Canon telling EOS 40D owners to expect Camera Raw fix soon
Rob Galbraith writes:
Customers calling in to Canon USA’s customer support centre this week are being advised that an upcoming firmware update for the EOS 40D will fix an incompatibility between that camera’s RAW CR2 files and Adobe’s Camera Raw plug-in, Photoshop Lightroom and DNG Converter software.
The incompatibility - which prevents the CR2 files from being processed - apparently affects only EOS 40D bodies with firmware v1.0.4 inside, and v1.0.4 only recently supplanted v1.0.3 as the firmware being installed at the factory. Version 1.0.4 has not been made available for download from a Canon website, so only newer cameras, and those who may have had the firmware installed during a service visit, are impacted by this.
The new firmware, presumably to be called v1.0.5 or higher, is expected to be released for download by the end of November 2007. More information on the problem, and a link to a utility that purportedly corrects the incompatibility by altering the metadata in v1.0.4 CR2 files, is in this forum thread.
Silkypix Developer Studio has also been impacted by the change in firmware v1.0.4 EOS 40D CR2 files. Ichikawa Soft Laboratory, the maker of this application, has today released v3.0.14.1 (Mac)/v3.0.14.2 (Windows), a beta version of the RAW conversion software that fixes the incompatibility.
The sooner the better for 40D users out there!
Canon has 4 out of top 5 DSLRs in September!
Arguably the best Lens system and, as we already knew, Canon is boasting top sales for their DSLRs. September figures show Canon has 4 of the top 5 spots:
- Canon Digital Rebel XTi / 400D (with EF-S 18mm-55mm lens)
- Nikon D40 (with 18-55mm kit lens)
- Canon Digital Rebel XT / 350D (with EF-S 18-55 kit lens)
- Canon EOS 40D (Body Only)
- Canon EOS 40D (with EF-S 18mm-55mm kit lens combo)
Not a surprise to us Canon users and lovers, but great news!
Here’s the original article.