How to update Firmware Viltrox EF-EOS M2 Speedbooster for Canon EF-M - v1.4 fixes focus parking
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Update Viltrox have v1.4 firmware on their website (underneath the old version look for line 2 EF-EOS M2 1.4): www.viltrox.com...
I bought the Viltrox EF-EOS M2 Speedbooster (with my own money as always, I never accept free stuff to review) so I can use my Canon M5 as a 'full frame lite' with EF lenses. First impressions are good, other than I noticed the nifty fifty Canon 50mm 1.8 STM lens no longer autoparks focus when camera is switched off !
I emailed Viltrox last night to ask about this, and they replied immediately with 1.4 firmware which fixes this, so wanted to quickly show how easy it is to update firmware and this fixes the focus autopark issue with Canon 50mm lens.
I did ask about the battery drain issue when camera is off, and they think firmware may help with that also. My M5 body doesn't drain battery with any of my lenses (EF28/50/85/24-105F4L) so this doesn't effect me thankfully.
Please comment below with any questions or feedback, I will do my best to answer as always.
Thanks for watching my video.
Auto Focus Lens Mount Adapter Ring 0.71X Focal Lenth Multiplier USB Upgrade for Canon EF Series Lens to EOS EF-M Mirrorless Camera for Canon EOS M5 M6 M50 M1 M2 M3
this is 4 years ago, its 2023 now and yet you help me, thank you a lot friend!
For everyone struggling with this, USB cables can be charge only, or charge and sync. If you use a charge only cable the computer will never recognise the adapter. I guess this is the reason why so many people struggle with this. You can also use an OTG cable plus male to male USB.
Thanks for this video btw! Straight to the point!
Huge thank you for this. I didnt think it could be that simple and I couldnt find the instructions on Viltrox's website! Thank you!!!
Thanks, and really glad it was useful - just a shame it doesn't leave a file on the speedbooster to show current version (ie v1.4- success) as that would be a simple improvement
Short, sweet and to the point! Thanks!
Hey James, I wanna wish you and your family a wonderful christmas time with lots of love, happiness and of course sweet treats :) Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! Thank you for all the useful and interesting stuff and videos this year. See you in 2019 - kind regards from Germany, Jo
Thanks Jo, and Merry Christmas to you and yours too.
@@jamesb72 Thank you James - very kind.
I have canon m10
I try the speed booster, with all my lens
50 stm and 40 stm work great.
30 sigma art focuses fast and acceptable.
24 70 tamron vc usd mark i does not work, even with the canon original adapter (not speed booster)
70 300 tamron vc usd works acceptable, vc work
80 200 tokina 2.8 pro atx works great, although this is the very old len
Like you said before, the battery rain is fix with the stm len.
Battery Drain Info: A few people have mentioned battery drains when camera is switched off but speedbooster and lens is still in place. I've tested this with my M5 body and EF50mm/1.8 for 24 hours and battery still shows full/3bars, so this looks to be only certain body/lens combinations I think, so far Dee P reported M50 body with EF24-85mmUSM drains battery in 7 hours, so if people can comment with which body/lens they are having battery drain issue and how quickly it drains we can hopefully share knowledge to understand this better.
Update: I've tested my M5 with speedbooster with EF 50/1.8 for 24hrs, EF 28/1.8 for 12 hrs, 24-105 F4L for 12hrs and EF 85/1.8 for 12 hrs and battery is still showing full/3bars after all these tests, so either the v1.4 firmware update fixed the battery drain issue (which I think is really unlikely), or the battery drain issue doesn't effect M5 body with these lenses. Would be good if someone else has the 24-85mm USM lens to test on M5/M6 as that would suggest its an M50 specific issue, and if someone can test M50 with EF 50/28/85 or 24-105 F4L would comfirm if this is specific to 24-85USM lens.
UPDATE: The serial number is handwritten on Viltrox box, mine is 1203xxx and apparently this battery drain issue is fixed in 1205xxx and above, BUT I still cannot see any battery drain issues with my M5 body/EF lenses, so I wonder if this still only affects certain lens/body combinations and mine are OK ????
