topic Re: Canon 5D MRK I firmware in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

Canon 5D MRK I firmware

psrt2016 — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 13:37:27 GMT

Hello guys,

Its possible to uptade, on a EOS 5D MRK I, from firmware 1.0.5 to firmware 1.1.1 directly?

Or I need first to uptade to firmware 1.1.0, it is not available anymore 😞

Thanks

Paulo

Re: Canon 5D MRK I firmware

RobertTheFat — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 13:52:33 GMT

@psrt2016 wrote:
Hello guys,

Its possible to uptade, on a EOS 5D MRK I, from firmware 1.0.5 to firmware 1.1.1 directly?
Or I need first to uptade to firmware 1.1.0, it is not available anymore 😞

Thanks

Paulo

I'm not familiar with the 5D1; I can recall seeing one in use on only one occasion. But the eight or ten Canon cameras on which I have done firmware updates all allowed you to install any update that was more recent than the one already on the camera.

Re: Canon 5D MRK I firmware

psrt2016 — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 14:17:32 GMT

Thank you Bob.

I think I'll risk doing it.

Paulo

Re: Canon 5D MRK I firmware

ebiggs1 — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 14:35:46 GMT

Go for it.

Th 5D (there is no Mk I) hs a wonderful sensor. It does a fantastic job on portraits. I kinda wish I had mine back sometimes.

Re: Canon 5D MRK I firmware

psrt2016 — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 14:42:00 GMT

You are right!

Sorry, the 5D classic 🙂

Thank you.

Re: Canon 5D MRK I firmware

RobertTheFat — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 15:39:40 GMT

@ebiggs1 wrote:
Go for it.

Th 5D (there is no Mk I) hs a wonderful sensor. It does a fantastic job on portraits. I kinda wish I had mine back sometimes.

Just to be my usual picky self, I'll call your nomenclature quibble. Yes, Canon didn't call it the 5D Mk I (there was no need to), but with the advent of the Mk II and its successors, it became useful to refer to the "Mk I" - because the mere "5D" often refers to the series, rather than to its first member. It probably shouldn't be so, but experience says it is.

Your reminiscence about the 5D calls up memories of my own. The one time I actually saw a 5D (Mk I) in action was at a family wedding reception nine years ago. (The bride was my son-in-law's younger sister.) I was there with my XTi and feeling a bit of a big shot. The event photographer (dressed all in black, after the fashion of the time) was using a 5D with a battery grip, and I made a jackass of myself by barging up and asking him if it was a 1D Mk II (or whichever 1D was current that year). He was very polite in setting me straight, and I slunk away after some perfunctory discussion of Canon equipment. I took a lot of pictures that night, some of them good, but I was careful to stay out of the photographer's way and let him do his job. I've been chagrined to discover in subsequent years how often amateurs at important events don't observe that elementary courtesy. (It's pretty easy to notice when you actually are the event photographer!)

Re: Canon 5D MRK I firmware

ebiggs1 — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 16:18:45 GMT

RTF,

"... how often amateurs at important events don't observe that elementary courtesy."

It is part of the territory. Get used to it or get out of photography. When they use flash is the worse and I am a bully when they get too much in the way. It has gotten much worse as the iphone has gotten better.

"Canon didn't call it the 5D Mk I"

That's right, they didn't. It is a 5D. It is not a 5D Mk I and it is not a 5D Classic. It is and remains a 5D. Is that too difficult to understand in the frozen land of Boston, there Bob?

Re: Canon 5D MRK I firmware

RobertTheFat — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 17:39:06 GMT

@ebiggs1 wrote:
"Canon didn't call it the 5D Mk I"

That's right, they didn't. It is a 5D. It is not a 5D Mk I and it is not a 5D Classic. It is and remains a 5D. Is that too difficult to understand in the frozen land of Boston, there Bob?

"The frozen land of Boston??" <guffaw!> It's 39°F where I sit and in Central Square, where I used to work. The Weather Channel's Web site says it's 21 in Kansas City, with a wind chill down to 10. It occurs to me that Frozen Brain Syndrome might help explain your recalcitrance regarding common colloquial references to the original 5D. In the spirit of Christmas we'll make allowances.

