From the course: Canon 5D Mark III Essential Training

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Getting firmware updates

Getting firmware updates

Your camera is a piece of hardware, of course, and it comes with editing software that you install on your computer. Somewhere between hardware and software is firmware; software that runs on the computer inside your hardware. The firmware in your camera is what controls all of the camera's functions, and operations, and occasionally Canon will update that firmware. Before you can find out if there is a firmware update for your camera, you need to know what version of the firmware you already have, and the camera will tell you. In the Menu system, here in the setup menu, on the fourth page, down at the very bottom, it just tells you this camera is using firmware version 1.1.2. To find out if there's a newer version, go to www.canonusa.com, click on consumer and home office on the top toolbar, then click on cameras, and then Digital SLR cameras. From there, you can click on 5D Mark III. Finally, from that page, drivers and software. If there is a firmware update available, you'll see a…

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