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In the Version 2.0.4 firmware, the following phenomena that occurred with the Version 2.0.3 firmware (which was to enhance the movie functions) have been corrected.
There was a phenomenon in which the manual recording settings made in C1/C2/C3 were changed and sound could not be recorded if manual sound recording was used in the C1/C2/C3 settings and the camera was subsequently turned off (or if Auto Power Off was activated). This does not occur in modes other than C1/C2/C3.
The Version 2.0.4 firmware includes the movie function enhancements listed in items 1 through 5 below, and also incorporates the correction listed in item 6.
Adds or changes the following movie frame rates.
NTSC:
1920×1080 : 30 fps (changed – actual 29.97 fps)
1920×1080 : 24 fps (added – actual 23.976 fps)
640×480 : 30 fps (changed – actual 29.97 fps)
PAL:
1920×1080 : 25 fps (added – actual 25.0 fps)
1920×1080 : 24 fps (added – actual 23.976 fps)
640×480 : 25 fps (added – actual 25.0 fps)
Adds a function for manually adjusting the sound recording level (64 levels).
Adds a histogram display (brightness or RGB) for shooting movies in manual exposure.
Adds shutter-priority AE mode (Tv) and aperture-priority AE (Av) mode to the exposure modes for shooting movies.
Changes the audio sampling frequency from 44.1 KHz to 48 KHz.
Fixes a phenomenon where communication between the camera and the attached lens is sometimes interrupted after manual sensor cleaning. (This phenomenon only affects units with Firmware Version 1.2.4.)
Download: http://web.canon.jp/imaging/eosd/firm-e/eos5dmk2/firmware.html
Alternate Download:
Windows: https://www.canonrumors.com/files/5dfirmware/eos5d2204.exe
MacOS: https://www.canonrumors.com/files/5dfirmware/eos5d2204.dmg
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Nice.
Annoying to have to redo this. Traffic on the canon site was ridiculous trying to get the file. It downloaded wrong twice for me (partially) Have to go through it all again. Ugg
So fast! Thanks Canon and thanks 5d markII team for repport.
Actually you were not first, we were, but we could not tell you. We have been working on this closely with Canon. If you have a very good friend in one of service departments you could have negated version 2.0.3 and just did what we did, only use 2.0.4, we were not able to tell you this prior to you downloading the .3 version though due to we don’t want to lose our friend. Oh but he is imaginary and we don’t actually have a 5D MkII yet but our mum promised us some more money towards it on my, no our, next birthday. Please post any additional knowledge you might have to my blog, then I can give off the impression that I knew, and that I do have a camera and friends. Anybody that uses my nick (apart from nick himself) is very sad.
I added some alternate download links if it’s slow for anyone.
Very fast, less than 2 days to fix it, impressive: I wish Canon could do the same for Auto ISO photographic features that require even less amount of time to be fixed.
http://www.petitiononline.com/Canon5D/
Canon, I love you and hate you so much!
Keep in mind that features like enhancing automatic ISO are a patent minefield, it is never as straightforward as it might seem. :)
At least the server was faster today and they put some mirrors up. It took me hours to download that dodgy FW.
Yeah yeah we get it. Impersonating the 5D mk II team is funny. Joke’s getting old now, move along.
Well time to wait 2.0.5 Hey, Canon, give us 720/60
That was mightly quick… well done.
Noooooooo, next we move on to linking to subtitled Hitler videos on YouTube, it’s a new viral marketing technique, you think it is so low tech. There is already one about the 2.0.3 firmware.
all is said, not all is correct
Seeing Apple’s lawsuit with HTC over multi-touch, etc. and your suggestion that auto-ISO is another sticky area, I am starting to believe our patent office is a pawn in a corporate game. They give out patents that are way too broad or they allow patenting the obvious.
Get out from behind mommy’s skirt and innovate you guys. Innovate faster and harder to keep your competition away. Don’t just get a good idea, lay on the couch and use the patent like bug-spray.
