FIRMWARE UPDATE FOR CANON 7D?

So the word on the street is that a firmware update has surfaced for the Canon 7D, and several owners in Europe and Japan have already installed it.

The 7D comes with firmware version 1.0.7 pre-installed which holds all the sweet options you’ve all been hearing about. The supposed update is version 1.0.9. Well, for one, that makes no sense… What happened to 1.0.8?

Also, people are saying that the only way to install the firmware update is to have your camera retailer do it for you… Really now? Why is that? If that’s the case, camera retailers are gonna start hating their lives, updating everyone’s camera for them.

Canon hasn’t released any info on this update, and there is nowhere to download the update from their site, so this looks like a hoax to me. And no info has been released either as to what the update is actually updating… Definitely something to keep your eye on. And the 7D is so new that people might just be getting over excited about how they can make it even better than it already is.

My opinion? Don’t hop on supposed “updates” unless you really know what it does and Canon authorizes it. Otherwise you’ll void your warranty and screw yourself in the long run.

FIRMWARE 1.1.4 FOR CANON 5D MARK II??

News about a Firmware version 1.1.4 for the 5D Mark II has surfaced over at CanonRumors.com and I for one couldn’t be more excited! For anyone who owns a 5D and has been following our blogs on the 7D, you know it would be really frickin’ nice if Canon would throw us a bone and give us 24p. Now, before I get ahead of myself, there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of information out about it yet… In fact, upon attempting to use my 2 years of high school French to translate the workflow, I’m still decently confused as to whether it’s showing an actual firmware update, or existing 5D footage is being conformed to 24/25p. To be honest, what intrigued me the most was the person using the 5D.

Jean-Jacques Annaud, French director extraordinaire (Director of “Enemy At The Gates,” “Seven Years In Tibet”) used a 5D Mark II recently as a B Cam on an “unknown” film and was gracious enough to take us through his workflow. This is where the frenzy started…

SEE HIS WORKFLOW HERE!