Godfrey
Well-known member
Olympus released a minor update firmware v1.1 for the E-5 yesterday. I think they also updated one of the Pen models too, didn't look too closely.
For the E-5, the update is supposed to affect something about the LCD display quality, but exactly what I'm not entirely sure. I never noticed anything wrong. I do make it a policy to keep firmware up to date.
For Mac OS X users who have enabled the 64bit kernel on their systems, I found that the (utterly miserable) Olympus Updater application required to update the Olympus camera firmware is not 64-bit compatible. No notice of this is in any of the compatibility requirements, etc, on the download page. I restarted my system in 32-bit mode (using the one-time "press and hold the '3' and '2' keys while the system powers up), it did its job (with virtually no sensible feedback), then restarted my system back into 64bit mode as normal when it was done.
I don't know whether 64bit mode on Windows XP or Windows 7 are compatible.
So far, I see no difference in the operation of my E-5, so I have no clue whether this was actually worth the effort. Given the aggravation with the stupid Olympus software and the fact that the E-5 works just about perfectly as it came right out of the box, I might forego doing future firmware updates. Their "you must use our miserable software if you want a firmware update" policy is the only thing I don't like about using Olympus equipment.
Grr.
For the E-5, the update is supposed to affect something about the LCD display quality, but exactly what I'm not entirely sure. I never noticed anything wrong. I do make it a policy to keep firmware up to date.
For Mac OS X users who have enabled the 64bit kernel on their systems, I found that the (utterly miserable) Olympus Updater application required to update the Olympus camera firmware is not 64-bit compatible. No notice of this is in any of the compatibility requirements, etc, on the download page. I restarted my system in 32-bit mode (using the one-time "press and hold the '3' and '2' keys while the system powers up), it did its job (with virtually no sensible feedback), then restarted my system back into 64bit mode as normal when it was done.
I don't know whether 64bit mode on Windows XP or Windows 7 are compatible.
So far, I see no difference in the operation of my E-5, so I have no clue whether this was actually worth the effort. Given the aggravation with the stupid Olympus software and the fact that the E-5 works just about perfectly as it came right out of the box, I might forego doing future firmware updates. Their "you must use our miserable software if you want a firmware update" policy is the only thing I don't like about using Olympus equipment.
Grr.