What if... The NEW Sony FX3 Firmware 3.0 Update Was a MOCKUMENTARY?

This story follows Dunna... A camera youtuber who recently got the new firmware update for his Sony FX3. Will he like it? Is it enough? Did he get super bored before he decided to make his KZbin video this week?
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[@ThisIsTechToday]

"To be epic or....cinematic or whatever...." I love all the awkward pauses. It's glorious, haha. Well done, Dunna!

[@dunnadidit]

Haha thanks dude!!!

[@michaelm6522]

Really enjoy your approach here! KZbin has enough videos of creators simply reading the release notes.

[@dunnadidit]

I'm glad thats what you took from it... that was EXACTLY why I did it this way. I wanted to make a video on the topic but there were already lots of simple talking head ones. A lot of extra work but it was fun!

[@ryancease5327]

Definitely got The Office vibe with this video lol.

[@dunnadidit]

Thanks Ryan!

[@ashleatherman5033]

This was amazing! Love the different take on a review and the fact that you matched shooting style for "The Office" to support what you're doing with this video just made it that much better/enjoyable!!

[@dunnadidit]

Thanks so much!

[@RVTIPSANDTRAVELS]

Love the camera shake, you’ve got the gift my friend. Still learning my ZVE10 but learning a lot from your videos.

[@dunnadidit]

Thanks for noticing the little touch!

[@ckhicks]

Nicely done! Great mix up from the standard review format. ✌

[@dunnadidit]

Thanks so much! Needed a break from the usual stuff!

[@ChrisHagan]

Need more of this. Got everything we needed in a completely different approach than everyone else. Well done.

[@dunnadidit]

Glad you enjoyed it! It was fun to make!

[@BeckiandChris]

This was so great! Interesting updates!

[@dunnadidit]

Thanks a ton! I'm just glad that I can do my squats without focus breathing now lol.

[@classicboy97]

I don’t understand why all these new features have a big BUT to all of them. DCI 4K is a wider aspect ratio, BUT all you get is less vertical real estate. 1/48, 1/96 and 24fps is here BUT you still don’t have shutter angle and most 60hz and 120hz monitors won’t even display 24fps content correctly and interpolates the frames down to 23.97 anyways. You get 1.3x and 2x anamorphic de squeeze BUT you actually get a lot of features disabled even though this is just a monitoring feature. Also here’s a pro-tip: if you do DCI 4k on a memory recall page and then do UHD 4k (with any FPS, doesn’t matter which) on another, you can bypass the whole “camera needs to restart to initialize DCI 4k”. You’ll see the vertical crop happen instantly, and the camera doesn’t need to restart when swapping memory recalls.

[@aylenstudios]

Dci 4k has to crop in if the standard 4k is already full width. Which it should be. Its handy when you want to publish in dci or even wider, so that you have the extra pixels

[@dunnadidit]

@classicboy97 - Great tip on the memory recall state, i'll have to try that out! As for the "BUT"s, when you really boil it down, tech, cameras, and everything are all full of BUTs all the time, lots of tradeoffs for whatever reason. I used to be like "how hard can it possibly be to make this stuff happen?" until I actually got to start talking with some of the people making these things and they explain (in layman's terms) how difficult it actually can be and some of the limitations they are under. Now I take what I can get and provide feedback where I can (and whine a bit when I need to feel better).

[@JasonMorrisphotocinema]

I really feel like my update video truly is not a cool as this!!! What a video haha. love this

[@dunnadidit]

Haha thanks dude! I needed to do something a little different to stay sane lol.

[@jflo343]

Loved this style of video! You absolutely killed it 🔥🔥🔥

[@dunnadidit]

Thanks!

[@Kamijin01]

I hope you keep doing this Dunna. It's different, funny and relatible.

[@dunnadidit]

Thanks so much! It was fun to make!

[@jakelarntz]

Please do every single review like this. I loved this.

[@dunnadidit]

Haha I’ll see what I can do!

