In search of a side hustle, I recently turned fixer – Camera fixer that is (although you could call it more of a side hassle than a hustle, it’s good fun). As a result I’ve been tinkering about inside every brand of camera, hoping to bring dead souls back to life. These spares & repairs were all pretty dead, but I’ve had good success – well as being able to form an opinion about the way in which each brand designs and puts together their latest cameras. But most interestingly of all, I was able to discover some common problems – and there’s none more stranger than the dreaded BOOTLOOP problem sweeping across Sony land right now. Search “Sony a7 IV bootloop problem”… And you will find a common theme – Sony customers are having cameras like the a7 IV, FX3, a1 and a7r V fail repeatedly outside warranty – and yes, you read that right – even the very high-end models like the Sony a1 and a7r V are affected. The problem usually goes something like this… A perfectly normal camera begins to develop a bootloop where the camera immediately turns itself off when switched on, and tries to reboot immediately before you can even get into the main menus. The camera then goes into a never-ending power cycle and this sometimes needs an expensive repair, and other times goes away like nothing has happened, only to return later. Clearly, Sony’s gear has a problem, but nobody at Sony...
Published By: EOSHD.com blog - Yesterday