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New Firmware for the Panasonic GF1
Franck Mée
November 27, 2009 11:26 AM
November 27, 2009 11:26 AM
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This update takes the Panasonic GF1 to version 1.1, with six new features. The first three represent improvements in areas that are particularly likely to interest regular consumers:
- improved image quality at high sensitivity
- automatic white balancing
- continual autofocus while shooting video
The whole range of lenses is affected: 14-45 mm and 45-200 mm (the G1's kit lenses), 14-140 mm (GH1 kit), 20 mm (GF1 kit) and 7-14 mm. The handling of video autofocus is improved on all of these lenses, but there's also more work on the aperture handling on this last option, the 7-14 mm lens.
Updating your camera is a simple task. You start by downloading a compressed file from Panasonic's website--either a Windows executable or a Zip 'for Mac', which will actually work in any OS--and then decompress, copy it onto an SD card.
When you put the card into the camera and switch it on, it should be able to tell that there's a new version of the firmware on the card and offer to install it straight away. It takes a few minutes, during which time you shouldn't do anything else with the camera.
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