[@arranpbrown]

This was super creative and the editing was really good - really captured the look from ‘The Office’ 😅 Nice one, Dunna!

[@dunnadidit]

Thanks Arran!

[@The_Rad_Dad_Chad]

I appreciate the beautiful scenery over the office. Good luck on getting those updates.

[@dunnadidit]

Thanks dude!!!

[@Raptvre_media]

Finally someone talking real about these updates. Hands on and practically tried out. Thanks for that

[@dunnadidit]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@highdesertdragons6674]

Felt like I was watching a office episode but for cameras. So freaking awesome!

[@dunnadidit]

Thanks so much! I’m glad it translated well!

[@ericlamont4130]

I’ll never own an FX3, as I’m primarily on the photography side, but I liked this approach so much I had to watch to the end. Great job!

[@skymakai]

I'm quite happy to have breathing compensation! True 24p is also pretty great.

[@dunnadidit]

Nice!

[@LukeAntunes]

😂😂😂 loved this! Spot on the vibe in so many ways 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@dunnadidit]

Thank you!! 😁

[@TrueNorf]

EPIC idea D! Curious where you got it from! Loved how this was put together! Made me chuckle several times! Superbly done, D! 👊🏾😆

[@dunnadidit]

I’ve been watching a lot of “What we do in the shadows” lately and I found myself thinking in the style of a mockumentary. So I basically just acted on impulse and started filming lol

[@TrueNorf]

@@dunnadidit LOL!! Your impulse was very refreshing to see! You should act on impulse more, D!! 😂😂

[@just_inhawaii]

Somebody’s been re watching the office. 😂 great stuff.

[@dunnadidit]

Haha What We Do In the Shadows lately actually.

[@racemode]

It was great to meet you at NAB

[@dunnadidit]

You too!! So many awesome new people!

[@foggymossstudio]

Great work!

[@dunnadidit]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@rew9733]

Love it❤ just couldn’t hold my laugh.

[@dunnadidit]

Haha nice! Thanks for watching!

[@hzubovi1]

I agree with open gate. Sony needs to do that ASAP. The lenses are already out there

[@kevincheung2066]

The only thing that's unnerving about this update is waiting for the firmware install to complete and not brick the camera! 🤨

[@dunnadidit]

Haha every time!

[@CreativeTechLab]

Love the Rockumentary format!

[@dunnadidit]

Thanks so much!

[@bc_views]

Nice intro... I liked it considering you normally just come in with a talking head.... Not complaining, the camera skills are being noticed, lol. I had to do 2 steps on my update too. To be honest, I was disappointed with the update. Although we got a lot, I think I speak for a lot of FX3/30 users when I say, we could've ONLY gotten shutter angle and EVERYONE would have been happy.

[@dunnadidit]

I hear you... though, I still think focus breathing was pretty exciting for me lol.

[@CVFILMSLLC]

Love the office style of filming lol

[@dunnadidit]

Thank you so much!

[@michaellynchfilm]

This was soo good 😂🙏🏻

[@dunnadidit]

Thank you!

[@movingamountain]

That side look when you mentioned people who use multiple cameras 😂

[@dunnadidit]

😂😂😂

[@JakeBlackstaffe]

Dunna did the office.. HA! love it!

[@dunnadidit]

Haha glad you liked that!

[@BuildItMakeIt]

This was hilarious. I really liked how you did this one.

[@dunnadidit]

Thank you!!

[@ShangleLP]

nice and creative. sometimes I just want infos but that kinda entertaining ^^ and I actually don't have the cam

[@dunnadidit]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@KofiYeboah]

This is gold 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@dunnadidit]

😘

[@nick-fr9hq]

Loved this

[@dunnadidit]

Thanks!

[@PhillipSkraba]

Love it!

