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Canon will provide new firmware for the 1D4 soon: http://www.canon-europe.com/Support/...=tcm:13-710446
Details of the enhancement:
Firmware Version 1.0.6 enhances the AF tracking performance of the EOS-1D Mark IV for receding subjects and for subjects that are approaching at a low speed.
hmmmmm. interesting...
You I get emails from CPS on crap.. but stuff like this....Noooooo
already ?
I haven't noticed any problems, but I think it's good that they still fine-tune the firmware.
Well it might show that they are still working hard to tweak every bit of performance they can out of those algorithms. Thats a good thing. With the Mark III it seems the slacked or just plain didn't have the camera ready. Just got mine yesterday. I'll put out a short heads up once I get to some shooting with it.
Paul
My Mark IV has been at CSC Jamesburg, NJ since 1/19/2010. It stop working. I was informed today by a tech that it's intermittent problems and they are trying to fix it and that it takes a few days. Maybe the new firmware might fix it. The same problem was with the 50D and the first firmware also fixed it!
I hope so!
That is very unfortunate. Did it give you an error code? Some people got error 20 if I remember correctly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Renate Arzonetti
First the camera started acting crazy I could not view the image on the lcd...was black...& got a yellow strip on the lcd...then lens would not focus..... Then stop working.. & I got the msg. "clean contacts s on lens" Clean contacts... did not help.
I have used that lens (100-400) on 3 different cameras for BIF without any problems. Mostly on a Canon factory refurb Mark III for the past year without any problems.
Could you have asked for a new camera? The 30 days are probably not over yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Renate Arzonetti
Depends on if you like half-full or half-empty :)Quote:
Originally Posted by paul leverington
I've been wondering why Canon issues new firmware updates so fast. Another new camera, 7D, had one already, had it not?
If Paul is right, then shame on Nikon, I suppose. I mean, it took them so long to update the firmware of their full-frames :o
One thing I've noticed after shooting for several long sessions is that I occasionally get a few overexposed shots for no reason that I can discern. I will be shooting at constant conditions and constant camera settings. Everything is good. Then I get a few (as many as eight) shots that appear to be overexposed by a couple of stops and then, mysteriously, things return to normal. Fortunately, none of these anomalies have happened on a shot I couldn't live without. Is this an isolated case or have others experienced the same? I do not see this overexposure on the histogram.
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Originally Posted by Axel Hildebrandt
Never thought that it was necessary because I was working until then. I was informed by CSC tech that they discovered an intermittent problem (what ever that means) and need it there a little longer (what ever that means..sounds more bad then good.
To answer your question if I had known before what I know now..YES I would have had it return it to the Retailer for exchange.
