Their public beta tests are more like alpha tests, particularly early on (eg, plenty of known bugs, they’re still finding more, features missing and maybe not even decided on). That is not how Microsoft views the beta process. Pioneer wrote their own code from scratch).
Not due to a design constraint, but rather, a stupid bug in the Philips reference code (my first DVD player, from Pioneer, did read DVD-RW when they came out. So there were, as an easy example, about half of all first generation DVD players that couldn’t read DVD-RW discs. Unfortunately, in the past, many CE devices simply weren’t able to be upgraded. You have found and qualified all bugs you think you can find internally, and so the beta testing period is on a feature-complete version of software, perhaps with some known but being-fixed bugs but otherwise, “we think it’s good, we need you to help prove that”.Įventually the beta test stops yielding new bugs, and so you release. The original point of beta testing was moving that test outside of the engineering group. Of course, there is also the tendency to make end-users part of the beta test process.
That doesn’t mean that the PA people necessarily get to test with every lens, but it certainly does mean that if a problem is reported, verification and a fix ought to be pretty quick. I would think that Canon has a copy of every lens they’ve made, and at least every licensed version of lenses using the EF mount, somewhere in their labs.
When you see that Microsoft certified sticker on a box of software or hardware, that tells that somewhere in Redmond, they have that item available for testing. If do product assurance the way it’s done in the computer industry, they really should be able to test everything.
So what are your thoughts about this new firmware update from Canon for the 7D Mark II? Did they do enough, or is there more that needs to be addressed in your mind? Leave a comment below and let us know what you think. But what did you expect? This is Canon we are talking about – not Fuji.
Just fixing things that were not working correctly in the first place. No new features, and no new functionality. Overall, it looks to be a pretty standard ‘fixes’ firmware update from Canon.
If you own a Canon 7D Mark II, you can download and install the update yourself by checking out Canon’s website here. Canon has released a new firmware update for the 7D Mark II which addresses several issues that users have reported with the camera and its autofocus.