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New firmware is coming

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.
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
  • Panasonic - DC-S1RM2
  • LUMIX S 24-105/F4
  • 24.0 mm
  • ƒ/8
  • 1/5 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 80


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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Focus stacking works very well
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.

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.
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.
 
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.
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.
 
I tried several things with the focus ring
I assigned the Crop Zoom feature to the Manual Focus ring of the Lumix S PRO 50mm F/1.4. Now it is become a zoom lens that goes from 50mm to 100mm (limited to the "S" size, 11 mpx). For video it reaches 104mm...
 
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