”New” firmware update for D7100

[Akira]

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

[Snoogly]

Let me be the first to say  about Zii body updates 

[Matthew Currie]

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.

[Hugh_3170]

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. "

[Akira]

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"!

[Matthew Currie]

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.