RAW VS RAW!

Soon after Sony released the A7r Mark II it happened. Just like every other camera that gets released these days. Within a few days of release there is an outcry. Someone somewhere finds an issue and the internet forums cry bloody murder. So the A7r2 is "plagued" with hot pixels, overheating when recording 4K video and just like it's predecessors has compressed RAW files. Fuck me sideways.....compressed RAW files? You're telling me for the past two years I haven't been getting all the 1's and 0's in my RAW files with my Sony A7r? I start looking back in my Lightroom catalog at my pictures of 2014 and 2015 I shot with my Sony A7r. I'm looking at prints large and small. I start playing around with the exposure and shadows thinking to myself....how could I have been wronged so badly by Sony? What have I ever done to you Sony?!? This is how you treat your customers?

Well a few days later Sony responds with a firmware update. And not a moment too soon. I heard stories of some Sony A7's being lynched and dragged thru the streets and hanged in the town center. There was even rumor that a few A7r's and A7R2's had barricaded themselves in an old Army depot in fear of their lives. Word from the elders is there is a brave A7R2 who built a safe haven for all Sony cameras with their inferior (and possibly dangerous) compressed RAW files somewhere deep in the mountains.

So after the announcement I head over to Sony support site and download the brand spanking new firmware for the loaner A7r2 I have (14-bit uncompressed RAW support is not available for A7 models). I'm so fucking stoked! I cannot wait to see what my photos have been missing this whole time. The amount of detail will be insane. I'll be able to bring up my shadows many more stops. No blown out highlight will be safe from recovery. I might not even need to focus....who knows. Will Lightroom now be able to include a CSI-esque "enhance" button and I can zoom in 3000% and see a fingerprint on a wine bottle, in the reflection of someone's watch, at ISO 1,000,000? Sign me up right? Ok ok...enough is enough....bring on our new RAW overlords! I hook up the USB cable, run the firmware software and follow the directions. A few minutes later, I am ready! My visual cortex ready to be blown away!