Thanks, I used the speedbooster with 24-105mm F4L at weekend and am really pleased with results. Although personally I find the lower aperture figure and focal length in exif a bit annoying (and dubious!). I'd rather it just showed the original figures - although it is useful for test comparison pics I can easily tell which are with the speedbooster and which with a dumb adapter.
Exactly, my 50mm/F1.8 lens shows as 35mm F1.2 which just isn't possible to me ;)
IT HAPPENED TO ME ONCE WITH THE 24-105 F4 IS, I believe is related to the focus and or the Image Stabilization not turning OFF or disengaging while the camera is not in use. This did not happen with the 50mm f1.8 stm
@@borism68 thanks Boris, which body was this with? Interesting you say that as i checked all my lenses for 12hrs each and no issue but if its intermittent this could suggest they might be able to fix with firmware.
@@jamesb72 I have an M50, I contacted Viltrox and they suggested to do the firmware upgrade to 1.4, Ill try it see how it goes
Ha I already saw, on the mac nothing shows up but you can see the booster in the finder !
Glad you got it sorted, I don't use Mac's but figured it would be the same as other removable drives, ie USB keydrive
I updated the firmware but still the lens doenst retract and park. Im using Canon M50 with the speedbooster and Yongnuo 50mm
very helpful, thank you, keep it up !
Thanks james
Helpful. Many thanks.
How do you verify the version before and after upgrade?
Here's a good question: I have Canon M50, and I've just bought this speedbooster, and connected it to my nifty-fifty lens, so, before updating, the autofocus ring actually retracts back inside the lens when switching the camera off, meaning, I don't have the problem that everyone is talking about!
Now, here's my question: How the heck can I check the current firmware version of the speebooster?! I mean I don't want to update it if the update isn't necessary. Also, when checking the firmware version via the camera settings menu, that only shows the camera and the LENS version, not the adapter's.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
There is no way to check current firmware, but updating is quick and easy so shouldn't be a problem. Having said that if your lens retracts I believe you have latest firmware, so I wouldn't worry about it, last firmware update was in 2018 so if you bought speedbooster recently it should already have latest version on. The two issues I'm aware of which firmware updates fixed were lens sticking on wide open aperture and not retracting when switched off, so if you don't see either issue then you should be golden.
@@jamesb72 Thank you very much. Yeah I bought it just recently, so I think it already has the latest firmware. I've also checked the other issue, and the aperture is working just fine. Cheers.
@@jamesb72 I have a Canon M50. I just purchased the viltrox speed booster adapter. I updated to the 1.4 version. Lens will not retract when I turn the camera off. ( lens is a 50mm canon) not sure if I did the download correctly. I use PC. Not sure if I'm doing the download correct. Can you help?
@@juliangastelum2138 If you copy the file onto lens and it disappears after restart then update has worked, which lens is it? If its one of the old mechanical focus lenses they never autoparked, you just turn focus ring to park when lens is off, only the new focus by wire lenses like the 50/1.8 STM have/need autopark.
Thank you for the video, have you found that the aperture of your 50mm f1.8 changes some times from wide open f1.2 (with the speed booster ) to f1.8? this is happening to me randomly, and the only way to fix it is to detach the lens and reattach it again. do you have this issue? it also happened with my Ef 24-105 f4
I've not noticed this, I always get F1.2 on the F1.8 lenses and F2.8 on the F4, I'd suspect this is a connection issue, is there any play in the adapter to lens or body ? I've not had issues with the speedbooster but bought a bunch of cheap EF>EF-M adaptors and the Kooka had a lot of play and the AF would cut in and out if I twisted lens, so just wondering if this could be a similar issue.
I've just updated to firmware 1.3 and this fixed the aperture issue. My 24mm EF 2.8 flickered on F2 only and kept just to 2.8 and above randomly. all fixed now
I have a Canon 22-55mm f4.0-5.6, and when I tried it at first it got down to f2.8 as expected, but now I remain stuck at f4, even with the latest firmware. That's a bit disappointing as that lens is super light and would go well with my M.
