Sony has announced the details of a firmware roadmap for BURANO. During the next year BURANO Version 1.1 and Version 2.0 will be published. According to Sony, these updates will bring a host of new recording modes, support for live event production, and many other improvements based on user feedback.
Version 1.1, which is expected to be released in late June, will introduce features tailored for live event production and improved monitoring capabilities, including remote control options and multi-camera monitoring via the updated Monitor & Control app.
Version 2.0, which is slated for release in March 2025 or later, will apparently feature new recording formats, improved decompression settings, and expanded exposure tools.
BURANO Version 1.1 (end of June 2024)
BURANO version 1.1 will include new features for live event production and the addition of 1.5x decompression screen for anamorphic lenses. Version 1.1 will add the S700 Protocol over Ethernet which enables remote control of a BURANO using an RCP (remote control panel). Controllable settings include exposure, white balance, ink and others (depending on the RCP model). Version 1.1 also enables support for Multi Matrix Zone Display. This feature allows users to adjust target colors during Multi Matrix operation.
BURANO version 1.1 also allows support for version 2.0.0 of Sony’s Monitor & Control app, which enables functions such as the multi-camera monitoring function for iPadOS which allows feeding up to four cameras, exposure monitoring including the form of wavelet, histogram, false color and zebra. Some other features include focus control and control of frequently used functions, operation similar to Sony’s CineAlta cameras using a mobile device such as frame rate, ND filter, sensitivity, view, shutter speed, white balance.
BURANO Version 2.0 (March 2025 or later)
BURANO version 2.0 will give users many new features and improvements requested by the community, including new recording formats, new 1.8x removals and monitoring improvements.
Version 2.0 will include new recording formats including a new 3.8K Full Frame cut that uses almost the entire sensor and can shoot at up to 120 fps. Other new recording formats include the addition of 24.00 fps in X-OCN 16:9 image modes and the following:
| Full frame , |
3.8K 16:9 mode , |
Up to 120 fps , |
| Super 35 , |
4.3K 4:3 Mode (for Anamorphic) , |
Up to 60 fps , |
| Super 35 , |
1.9K 16:9 mode , |
Up to 240 fps , |
BURANO version 2.0 will also add 1.8x decompression settings as well as additional high frame rate (S & Q) modes including 66, 72, 75, 88, 90, 96, 110 fps.
Version 2.0 will offer monitoring enhancements, including standardized SDI video output for monitoring across X-OCN and XAVC and an improved on-screen display that places camera status information outside the image. Version 2.0 will also include View Finder Gamma Display Assist when using S-Log3 for monitoring.
It will also include additional exposure tools (High/Low Key) derived from the VENICE camera system. Version 2.0 will expand the white balance memory presets from 3 to 8 and support active/high Image Stabilization in full-frame 6K and Super 35 1.9K 16:9 image modes.
Finally, version 2.0 will add breathing compensation and image stabilization metadata to X-OCN. ,
While it’s always great to see new features added to cameras via firmware updates, you could argue that you shouldn’t wait a year for basics like a 1.8x decompression setting and Gamma Display View Finder. They assist. Having said that, Sony has a long history of adding incremental firmware updates over many years. This happened to F3, FS7, F5, F55, @VENICE/VENICE, etc.