On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > Have I just not been paying attention, or is this something new? > Firmware for lenses? > > There are three separate firmware updates. One for the Q body and one > for each of the "standard zoom" and "standard prime" lens. > Interesting too that the Q firmware ups the resolution of the "Fine" setting. > http://www.pentax.jp/english/support/digital/q_s.html > http://www.pentax.jp/english/support/digital/q_lens_s.html
Modern lenses on several lines of cameras are electronically controlled participants in the body's operation and thus have firmware which might be control parameters, control code, informational data, correction parameters, or (in the Pentax SLR case) MTF curves embedded in them that the body utilizes. Update-able lens firmware has been a standard part of FourThirds, Micro-FourThirds and NEX lenses since they arrived on the market. Ricoh GXR 'lensors' (aka camera units) also have update-able firmware. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