That’s true, but:
– Auto ISO limit is present in Canon 550D (600€ vs. 2000€ 5D mark II)
– Minimum shutter speed in Auto ISO mode is present Canon 1Ds Mark IV (http://cpn.canon-europe.com/content/education/technical/eos1d_markIV_custom_functions.do)
So Canon has patents… :-(
They can’t. A poster in another post explained it.
hmmm – is this canon rumors site or more the “Canon news site in the absence of actual rumors site” ?
“…. towards it on my, no our, next birthday”
I laughed !!
: D
I am not putting this new update anywhere near my camera, I simply do not trust Canon, they have shown themselves to be incapable of catching major and glaringly obvious issues, I am going to wait until it is in use for a week or so before upgrading – at least with 2.0.3 we know the major issues (with audio) and know how to work around them.
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It’s fixed. Just download it already. Less whinging more shooting.
man, what the f**k is Canon doing? People waited a long time for 2.0.3 and it was faulty…
This is ridiculous… They don’t test the cameras or their software. Else they would have seen the bad noise levels over 3200 on the 1D4’s… No wonder Nikon is taking over.
Please take your troll somewhere else. You’re annoying me.
Nikon just have NR you can’t turn off. The 1DIV matches the D3s up to 12,800iso after normal PP (ie adding some NR). You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about you do?
Haha!
Yea, I heard that all professionals shoot on Nikon and that their photos are slightly sharper.
The patent office is overworked and just approve almost any patent application, leaving it up to holders to fight it out in court. It’s designed to keep jobs in America for lawyers, court employees, and patent trolls. How else can we fight the offshoring of practically every job while still maintaining the high cost lifestyle of Americans.
On the flip side, with other national governments allow/promote pirating technology from other countries, patenting is the only protection left for the true innovators. In the end, the high litigation cost hurts corporate American the most, leading to offshoring of more jobs.
totally! which is why they’re all hanging out on this board!
man, i wonder what canon trolls on the nikon boards say?
“why are all the colors on my pictures faded when i use a nikon camera?”
to the original poster:
oh my god, you had to wait an extra 2 days for the hotfix! what a bunch of complete bastards! i bet you discovered the problem in the first place!
no, really, have you even picked up your camera in the last week, or do you just spend time arguing on the internet instead of taking photographs?
you are a moron sir and blind to the fact that the D3s is a superior camera to the 1D Mark IV. They have god knows how many ISO comparative tests now online. It clearly shows the 1D Mark IV as being significantly more blurred with way more noise than the D3s. The noise reduction software in the nikon cameras is not that aggressive to say the least.
I would hope real Canon employees have something to do other than write on message boards.
amazing! does the person even have a 5dm2? probably not, otherwise he’d be off taking pictures instead of jacking off with imovie.
your an idiot for even comparing the two. the d3s has a completely different sensor than the 1d mark IV.
lol. this site is filled with more whiners than photographers.
Well actually, at Nikon rumors, most of the comments are like ‘nikon is stuck at 12 megapixels while Canon gets more pixels in sensors and improves quality’.
Then you have those ‘that’s it, I’m going to Canon, I needed a D700s months ago’. Who cares lol.
These people aren’t photographers, they just happen to have a DSLR with one lens. The bad thing is that unexperienced DSLR photographers really think that one brand has sharper photos, or better colors.
I just left Canon in Jamesburg NJ with my 5D markII that I got yesterday. They will not give you the 2.03 or 2.04 firmware update for at least 2 weeks. My 5D was shipped with 1.0 firmware and the updated it to 1.2.4 only
No. It’s “rumors and k.v.c. news”!
You seem to know zilch. It clearly shows the 1D Mark IV as being significantly more blurred with way more noise than the D3s. Where d
Where does BLUR come in?!
lol yeah thats true. full frame vs crop. no brainer. all in all they are still great dslrs….haha
No we don’t, not at my level anyway. The 1Ds MkIV is done, the 5D MkIII is in production testing simulations, the prototypes and testing models are basically finished with. There are several containers full of lenses (can’t tell you what but think long and white, 24-? L and wwwide). I am basically on a break for a few months. Just wish those software/firmware guys worked through their tasks like us. Oh I am NOT in the AF department either!!
agreed with the others that your obvious lack of knowledge shows how much you know about sensors and sensor size. it is not an apples-to-apples comparison when comparing image quality due to the difference in sensors.
haha cool another firmware update. I like the 5d mark 2. great photos……
Oh yeah go away you Janitor boy! LOL.
