I love a good firmware update, it's one of the best things about owning a digital camera. Because everything is computer based, it's easy to change mistakes made when programming the camera bodies. Most firmware fixes just tackle a few obscure errors, but the most recent D3 update from Nikon, fixes a whole range of issues. Here's Nikon's official word on it.


The following improvements have been made in version 1.10:

- A Vignette control item has been added to the shooting menu. For information regarding supported lenses, see the supplemental manual.

- A Focus point brightness item has been added to the a6: Focus point illumination setting in the Autofocus category of Custom Settings.

- The Highlights playback display option has been moved from Display mode>Basic photo info>Highlights in the playback menu to Display mode>Detailed photo info>Highlights.

- When shutter speed and/or aperture are locked with shooting in live view mode, using the “L” (command lock) button, an “L” icon is now displayed in the camera monitor.

- The size and colour of “Demo” displayed in the monitor with playback, when No memory card? in the Custom Settings is set to Enable release, have been modified.

- The range of settings available for ISO sensitivity settings>ISO sensitivity auto control>Minimum shutter speed in the shooting menu has been increased from 1/250–1 s to 1/4000–1 s.

- When a compatible Speedlight or Wireless Speedlight Commander is used, the AF assist illuminator now lights regardless of the focal length.

- When shooting in hand-held live view mode and the frame is magnified prior to autofocusing, the display now returns to the magnified display rather than full-frame display.

- In some rare cases, the image area visible through the viewfinder and the image area actually recorded differed when Image area>Choose image area in the shooting menu was set to DX format (24x16). This issue has been resolved.

- In some rare cases, white balance was not accurately calculated for images captured at a shutter speed of around 1/4 s in P and A exposure modes. This issue has been resolved.

- When attempting to crop images at an aspect ratio of 4:3 using the Trim option in the retouch menu, the cropped image did not have an accurate 4:3 aspect ratio. This issue has been resolved.

Please visit the links below to access the firmware updates:


Nikon update for Mac users

Nikon update for PC users.