Don't forget to use a proper usb cable, for any of you who computer cannot detech Viltrox speedboaster
Also Thank you
the only pop up I got was the file folder but nothing was in it. Does that mean I have the latest version of the firmware?
Follow these steps I believe the issue is still there with the youngnuo cheap 50mm lens.
I thought the Yuongnuo had mechanical focus ring, so you can just turn this to retract lens manually ? Autopark I believe was only ever for focus by wire lenses.
I am planning to buy the Viltrox adapter, and I'm curious how do I check the firmware and see if I need to update it to v1.4? Thanks
There is no way to check version i can work out but it takes 30 seconds to do the update so i would just do it. V1.4 definitely won't be on anything you buy for another month or two at least due to lead time etc.
@@jamesb72 I see, thanks for your answer and your video!
Do canon camera's internal lens corrections work with genuine canon EF lenses?
I have the VILTROX EF-EOS M2 Speed Booster. The internal lens corrections do not work with this. It is possible to activate them in the menu (!!!) on the Canon Eos M50. But if you check the functions in RAW recording, all remain disabled.
I've not tried this, but not surprised the Canon lens correction won't work with Viltrox speed booster, as it won't match the lens profile Canon produce for each lens due to the x0.71 lens, so I think this is something you probably have to accept as a downside to speedbooster and do corrections in post.
@@jamesb72 Thanks very much! I wasn't sure if I missed something for enabling the lens corrections. I've tried different lenses in this regard. What is amazing, that it works with the Canon EF 55-200mm f/4.5-5.6 USM. Do you perhaps have an explanation for this?
@@tom007ch Under Lens Abberation Correction menu with the std Canon EF adaptor camera recognises the lens model and show "correction available". I just checked with Viltrox speedbooster and as expected it won't recognise my EF 28mm F1.8 lens just shows mm unrecognised - I'd be surprised if this wasn't the same with all EF lenses as the speedbooster has to 'fake' the lens info so camera respects the fov/aperture and adjusts metering accordingly - with EF 55-200mm does lens abberation correction recognise correct lens model - or something else - its not impossible its a fluke and the Viltrox 'fudging' makes camera think its a different lens and uses those corrections - which I suspect might be hit and miss with results - but I'm just guessing as I have no expert knowledge.
Looks like the site is down :(
My m6 has battery drain. I never had issues with it retracting. Maybe this will help.
Definitely worth trying. It seems to be specific lens/body combinations which have the battery strain issue i suspect IS stays active when camera turns off. Luckily none of my lenses seem to have this issue on my M5 body.
Hi, the serial number from 1205 or above will solve this problem (battery drain issue). But maybe you can let your supplier send you the one which we produced from this year. He can ask his supplier for that.
I checked and serial number is written by hand on box my speedbooster came in, its 1203xxxxx but I've checked this on my lenses/M5 body and don't seem to have battery drain issue (people were talking about battery draining overnight, so I checked my lenses 12 hours each and seemed OK). Is this only IS lenses (I only have 1 EF IS lens the 24-105 F4L) or ???
@@jamesb72 viltrox technician already reply my email that show this is hardware problem. You must change it to serial above 1205. Hope it can help you. I just change my speedbooster to serial 1206xxx... and I am testing right now, does the viltrox still have this problem or not.
@@ssmishappy Thanks - I checked all my lenses with my M5 camera switched off and have no battery drain after 12 hours on each lens (EF 28/F1.8, 50/F1.4, 85/F1.8 and 24-105mm/F4L) those are the only EF lenses I have anyway. I wonder if I misunderstood and the battery drain is in standby (ie camera left switched on but idle so camera goes to sleep) so am testing this now on 24-105 as its the only IS lens I have which seems to me most likely to have issue, but I can hear the IS is not active in standby/sleep but will leave this a few hours and check battery level.