You realize your whining as well right?
That doesn’t make him wrong, right? ;)
@CR
Is the image at the top of this article significant?
Does it really mean EOS 1-D Video?
it says EOS HD Video
Ditto that!
it just shows how quickly canon release firmware if they need too. I hope canon might add the 720p/60 option soon?
LOL! I guess if you look at it right, it does say hD!
But with EOS before it, I saw EOS 1-D (a camera) and then Video. I wonder if a Japanese speaker designed the text in the image or an English speaker…
Fixing a bug, that might be one line of computer code is easy. You can do a quick test and out it goes.
Adding functionality that has to do with abstracting a FF to 720p, pushing the hardware to a higher frame refresh rate, and then building the collected data output for those 60 frames per second… plus all the support mechanisms in external programs, internal menus, etc. — No, that takes time. And then you need to test (or you should) in the field to find artifacts, coding errors, media generation errors, noise, and so much more. Time and more time.
Don’t expect it fast, assuming that Canon ever provides it.
BTW, the camera now gives you frame widths of 1920 and 640. 720p is 1280. This is new code on the order of the 640 they just built-in.
Not gonna happen. This is the LAST firmware update for this 2008 camera body.
Next stop, 5D3, in 2011.
Good point Nico.
When someone is really interested in something, he/she/they do research and think enough to find helpful points.
As you can see, we promoted that feature since “day 1”, but Canon seems not willing to include it, at least so far.
We’ll keep watching as close as we can. Any further info or actions will appear on our Blog.
What about the EOS 7D Mark II?
They can be REALLY fast indeed. They always work very hard.
We would REALLY like to know why 720p was REMOVED from the firmware.
If it was a technical potential issue, or why…
Ha! Actually, I was one of those people who pretty much exactly said, ‘That’s it, I’m going to Canon, I needed a D700s months ago.’ Went and bought a 5D MkII – I was pretty certain the movie mode (which was the sticking point) would be a big bonus and I was correct. I could afford to wait for a little while to see what was happening with the D700/5D situation, primarily because of the economics of the whole thing – didn’t want to buy a £2000 camera that I suddenly could have gotten for £1500 within a month…
Absolutely loving full-frame etc and think it’s a brilliant camera. Sure, it’s not completely perfect and I do prefer the Nikon ergonomics, but on the plus side it lets me mount my old Zuiko lenses (I *think* the flange distance is too short for that on Nikons, though I’m not 100%), has the resolution needed for big posters round school and is letting me grow with off-camera lighting and so on.
I appreciate that Canon is rolling out these firmware updates – it’s a nice present to find that your camera is now better, for free! That said, I really would love 720p/60. :-D
Keep it up, both to Canon and Canon Rumours!
Don’t try to use our new model firmware on old models please, accept the II is now completed. Everything promissed is in and we are now looking for the next genaration.
All I have to say is this “a bad workman always blames his tools” My mother made some of the best films I have ever seen using a Super 8 movie camera, waiting a week for the reels to come back and hours of splicing using glue and a razor blade, then showing on a PROJECTOR in our living room….no sound, no icecreams, no moaning…because it’s about the content :-)
Not much moderation here is it? If you make a forum, you should try to weed out bs. No? I thought people had to confirm email accounts before posting. Not doing much good is it though?.
Impersonating other people seems terribly detrimental. Not much use posting your views when an idiot can take your name and say whatever he wants.
How about restricting the one name to one email account?
Yes. I´m known under a different name.
Patents are bs. People should make the best product they can and people will buy it.
So true. When Canon wants to do something, they do it. The delay in the first place is embarrassing.
I do A**hole.. I have 1D4 and my best friend has a D3… U don’t have a clue.
1.0? That camera must have been sitting on a shelf for 2 years.
