Adam here at the Digital Goja Showroom and in this video I'm going to show you how
you can utilize the Sigma USB dock to get the most out of your Sigma lenses so
stay tuned.
So you just bought a Sigma lens from Digital Goja or you're
thinking about purchasing one and you notice that it comes with this hockey
puck looking thing and you're wondering, what does this thing do?
Well, this is the Sigma USB dock and it's a tool that you can use to optimize and check the
performance of your lens. Now the Sigma USB dock is pretty much compatible with
all the global vision series lenses, that means lenses in the sports, art and
contemporary but there is a line of lenses that aren't compatible with the
Sigma USB dock and those would be the DN Series lenses, those lenses are designed
specifically for the mirrorless cameras and those you would connect to the
camera and connect the camera directly to the computer and update the firmware
that way. Now it's really important that your lens has the latest firmware so
it's optimized to be at its top performance let's head over to studio so
I can show you how easy it is to check and update the firmware of your Sigma
lens. All right so to get started you're going to need a laptop or desktop
computer with an internet connection you're going to need to download the
sigma optimization pro software you have your lens and you're going to need the
sigma USB with the provided USB cable the sigma optimization pro software is
available free on Sigma's website for download you can download it for either
windows or mac computers so go ahead and install the software and once it's
installed you're going to look for the Sigma optimization pro icon that's built
on your desktop you're going to open up the software now you're ready to connect
the USB dock to your computer. Alright so once you connect the Sigma USB dock to
your computer the Sigma optimization pro software is going to first detect the
latest firmware on the dock itself if it needs to be updated the software will
updated automatically now we can go ahead and remove all the caps from your
lens and from the USB dock and now you're going to attach the lens like you
would to your camera you're going to the dot that's found on the rear lens
mount and the dot that's on the Sigma USB dock, once they're aligned you're
going to go ahead rotate it and you're going to hear a click now you'll also
see that there's a green light that appears once it makes connection to the
computer the software is going to detect the latest firmware of your lens if it
needs to be updated it's going to ask you if you want to update the firmware
of your lens you can go ahead and click yes it should take a couple minutes
update the firmware and once it's completed you're all set to be able to
remove the lens. Let's take a look at the interface from Sigma
now the Sigma optimization pros interface is very user friendly let me
just go over some of the details first you're gonna notice right away that it
shows you a picture of the lens that you have connected there's some product
information so it's gonna give you what type of lens mount the serial number and
the current firmware then you also have an option to click on firmware update
now this is going to allow you to manually update the firmware if it
doesn't do it automatically on the left-hand side you're going to see a
window panel this is going to show you all the lenses that you connect to the
Sigma USB dock it's going to store it in that information panel to the left of
the image on the top right you're going to notice a little green light this is
going to be another area to show you that you've made connection and that the
sigma USB dock is working one very important note is that when you're
updating the firmware of the lens are doing anything with the lens if the
optimization Pro software is running you do not want to remove the lens from the
USB dock because you can damage the lens if you do so no need to worry because
when you're done installing any of the firm or changing any of the settings on
the lens the Sigma optimization pro will tell you when you can remove the lens as
I mentioned earlier it's important to have the latest firmware installed on
your lens especially before moving on to the advanced adjustments and
customization features of the USB dock now if you're looking to do
like micro focusing adjustments and you're not sure how to do it make sure
to stay tuned to our next video on how to micro adjust your AF using the Sigma
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