Anyway, the weather is the least of my concerns today. This evening we're off to the opening reception for the annual mid-winter members' show at the Griffin Museum. Supposedly we each have a picture in it (no jury this time); and if either of them sells, it'll be the first time we've made a dime to offset the $$$$ we've spent on photography. (At work I didn't get paid extra for photography; it was just part of the job.) So we'll see how it goes.

Re: Canon 5D MRK I firmware

ebiggs1 — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 17:52:13 GMT

RTF,

"The Weather Channel's Web site says it's 21 in Kansas City, with a wind chill down to 10."

OK, for now but guess where this cold front is going? It was 9 last night! I grant you my frozen brain is pretty faulty most of the time anymore but I believe it has little to do the the temps. We are actually not in KC being some 40 miles south. We are south-west of Spring Hill, KS.

Here's hoping you have success at the show. I had one of my best years this past 2016. Even though I am 'fully' retired. Right?

"... common colloquial references to the original 5D"

Colloquial not-with-standing, I see no naming reference to anything except "5D" on the front of a "5D". Why is this not good enough as it is most accurate. But thanx for the Christmas spirit concession for my lack of understanding.

Re: Canon 5D MRK I firmware

ebiggs1 — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 17:54:57 GMT

BTW, RTF,

"(At work I didn't get paid extra for photography; it was just part of the job.)"

Is that not common? I don't think any company photographer gets paid 'extra' for doing his job. Am I, again, mistaken? Because I never did either. Plus all work or ideas belong to Hallmark if done on Hallmark time.

Re: Canon 5D MRK I firmware

RobertTheFat — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 18:50:54 GMT

@ebiggs1 wrote:
BTW, RTF,
"(At work I didn't get paid extra for photography; it was just part of the job.)"

Is that not common? I don't think any company photographer gets paid 'extra' for doing his job. Am I, again, mistaken? Because I never did either. Plus all work or ideas belong to Hallmark if done on Hallmark time.

Yeah, I'm sure my situation wasn't unique, but I was pulled in several directions. We didn't have an "official" City Photographer, so almost every department wanted me to do work for them (events, portraits, architecture, report illustrations, historical sites, etc.). The first time I photographed a City Council inauguration (an all-day proceeding with three separate parts and hundreds of pictures) is illustrative. In previous years they had hired an outside professional to do it; but when word got around about other events I was doing (awards ceremonies, etc.), they asked me to do it instead. They liked my work better than that of the professional, so I was stuck with doing it two years and four years later. (And every two years if I hadn't retired.) But my own department (IT) was under pressure not to let me off the hook for other work I was supposed to do. So I ended up doing a lot of unpaid overtime and getting glared at when I photographed events, or edited images, on company time. Frankly, one of the main reasons I retired was that the IT work I had to do was more boring than the photography I often didn't get to do. So now my wife and I are trying to imitate Grandma Moses by somehow getting our pictures noticed in our old age.

Re: Canon 5D MRK I firmware

psrt2016 — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 14:47:35 GMT

It works! 🙂

Thanks

Re: Canon 5D MRK I firmware

psrt2016 — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 14:48:11 GMT

It works! 🙂

thanks

Re: Canon 5D MRK I firmware

patbob — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 01:43:29 GMT

I know this is an old thread, but just in case anyone digs it up wondering, I just took my 5D "mk1" from 1.0.1 directly to 1.1.1 with no problems. Its pretty unlikely that ayone could have an earlier verison of FW on theirs 🙂

Re: Canon 5D MRK I firmware

Bob1959 — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 13:20:44 GMT

I want to thank you and I hope people will read your experience. I have photographed about a dozen weddings(accomplished amateur here) and nice people with their cellphones and insta shoot cameras often get in the way without realizing it. The worst part of this is the flash. When you are trying to capture a moment and two or three flashes go off at the same time it is dissapointing to discover your washed out picture. You can do a lot with editing programs today, but in the days of 35mm it was pretty much a lost shot. And still is, as no amount of editing can make up for an exposure that is way off.

Re: Canon 5D MRK I firmware

ebiggs1 — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 14:03:39 GMT

"(accomplished amateur here)"

It is generally acceptable to have a wedding party spokesperson to announce no cell phones or flash while the photographer does his/her job. In my experience when most people see a pro shooting photos they don't interfere but there is always that one guy. Plus grandma or auntie, those you just learn to live with. Best advice is, act like a professional and folks will treat you like a professional.