But isn't it great that we can also update our lenses as well whilst the camera is still hooked up! :thumbup:
Ricoh uses downloadable firmware updates with the GXR. Each time they've issued an update, the package includes all the updates for body and each of the six camera units ... just fit body and camera unit together, run the update, swap to the next camera unit, run the update, and so on.
No need to have to disconnect camera after one heart stopping update, then reconnect and go through it the mounting, network search, etc, for each lens in turn.
What about the guy I was helping just the other day who has an E-1 that was still on firmware 1.0? Olympus dropped support for the older models, despite that they are still perfectly usable cameras, with their updaters in 2007-2008. The only way to update now is to use the Studio 2 application, itself discontinued, which is buggy and unstable on Apple systems.
If the firmware update scheme was downloadable update modules like everyone else, all that would be needed is for someone to give him a copy of the fw updates ... As it is, he needed to go through hoops to figure out how to configure a computer system, obtain the buggy/discontinued application, and then HOPE that doing the update wouldn't turn his nice E-1 into an inert lump.
I really really really dislike the "live only" update scheme. No one will ever convince me that this is the right way to manage my camera equipment, which even in this digital age will likely outlast any given computer system I have by more than two to one.
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