doing so is going |
| 2:09.4 | to erase all your custom settings that you probably took a long time to figure out. And that's |
| 2:15.4 | a less than ideal scenario. You've got things dialed in the way you |
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