Firmware: Updates available for RF lenses with image stabilization for use with the EOS R5 and EOS R6

john1970 · Jul 21, 2020

I am not seeing these updates on the Canon USA website. Do we know when Canon USA will release the updates? Please advise.

Thank you,
John

Canon Rumors Guy · Jul 21, 2020

john1970 said:
I am not seeing these updates on the Canon USA website. Do we know when Canon USA will release the updates? Please advise.

Thank you,
John

Sometimes they appear on other sites well before Canon USA. It's the same firmware, so Canon Poland is just fine.

FS670ES · Jul 21, 2020

Wow, so their IBIS will be even better then what we have seen in available samples on YT which are already very very good.

Mark D5 TEAM II · Jul 21, 2020

It's on the Canon PH site, in English: https://ph.canon/support/RF15-35mm F2&&8L IS USM/model

Mark D5 TEAM II · Jul 21, 2020

For the rest: https://ph.canon/en/support/models?range=1&category=4&series=14

wanderer23 · Jul 21, 2020

Interesting. I really hope it helps fix some of the issues with the warping/wobble w/ the 15-35mm. (Case in point, peter mckinnon's recent vlog is almost unwatchable). I have the R5 +15-35 on pre-order so a bit important to me.

*edit: I do realize that UWA + IBIS has a tendency to be like this in alot of setups, but this is the most severe i've seen.

skp · Jul 21, 2020

How does one update the firmware on a lens? Does Canon have a dock I need to buy like with the Sigma lenses?

koenkooi · Jul 21, 2020

skp said:
How does one update the firmware on a lens? Does Canon have a dock I need to buy like with the Sigma lenses?

Put the .FIR file on the card, put card in camera, go to the 'firmware update' in the spanner menu, select the lens and follow the instructions on the screen.

And Canon covers it in the PDF they include in the update package.

tron · Jul 21, 2020

skp said:
How does one update the firmware on a lens? Does Canon have a dock I need to buy like with the Sigma lenses?

You just copy the firmware update file(s) on the root directory of the sd card and then you choose firmware update on camera. It can update either the camera and/or the lens firmware

tron · Jul 21, 2020

Not an EOS R5 owner in the near future but even so I have updated my 4 RF lenses. Also, I updated my EOS R. So here is your guinea pig

Everything went smoothly!

Stig Nygaard · Jul 21, 2020

wanderer23 said:
I really hope it helps fix some of the issues with the warping/wobble w/ the 15-35mm. (Case in point, peter mckinnon's recent vlog is almost unwatchable).

I don't think that is an issue with the IBIS. That is how IBIS generally looks in the corners of video from very wide angle lenses. As far as I remember mckinnon also reminds himself on not shooting ultrawide video with IBIS.

xanbarksdale · Jul 21, 2020

wanderer23 said:
Interesting. I really hope it helps fix some of the issues with the warping/wobble w/ the 15-35mm. (Case in point, peter mckinnon's recent vlog is almost unwatchable). I have the R5 +15-35 on pre-order so a bit important to me.

EXACTLY what I was thinking. It's pretty bad in some of his shots, I'm really looking forward to seeing how much this helps.

Side note, IBIS looks great for photography and a lot of hand held video shots, but I've been really disappointed in how bad it looks in the two vlogs PM has posted using it w/ the 15-35.

tron · Jul 21, 2020

I believe IBIS will be very helpful especially when combined with IS lenses like when shooting still subjects in low light situations. So no matter what I say about not getting R5 any time soon, eventually I may get one IBIS R series camera.

Amd I just wonder how a downscaled 45mp image of R5 will compete with the 20mp image of R6 for these low light/high iso situations.

wanderer23 · Jul 21, 2020

Stig Nygaard said:
I don't think that is an issue with the IBIS. That is how IBIS generally looks on video for very wide angle lenses. As far as I remember mckinnon also reminds himself on not shooting ultrawide video with IBIS.

Ah yes, I've seen this using a 12-24 on sony FF and 10-24 on fuji's apsc, but this is by far the most severe i've seen - definetly another level. Although given how bad sony ibis is for video i'm not overly surprised and the fuji does indeed have a smaller sensor, but while sometimes its annoying, its not usually nauseating like this.

HikeBike · Jul 21, 2020

Ran the updates on the 15-35 and 35. Seems to have worked fine in both cases.

Richard Anthony · Jul 21, 2020

Not one for the 28-70 F2 lens yet ? I have done my other 2 , the 70-200 F2.8 and the 15-35 F2.8 , thanks for the links

WriteLight · Jul 21, 2020

Richard Anthony said:
Not one for the 28-70 F2 lens yet ? I have done my other 2 , the 70-200 F2.8 and the 15-35 F2.8 , thanks for the links

Doesn't have IS?

Richard Anthony · Jul 21, 2020

WriteLight said:
Doesn't have IS?

It will have 8 stops with the firmware

5 lenses that get 8 stops of stabilization on the Canon EOS R5 and R6

Plus 5 more lenses that deliver 7 stops, 6.5 stops and 6 stops of stabilization on the Canon EOS R5 and R6

www.digitalcameraworld.com

WriteLight · Jul 22, 2020

Richard Anthony said:
It will have 8 stops with the firmware

5 lenses that get 8 stops of stabilization on the Canon EOS R5 and R6

Plus 5 more lenses that deliver 7 stops, 6.5 stops and 6 stops of stabilization on the Canon EOS R5 and R6

www.digitalcameraworld.com

Just speculating that there's nothing to activate in that particular lens due to no IS and that all the IS programming will be in the body of either the R5 or R6.

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