On 1/30/2016 10:40 AM, Lawrence Woods wrote:
Before I started, the camera's display in Settings=>Firmware indicated Body:
2.0, Lens: 1.0 (a 12-40 2.8 if it matters).
I installed Olympus Digital Camera Updater on my Windows 7 system, connected
the camera to the PC, and turned on the
camera. An "E-M5" entry appeared in the File Explorer underneath Computer.
A right click=>Properties on the "E-M5" displayed Firmware version: 1.00 and
my camera's serial number.
I have, ahem, perhaps too many Oly ?4/3 camera bodies. I have done many
firmware updates, including to lenses. Never
have I tried right clicking in Explorer.
Just tried it with an E-M5 known to be at 2.0, 'cause I've updated it myself.
See below.
I started Olympus Digital Camera Updater and clicked "Next" to do the update, but
got an error box saying "Unable to
use this function on this camera".
This is because the camera is in the wrong mode.
This was the first time I had tried a firmware update. I purchased the camera
secondhand in late 2014, so the prior
owner could have updated to firmware 2.0, released in January, 2014.
Has anyone experienced and overcome a problem like this? Anyone have an
insight into the firmware version
discrepancy between the Windows Properties display and the camera display?
See next:
I have one additional data point. When turning on the USB-connected camera, the
camera LCD screen displays "One
Moment", then goes black when the computer gives its "new USB device detected"
beep. The Olympus web page
http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/support/imsg/digicamera/download/software/camera/cameraupdate.cfm
says that different
model cameras display different things, but shows a USB selection menu from an
E-M5 that I did not get. Does the
EM-5's USB display change with different firmware, and what should I be seeing?
You should be seeing the screen you linked to. That's what I get, and what I've
gotten on every OM-D update and I
believe on every Pen. On early Pens, the screen is slightly visually different,
but offers the same choices.
The correct choice is Storage. With that, I get an Explorer entry as a
removable disk.
If I, for the first time ever, choose MTP, I get a different driver installing,
then the Explorer entry for E-M5. And
indeed, the right click to Properties shows Firmware 1.0, which is wrong. I
would just ignore it.
Now WHY this camera is skipping the choice of "Storage" and going directly to
"MTP", I don't know, but that's why Oly
Camera Update can't find it. On the one I checked, the brief "One moment"
display is AFTER choosing a mode from the USB
menu, so MTP is somehow being chosen automagically, or a button is stuck, or
you are pressing OK (or some other button,
by holding accident?) when it's not needed, or ... You might try Oly Support. I
found them quite responsive when I
needed help.
OTOH, you already have the 2.0 update, and don't as yet have the 300/4, so
unless you have or get the 40-150/2.8 Pro, no
update is necessary. And you could just ignore it all for now.
Now to my own tale of oddness. Lately, Oly Camera Update finds my cameras when
run on my Win7 desktop machine, downloads
the update, then when it goes to install it, "Failed to communicate the
camera", shortly after having found and
communicated with the camera to start the process. Rather than try to figure
that one out, I have, so far, run Update on
my netbook+, where it works fine. Uninstalling the update app and drivers and
starting fresh didn't fix it.
Puzzled Moose
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