Just received an email
After talking with a 3rd party firmware tester, the source informed me Canon has a firmware upgrade coming for the 5D2 and its processing issues tentatively on Monday.
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mine is 3201
and it does show slight black dots, but nothing too problematic. seems to be only showing them on tiny lights, not the bigger ones. weird.
anywayz, can’t wait to see what canon have to say
I’ve got the black plague: SN 02201xxxxx firmware 1.0.6
I’ve tested night cityscapes at ISO 50 through 3200 with in camera JPEG’s (no NR, no HL priority, no vignette reduction) and start to notice the appearance of the black dots from ISO 200 and above.
http://flickr.com/photos/flickravatar/sets/72157611372612862/
ISO 50 & 100 look clean.
Perhaps this weekend I’ll find time to bang out some tests in RAW with Lightroom but I since I know I have an affected camera and have a ticket in with Canon I’m currently working on mastering the positive offerings of this camera.
Be patient. The firmware’s coming. Don’t feed Nikon ammunition. There will always be glitches. These will be fixed. I’m still waiting for my camera to arrive. This has been the most in demand camera of all time. Lets stop killing the demand. If this production lasts three years like the old 5d, I’ll be very happy.
Hi,
Update.
I received an unexpected call just after 0900 from the Canon (UK) RCC about my 5D II.
Bottom line was that Canon have acknowledged the issue (we know) and it will be addressed shortly by firmware update (knew that bit as well).
Options for me – leave the camera with them and they do the firmware when it is available or return it now and I do it. He did hint that it may not be before Christmas but could not say for sure as it is dependant on how the testing pans out.
Got to laugh about that as all the trees and lights will be down if they wait unitl after Christmas – LOL.
Anyway, little bit of chat I managed to glean from his responses that there have been a number of reports to Canon UK, I am not too suprised bt that.
What was interesting is that I mentioned the straw pole I am doing reference serial numbers and what I had found out do date. He said from his dealings on this it is not a batch issue.
He went on to give his take/assurance that it will be fixed by firmware or other means if deemed necessary Canon cannot afford as a company to not correct this blah blah.
There is currently a littel script/action available for CS3 CS4 to correct the issue – whilst it is not quite 100% it does a pretty good job file called rft-5D2-v30.zip.
Regards and have a good Christmas
Glen W
ps dear Cupid Stunt – you really are!!
I have SN: 02301 and have dots on closer inspection :(