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Firmware Friday+1: Blackmagic, Canon, Fuji, Nikon, Ricoh, Sigma and Sony offer updates aplenty


 
 

This week's Firmware Friday roundup arrives just a little late, as your humble editor's been under the weather the past few days, and I didn't manage to finish writing it last night. In part, that was down to the amount of news there was to cover -- in the past seven days, we've seen updates from Blackmagic, Canon,...

Firmware Friday: Lots of love for X-mount, L-mount lenses from Fuji and Sigma, plus software too


 
 

A little later than intended -- your humble editor has been under the weather for the past few days -- our Firmware Friday roundup arrives this week predominantly bearing news on the lens front. In all, five lenses for Fuji X-mount and Leica L-mount have been updated in the past week, with the majority of these...

Firmware Friday: Canon C200, Nikon W100, Sigma sd Quattro, Sony A9 among raft of camera, lens updates

 
 

After a couple of weeks of shorter posts, this week's regular Firmware Friday roundup is a giant, bringing news of updates to six digital cameras -- one of which we already told you about midweek -- as well as for two professional video cameras and two Micro Four Thirds lenses. And as if that wasn't already plenty to...

Firmware Friday makes Sony A6000, A7-series faster; Big updates from Samsung, Fuji, Sigma and Tamron


 
 

After a brief hiatus last week, Firmware Friday returns today with big news from Fujifilm, Samsung, Sigma, Sony, and Tamron. It's quite a list of updates that we have for you today, so without any further ado, let's get to it!

Sony A7, A7R, A7S and A6000

We'll start with Sony, whose new firmware for the Alpha...

Firmware Friday: Sigma updates Photo Pro, promises another patch and new camera firmware shortly


 
 

As the weekend arrives once more, Firmware Friday this week is a little bit different. For a change, we don't have any new firmware on which to report -- but we do have the promise of firmware to come. Specifically, Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki has pledged updated firmware for some of his company's Foveon sensor-based...

Sigma prices Foveon-based DP3 Merrill compact, updates Photo Pro software


One of the key attractions of Sigma's fixed-lens and single-lens reflex digital cameras -- beyond their full-color Foveon image sensors, of course -- has long been the image editing software with which they're bundled. Sigma Photo Pro was a powerful yet intuitive photographer-centric tool long before the likes of mainstream photo apps like...

Sigma updates SD1 firmware and Photo Pro, launches remote control software

Sigma's SD1 digital SLR. Photo provided by Sigma.Sigma Corp. has today released updated firmware for its flagship Sigma SD1 digital SLR,  an update to its Photo Pro imaging utility, and a new program that brings remote capture capabilities to the SD1.

Sigma SD1 firmware v1.04 brings improvements to accuracy of both evaluative exposure metering and autofocus, as well as better handling of saturation in highlight areas of...