v0.2.1

Camset Editor 0.2.1 runs on Windows too, and anyone can now look inside a settings file with nothing to install.

• Windows: a zip for 64-bit Windows 10 and 11 (Intel or AMD). Unpack it anywhere and run camset_editor.exe in the folder it makes, keeping that folder's files together. The program is not signed, so Windows SmartScreen warns the first time you start it ("Windows protected your PC"): click More info, then Run anyway.
• The definition viewer: choose a CAMSET*.DAT in your browser and see every setting by name, as the camera's menu has them. The file stays on your computer. It is on the docs site at https://camset-dev.github.io/camset/viewer/, and attached to this release as camset-viewer.html, which opens with no internet.
• About in Settings: click the version at the right end of the status bar to see which editor this is, the cameras it knows, links to the docs and Report a problem, what changed in each release, and Copy details for a problem report (nothing of yours in it).
• Fixes: on Windows the editor reads the computer's clock as local time (it took it as UTC) and no console window flashes up when it talks to a camera; the macOS disk image installs by dragging Camset Editor onto Applications; the web page's windows open on top of each other in the order you asked for them.
• For people mapping a camera: a kit program started with the wrong Python (macOS's own, say) now says so and gives the command to run instead of ending in a traceback, and kit/setup.py walks Windows users through each step in plain words.

Read first: writing an edited settings file to a camera is at your own risk, so always keep a settings file the camera saved itself, on the card and on your computer. The packages do not include the camera helper that reading and writing a camera directly needs: the editor works on the files a camera saves to its card. Camset is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Sony.

The full list is in the changelog.

v0.2.0

The editor for macOS and Linux, the mapping kit, the docs and the ILCE-1M2 (a1 II) firmware 4.00 definition, in the new lean form. It replaces 0.1.0, which is withdrawn.

Read first

• 0.1.0 is withdrawn: use 0.2.0. Its packages are no longer offered. If you have the 0.1.0 editor, replace it with this one.
• Camera definitions are in a new, lean form (definition format 2). This editor does not open a definition made for 0.1.0, and the 0.1.0 editor does not open the new ones; this editor comes with the new ILCE-1M2 definition. If you are mapping a camera with a clone of this repository, follow Updating your clone before going further, and write your definition afresh with the updated kit.
• Writing an edited settings file to a camera is at your own risk. A file edited by hand once put a camera into a restart loop in Movie mode, which ended when Initialize was run on the camera; Initialize also clears the network setup and the memories. The editor and the camera may refuse or change values. Always keep the camera's own backup, a settings file it saved itself, to load back: on the card and on your computer.
• This is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Sony. Sony and the camera names are used only to say what the files are.
• The editor's packages (the macOS app and disk image, the Linux tarball) do not include the camera helper, which reading and writing a camera directly needs: the editor works on the files a camera saves to its card. The helper is built from Sony's Camera Remote SDK on your own computer under Sony's terms (the README, "The camera helper").
• Windows: no package in this release; the editor builds from source there (the README, "Use the editor").

Everything in this release

The full list is in the changelog.