Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai.
Today we are talking about lens firmware/ In this case
the 15 to 45 millimeter EF-M lens. I have one from an old M5 that
I bought used, and another from my M50. So I have two
M50s here with the 15 to 45. I checked the firmware on
them. One of them has an old version, so I went
looking around to see if I could find the new version, and it
is available to users. Which is good. Of course
disclaimer... with all of this do this at your own risk.
You could potentially mess something up. You might have to send it to Canon. You
might totally screw it up, and it's just not going to
work for you. So don't come at me and complain that you messed something up.
But I will put all this information out here, because I was curious.
Going to try it out for myself. I haven't done it at this point.
Because I wanted to show you on the screens the two different firmware
numbers. So I'm going to try the firmware update
on the older lens today see how it works. Actually, Canon USA's
website is currently down. There was some type of hack where all of
their data got locked up. Anyways, that website does not currently
work. And I will update the description when
the website is back up and running. But the Canon Canada website is
kind of the de facto one to use right now at the moment for the people in the
USA. I'm going to use that in my main
description link on the screen and all that you can check out,
if you want to do it right away. But of course you can wait for the USA.
In whatever region you're in you, want to go to that specific website.
One thing you need to change with M50, if you are a beginner...
which I don't really think you should be doing the firmware update. But if you
really want to... We're in here with the menu system, there is
a guided and a standard. Guided is the
one that it comes with.. by default and that's what it looks like.
That's not what we want. It's just a hassle to use that. I don't use it.
So you can switch that in this tab here to the
right, you can switch that. You can go into the standard menu system.
See it looks a lot different in the standard. What we want to do is go into
tab 3 with the gear icon, page 5, to verify our firmware versions.
So one of them is 3.0.1. Another one is 2.0.0. On the Canon
website, in this case the Canada version, you can go into the EF-M
lenses. And you can check your lenses to see. I did see some updates for the 18 to
150 and I think the 55 to 200.
But in this case we're doing the standard kit lens, which is 15 to 45.
Go in there and it shows two different versions, we want the 3.0.1
version. You can see that the changes made were to make
the dual sensing IS function, which I think would be just for video in this
case to work with the lens. It uses the
stabilizer in the lens and I guess the digital
stabilization. So I never knew that that was a thing and I have been using both
lenses interchangeably. So some of my videos might have not been as good
as they could have been with the video. You want to install it on an SD card.
In this case what I do is I format the card in the camera itself... and
another thing you want to have a fully charged battery
on your camera. I've got our SD card. I have my reader here.
And we'll transfer over that file. The file you download comes as a zip file.
That's a compressed version of it. You have to extract that
and then once you get that available, it's this LFU
extension. We're going to copy that over
to the SD card.
In my case it's the M drive, but it doesn't matter. You want to put it in the
root directory of your SD card. There is also a help file in this update
procedure that you can look at, for just verification of what you
exactly need to do. So we have that file on there. What you
want to also do is eject your SD card properly. In my case I'm going
to right click on this drive and eject. That way it fully
writes the file. There's no issues related to that...
Take the card put it in the camera. We'll go through the update process.
Let's get that memory card in there. Turn the camera off.
All right, so I'm going to go into the menu again. We have the memory card inside.
The battery is fully charged. Let's go into the firmware. So it sees
that there is another one available.
Here it is in the screen. Select it, we're going to upgrade to 3.0.1.
It says don't touch any buttons don't
turn it off. The firmware is about 1.4 megabytes so
the transfer speeds between the lens and the camera isn't super quick.
But it's making its way. You can read the help document. It said a few specific
things if there were issues. And what you need to do after it is finished.
Finish with the firmware update, which is good!
I'm going to turn this off. In the document it said to pop the battery for
a few seconds.
You can see that it has the new firmware.
Let's just cancel that. We want to also format the SD card
while we're at it.
Hope you enjoyed the video and found it helpful.
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