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Canon USA Announces EF 300mm, 400mm, 500mm and 600mm L IS II Lens Firmware Version 1.1.1
Ellen Schmidtee:
How would one update the firmware on those lenses? Via an on-lens USB port?
jrista:
--- Quote from: Ellen Schmidtee on August 02, 2012, 03:13:27 PM ---How would one update the firmware on those lenses? Via an on-lens USB port?
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According to Canon Rumor's original post, you have to take the lenses to a certified Canon Service Center:
--- Quote from: Canon Rumors on August 02, 2012, 12:33:52 PM ---This firmware update will be performed by Canon Service Centers. Please contact us using the contact information listed at the bottom of this page.
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I would assume they have a special lens mount on a special device that attaches to a computer or other firmware update system. Mount the lens to such a thing, and it could be updated through its standard contacts that drive IS, AF, and allow the camera to control the aperture.
Dalepa:
Is the upgrade free? What about the 1.4xiii and 2.0xiii? They have processors too...
Canon really needs to find a way for us to update our own lens.... I don't care to have my $10k lens being shipped out for weeks..
LetTheRightLensIn:
Good and yet if after that many delays it seems a bit hard to fathom. Maybe now that it is in tons of real hands at the Olympics they are finally getting proper testing? A bit bizarre.
lopicma:
Am I the only person here that finds it incredible that a LENS has a firmware update!? I thought they were just a bunch of glass in a tube, but I guess there is more to it than "meets the eye"...
Bad pun, sorry.
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