Firmware: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV v1.0.4

[Canon Rumors]

<p><em>The calm before the storm?</em></p>
<p>Canon has released firmware version 1.0.4 for the EOS 5D Mark IV.</p>
<p>Firmware Version 1.0.4 incorporates the following fixes and improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fixes a phenomenon in which a red-colored area may appear at the bottom-center of a captured image when shooting in bulb mode or during a long exposure.</li>
<li>Fixes a phenomenon in which the autofocus may not respond when the autofocus is initiated via pressing the shutter button, the AF-ON button or the AE lock button when configured in the custom control menu.</li>
<li>Enhances the reliability of communications between the camera and SD card.</li>
<li>Fixes incorrect wording on the Finnish language menu screen.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/support/details/cameras/dslr/eos-5d-mark-iv?subtab=downloads-firmware">Download firmware v1.0.4 for the Canon EOS 5D Mark IV</a> | <a href="https://bhpho.to/2p0Ae3K">EOS 5D Mark IV at B&H Photo</a></strong></p>
<p><em>Thanks Martin</em></p>
<span id="pty_trigger"></span>

 

[BeenThere]

Is this the big update that has been anticipated? No video changes?

 

[Sharlin]

Is this the big update that has been anticipated? No video changes?

It's a big thing to us Finns! Torilla tavataan!

 

[[email protected]]

I'm running 1.0.4 now. It didn't immediately brick the camera.

Now my Finnish menu items use the proper subjunctive case when using the past tense. Me, Linus Torvald and the 5 other guys who ever used that language setting are very onnellinen about it.

Fix the crop factor for video? Näyttää siltä, me kaikki sai punked.

 

[transpo1]

I'm running 1.0.4 now. It didn't immediately brick the camera.

Now my Finnish menu items use the proper subjunctive case when using the past tense. Me, Linus Torvald and the 5 other guys who ever used that language setting are very onnellinen about it.

Fix the crop factor for video? Näyttää siltä, me kaikki sai punked.

This is hilarious!

 

[5D47]

Wow........guess this is why its called Canon Rumors.

 

[StudentOfLight]

Ironically I took a picture of calm after a storm:

The Calm After the Storm by Omesh Singh, on Flickr

 

[Sharlin]

Now my Finnish menu items use the proper subjunctive case when using the past tense. Me, Linus Torvald and the 5 other guys who ever used that language setting are very onnellinen about it.

Ironically, if Linus were to set his camera to a language other than English, it would likely be Swedish, not Finnish. Linus is by birth a member of the Swedish-speaking minority population of Finland.

 

[[email protected]]

I once was hired by a couple Swedes that owned an ad Agency back in the day in San Francisco. (One of them later admitted to me that he thought I must be of Swedish decent because of my name.) Went and bought a Swedish book of sayings so that I could use them in English, so as to confuse them whether those sayings were appropriate to use in normal English conversation (they weren't). Great fun. I can remember "cow on the ice" was a good one. And "don't get your beard caught in the mail slot."

Canon's 1.0.5 firmware release could have idiomatic Swedish, as that would be much more important than providing 4k video recording or fixing the video crop ratio. Sigh.

 

[GammyKnee]

Is this the big update that has been anticipated? No video changes?

Well, CR did say that there'd be a bug fix update first (presumably this one) followed by the major, feature extending update:

For now, I’d expect a minor update with some bug fixes and tweaks and hopefully we’ll get some more information about a major update.

Read more: http://www.canonrumors.com/new-firmware-for-eos-5d-mark-iv-coming-soon-cr2/#ixzz4eAi4GQcr

 

[transpo1]

Is this the big update that has been anticipated? No video changes?

Well, CR did say that there'd be a bug fix update first (presumably this one) followed by the major, feature extending update:

For now, I’d expect a minor update with some bug fixes and tweaks and hopefully we’ll get some more information about a major update.

Read more: http://www.canonrumors.com/new-firmware-for-eos-5d-mark-iv-coming-soon-cr2/#ixzz4eAi4GQcr

Yes, it make sense that Canon would want to clean house before they released a major firmware update- that way if all you wanted was the correction to some tenses of the Finnish language, you wouldn't be compelled to install a major firmware update

 

[goldenhusky]

May be someone had released the April fool message way too much in advance

 

[infared]

I once was hired by a couple Swedes that owned an ad Agency back in the day in San Francisco. (One of them later admitted to me that he thought I must be of Swedish decent because of my name.) Went and bought a Swedish book of sayings so that I could use them in English, so as to confuse them whether those sayings were appropriate to use in normal English conversation (they weren't). Great fun. I can remember "cow on the ice" was a good one. And "don't get your beard caught in the mail slot."

Canon's 1.0.5 firmware release could have idiomatic Swedish, as that would be much more important than providing 4k video recording or fixing the video crop ratio. Sigh.

WELL....perhaps Canon got its beard caught in the CF card slot (UHS-1 only?), and Canon Rumors now looks like a Cow on the Ice. Whoopsie! 8)

 

[SteveM]

Has anyone found this update a necessary cure for a particular problem in everyday use?

 

[DannyPwins]

Has anyone found this update a necessary cure for a particular problem in everyday use?

I had the autofocus problem using the Af on button. Thought I was losing my mind.

 

[tron]

I updated my 5D4

 

[SereneSpeed]

Has anyone found this update a necessary cure for a particular problem in everyday use?

I had the autofocus problem using the Af on button. Thought I was losing my mind.

Yes! I've had the AF issue too. I was driving my insane. I shoot tethered half the time and I often use a third-party grip, plus I know my nose was using the touch screen before I switched it off, so I couldn't figure out what might be causing the AF issue. I didn't even consider that it was firmware related. I am very happy to read this and will be updating soon. Thank you Canon.

EDIT: I have not figured out how to shut my nose off ;-) just the touchscreen

 

[SteveM]

Thanks for the replies. For those of you who had problems, did the update cure them?
If it did, I'll update mine tomorrow
Thanks

 

[tron]

Has anyone found this update a necessary cure for a particular problem in everyday use?

I had a one time issue (Err 02) with the SD card (a good sandisk extreme pro 64gb that had worked flawlessly in my 7D2) so I upgraded. Upgrade was uneventful.

 

[Jack Douglas]

Has anyone found this update a necessary cure for a particular problem in everyday use?

I had the autofocus problem using the Af on button. Thought I was losing my mind.

Did AF just not take place or ??

Jack