Photographs, Photographers and Photography

Time to update.
Canon has released firmware 1.1.1 for the 5D.
Download is free and installation instructions are included.
Here are the changes:

Here’s the installation in progress:

For me the significant feature is that high capacity 8gB and 16gB cards are now supported. I’m not rushing out to buy these but it’s nice to know I can use […]

A welcome ‘feature’ of the 5D.
I mentioned a while back that I was moving to 2gB cards in the 5D, from the 1gB I started with.
The welcome capacity increase and falling price made sense.

With an empty 2 gB card
The 5D continues to dutifully reports room for 120 RAW pictures on a blank card, yet the […]

What’s good and what rankles.
It’s been some two years since I bought my Canon 5D, an appropriate milestone from which to reconsider what is good and bad about the decision.
Since then the price has come down significantly, meaning almost a 30% drop yet, amazingly, with other market segments seeing many model changes since, the 5D […]

Guess from where!
A wireless remote shutter release is a handy thing to have. I use one with an ancient Olympus 5050 for the Christmas family snap. That Olympus has more shutter delay than you want to know about, so it’s an exercise in frustration. Further, I would guess the much used Oly’s years […]

A few months’ patience will save hundreds

It’s not hard to guess what the Mark II version of Canon’s 5D will be like. If the upgrades to the current pro (1D Mark III and 1Ds Mark III) and amateur (Digital Rebel, D40) models are any guide, expect to see sensor dust removal technology, a […]

Most certainly not a solution.
OK, so I was feeling a tad spendy, as my wife would say, the other day.
And, yes, I have complained loudly and often of the awful LCD screen on Canon’s 5D. ‘Useless outdoors’ about summarizes it.
No problemo. I look up the splendid B&H catalog, you know, the one printed […]