Successful Sony Alpha Hack Cracks Video Limit and Language Menu

[RZeroX]

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In what is, as far as we can tell, one of the first successful hacks of the Sony Alpha system thus far, a person who goes by the moniker Ma1co has managed to crack Sony’s 30 minute video limit and break into several Sony Alpha cameras’ language menus.

The news broke on sonyalpharumors, who found Ma1co’s post on the Personal View forum. Apparently, the hack works like an app and will install on any camera that works with Sony’s PlayMemories application (so all of the a7 models as well as a few APS-C models like the a5100, a6000, and a6300).

Once installed, the hack will remove the 30 minute time limit on single video files, and allow you to access the language menu. That second point might seem like a strange feature to break into, but as Newsshooter points out, this will allow someone to buy a camera from Japan and change the language to English.

 

http://petapixel.com/2016/04/25/hacker-cracks-video-limit-language-menu-sony-alpha-cameras/

https://github.com/ma1co/OpenMemories-Tweak

This would be useful to anyone that shoots with any of these Sony Camera's and needs to record longer then 30 minutes continuously.

[TetraSky]

Wow, didn't know this camera even existed, but reading this
"few enough people shoot video clips of over 30 minutes EACH and the APS-C models will overheat and shut down before you get to 30 minutes anyway"

Makes me question what in the world was Sony thinking when they made it. Because a camera that overheat and shutdown? It may as well be a paperweight at that point.

[SamStrecker]

22 minutes ago, TetraSky said:

Wow, didn't know this camera even existed, but reading this
"few enough people shoot video clips of over 30 minutes EACH and the APS-C models will overheat and shut down before you get to 30 minutes anyway"

Makes me question what in the world was Sony thinking when they made it. Because a camera that overheat and shutdown? It may as well be a paperweight at that point.

Every DSLR camera can't record longer then around 14 minutes. Most higher end cameras like C300s can go for much longer but unless you have a RED most cameras only have passive cooling.

[Coaxialgamer]

40 minutes ago, TetraSky said:

Wow, didn't know this camera even existed, but reading this
"few enough people shoot video clips of over 30 minutes EACH and the APS-C models will overheat and shut down before you get to 30 minutes anyway"

Makes me question what in the world was Sony thinking when they made it. Because a camera that overheat and shutdown? It may as well be a paperweight at that point.

Only one specific model does so,  but as one comment pointed out,  anything that can record more than 30 min of video is considered a video camcorder,  and thus has different taxing.  It is entirely possible Sony did this.

[TetraSky]

1 hour ago, SamStrecker said:

Every DSLR camera can't record longer then around 14 minutes. Most higher end cameras like C300s can go for much longer but unless you have a RED most cameras only have passive cooling.

Is that so.. The more you know I guess.
Not big into photography stuff so this is surprising for me. These cameras obviously need some heatpipes. 

[SamStrecker]

2 hours ago, TetraSky said:

Is that so.. The more you know I guess.
Not big into photography stuff so this is surprising for me. These cameras obviously need some heatpipes. 

Moat just use the metal body as a heat sink