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Our regular Firmware Friday roundup returns once again this week bringing news of rather more updates than in recent weeks. Canon alone has shipped new firmware for seven DSLRs in the past week, and we also have news of mirrorless camera updates from both Fujifilm and Panasonic to discuss.
Let's get right down to...
It's 2016. A Summer Olympics year. First, Nikon introduced their flagship, professional DSLR back at CES this year, and now it's Canon's turn to debut their top-of-the-line DSLR: The Canon 1D X Mark II. The original 1D X debuted ahead of the 2012 Olympics, and now it's time again for Canon to showcase the latest and...
With the holiday season and the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show taking the focus lately, things have been rather quiet on the firmware front, but for the first time this year Firmware Friday is back -- and with a pretty impressive update for the Canon EOS-1D X digital SLR.
Canon 1D X firmware version 2.0.3 brings...
Pro photographers, videographers and deep-pocketed enthusiasts shooting with the Canon EOS-1D X and EOS-1D C digital SLRs will want to pay attention to a product advisory issued yesterday by Canon USA. The company has discovered an issue affecting some shipments of both models, and while it's not using the word recall to describe its response,...
We've just posted our Still Life series of lab shots from the flagship Canon EOS-1D X professional SLR, and have added them to our Comparometer(tm) tool, so you can see for yourself how image quality compares to other cameras we've tested.
Be sure to visit our Canon 1D X test shots page for all the lab images we've shot so far, including links to select .CR2 raw files, and...
New firmware for the flagship Canon EOS-1D X digital SLR today corrects several issues related to focus adjustment, as well as a bug that could prevent the pro-oriented camera powering on correctly in some circumstances, among other improvements.
Canon 1D X firmware v1.0.6 is available for download immediately. According to the company, the full list of changes in the update is...
An interesting blog post today from Roger Cicala at LensRentals details a problem uncovered with certain combinations of Sigma lenses and Canon SLR bodies. It appears to be caused by the cameras' Illumination Correction feature, but the manner in which this happens is rather odd.
In JPEG photos shot with the Sigma APO Macro 150mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM or Sigma APO Macro 180mm F2.8...
Some days it’s good to be a geeky gear-head. This is one of them because a) I finished testing autofocus on all of the Canon camera bodies we had, b) I actually found out some interesting stuff, and c) I got worked up about camera marketers while doing it, so I have my next post in the works already.
Because I’ve been writing this series on the fly (telling you what we found as...