{"id":661,"date":"2008-03-31T07:17:01","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T14:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/03\/31\/latest-canon-5d-firmware\/"},"modified":"2008-03-31T07:17:01","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T14:17:01","slug":"latest-canon-5d-firmware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/03\/31\/latest-canon-5d-firmware\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Canon 5D firmware"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time to update.<\/i><\/p>\n

Canon has released firmware 1.1.1<\/a> for the 5D.<\/p>\n

Download is free and installation instructions are included.<\/p>\n

Here are the changes:<\/p>\n

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Here’s the installation in progress:<\/p>\n

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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 them when Vogue calls for that special photo session with Elle McPherson.<\/p>\n

The ‘new lenses’ referred to are these:<\/p>\n

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I somehow doubt any of these exotics will be darkening my gadget bag any time soon. And at the wide end, the Canon Fish-eye<\/a> beats the pants off their 14mm ‘L’ lens at a fraction of the price and bulk – all you need is ImageAlign and Photoshop.<\/p>\n

As for enhanced compatibility with DPP, I don’t use that so it adds no value in my case.<\/p>\n

By the way, if you are contemplating purchase of a new camera, most manufacturers now make instruction manuals available on line and it is a good way of learning about features and limitations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading Latest Canon 5D firmware<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canon-eos-5d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","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=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}