Archive — October 2004

What's new? This firmware update fixes/improves the following: 1. Added new functions for communicating with the Speedlite 580EX 2. Reduced noise when shooting bulb exposures 3. Fixed sensor-cleaning operations This firmware supports cameras with firmware Version 1.0.1 or 1.0.2. If the camera already has the Version 1.0.3 firmware, this update is unnecessary. Before downloading the firmware update, please be sure...
Ralf Coenen (43), hitherto member of the Board of Management responsible for Engineering, Cooperations and Asian Sales, will become the new Chairman of the Leica Camera AG, Solms, as from January 1, 2005. This decision of the Company's Supervisory Board, made in its meeting on Thursday, follows the proposal brought forward by Hanns-Peter Cohn (56). After six years on duty...
Canon Inc. has resumed offering a web download service for EOS 20D Firmware. As mentioned yesterday, the version number has been changed to 1.0.5. The web address for this download remains the same as it was before: http://www.canon.co.jp.Imaging/eos20d/eos20d_firmware-e.html For more details, please review the following text, which has been reproduced from Canon Inc.'s web site: EOS 20D Firmware Update Version...
Richard Avedon, whose fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century, died today in a hospital in San Antonio, Tex. He was 81 and lived in Manhattan. - image property of Patrick Demarchelier/Reuters The New York Times Article