[@dunnadidit]

Thanks dude! Great to meet you at NAB

[@PhillipSkraba]

@@dunnadidit right back at you 🤜🏻🔥🤛🏻

[@mikethecreative]

The blank stares had me laughing out loud. Reminded me of old SNL skits called “Debbie Downer” 😂 I like the update. Hope for a v3.5 and v4 with shutter angle and maybe true 30p and 60p. Or maybe they are saving those for the FX4….

[@dunnadidit]

Haha glad you liked that! Those would be some cool upgrades for sure!

[@andyxmunoz]

Buying the FX3 in a few days, pretty nervous about it. But happy to make the jump from the Sony A7IV.

[@dunnadidit]

You’re gonna love it! I like mine more and more every day!

[@JensMowatt]

The fact that the a7S III hasn’t been updated yet is just inane.

[@dunnadidit]

Totally different product teams unfortunately means totally different plans and pipelines. Hopefully it comes though!

[@jamesprecious1035]

Dunna, I went through the painful update process last week. I was on 2.0 so and I have a new MacBook Pro with M1 chip. I could not get the process done so I had to jump on the phone with Sony and learn that there are glitches with the new MacBook software that Sony has not been able to fix. I end up using an older Intel Mac to go through the process and update my FX3. Over all I spent about 3 hours of my time. Hopefully future updates work through the new Sony app and we can be done with these these painful moments. Great video, did you use the new Sony ZV E1 making this latest episode? Cheers from Vancouver!

[@snaprifice]

Painful? I downloaded the firmware on my phone, plugged in my phone to my camera, transferred the file to it and updated it from the camera version menu 😑

[@dunnadidit]

@James - UGH thats rough! I didn't run into the issues that some people were on my M1Max but I had done some of the security things on it for another update so i was kind of pre set up. The updates weren't quick though. I ended up doing 2 and they were 30 ish minutes each plus reading things to make sure I wasn't going to screw it up. And yeah I did shoot the majority of it with the ZV-E1 and used some of those new features to get the "camera person" look. Cheers!

[@dunnadidit]

@Josh - Dude, thats dope, I didn't even know that was an option. You've gotta be android then right?

[@snaprifice]

@@dunnadidit yessir. It worked for the fx30, I don't know for sure if it's the same for all of their cameras though!

[@christofferroeen7222]

hey Dunna, i could really use some HELP on how to (again) upload my Phantom luts (33x or 65x) on to my FX30 - I cant do it after i have updated to version 2.0 - I think many suffer the same problem but there are no videos on this !

[@holdenshamburger-ft5qk]

Did you use the ZVE1 with the auto frame tool where it follows you during the shots in the field?

[@dunnadidit]

Haha great eye! I used it a whole bunch on this video! Literally this whole video was shot on a tripod except for the couple shots that I wasn't in.

[@holdenshamburger-ft5qk]

@@dunnadidit awesome, I'm quite excited to get mine. I've been waiting to see someone use it that way outside of a review as a real world test. Very happy with how that was. It genuinely gave the feel of having a camera person hand holding. Your added camera shake hack also helps.

[@austingnz]

Can anyone help me on how i can update the FX3 to the new 3.0? I have it downloaded on my computer and have tried to do the update using an sd card method but it refuses to work and says "no update files on card". Is there an alternative way possibly?

[@joshuaaruiz]

So funny, I had the same struggle when updating my fx3 just last night, as in I feel they just made it more complicated than needed

[@dunnadidit]

Hope you eventually got it! It wasn't super quick but all the info was there for me!

[@AJCoReTV]

Hope my A7S3 get some love soon.

[@dunnadidit]

Fingers Crossed!

[@JoeVazquezProductorMusical]

Finally somebody tell the true of the new firmware, I don't soo happy with it, I think for almost $4,000 camera we need more options like 4k 120 fps in XAVC S-I and DCI 4K, focus breathing compatible with all AF lenses and more and more. I hope Sony heard you and make that in 3.1 update 😅

[@leeharrison9941]

This is all great, but Sony, can we PLEASE get a pre record cache in the a7s III or or FX3! Dunna, talk to your people. I beg you.

