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Saturday, December 07, 2013

New Q Body Firmwares Released

http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/support/digital/q_s.html

http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/support/digital/q10_s.html

http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/english/support/digital/q7_s.html

Well, will there be a new firmware upgrade, whenever a new lens is released and marketed? :-o
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mario · 588 weeks ago

yeap!
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bigdaz668 1p · 588 weeks ago

Gotta Love A Firmware Update ;)
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jaad75 · 588 weeks ago

It's not that hard to understand.
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zosX · 588 weeks ago

Its becoming the norm for digital cameras to have firmware updates for new lenses. I don't know what information the eeproms in kmount lenses contains, but I'm guessing it doesn't have correction info baked in, so clearly the firmware has to support the lens on the dslr side too.
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Heiko · 587 weeks ago

makes sense to me. Since the inner workings of a camera can sigificantly change from generation to generation (or even from one model-batch to the next and/or simultaneously produced other model-batch) the end-result is that one has to provide each camera with not only the correction values for each lens (which could be easily just imprinted/embedded inside the lens electronics) - but each camera's processing engine must be updated with a working ("binary") derivative of the relevant program-function, as well.

In my eyes that is on of the side-effects of the other side of the "mass production"-coin - that some people might look at and and out-right shout: "planned obsolescence".

Well: I think of it as this: If a camera manufacturer honors their camera-users with firmware updates and/or fixes long after the sale of said camera has been dealt with, that is one of several "yard sticks" by which to evaluate a manufacturers credibility and value.

So, where are the flash-related updates for my aging K20D, please?
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zosX · 588 weeks ago

Anyways. what's the big deal? new firmware is always good! usually they slowly eliminate all the bugs that they can.
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Andrés · 587 weeks ago

"Well, will there be a new firmware upgrade, whenever a new lens is released and marketed? :-o"

If they don´t do it, for sure someone(like you) would complain about it.
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RiceHigh 110p · 587 weeks ago

The method is stupid. See what others like Canon do for updating new lenses into bodies, no firmware update is required, but only software database update!
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on another note · 587 weeks ago

which in turn implies that Canon indeed produces cameras with internals that to some extend "understand" the same machine-code format. Thus the popular third-party firmware hacks on Canon cameras (which are in my eyes partially responsible for their good market-acceptance in recent years) "unlocks" functionality on lower-tier models that otherwise were originally planned just for the higher-priced ones and other stuff that was not part of the OE-firmware in any model. "Magic-Lantern" or what's it called, again? Like "video" on the 40D which was never shipped with video-functionality to begin with and other additional features such as programmable shutter-intervals (that Pentax builds into their Camera-firmware from the factory - yet Canon does not).

In Pentax-Land there we have things like "Prime", "Prime-II", "Prime-M", "Prime-III" (...) which talk to Sensors from Sony, Samsung and whatnot (some of them 12-bit read-out, the single-digit SLRs being 14-bit,...) - so I would GUESS there is less of a common ground to start with.

Just speculation (never dived too deep into this). And I do not believe Pentax cameras are in need to get "hacked" the same way since I regard the firmware to be "done right" from the factory for the most part (as long as I look at still-photography features).
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Dan Johnson · 587 weeks ago

Firmware updates may be nice for most of us but I remember the first time I updated my K-10, evan though I'm used to updating firmware, some novices are a bit leery about doing a firmware update after reading the warning. Your suggestion makes great sense from a sales-point for novices if Ricoh can make the firmware updates few and far between.
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Scarlet · 587 weeks ago

Even a valley girl (which you despised in a previous post) like me can do the job very easily.
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Dan Johnson · 587 weeks ago

Not me, keep trolling like so many others.
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Scarlet · 587 weeks ago

"Not me" is that all you can say? Coward!
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Andrés · 587 weeks ago

What Canikon does is replace camera model for another, sometimes in less than a year(T2i, T3i, T4i, T5i,...), that is to say, you have to buy a new one; great idea!

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