1D Mark IV - New Firmware Soon
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.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.
Depends on if you like half-full or half-empty :)
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.
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.
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