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Petition against Sony's Star Eater

Fred_76

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Fred_76

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Hi all!

 

A petition is now online against the Star Eater.

 

It has been proposed by myself and reviewed by Laurent Laveder, Thierry Legault, Ian Norman, Damian Peach, Aaron D. Priest and Babak Takeshi.

 

We invite you to sign it and share it to the max:

http://www.change.org/p/sony-remove-the-star-eater-on-sony-a7s-r-mk-i-ii-and-a9-cameras

 

Clear sky

 

Fred

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xtreemchaos

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ive signed, this issue has been putting me off buying a A7, its a sorry state when we have to Petition sony to make a change , you would think "with the price of these cams" it would of sorted this a longtime ago. lets hope thay lissen this time. charl.

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Knight of Clear Skies

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On 29/07/2017 at 09:33, Mr Spock said:

It would only take a firmware update to have an off switch for this. You would think Sony would listen.

Yes, you'd have thought this would be a very simple change. The costs of updating software are often higher than expected due to re-testing and ancillary tasks such as documentation, but Sony could probably win themselves a fair bit of business and improve their reputation with the community by fixing this. It's not just the astrophotographers, there must be a large number of regular photographers who are considering dabbling with Milky Way shots at some point.

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From 70 signatures this time yesterday morning to 308 this morning, that looks like good going to me - only 192 to reach 500,  (not quite as exciting as the cricket) lets hope Sony takes notice.

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The petition just turned 1000 signatures a few hours ago, after being only 4 days online.

 

Thank you all :hello2:

 

But the "quest" is not ending, the petition shall now be shared as widely as possible, in particular in the printed and online photography and astronomy magazines/blogs. If you know journalists or blogs editors, keep them aware !

 

You are also invited to ask authors of reviews of the A6000, A6300, A6500, A7 mk I and II, A7S mk I and II, A7R mk I and II and A9 to warn the reader of the Star Eater issue. For example no mention is made on the Star Eater issue in the reviews of DxoMark, Ken Rockwell, DPReview... this is misleading ! One request will not make them change their reviews, but several requests...

 

Fred

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Fred_76

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The petition has now been supported by more than 4000 persons!

It is available in 4 languages:
- english
- french
- spanish
- russian

Please:
If you speak Spanish or Russian, post the links to the Spanish or Russian versions of the petition on the Spanish and Russian forums / Facebook/ Twitter... about photography, nightscape and astronomy !

Clear Sky to all

Fred

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Some statistics about the supporters of the petition.

No of supporters counted by Change.org: 4 394
No of doubles: 7

No of supporters without doubles: 4 387

 

Supporters by country:

  • United States 1167
  • France 483
  • Germany 370
  • United Kingdom 296
  • Australia 191
  • Canada 153
  • Russia 147
  • Italy 135
  • Spain 105
  • Switzerland 94
  • Netherlands 81
  • Sweden 60
  • Austria 58
  • Belgium 57
  • Japan 55
  • Bulgaria 50
  • Hong Kong 48
  • New Zealand 48
  • Denmark 46
  • Singapore 46
  • Thailand 43
  • Taiwan 36
  • Georgia 35
  • Finland 34
  • Czech Republic 33
  • Norway 33
  • India 31
  • Malaysia 31
  • Poland 27
  • Portugal 25
  • Croatia 23
  • Ukraine 23
  • Brazil 21
  • Philippines 20
  • Greece 18
  • Indonesia 18
  • Romania 18
  • Ireland 17
  • Mexico 17
  • Hungary 16
  • Argentina 14
  • Chile 10
  • Turkey 10
  • United Arab Emirates 10
  • Slovakia 9
  • Israel 7
  • Belarus 6
  • Lithuania 6
  • Slovenia 6
  • Vietnam 6
  • Réunion 5
  • Serbia 5
  • China 4
  • Cyprus 4
  • Estonia 4
  • Qatar 4
  • South Africa 4
  • Sri Lanka 4
  • Kuwait 3
  • Luxembourg 3
  • South Korea 3
  • Armenia 2
  • Egypt 2
  • El Salvador 2
  • French Guiana 2
  • Greenland 2
  • Guatemala 2
  • Iceland 2
  • Kazakhstan 2
  • Latvia 2
  • Oman 2
  • Pakistan 2
  • Saudi Arabia 2
  • Algeria 1
  • Andorra 1
  • Azerbaijan 1
  • Bolivia 1
  • Colombia 1
  • Costa Rica 1
  • Ecuador 1
  • Ethiopia 1
  • Faroe Islands 1
  • French Polynesia 1
  • Guam 1
  • Guernsey 1
  • Iran 1
  • Isle of Man 1
  • Kyrgyzstan 1
  • Lebanon 1
  • Macau 1
  • Macedonia 1
  • Mauritius 1
  • Moldova 1
  • Montenegro 1
  • Morocco 1
  • Paraguay 1
  • Saint Barthélemy 1
  • Sudan 1
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Supporters by continent:

  • Europe 2299
  • North America 1345
  • Asia 433
  • Oceania 241
  • South America 52
  • Africa 17
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Fred_76

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A rumor at SonyAlphaRumors says a firmware update may soon be online to solve the Star Eater but ... on mk II cameras only. 

Why not the mk I ?

Source : http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/sr3-sony-will-soon-launch-major-firmware-update-fix-star-eater-issue/


Continue to sign the petition (if not signed yet) or share it !

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