Canon EOS R3 updates with firmware 1.2.1 with some new features

Canon EOS R3 is, at the present time, the camera flagship of the Japanese manufacturer (waiting for the rumored EOS R1 which should arrive next year). Being a solution devoted to professionals, the company’s attention is highest when it comes to assistance and updates firmware.

The release of the version 1.2.1 which brings some news and fixes bugs that occurred with previous versions. In particular the mirrorless now has a new drive mode under Custom Continuous Shooting. But this is only one of the possibilities that photographers using this camera will be able to exploit.

Canon EOS R3 and the new firmware 1.2.1

As written above, the drive mode in the Custom Continuous Shot item allows you to take a sequence of photographs between 2 and 50 continuous shots at a speed between 30 and 195 fps. You can use this mode in both JPEG and RAW with the limitations of having to lock exposure and autofocus. This option is usually disabled and the user must enable it.

With the firmware 1.2.1at the Canon EOS R3 under High Frame Rate, you can also find the FHD 239.76 fps / 200.00 fps option for video capture. The possibility to choose the option is then added “Depth composition” during the “Focus Bracketing” both with and without the El-1 Speedlite flash.

For the filmmaker then there is the addition of time-lapse movie recording. For those who need additional processing power by leveraging the cloud, you can choose to use the Canon Imaging App Service Plan. Still on the subject of connectivity, images can be cropped and resized during transfer to an FTP server. Also improved the security in wireless communication with 802.1X / WPA2-Enterprise authentication which supports the PKCS # 12 certificate format.

As written above, some bugs showing up on Canon EOS R3. For example when the error code 70 was shown in case the setting was selected “Fluid” in Avail. performance / Display performance. Downloading the firmware 1.2.1 it is possible from company website.

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