[@dunnadidit]

That’s a great idea! I will definitely pass it on!

[@dunnadidit]

That’s a great idea! I’ll pass that on if I can!

[@aylenstudios]

Aaand lumix already has all of this except focus breathing comp and true 24p, plus more anamorphic options, shutter angle, waveforms for monitoring and more

[@dunnadidit]

okay 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@seasideshutterworx]

Holding thumbs that the absence of updates for the Sony a7iiis drives is price down so far that I can finaly afford it.

[@dunnadidit]

I've got my fingers crossed for you! (is that kind of what "holding thumbs" means?

[@seasideshutterworx]

@@dunnadidit Thanks Dunna. Yup its the same meaning

[@dunnadidit]

I like it! Holding thumbs for you too!

[@JaimeAndresMedia]

Thank you Sony.... But WTF is going on with ya'll leaving the a7siii without all these updates?

[@Brandon4Weiss]

I get that some of them are definitely needed on the a7siii (e.g., focus breathing comp), but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the more cinema-focused features to come to what is essentially a hybrid version of the fx3. Other manufacturers have done things like DCI on mirrorless bodies, sure, but Sony hasn't, so I wouldn't expect them to start now. Not defending them, but just trying to look at things realistically. It's a hybrid camera, not a cinema (let's be honest, cinema lite) camera like the fx3. With all these additions, though, now, I don't see why we can't have shutter angle on the fx3...

[@JensMowatt]

@@Brandon4Weiss Kind of an illogical argument given it’s basically the same camera as the FX-3. The a7S III was never marketed as a hybrid mirrorless camera - it was marketed as a video camera. And as such, I as an owner of one expect that it’s at least going to get some of the video-focused updates in other cheaper cameras like the FX-30. I’d love to have other features, but all I really need is focus breathing and I’ll stop complaining.

[@dunnadidit]

Yeah, I totally hear all of you here. When I heard about the update I actually asked Sony straight up if the a7siii would be getting updates figuring people would be wondering. The big thing that I heard back that was not necessarily definitive was that the sony cinema line and the sony alpha line are COMPLETELY different teams. No overlap really so when the cinema team is working on something like this for the FX3/FX30, they might not necessarily be in communication with the alpha line at all. Hopefully they do find a nice easy (this is dreaming, I'm sure that nothing about building cameras or their software is easy) way to port some of the updates over to the a7siii as well but I guess we'll see.

[@Brandon4Weiss]

@@JensMowatt It was marketed as a video-centric hybrid mirrorless camera, but it’s a hybrid nonetheless. Otherwise it wouldn’t have all the photo features it does. I’m not saying it doesn’t make sense to dd them to the a7siii (especially since so many people are using them alongside an fx3 and fx6, so it would be nice if they could, you know, shoot in the same frame rate and resolution). I’m saying I wouldn’t hold my breath. I had one for almost 2 years before moving to the fx3. And again, I’m not saying it shouldn’t get them, Sony has just broken me and I don’t expect them to do it.

[@Brandon4Weiss]

@@dunnadidit that’s always bonkers to me that these two departments seemingly don’t communicate much, if at all. I don’t pretend to know much about what it takes to build cameras and software and add features, but it seems like they’d accomplish more if they, like, did some brainstorming together once in a while.

[@mashudali8482]

Very funny - 'open gate'

[@dunnadidit]

I want to start a chant for it so loud that sony can hear us.

[@paulg3388]

Thanks for trying so hard to be pleased about these updates whilst showing how lacking in excitement you really are. Had me in stitches and apologies if that wasn’t the intention lol. You should haves titled it “meh” 😂 I’m an A7S iii owner and I doubt very much they will add all this into a firmware update, however much I wish they would, they are clearly making that gap wider to differentiate the two cameras. Mmmm whether to buy an FX3 … mmmmm

[@dunnadidit]

Haha that’s a funny way to see it, I was definitely putting on a bit of a character but in the end, it’s a free firmware update, not a new camera so I didn’t go into it with expectations that it would be anything too huge or mind blowing haha.

