Hey all

I saw that Sony released a firmware update not long ago.

Has anyone tried it yet? Does it work ok after the update?

Sagi

Hi, I updated it, everything is working fine for me, did a lot of macro (not underwater) ...

2 hours ago, Susa said:

Hi, I updated it, everything is working fine for me, did a lot of macro (not underwater) ...

Did you see/experience any improvement in the focus department?

On 12/13/2025 at 1:00 PM, Atanas_Petrov said:

Did you see/experience any improvement in the focus department?

no, unfortunately not, autofocus, as special cont autofocus is still very unsatisfying for me (macro use). What is new is, that you can create your own customized focus points

3 hours ago, Susa said:

no, unfortunately not, autofocus, as special cont autofocus is still very unsatisfying for me (macro use). What is new is, that you can create your own customized focus points

Hi Susa,

Could you give us some more details about the problems you encountered with the AF in macro? You are talking about shooting on land and in photography, right? No video?

20 hours ago, Davide DB said:

Hi Susa,

Could you give us some more details about the problems you encountered with the AF in macro? You are talking about shooting on land and in photography, right? No video?

Hi Davide, many thanks for your interest!

Yes it's only with stills. Before a few weeks I posted about it, using cont. autofocus without AI object detection doesn't work precise enough for macro work, on land or underwater makes no difference. And its also not about too less focus light or bad autofocus conditions. I try to explain, please excuse my English but I'm no native speaker :-) :

Please see picture one, this is my motive, setting the focus point (small) to the red mark, which I want to focus on, second picture is where my focus ends up in blue, when I move my camera while focusing. The pictures are only for illustrating what I mean. In reality the output is, that for example the eyes are not sharp. This happens not with A1, A1 II, A7V, but with A9 III it's the same problem. I already talk with Sony about it, they had the explanation that the sensor of the A7R5 is too slow, hmmmm, but that can't be the case for the A9III, we tried it in a shop together with a Sony guy and with different cameras, Canon R5 was the best result :-( .

Would be really interested how your thoughts are! I have the A7R5 from beginning on and I think at the beginning this was not the case, it worked much better and I had better results.

Hi Susa,
I replied you in the other thread and as I wrote, I'm not a Sony user and this is a very specific situation. try to open a specific thread so that other users notice it and can give you their contributions.

Ciao