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Warning for Sony 7r4 users
Posted: July 9th, 2024, 4:00 am
by photojourneyman
I have been trying unsuccesfully for months to get this device to work with auto ramping and my Sony 7R4. Numerous bug reports and tests. Nothing has worked. The issue is the device/software is unable to change the aperture, rendering it useless for this feature. If I just wanted a fancy remote release, I could have got one much cheaper.
Support is pretty sporadic, sometimes you will get a response, mostly no reply. And it seems hardly anyone uses these pages, though spammers have found it.
The general page is full of spam and junk at the moment. Seems no one cares enough about it to monitor it.
Re: Warning for Sony 7r4 users
Posted: July 10th, 2024, 2:46 pm
by 897t94
I also had some issues with the Holy Grail feature on my (not officially supported) A7CR. But I was able to fix the missing ramping feature by activating JPEG along with the RAW files. The device reads the brightness levels from the JPEG files, so if no JPEG is activated there seems to be an issue with reading the embedded JPEG from the raw which results in no reading and therefor no ramping.
After activating JPEG now the ramping works and the JPEG doesn´t take too much space in lowest quality settings, which is still enough to get the brightness readings (seems to also work if you activate HEIF instead of JPEG).
Hope that helps for you as well!
Re: Warning for Sony 7r4 users
Posted: July 11th, 2024, 2:16 pm
by mopperle
Exactly! Had the same problem wth my Canon and after activating JPEG in lowest quality in addition to RAW, no problem anymore.
So this is not a bug in the Unleashed, but the result of the very poor documentation.
Re: Warning for Sony 7r4 users
Posted: July 31st, 2024, 6:29 am
by photojourneyman
Unfortunately this didn't work for me. I've had jpg activated and set to low res all along. I have a Sony 7R3 camera and the bulb ramping works fine. It just doesn't work on my main camera, the Sony 7R4.
Weirdly, I can change the aperture quickly via the Photo or Video modes, and it is actually quite responsive. Aperture just will not change automatically in bulb ramping.
It's been months and I still can't get this to work..
Re: Warning for Sony 7r4 users
Posted: October 26th, 2024, 6:51 pm
by tucsonguy
897t94 wrote: ↑July 10th, 2024, 2:46 pm
I also had some issues with the Holy Grail feature on my (not officially supported) A7CR.
I have been entirely unable to get the unleashed 22 to work with my A7CR AT ALL.
It just shows all settings grayed out and USB not working.
I tried everything many times, followed the start page instructions carefully.
The menu choices on the A7CR in the USB area are slightly different from the foolography instructions.
Any advice?