[@paulg3388]

@@dunnadidit well I enjoyed it so thanks !!

[@georgerady9706]

Stopped by B&H last month (October) and they said an update is coming for the Sony Alpha One in November… we’ll, November’s half over???

[@dunnadidit]

That’s weird that they would have even have said that. Sony hadn’t announced anything about an update until just a week or so ago and it was for a firmware update in spring 2024.

[@georgerady9706]

Maybe it was 2024 and I didn’t listen closely…

[@skepsys]

doesnt it mean that dci is still 3840, if its not wider? so, basically, not real dci, but just cropping the height? am i wrong?

[@PrisonJunkie]

Sony out there on the cutting edge! Uhh, I had DCI 4K in my old mirrorless released by a smartphone company in 2014. NINE years ago. Btw, that Samsung NX1’s AMOLED rear screen is/was vastly superior to any of the Sony LCD’s currently integrated into their cameras. The more things change… ***Inspired upload, btw. Coincidentally, this is a style I’ve been refining over the last few months. It’s fun***

[@POVwithRC]

cool

[@dunnadidit]

Thats cool that that older camera had that. I don't think anyone was necessarily arguing that this was groundbreaking lol. In fact, the general consensus is that it was overdue. But like I said in the video... I'll take what I can get haha. I don't know how to build a camera or make the software for it so I'm stuck on this side for now haha. thanks for the kind words about the style. had lots of fun making it!

[@dunnadidit]

How do you feel about this new update for the Sony FX3 and FX30?

[@POVwithRC]

Overdue but appreciated.

[@gertjanaertgeerts]

Couldn’t update on the M1 Max and had to revert to older intel iMac. The upgrade process is so much more finicky than the SD-card way on the FX6. Other than that nice to see they keep adding new features to the camera!

[@dunnadidit]

I keep hearing people saying that, I updated on my M1 Max without any issue other than it taking a while to get through. What the heck 🤔

[@jamesprecious1035]

@@dunnadidit I just commented above before reading this. Interesting that you had no issues. I tried with the tech on the phone and he suggested to use an older Mac so obviously they are experiencing this with many users.

[@JensMowatt]

Honestly kind of frustrated that the a7S III has basically been forgotten. The FX3 is basically the same camera in a cinema body, so the fact that a7S III users don’t have focus breathing is kind of ridiculous at this point. Even the FX-30 has it, and it’s half the price. I’m just feeling more than a bit annoyed at Sony for not having updated one of their best video cameras for more than a year.

[@Shadow_Li]

RIP a7siii🥲

[@dunnadidit]

Lol still a great camera.

[@jirosaves_theworld]

wait hold........up!! i know this's review of FX3 Firmware update...... is that [THE OFFICE] reference? hahahaha! for me that DCI update are veryyyyyyyy help me out!! dear Sony give us false colour next please -sincerely, people who suddenly left monitor on bed when need to shoot at 4AM-

[@dunnadidit]

Haha glad you got a kick out of the vibe!

[@mohamadawad3175]

Yeaaaath this an awesome update version, to the point that Bluetooth no longer works and I could not connect it to any external devices, thanks for shitty things sony 🤝

[@guirodrigues3711]

Please don't update if you use Catalyst Browse, it breaks compatibility and you won't be able to stabilize your footage. Great.

[@dunnadidit]

OOh, now I want to try haha. Thanks for sharing the heads up!

[@NewYorkerPEACE]

FX3 trying to update 3.0 from 2.00. Do I need to update to 2.02 first? I really hate sony firmware process. I can't find the 2.02 firmware on sony site. any help thanks

[@dunnadidit]

You should be able to go from 2.0 to what they call an “intermediary” I believe it was 2.04 or 2.05 and then to 3. That was what I did.

[@NewYorkerPEACE]

@@dunnadidit i got it but sony's menus and firmware are terrible. thanks for getting back.