Well now there is a funny thing. Obviously there is a development road map in place for the 7D line, higher level meetings (than me) have not yet determined the direction it will take, that won’t happen until every-bodies sales figures are in and others model ranges are in place.
Suffice to say, there is at last recognition that the MP race has been won, we have nobody to run against in the video race (though a close eye is being kept on Sony) so other technological targets will be set. Marketing (curse the little dwarfs) will have too much input and I suspect ever higher iso will be put before DR. But that will be addressed as an alternate route once the iso envelope is finished.
I have seen backlight sensors in mocked up test bodies but that, again, is beyond my department. Despite denials, there is a small team working on an EVIL, this has a very interesting background, there are several people very high up in Canon who have seen the FD lenses being used with great enthusiasm by users of other manufacturers bodies. They have a soft spot for the FD line. I have seen mock ups with both EOS and FD lenses on, BUT, I don’t know the mount arrangement, I don’t know if it was either EOS or FD native mount or just a test bed. I have no idea if either has a road map.
Lenses will play an ever more important role in bottom line sales figures. People are not upgrading bodies as much as they used to as they consider incremental upgrades as too expensive for the improved feature set, basically people are happy with what they have, it is being labeled “the film effect” people used to hold on to their film bodies and buy into lenses before upgrading to much better speced bodies. More R&D effort has been moved to lenses. Several are already made and many more patented and mocked up and/or tested.
MkIII sales, it is a simple as that.
The thing is not that the firmware took an extra few days to come out properly. It that they had it ready for a few months, basically just waiting to release it, and still hadn’t properly bug tested it. That’s just irresponsible.
The 2.0.3 firmware was packaged almost FOUR WEEKS AGO (and presumably sent out to various people for testing). Are you telling me, of all the testers, no one had this issue?
My take is Canon KNEW about the audio issues, but released 2.0.3 anyways, as I seriously doubt they could throw together a fix and thoroughly test such a fix in less than 48-hours.
As for me? I’ll be waiting another week or so before applying 2.0.4.
The best responses always start with “you are a moron” and if you’re classy and with “sir”.
Well, you know what you needed. I was referring to those that don’t know what they need eheh.
I agree, 5D MK II is a great camera. Those that complain, usually don’t know how to use it. Most never had the camera too!
Good luck!
man i would be happy about 720/30 already!
it would extend the continuous video shooting time extremely!
like when i mounted my 5D on my motorcycle tank a few days ago…it would have been really nice to shoot longer than just like 13minutes
ill be waiting too now – make sure no other bugs are found. I thought because it was waiting on the server for 4 weeks, that all the bugs were found. Its understandable that bugs can get into firmware updates. I wish canon would give a reason for 720p.
I really hope the 5D mark III can do this: put in a VERY VERY FAST processor…if Dual Digic 5 not fast enough, make it Quad Digic 5! Today all PCs are quad-cores! …make it fast enough to down scale the 1080p video properly, instead of just simply skipping lines like right now. If the alias problem solved, that Scarlet will be in HUGE worry!
remember to include Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators with 20 years battery life or else you would be able to only take 1min of footage
tools matter. the same could be said about your mum’s films.
“My great great great…. grandfather choreographed some of the best tribal dances, waiting a month for his dance troupe to learn the moves and hours of hollowing out branches to make flutes and drums, then performing on a SAND PIT in the tribe’s common area…no technology, no speakers, no light, only a campfire…because its about the content”
good lord. art pwns all. no need for technology.
my point is, technology advances the medium. artists use whatever they need. and besides. art is subjective. whats good for you may be (no disrespect for your mum’s work :) which effort i think truly reflects her passion) mundane for others.
but then again i suppose you are hitting out against gearheads. again, in this consumeristic world, well, if they wish to make large purchases then i think they care ot so much for art, but another form of enjoyment – gear, technology, the thrill of the ‘new’. nothing wrong with that :)
Lulz
Personally, I find that the lack of moderation is one of the charms of this message board. It usually never gets out of hand, aside from the JS incident.
Patents are bs? Absurd and ignorant statement.
You have friends?
I stand corrected. I now know you know nothing about PP and have too much money for your abilities. Thanks for the clarification.
