Hacker Unlocks Shutter Angle on Sony A7 IV via Firmware Exploit

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A Reddit user found a path traversal vulnerability in the Sony A7 IV firmware and used it to enable shutter angle, a setting Sony doesn't expose on that body. The same user is working on unlocking 8K recording but hasn't succeeded yet. Unofficial, unsupported, and not something Sony will patch quietly.

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