Canon EOS 7D firmware update.

 
The lat­est firmware update for the Canon EOS 7D will be released at the end of this month, accord­ing to brief press release leak on the Canon Pro­fes­sional Net­work site. is now avail­able for down­load here.

Canon addresses a num­ber of issues for pro­fes­sional film­mak­ers and pho­tog­ra­phers, includ­ing a highly antic­i­pated man­ual audio con­trols for video. This is extremely excit­ing, con­sid­er­ing that we have filmed all of our episodes of “Con­ver­sa­tions with Friends” with the Canon EOS 7D and have been wait­ing for quite awhile for these new features.

MANUAL ADJUSTMENT FOR AUDIO RECORDING LEVELS

Dur­ing EOS Movie shoot­ing users are now able to man­u­ally adjust the audio record­ing to one of 64 lev­els, whilst the sound vol­ume dur­ing play­back can be set to one of 11 lev­els. Dur­ing movie record­ing noise from the aper­ture is reduced, and the cam­era also has an auto­matic wind cut filter.

Users can also add the camera’s Full HD (1920x1080p) movie footage with 16-bit dig­i­tal stereo sound, sam­pled at broad­cast qual­ity 48KHz.

In addi­tion, Canon has included a big update to the EOS 7d firmware with GPS Sup­port:

• Mounted Receiver — can be attached to the camera’s acces­sory shoe or clipped to a belt and teth­ered via a USB cable.
• Records shoot­ing loca­tions — lat­i­tude, lon­gi­tude and alti­tude for easy geo-taging and cam­era direc­tion (fan­tas­tic fea­ture for my trav­els around the world) as an EXIF file of the image.
• Sync­ing Camera’s Inter­nal Clock — can now synced through the GPS unit using UTC (Coor­di­nated Uni­ver­sal Time) for accu­rate time record­ing or sync­ing clocks on mul­ti­ple cameras.
• GPS Log­ging and Google Maps Com­pat­i­bil­ity with Canon’s free Map Util­ity soft­ware can dis­play the photographer’s route on a map.

Some of the other updated fea­tures include:

• Improved RAW Max­i­mum burst – Max Burst Rate now from 15 frames to 25 frames.
• In-Camera RAW Con­ver­sion – RAW images can be processed and edited in-camera with dynamic adjust­ments such as expo­sure, white bal­ance, pic­ture style, noise reduc­tion and dis­tor­tion cor­rec­tion. Options can be changed before sav­ing the fin­ished file as a ready-to-print JPEG. Check this arti­cle on the ben­e­fits of shoot­ing JPGs, even for professionals.
• Image Rat­ing Capabilities
• New Auto ISO Max­i­mum Set­ting – ISO 100‑6400
• JPEG Resiz­ing
• Quick Con­trol Dur­ing Playback
• File Name Set­ting – First 3 or 4 char­ac­ters in the file name can be adjusted, depend­ing on the setting
• Time Zone Setting
• Quick con­trol screen dur­ing playback
• Faster Scrolling of Mag­ni­fied Images

You may down­load the newest firmware updates in early August at no charge from Canon’s Web­site here.

Does this update fix all the issues you have been expe­ri­enc­ing with your 7D, or did Canon left a major one out? Share your thoughts and com­ments below.

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