Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Nikon Firmware Update

 Nikon is not particularly clever when it comes to software.

It has firmware and the lens control in two separate bin files.   I copied the two bin files to the root of a CF card thinking that it would do them in whatever sequence as necessarily.  The typical user behavior thinking what the machine would do instead of just following the damned instructions which by the way doesn't say you can't have both firmware and lens correction exist in the CF card at the same time.

The firmware upgrade was fine.  But then the camera would only pick the firmware where it's there in the CF card even both the camera and the CF card has the same one.  It even ran the whole firmware upgrade even the version is the same.  It simply won't go a step further to get the lens control bin.  Once it sees the firmware then it just does that nothing else.

Me being a relatively intelligent guy so I removed the CF card from the camera and plugged in to the computer and delete the firmware bin file.

Once the firmware bin gone from the CF card, the camera knew to update the lens correction.  So that was it.


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