New D3 Firmware

[Jim Poor]

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/con...id=7-9309-9394

The following improvements have been made in version 1.10.

- A Vignette control item has been added to the shooting menu. For information regarding supported lenses, see the supplemental manual.
- A Focus point brightness item has been added to the a6: Focus point illumination setting in the Autofocus category of Custom Settings.
- The Highlights playback display option has been moved from Display mode>Basic photo info>Highlights in the playback menu to Display mode>Detailed photo info>Highlights.
- When shutter speed and/or aperture are locked with shooting in live view mode, using the “L” (command lock) button, an “L” icon is now displayed in the camera monitor.
- The size and color of “Demo” displayed in the monitor with playback, when No memory card? in the Custom Settings is set to Enable release, have been modified.
- The range of settings available for ISO sensitivity settings>ISO sensitivity auto control>Minimum shutter speed in the shooting menu has been increased from 1/250–1 s to 1/4000–1 s.
- When a compatible Speedlight or Wireless Speedlight Commander is used, the AF assist illuminator now lights regardless of the focal length.
- When shooting in hand-held live view mode and the frame is magnified prior to autofocusing, operation has been modified so that display returns to the magnified display rather than full-frame display.
- In some rare cases, the image area visible through the viewfinder and the image area actually recorded differed when Image area>Choose image area in the shooting menu was set to DX format (24x16). This issue has been resolved.
- In some rare cases, white balance was not accurately calculated for images captured at a shutter speed of around 1/4 s in P and A exposure modes. This issue has been resolved.
- When attempting to crop images at an aspect ratio of 4:3 using the Trim option in the retouch menu, the cropped image did not have an accurate 4:3 aspect ratio. This issue has been resolved.

[Fabs Forns]

Thank you much, Jim :)

[Larry Daniel]

The new range of shutter speeds in Auto ISO will be very convenient.

[Lance Peters]

Hi - Intresting (Taken from forums at dpreview)

The following strings are in the D3's B-firmware file v1.10, starting at offet 3'614'640:
6048x4032 24.4 M
4544x3024 13.7 M
3024x2016 6.1 M
5056x4032 20.4 M
3792x3024 11.5 M
2528x2016 5.1 M
3968x2640 10.5 M
2976x1976 5.9 M
1984x1320 2.6 M
D3X


lance

[Jim Poor]

Nikongear.com and DPreview are reporting problems with the new firmware. Apparently, with NEF + JPG in high frame rate continuous, the 14th frame can be corrupted.

http://nikongear.com/smf/index.php?topic=9446.0

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...ssage=27589854

[George DeCamp]

So far so good here.....

[Art Peslak]

Nikon has now apparently withdrawn the D3 firmware update:

http://support.nikontech.com/cgi-bin...i=&p_topview=1

[George DeCamp]

Wow, they acted pretty fast!

I actually tried to replicate this but could not. I have never filled the buffer before and I think that was a prerequisite to hit before you saw the problem.

[Bob Ettinger]

Wow, they acted pretty fast!

Just like Canon with the !DMIII, right Art :D

[George DeCamp]

Just like Canon with the !DMIII, right Art :D

Now now! :p

[Art Peslak]

Just like Canon with the !DMIII, right Art :D

Except the D3 focuses better on BIF:D