a7ii firmware and software fragility

[gph]

Is it me or does the a7ii have a software/firmware fragility problem? So far I've had repeated system crashes with ef 35mm f/2 and 24mm f/2.8 IS lenses on the a7II + metabones IV - requiring battery removal to solve, and I've now got a complete crash of DXO Optics Pro 10 after downloading a group of HDR images using the Sony link. Can't even reboot my macbook without a hard stop. Even downloading a new copy of Optics Pro has failed to solve the problem. Nice images but bulletproof it isn't. Ideas?

[Guest all8]

Try a different brand of SD card.

[gph]

I'll try what you suggest, but should a system costing as much as it does be fragile to something like that?

[Guest all8]

Mine is working fine, I use Sandisk extreme pro.

 

 

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[gph]

That's what I use in my 6D etc but not in the Sony - I'll switch. Surely what any body wants is an end to end system - lens to sensor, through software to printer - that is robust. So far I am more impressed with Canon than Sony - now, yes, Sony is a newer system with quite a few technological and aesthetic advances, but maybe it will take time to get the bugs out. Canon lags Sony in some areas but in my (albeit somewhat limited) experience of a few years; come hell or high water it all works when you need it to. I don't need more than 20 Mpix and a smaller/lighter lens/camera is better but my real need is for a system that is bulletproof so I can concentrate on taking better photos not worrying about whether I can recover data. 

[Guest all8]

Keep in mind that the SD Card is part of the system too. Try the one from the 6d ... I hope it solves at least one of your problems.

 

 

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[Golem]

I'll try what you suggest, but should a system

costing as much as it does be fragile to something

like that?

 

That's like complaining about your corporate mainframe

crashing when the hard drive fails. If you have a very

expensive centralized mainframe IT operation, you have

to use only the very best hardware, no cost cutting on the

hard drives. And if you're NOT using the very best drives,

and a drive failure brings the system down around your

ears .... do you say "This mainframe is too fragile ! An

inadequate main storage drive repeatedly disrupts it "

 

Well ! Does it make any sense to say that ? Cuz that is

very much what you're saying. Your SD card is your main

storage drive, so it should be a top-of-the-line device.

 

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[holmes4]

You ask "Is it me?" Yes, it probably is. The problems you're describing are NOT typical. Certainly I have never experienced any of them, including DxO Optics Pro. Maybe you have a defective camera, maybe you're using a bad SD card. 

[gph]

Well, I've finally fixed Optics Pro 10. For future reference you have to run a small bit of software called AppCleaner (free download) under OS X 10.10 which removes not just the main Optics Pro 10 program but also about 7-8 other ancillary programs. That done I could reload OP10 from DXO and it worked. Clearly one of the other bits of software was corrupted and was not being cleaned out by just deleting and reloading the main program. Phew. So we learn....