{"id":43146,"date":"2026-08-06T12:25:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=43146"},"modified":"2026-08-06T12:25:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:25:46","slug":"leica-sl2-s-firmware-update-6-3-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2026\/08\/06\/leica-sl2-s-firmware-update-6-3-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Leica SL2-S firmware update 6.3.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>Plain sailing &#8211; with one precaution.<\/I><\/p>\n<p><I>For an index of all Leica-related articles click <a href=https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/indexes\/photography\/leica\/ target=_blank>here<\/a><\/I>.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Leica_SL2-S_firmware_6_3_0_updated.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<I>Firmware 6.3.0 installed.<\/I><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Leica is to be commended for its continuing support of the discontinued Leica SL2-S body.<\/p>\n<p>They just issued firmware update 6.3.0 which does the following:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Leica_SK2-S_firmware_6_3_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<I>Changes in firmware 6.3.0.<\/I><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>While I have not had the DNG file issue when using Adobe Denoise, it&#8217;s nice to see that Leica is on top of this.<\/p>\n<p>The PDF file listing the above is erroneously captioned &#8216;6.2.0&#8217;, but no matter, and there are no English installation instructions, but the process is easy.<\/p>\n<p>I just updated and had no issues.  It took 4 minutes during which time the rear red LED flashed.  After copying the firmware file to the SDHC card and starting the update I was prompted to insert a fresh, fully charged battery.  I suggest when you run the update (Menu Page 6->Camera Information->Camera Firmware Version->Start Update) you save your user profile to the SDHC card.  The firmware update will ask if you want to do this, as long as you are doing this using the camera, not an iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a laborious task to set up user profiles and the camera will be reset to the factory defaults after the firmware update.<\/p>\n<p><b>Precaution:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Do not update the firmware using your iPhone, which is an option.  That update path will not allow you to save your user settings file &#8211; there is no prompt to do so. If you must use the iPhone be sure to save the user settings file to the SDHC card <I>first<\/I>. (Menu Page 4->User Profile->Manage Profiles->Export Profiles->Yes).<\/p>\n<p>To recover\/reinstall the profile(s) go to Menu Page 4->User Profile->Manage Profiles->Import Profiles->Yes.<\/p>\n<p>Worked for me and all my preferred settings are once more active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plain sailing &#8211; with one precaution. For an index of all Leica-related articles click here. Firmware 6.3.0 installed. Leica is to be commended for its continuing support of the discontinued Leica SL2-S body. They just issued firmware update 6.3.0 which does the following: Changes in firmware 6.3.0. While I have not had the DNG file &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2026\/08\/06\/leica-sl2-s-firmware-update-6-3-0\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leica SL2-S firmware update 6.3.0<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43146"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43151,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43146\/revisions\/43151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}