Re: Locked out of recent lens use?
Greynerd wrote:
Doesn't that mean he will not be able to use some more recent lenses on the NX10.
No. Firmware upgrades to any later version can still be done through the main user menu.
However downgrading to an earlier version was only possible through the hidden service menu. This allowed a back-door method of switching to NX11 firmware. NX11 firmware version numbers are lower than those for the NX10 because the NX10 has been out longer and had more updates. Consequently switching to NX11 firmware appears to the NX10 as a downgrade and is not possible througn the main user menu.
Samsung have cut off the back door (which only the service department were supposed to know about anyway) but you can still load any newer firmware. I am voluntarily staying on the older firmware because when I buy one of the newer lenses it will be with a new camera.
This shows a major disadvantage to DSLR's as far as I can see. Surely this undermines the whole concept of these as system cameras if they are obsoleted so rapidly. Will there be some stage where the NX1 is locked out in the future?
Quite the opposite. Which DSLR company provides firmware updates to 4 year old models so that you can use the extra features of their latest lenses?
Coldamus wrote:
SteveNunez wrote:
I know I'm late to this game but I just acquired a NX10 and tried this and the camera says "Cannot Update".........my firmware is 1.32.......anyone else have this issue?
Samsung removed access to the hidden service menu in NX10 firmware version 1.32. The last version with which you could access the service menu and thus load NX11 firmware was 1.31. I guess that means you're stuck as an NX10.
I didn't find the extra NX11 features of much benefit to me personally, so I reverted mine to an NX10. I keep it at version 1.31 firmware to allow me to repeat the process if necessary.
Incidentally. access to the service menu was also removed from later versions of the NX11 firmware, so those who converted to NX11 and then updated to later NX11 firmware would be unable to convert back to NX10. I don't know which NX11 firmware version was the last with access to the service menu but version 1.11 has it.