Blurred? LOL go away troll.
That’s why I come here. For the LOLz (and it’s pretty easy to get the whiners to go crazy) lol.
Precisely. You can easily download full size (RAW even) comparisons and compare the two. The D3s is softer (less details due to the NR they won’t let you turn off) and the 1Div is more than capible of matching the D3s up to 12800iso (with some PP). The 1Div also has more MP to play with (don’t try that 12MP is enough crap, you can resize to 12MP and get a lot of detail becaus of the added resolution). Combined with the intellegent move of keeping the details instead of blurring everything with inbuilt (can’t be turnned off) NR, trying to trick people into thinking Nikon are so great at controlling noise.
Basically the 1Div isn’t worse than the D3s, it’s about the same. Just choose your system Kevin and stop trolling.
Trolls don’t have to make sense. ;-)
agreed irony.
Yes, the megapixel race has been won. Now Canon should work on getting pixel-packed sensors to see in the dark with minimal noise.
You’re quite wrong about not having anyone to compete with – you’re forgetting about RED. If I’m not mistaken, their 4.5K sensors are even smaller than Canon’s APS-C sensors. Can we maybe have a camera (perhaps EOS-1D Mark V or EOS-1Ds Mark V) that shoots 5K video at 96fps (four times 24p) at a ratio of 1.85:1 (for shooting cinema movies, capable of being slowed down 4x)? If Canon would make that, and charge under 10,000 U.S. dollars, plus EF lenses, that would be serious competition for Red Digital Cinema. The 96p would help a heck of a lot with Animal Planet-style wildlife documentaries.
Plus, Canon should make their EOS-1 AF points cros
Yes, the megapixel race has been won. Now Canon should work on getting pixel-packed sensors to see in the dark with minimal noise.
You’re quite wrong about not having anyone to compete with – you’re forgetting about RED. If I’m not mistaken, their 4.5K sensors are even smaller than Canon’s APS-C sensors. Can we maybe have a camera (perhaps EOS-1D Mark V or EOS-1Ds Mark V) that shoots 5K video at 96fps (four times 24p) at a ratio of 1.85:1 (for shooting cinema movies, capable of being slowed down 4x)? If Canon would make that, and charge under 10,000 U.S. dollars, plus EF lenses, that would be serious competition for Red Digital Cinema. The 96p would help a heck of a lot with Animal Planet-style wildlife documentaries.
Plus, Canon should make their EOS-1 AF points cros
Yes, the megapixel race has been won. Now Canon should work on getting pixel-packed sensors to see in the dark with minimal noise.
You’re quite wrong about not having anyone to compete with – you’re forgetting about RED. If I’m not mistaken, their 4.5K sensors are even smaller than Canon’s APS-C sensors. Can we maybe have a camera (perhaps EOS-1D Mark V or EOS-1Ds Mark V) that shoots 5K video at 96fps (four times 24p) at a ratio of 1.85:1 (for shooting cinema movies, capable of being slowed down 4x)? If Canon would make that, and charge under 10,000 U.S. dollars, plus EF lenses, that would be serious competition for Red Digital Cinema. The 96p would help a heck of a lot with Animal Planet-style wildlife documentaries.
Plus, Canon should make their EOS-1 AF points cross-type to f/5.6. f/2.8 lenses are painfully heavy at longer focal lengths.
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RED is not considered a serious threat. They look good on paper but our analysts have concluded that Canon should not be too concerned. Why? They have terrible delay issues, the prices cannot be held to the points they aim at and the modular system, whilst seeming cheap initially, turns out to be much more expensive, both in purchasing price, and production and development costs and times. Sony, however, have the semi crazy buisness attitude of leveraging loss leading technology into market segments that they feel they could dominate, they also have the cross platform capabilities, the know how, the money and the marketing ability to hurt Canon in this segment. But only if they set their minds to it. The new Zeiss series of Compact Prime video lenses are a strong pointer to the firm interest Canon has in expanding the large sensor sized video capable HDDSLR. There were at least two Canon staff seconded to Ziess, primarily with regards mount issues and future proofing, they were not involved in the optics.