Thanks for posting James, do you know if this also fixes the battery drain issue on the M50
I did ask and viltrox said it might help (so sounds like a no to me). I don't normally leave EF lenses on camera in storage as I swap back to efm 18-150 to fit in camera case but will try to check this. How long does it take to drain battery on your m50 so i know what to compare with, is it hours or days ??.
@@jamesb72 Thanks for the response James, I downloaded the firmware you published(thanks once again) and tested it last night with a fully charged battery, but it still had the same issue,when I woke up the battery was fully drained i.e. within 7Hrs... I'll just have to remember to swap out lenses.
I hope Viltrox release a fix for this if possible, Apart from this issue the speed booster works great
@@dpenn555 Hi Dee, which lens are you having this issue with. I deliberately left my Canon EF 50/1.8 STM on Viltrox M2 speedbooster mounted to my M5 body all day today (8am-5pm) and battery is still showing full 3 bars (I did take about a dozen pics at lunchtime and this morning also), my guess is this is a hardware issue that the Viltrox adapter provides power to lens at all times (for autoretract) but is somehow keeping the lens 'awake' which is causing the drain. Still for fov improvement it looks good, and that's mainly what I wanted (to justify buying the 24-105mm F4L which I have hankered after for ages, but it felt a waste of money on my crop sensor M5/70D). I have taken some sample pics to have a proper look at tonight when kids are asleep.
@@jamesb72 The lens I used to test was an EF24-85 usm, but I'm going to test it later with just the speed booster attached and no lens.. to see if the issue is with the booster itself or when certain lenses are attached, as I have no power adapter to monitor the current drawn in standby or power off mode
@@dpenn555 I don't have EF24-85, but will leave the 50mm on till the morning then try a couple of other lenses I have to see if I can reproduce issue on my M5. Its possible its an M50 issue. Sadly I suspect as its happening when the camera is off it probably isn't something they can fix in firmware but something hardware related to the circuit in the speedbooster causing some drain through a diode or similar.
Updated my EF-EF-M Speedbooster last 01/16/2021, today 01/19/2021 I am trying to do the same with my EF-NEX IV but the site looks like it is offline :(
same issue
@@WasiMaster it was fixed after some days... i think maybe I had the file on my PC. I’ll on monday.
@@BemCorrido thanks :)
Im hoping thi is going to work with Chromebook ?! Already hooked up and went to their sight and developed hurt eyes and a headache ?! Squinting from all that damn Chinese Geez ?! 😆 😆 😆 How do you know which FIRMWARE to snatch up ?! Im having some sort of focusing problem i beleive ?! Thanks
If you use google translate its much easier, loko for EF-EOS M2 V1.4 - links may change which is why I try not to use them but just checking today looks like www.viltrox.com/newsinfo/1118526.html - only thing is this is a zip file and not sure how chromebook copes with that - I'd hope OK as its very common, if not you may have to find someone with a windows PC/laptop to unzip the firmware file for you.
Thanks for this video. When I plug my speedbooster in my computer does not read it. Do you have any suggestions on how to resolve this?
I would try another USB cable and a different computer as this just comes up as a removable drive so if cable/computer work with other devices it should work. Its not impossible your M2 is faulty so if a second cable/PC doesn't work I would contact supplier to get this replaced.
did you find an answer? Mine does not show either... :(
I was able to do it with a different computer. Everything dandy now
Does the firmware solve the battery drain problem while the camera is turned off?
I don't really know, I never had battery drain issue with M5 and any of my canon EF lenses, others complained with M50 and said firmware updates didn't fix this, so it seems to be lens/body specific. The issue seems to be lens stabilisation or AF staying on when camera is switched off, so not sure how firmware could affect this, as I would assume if camera is powered off the adapter/firmware is not active anyway, I'm not certain but there also seemed a suggestion that Viltrox made a revision to the adapter hardware which may fix this, but as my adapter was fine i never investigated.
