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Gear Talk => Camera Talk => Topic started by: Akira on July 27, 2022, 07:26:07

Title: ”New” firmware update for D7100
Post by: Akira on July 27, 2022, 07:26:07
Apparently, Nikon has shown an unusual care for the customers.

https://www.dpreview.com/news/8209497491/nikon-releases-firmware-update-for-its-nearly-10-year-old-d7100-dslr
Title: Re: ”New” firmware update for D7100
Post by: Snoogly on July 27, 2022, 10:56:06
Let me be the first to say  >:( about Zii body updates  :-[
Title: Re: ”New” firmware update for D7100
Post by: Matthew Currie on July 27, 2022, 15:29:24
Interesting.  I don't have the software, but I suppose I will do the update anyway.  I keep hoping they'd throw in a trap focusing fix, but that's wishful thinking I'm sure.

Title: Re: ”New” firmware update for D7100
Post by: Hugh_3170 on July 29, 2022, 14:37:30
I would reckon that this sentence in the link might just be on the money: "Or, maybe a Nikon engineer owned a D7100 that they really wanted to get working again for their specific use case. "
Title: Re: ”New” firmware update for D7100
Post by: Akira on July 29, 2022, 15:08:43
Let me be the first to say  >:( about Zii body updates  :-[

Do you have any problem with Z7II?


Interesting.  I don't have the software, but I suppose I will do the update anyway.  I keep hoping they'd throw in a trap focusing fix, but that's wishful thinking I'm sure.

Unfortunately, it should be difficult to add a a new feature to a decade old hardware.  But I believe that keeping its firmware latest is always worthwhile.


I would reckon that this sentence in the link might just be on the money: "Or, maybe a Nikon engineer owned a D7100 that they really wanted to get working again for their specific use case. "

Hmm...I would be very much interested in the "specific use case"!
Title: Re: ”New” firmware update for D7100
Post by: Matthew Currie on September 09, 2022, 20:06:58
Just a quick note, I don't think changing the trap focusing issue would require any real change.  I think Nikon did it with a firmware change on some of the full frame models which had dropped it, and it's re-enabled on the D7200.  A little annoyance, but I wouldn't mind having it, if not for trapping moving subjects, for hand-held closeups when I'm a little unsteady.