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Petition for new firmware for KM 5d/7d
The Konica-Minolta forum Dyxum (http://www.dyxum.com) has a petition to ask
Sony for new firmware for the 5d and 7d. The petition can be signed he http://www.petitiononline.com/kmdslr/petition.html 1894 votes already! We should be able to get past 2000... Let's hope we'll achieve something here. Patrick |
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Petition for new firmware for KM 5d/7d
Kcirtap wrote:
The Konica-Minolta forum Dyxum (http://www.dyxum.com) has a petition to ask Sony for new firmware for the 5d and 7d. The petition can be signed he http://www.petitiononline.com/kmdslr/petition.html 1894 votes already! We should be able to get past 2000... Let's hope we'll achieve something here. They'll do that right after the issue another firmware update for the Clie NX-70. Hint--Sony isn't big on supporting stuff that _they_ made after it has gone out of production, let alone stuff that somebody _else_ made. I wish you luck but don't hold your breath. Patrick -- --John to email, dial "usenet" and validate (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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Petition for new firmware for KM 5d/7d
"J. Clarke" wrote in message ... Kcirtap wrote: The Konica-Minolta forum Dyxum (http://www.dyxum.com) has a petition to ask Sony for new firmware for the 5d and 7d. The petition can be signed he http://www.petitiononline.com/kmdslr/petition.html 1894 votes already! We should be able to get past 2000... Let's hope we'll achieve something here. They'll do that right after the issue another firmware update for the Clie NX-70. Hint--Sony isn't big on supporting stuff that _they_ made after it has gone out of production, let alone stuff that somebody _else_ made. I wish you luck but don't hold your breath. I'm aware of that, but I hope they'll realize that they need to keep the existing KM users (high-potential future customers) happy. Camera business is just not the same as electronics (at least DSLR's aren't). Photographers are very brand-bonded and will not change easily. Basically, everyone owning KM glass is a potential customer. Of course they'll rather sell to newcomers, but we'll have to see how Sony (Minolta) does in the race between several long-standing well-known brands. Patrick |
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Petition for new firmware for KM 5d/7d
What is actually broken and needs a firmware update to fix?
"Kcirtap" wrote in message ... The Konica-Minolta forum Dyxum (http://www.dyxum.com) has a petition to ask Sony for new firmware for the 5d and 7d. The petition can be signed he http://www.petitiononline.com/kmdslr/petition.html 1894 votes already! We should be able to get past 2000... Let's hope we'll achieve something here. Patrick |
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Petition for new firmware for KM 5d/7d
Kcirtap wrote:
The Konica-Minolta forum Dyxum (http://www.dyxum.com) has a petition to ask Sony for new firmware for the 5d and 7d. The petition can be signed he http://www.petitiononline.com/kmdslr/petition.html 1894 votes already! We should be able to get past 2000... Let's hope we'll achieve something here. Patrick "expect from Sony to offer support??" You know, you would think that people writing a petition to a multinational corporation would, at the very least, get the grammatical syntax correctly if they expect to have any credibility whatsoever! While I'd like to see the items being petitioned for, I wouldn't sign that. And they may have gotten 1900 responses but I doubt that many of the entries their are going to mean a thing to Sony. I'm sure that are probably not going to really care what Junior, trade, charles, Milan66, 0577bird, et al think. KMA |
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Petition for new firmware for KM 5d/7d
In article j%Ipg.4853$fv3.3743@trnddc02,
Kevin Agard wrote: Kcirtap wrote: The Konica-Minolta forum Dyxum (http://www.dyxum.com) has a petition to ask Sony for new firmware for the 5d and 7d. The petition can be signed he http://www.petitiononline.com/kmdslr/petition.html 1894 votes already! We should be able to get past 2000... Let's hope we'll achieve something here. Patrick "expect from Sony to offer support??" You know, you would think that people writing a petition to a multinational corporation would, at the very least, get the grammatical syntax correctly if they expect to have any credibility whatsoever! While I'd like to see the items being petitioned for, I wouldn't sign that. What???? you would not take a signed affidavit of first graders seriously-FOR Shame :^D And they may have gotten 1900 responses but I doubt that many of the entries their are going to mean a thing to Sony. I'm sure that are probably not going to really care what Junior, trade, charles, Milan66, 0577bird, et al think. KMA Chalk it up to alcoholism, or maybe bad genetics,!!! -- Would thou choose to meet a rat eating dragon, or a dragon, eating rat? The answer of: I am somewhere in the middle. "Me who is part taoist and part Christian". |
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Petition for new firmware for KM 5d/7d
On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 16:46:27 -0400, J. Clarke wrote:
The Konica-Minolta forum Dyxum (http://www.dyxum.com) has a petition to ask Sony for new firmware for the 5d and 7d. They'll do that right after the issue another firmware update for the Clie NX-70. Hint--Sony isn't big on supporting stuff that _they_ made after it has gone out of production, let alone stuff that somebody _else_ made. I wish you luck but don't hold your breath. While it would be surprising if Sony were to upgrade the K/M's firmware, there's a big difference between supporting it and supporting the NX-70. The latter was a "Palm" style PDA, and Sony was rapidly abandoning that market at the time (seen any new Clies lately?), whereas nobody is foolish enough to think that Sony might soon decide to get out of its camera business. |
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Petition for new firmware for KM 5d/7d
Hi,
What is actually broken and needs a firmware update to fix? For me, two things : 1 - there is obviously a bug in the current 7D firmware with respect to FAT folders management, when you consider this picture (it is a snapshot of my XP machine's Explorer browsing the CompactFlash directory structure through the USB PC = camera link ; CF never taken out of camera) : . This happened to me only once, but this is a sufficient bug proof. 2 - software or hardware ? (or both) maybe twice in 2 years, in the middle of a shooting session, the camera went havoc when I pressed the shutter button : LCD black, lens iris semi-closed (left stuck at the shooting aperture), no control reaction. A power off/on cycle rebooted the machine fine. Battery far from empty, before you ask. And Sigma 28/70 2.8 (non DG non EX). But this lens has shot thousands of pictures both with my 600 si, 9xi and now 7D without any problem. Maybe a third ? why not shake the sensor à la Sony Alpha 100 at power on and/or off, using the stabilizer's piezo motors, to clean dust ? Other than that, I'm perfectly happy with my 7D. Regards, -- Stéphane Guillard |
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Petition for new firmware for KM 5d/7d
Hi,
1 - there is obviously a bug in the current 7D firmware with respect to FAT folders management, when you consider this picture (it is a snapshot of my XP machine's Explorer browsing the CompactFlash directory structure through the USB PC = camera link ; CF never taken out of camera) : . This happened to me only once, but this is a sufficient bug proof. Oops, forgot to paste the URL : http://s.guillard.free.fr/d7d-fw-bug.jpg Regards, -- Stéphane |
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Petition for new firmware for KM 5d/7d
"Stéphane Guillard" wrote in message ... Hi, What is actually broken and needs a firmware update to fix? Maybe a third ? why not shake the sensor à la Sony Alpha 100 at power on and/or off, using the stabilizer's piezo motors, to clean dust ? You can add that with firmware! Where will the dust go? In the Olympus E-300/500/330 there is a dust catcher. Where will the dust go, except back on the sensor in a different place. |
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