@@jamesb72 Thanks :)
Hi! I tried to update to v1.4. All went smoothly but when I checked the version number on my M50 it still says v1.3. I don't have the parking problem on my 50mm f1/8 STM btw, so not a big deal. But it bothers me anyway ;) - Has someone here the same issue? Cheers!
Have you tried a different lens? I'd be surprised if camera picks up the speedbooster version i suspect its the lens firmware version showing.
@@jamesb72 You are right! I tried the kit lens and it shows a different version. I assumed the adapter overrides it. Some video on here claimed that this is the way to find out the version. So then how do you figure out what firmware is actually installed?
Just got the answer from the other comments.There is none. Thx for the video!
Anybody having trouble with focus to infinity? It does not work for me on my 28-105
@Dr. Pandemonius I did wha is shown in this video and it fixed my focus to infinity problem ruclips.net/video/vu_rVCw5cGU/видео.html
I have plugged into a Mac and PC and it does not show up at all... Am I missing something? Please and thank you!
It should show up just like any other removable drive - if you've tried this on multiple mac/PC I would contact Viltrox as you may have a faulty adapter.
got it!@@jamesb72
@@jamesb72 I have that problem too but when they replace it same problem so I could not update my adapter
@@MichaelFreechild Hi Michael did you contact viltrox about ur problem?
Jose Maria Fernandez no, I just had a bad cable, worked fine after that.
Can I use the ef-s lenses on this booster？
No. its not possible. only ef lens working
You cannot use Canon EF-S lenses, as they stick out at the rear so foul the lens in speedbooster, but I've heard people using other brands, ie some Sigma EF-S lenses will still fit. Obviously for stills you would have crazy vignetting so would have to crop so only real reason to use this is 4K video on M50 where the sensor crop is 1.8?, so by using a 0.71x speedbooster you could reduce effective crop to around 1.25 (1.8x0.71) - , so this isn't really useful for most people.
@@jamesb72 You can use Canon EF-S lenses with this speedbooster. Chop off the rear plastic part with a hacksaw. Unscrew the rear mount off to avoid destroying the rear glass when sawing. I've done it with the EF-S 10-18mm and EF-S 55-250mm - only issue is Viltrox's firmware doesn't really work well with these lenses yet, esp the 10-18mm - they tend to lock up the camera. Hopefully they'll update firmware to address this issue. With older EF-S lenses that have metal mounts like the EF-S 17-55mm you can just use your fingers to pull out the rear plastic part and the Viltrox works perfectly with that lens. Vignetting is bad open gate on the wider lenses, but that's no concern when you shoot crop mode raw video with Magic Lantern on the EOS M, or for those with an M50 - 4k video.
@@WonderBoggle Thanks for comment, I had heard of people cutting the back of EF-S lenses to fit, my guess is that Canon/Viltrox won't update to support those combinations, as its such a niche of a niche of people happy to literally hack a lens to fit. For me I'd never do this, both as I'd hate to hack the lens and it be unsellable, and as vigentting would be crazy for photo/1080 video. I can see this being useful for specific use though, ie the M50 4k users wanting to widen the crop, so a cut off 10-18 with the 4k crop probably wouldn't show any vignetting and would be a very useful combination, and a really cheap way to shoot 4k with DPAF
@@jamesb72 Viltrox should be able to support the newer EF-S lenses on their speedboosters as it's the same electronics as their dumb EF-M adapters which work flawlessly with all EF-S lenses. EF-S lenses cover a slightly wider area than APS-C sensor size, you could get away shooting with a 1.3x or so crop even with the 10-18mm and have no vignetting. M50 4k video is 1.82x crop with speedbooster (2.56x without) so no vignetting there. Also many people now use magic lantern on the original EOS M - those cameras shoot 2.5k 14-bit raw video cropped with SD card overclock hack, or 4k raw video cropped with horizontal-only line skipping. With both these modes EF-S lenses + the speedbooster are a perfect combination. Sawing the lens does take some patience and there's the risk of damaging it, that's true.