Claim of hacked Sony A7S

[barefoot]

New development. https://vimeo.com/140160082. Some interesting claims, including that the A7S II is more or less using the same processor as the previous gen. 

 

Directly from the video's description:

Remember credit to github.com/ma1co/Sony-PMCA-RE for make this possible.
1-No editing, Recorded with an iPhone (both video together on FCPX that all, can find here twitter.com/nabfathi15/status/646006119358418945 and here twitter.com/nabfathi15/status/646006119358418945)
2-The purpose of this = Show that we have an entire access to the a7s (keep your attention to the details, HDMI, Kernel, etc..) 
2-LGcamera was just a POC (it is the one from Android) it was simply to show the access and the resolution. Off course H.263 will never be use or 250Kbit (this is pretty low !) 15% of 1mb, good luck with that, this doesn't represent anything.
3-Don't say what I didn't say, we have access, we can see 4K internal available, we can see that 10bit 422 HDMI (pay attention to HDMI HDMI) is available too, etc...just a matter of time. 
4-What was discover recently is that Sony include on purpose a timelock algorithm for internal 4K (a7R II, RX100 IV, RX10 II).
5-Overheating is a false issue. 
6-More information about the factor ID on a7s twitter.com/nabfathi15/status/646011996773711872
7- What the Bionz X, Sony was hiding the information but here we go
it is a Cortex-A5MP soc (4cores) with a IP core (single GPU) Smaph-S30 (something that you can also find on a 3DS for example and made by DMP)
infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ddi0434b/DDI0434B_cortex_a5_mpcore_r0p1_trm.pdf
8-the A7S II is nothing more than a A7S with 5-axis, tweak firmware, recycle sensor, recycle body. 
9-Every Sony camera that support Play Memories could support this strong access
10-the subsystem give you an entire control of the camera with the right permissions.
P.S : I need someone who have a PXW-X70 4K for another interesting stuff related to higher bitrate possibility for this model.
For the haters about Olympus (Olympus fault) past and still focus on this.
E-M1 next firmware getolympus.com/us/en/upgrade
Olympus AIR opc.olympus-imaging.com/en/
 

 

[Kristoferman]

Even though I'm not getting my hopes up, this would make me extremely happy if it's true. 

[barefoot]

Even though I'm not getting my hopes up, this would make me extremely happy if it's true. 

Yea, best to maintain a healthy dose of skepticism. Especially since they claim overheating is a false issue (or perhaps they are just referring to the A7S series).