New EOS 7D Firmware now available

[Ron Little]

Daniel, I have it set on faithful right now but I see it in standard as well. The bad news is it is showing up in the recorded footage. It has made my camera useless for video. I am going to try to load the old firmware back on the camera then test it again.

[John Richard]

This is hard to believe that the banding is not an isolated incident related to an anomaly with a single camera. Surely Canon would have picked this banding issue up in testing.

Think I will wait to see how this turns out. I am wondering why we are not hearing this from many others?

[Ron Little]

Highlight tone priority was the culprit. Switched it off and the banding went away.

[Bob Willis]

I believe that HTP has caused some banding problems in the 7D from the beginning and should be turned off for shooting video. One more reason to have a separate body for shooting stills if you are capturing both video and photos.

[Ciprian Ganciulescu]

Hi guys, I have to confirm what Ron already found out about the Highlight Tone Priority feature, it produced quite alot of banding, switched it off and no problem now, everything works fine.

[Andy Wilkinson]

OK sounds like all is well and we are good to go. Thanks for the running updates. Much appreciated.

Now I can download with confidence.

[Daniel Epstein]

Good catch Ron. I guess you have to make records of your settings before doing the update so you can compare what the camera is doing that is new and different settings wise.

[Andy Wilkinson]

Just updated mine. All is well.

[Daniel Epstein]

So far so good here as well. Also trying out a new Rokinon 14mm Lens. Camera asked me to make sure I had a lens attached to it and only would enter movie mode after hitting the start stop button twice. Not sure if this is any different operation than in the past.

[Markus Nord]

Originally Posted by Daniel Epstein

So far so good here as well. Also trying out a new Rokinon 14mm Lens. Camera asked me to make sure I had a lens attached to it and only would enter movie mode after hitting the start stop button twice. Not sure if this is any different operation than in the past.

Same as usual, because the lens does not communicate with the camera, the camera thinks that it is no lens attached. In video mode the mirror is flipped up and the sensor is exposed (and unprotected) so the camera will make sure that you know what you are doing…. That my understanding of the massage…

I did my update a few days ago and all is fine for me too…

[Derek Reich]

I must be a complete idiot..... but I can't seem to find any audio settings anywhere in the menu. I did get a lot of the other updates (in-camera RAW, max ISO) but no audio anything? What am I missing here?

nevermind.... I just downloaded the update a second time, and reloaded it into the camera, and all is good!

[Ron Little]

Look in the forth menu from the left, forth selection down, it says sound recording.

[Derek Reich]

yep.... wasn't there the first time I downloaded the firmware. weird thing is the other features were! I checked and double checked both in the stills menu and the video menu. nada. BUT, when I downloaded the firmware update a second time, and loaded that one into the camera, it was there. go figure.