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so I have a 40D with the 1.0.3 firmware.

I feel like I'm hearing some people complain about the 1.0.5 firmware, so I'm wondering... what's people's experience, and general consensus on the 1.0.5 firmware? should I install it?

thanks!
-Josh
 
Yes!

I have installed it on 2 different 40D, one with 1.0.3, the other with 1.0.4.
No problems with either upgrade, at least for me!

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Any man who brings a camera to a bachelor party may be legally killed and eaten by his fellow partygoers!

EdRubin
 
A member here had a problem going from 1.0.3 to 5 with focus or softness. But I have seen only one other complaint since. I would say it's pretty quiet.

I did it with no problems. Not an Error 99 since. Read the instructions well and have a good battery in it and don't interrupt it.

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I've had no problems with it here at all and I like the new "playback last image viewed after auto power-off" feature.

Definitely skip 1.0.4 though, there's a bug in the way the RAW files are written (see http://www.jeromee.com/CR2Fix/ for details).
 
Have you looked at the changes Canon made in v1.0.5? If you haven't encountered any of the problems listed, there is no need to upgrade. Some people believe that Canon fixes other 'problems' not officially listed in the firmware upgrade, but I think that is nonsense and wishful thinking.
joshcali said:
so I have a 40D with the 1.0.3 firmware.
I feel like I'm hearing some people complain about the 1.0.5
firmware, so I'm wondering... what's people's experience, and general
consensus on the 1.0.5 firmware? should I install it?

thanks!
-Josh
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Jovo said:
Some people believe that Canon fixes other 'problems' not officially
listed in the firmware upgrade, but I think that is nonsense and
wishful thinking.
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I guess you don't work in software then. lol
 
go for it
 
...esp. if work with difficult light and/or low contrast
situations, are using CP focusing point a lot;

or you are using (itend to use) slow[ish]lenses like
70-300IS (non DO) and similar - again, esp. if together
with 1.4x TC;

although undocumented, the 1.0.5 seems to be quite
an improvement over 1.0.3 in the situations like above,
and i'm saying "seems" as I do not have 1.0.3 any longer,
thus it is not yet possible to reinstall it for a time being
and measure these effects precisely and in a controlled
manner - however, after the upgrade to 1.0.5 somewhat
erratic behavior of 70-300IS + 1.4x at 300mm is rather
hard to observe if at all;
and also a lot of AF misses when using 300/4L IS, with the
CP focusing point only in difficult situations, seems now to be
at least not so frequent,

jpr2
 
jpr2 said:
...esp. if work with difficult light and/or low contrast
situations, are using CP focusing point a lot;
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fantastic!
I do most of my work in low light with the center for focusing.

I use faster lenses (24-70 f/2.8L, 50 f/1.4), but I'm always pushing the boundary of what I can do with available light. I shoot a lot of music/nightlife stuff

I'd be really happy if this helped with the autofocus.
 
joshcali said:
I do most of my work in low light with the center for focusing.
I use faster lenses (24-70 f/2.8L, 50 f/1.4), but I'm always pushing
the boundary of what I can do with available light. I shoot a lot of
music/nightlife stuff

I'd be really happy if this helped with the autofocus.
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so! Then you might be very well aware of what tough situations i'm
talking about! And yes - I firmly believe the upgrade did help - sadly
it is not to say it has healed all the problems with using CP for AF;

all too often i'm forced to switch to the use of any BUT the three
central, vertical line focusing points! The CP on 40D might be a wast
improvement over 20d/30d in this respect, but if compared to a [lowly :)]
XTi's CP performance in similar situations it just p...es me off more often
than i'd like to admit :(

and all this gives me an idea, that perhaps BEFORE upgrading, you can do a
controlled 1.0.3 set of shots (knowing well in advance which situations
are to be the most demanding) and then to repeat these after having 1.0.5
installed - something that I did fail to do properly, and am now looking for
a way to re-do in a really proper manner - however, the source of the 1.0.3
is yet to be located in order to go into this issue, and to find out (finally)
at the 150% certainty level,

best and good luck,
jpr2
 
paqman said:
Jovo said:
Some people believe that Canon fixes other 'problems' not officially
listed in the firmware upgrade, but I think that is nonsense and
wishful thinking.
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I guess you don't work in software then. lol
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It is probable that they do fix other un-(publicly)-documented issues occasionally too. They are human after all!

But may I suggest that some of the issues users see following an upgrade are;
a) either new bugs introduced by the changes they make (un-documented features),
or

b) bugs that come to light because parts of the system that used not to work now do, so people find them when before they didn't use that facility.

Other issues (focus?) might be a timing change (or similar) that had a particular camera been through QC with the newer version of S/W they would have failed it, but with the previous version the results were ok so it passed. This sort of problem woudl only manifest itself in a very small number of bodies.

My opinion is that firmware updates should only be done by a user if the update fixes a problem the user has with the system. Otherwise I tend to take the view that you shouldn't try to fix what isn't broken.

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One shot at a time.
 
I upgraded in order to solve a file/image numbering problem that arose very recently, and all seems to be OK.
 
The main bug fix I wanted was the one that addresses the intermittent bug in 1.0.3 that causes bizarre glitches in the file numbering. Having been bitten by that one myself, I was happy to hear that 1.0.5 supposedly fixes that issue.

I gladly put 1.0.5 on to cure that problem. It's darned annoying when it happens!

--
Jim H.
 
2therock said:
A member here had a problem going from 1.0.3 to 5 with focus or softness.
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Which everyone else really struggled with as an explanation for the problem and which the OP himself is now blaming on the focus mose he was using - user error, in other words.

There's no reason I can see not to keep on top of the firmware.
 
ee50ok wrote:
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ee50ok said:
My opinion is that firmware updates should only be done by a user if
the update fixes a problem the user has with the system. Otherwise I
tend to take the view that you shouldn't try to fix what isn't broken.
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In Texas, we say "if it ain't broke, don't fix it " :-)

I strongly subscribe to this mantra !

carolyn
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Ranger a.k.a chammett
http://www.pbase.com/chammett

'elegance is simplicity'
 
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