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New firmware is coming

HarisO said:
Hmm... is that focus stacking feature a new announcement? I don't remember reading about it during the S1II announcement. Wondering if it's in-camera or not.
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Richard Wong covers this in his review. It is in-camera, jpeg only.
 
for photographers with S1RII, the new firmware brings you:
- In-camera Focus Stacking (JPG only)
- Wireless Tethering with Capture One
- HEIF output
- Multi-frame markers
- Urban Sports AF detection
- AF box colour change
- File transfer to SSD
- MF ring update (reverse direction, user assignable feature)

There is also Webcam UVC/UAC support
 
I only installed and played around for a few minutes on my S1RII before work called. Seems a decent update so faro. I just played around with HEIF photo which worked nicely but Pana doesn't seem to have any LUTs available for it for now and I didn't have time to whip up something myself. Operational speed etc. seems unchanged - which is good, considering what a major update this is. Can't wait to back home and test out the 8K.
 
Upgraded my S1Rii. It all went smoothly.

Focus stacking works very well - this is stacked from 10 images.

P1R21332_3000.jpg


The ability to use the focus ring is very helpful in M mode + Auto ISO since it gives a dial to which I can assign exposure comp. A nice upgrade.
 
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pdk42 said:
Focus stacking works very well
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I agree. I wish it worked with RAW, but it does work wih HEIF which has one more bit over JPEG, which helps in post processing.

pdk42 said:
The ability to use the focus ring is very helpful in M mode + Auto ISO since it gives a dial to which I can assign exposure comp.
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Nice. I tried several things with the focus ring but didn't think of exposure comp. This is a good use for it.

For video I tried the new 8K open gate style. It works well.

Another thing I tried which is very useful is to in-camera move video files from the CFexpress card to a SSD. An issue with the S1RM2 is that video files take a very very long time to download, and this firmware upgrade solves that problem. I shot a couple minutes of 8K open gate which gave a 4.5GB file. This would take at least 5 minutes to download with my card reader. If I connect the camera directly to my computer with USB this is reduced to 2 or 3minutes. But the in-camera transfer from the CFexpress card to a SSD is about 5 seconds. Then I can connect the SSD to my computer and edit directly from the file on the SSD. Or if I transfer the file on the SSD to my computer disk this takes 2 seconds. I had put off doing any serious video with the S1RM2 until this ugrade was available and I had a chance to test it.
 
CharlesH said:
I agree. I wish it worked with RAW, but it does work wih HEIF which has one more bit over JPEG, which helps in post processing.


Nice. I tried several things with the focus ring but didn't think of exposure comp. This is a good use for it.

For video I tried the new 8K open gate style. It works well.

Another thing I tried which is very useful is to in-camera move video files from the CFexpress card to a SSD. An issue with the S1RM2 is that video files take a very very long time to download, and this firmware upgrade solves that problem. I shot a couple minutes of 8K open gate which gave a 4.5GB file. This would take at least 5 minutes to download with my card reader. If I connect the camera directly to my computer with USB this is reduced to 2 or 3minutes. But the in-camera transfer from the CFexpress card to a SSD is about 5 seconds. Then I can connect the SSD to my computer and edit directly from the file on the SSD. Or if I transfer the file on the SSD to my computer disk this takes 2 seconds. I had put off doing any serious video with the S1RM2 until this ugrade was available and I had a chance to test it.
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Good to hear that the transfer from CFE to SSD is so fast. That is going to be a useful feature. However, if you still want to use a reader at times, I suggest getting a ProGrade reader. They are extremely fast - MUCH faster than the reader I bought 4 years or so ago. This is on a 2021 MBP.
 
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