The video focused DSLR’s in 3 years (think 1Ds MkV’s) will make the capabilities of the current models seem like toys.
Firmware is being seriously considered as a model mid lifespan upgrading technique. The 2.0.3/2.0.4 issue, whilst having been dealt with extremely fast for a huge corporate entity, has sent shockwaves through the testing community, people have left. Processor choices and built in limitations to upgrading are being investigated. Hackers and their techniques are being studied. Completely new, harder to hack, firmware is seen as a key issue in protecting the model ranges and delineation. The possibility of a 7D running a 1Ds MkV feature set is one that will be made very very difficult, and the lawyers will be active.
The 2.8 lens range is considered the basic pro solution, the AF will reflect that for the foreseeable models. The new 400 2.8 that I have seen weighed less than the current one, but I don’t know why and I am not sure that is the version that has gone out to SA.
Why is the PAL 24p version as well 23,976? What do I miss?
Thanks for filling that gap in advanced!
“My take is Canon KNEW about the audio issues, but released 2.0.3 anyways, as I seriously doubt they could throw together a fix and thoroughly test such a fix in less than 48-hours.”
Please take the prescribed pills. If they don’t help please vary the dosage. So you think that Canon would risk any kind of negative exposure in the first place, to pretend and fix it later?
Right.. And the Illuminati are obviously in charge of it all. Sweet dreams.
It is a wonder, nobody whine today
Yes, I’ll agree about RED. The only thing is, 1080p’s great for television, but it won’t exactly fly for a cinema movie or IMAX, now will it?
As for the f2.8, don’t forget that the EOS 7D is cross-type to f/5.6. Plus, 500mm and 600mm you can’t get faster than f/4, and 800mm and 1200mm are at widest f/5.6. Plus, I’m no Hulk Hogan – I can’t exactly lug around 10lb lenses, y’know!
guys, do u think that with the new 2.0.4 we don’t need to record audio anymore with zoom h4n?????
Where’s my direct print button?! I want it NOW!
I upgraded to 2.0.4 but in C modes live-view therefore movie recording doesn’t work. ls it how it’s supposed to be? I never use the C modes but just wanted make sure all is ok with my camera?
its how it’s supposed to be I guess
bought one yesterday (still a virgin: fw 1.2.4)
and doesnt do that either
Slow motion 1080 is just one step, the goal is far beyond that. The 36×24 format has a lot more quality in it than 1080. But the technological barriers are not small.
Get an assistant ;-). There is no plan to alter the fundamental photographic orientated lens/AF systems. However many photographers buy 4/5.6 versions of a lens there will always be demand for 2.8 versions. Iso performance and IS give photographers at least 4 stops more effective speed than when they were using film, they use it all. The 10lbs lenses are staying. The 2.8 sensitive systems will always be more factory tunable, faster and more accurate than the 5.6 sensitive systems.
Never mind 1080p – we need high enough resolution to take to Cannes! Or the AMC24 around the corner!
If you have the talent to back up the tools you own then it’s cool.
the MkIII would have to be pretty pathetic for something as minor as 720p60 to make ANY difference to ANY one as to whether they stuck with a MkII or went MkIII
seriously
if that is all they care about they get a 7D on a deal for $1100 rather than a MkIII
does the camera limit levels?
how about you still want continuing setnoise after reaching the 4Gb limit
Quality of the pre-amps (although dubious with h4n)
Phantom?
first thoughts..
123, you are not in marketing are you :-). It will be one feature of an improved camera. If you consider the upgrades worthwhile, or not, is not important, that enough people do to buy one is. I would think just an AF improvement would do the job, but I am one small voice, the MkIII will have much more than improved AF and 720/60 though.
THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH THE NEW FIRMWARE!!!!
In old one there was AUTO ISO (from 100 to 3200 or even H1/H2) i Manual in movie mode.
IN 2.0.4 it is LIMITED TO 400 !!!!!!
Why Canon, why? It worked so well to set aperture , shutter and AUTO ISO (it resulted in smooth expo. change)
Sorry, My fault. Wrong settings of LiveView mode blocked auto ISO:)