Nikon Firmware Update and Tokina lens: Recently, Nikon released firmware upgrade LD 2.017. I have a D500 and a Tokina 11-16 F2.8 DXII. I heard from another UHH that his Sigma lens was...

clemente21

Recently, Nikon released firmware upgrade LD 2.017. I have a D500 and a Tokina 11-16 F2.8 DXII. I heard from another UHH that his Sigma lens was no longer doing autofocus. All my other lenses are Nikon's and would like to apply the upgrade, but I would not want my wide angle to stop working. Has anyone applying this upgrade has this Tokina lens? If so, have you noticed any adverse reaction afterwards? -Thanks.

Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.

Have you checked with Nikon and/or Tokina?

clemente21

Yes, I did. I posed the question to Tokina and they have not come back yet. I wanted to learn about someone else's experiences as well. I won't bother with Nikon, as they have repeatedly stated they will not guarantee anything about non-nikon products.

ddetloff Loc: Fair Haven, MI

clemente21 wrote:

Recently, Nikon released firmware upgrade LD 2.017. I have a D500 and a Tokina 11-16 F2.8 DXII. I heard from another UHH that his Sigma lens was no longer doing autofocus. All my other lenses are Nikon's and would like to apply the upgrade, but I would not want my wide angle to stop working. Has anyone applying this upgrade has this Tokina lens? If so, have you noticed any adverse reaction afterwards? -Thanks.

My Df has 2.017 and the Sigma 70-200 f2.8 autofocus works fine.

Bill Munny Loc: Aurora, Colorado

I updated my D750 coupled with an older model Sigma 15-35mm 2.8, it works fine.

jzehaz Loc: Pleasantville, NY

My Sigma 17-50 would not autofocus on my D7100 after I installed the latest Nikon firmware. I called and then sent the lens to Sigma where they installed a free lens firmware update. The lens now works properly. So it cost me about $9.00 shipping and 4 days without the lens.

sliberia Loc: Curacao W I

It is recommended to perform the firmware update without any lens attached.

jzehaz Loc: Pleasantville, NY

sliberia wrote:

It is recommended to perform the firmware update without any lens attached.

I don’t recall seeing “remove the lens before installing firmware” in the instructions Nikon provides. I will check again. After the update all my Nikon lenses worked properly, only the Sigma would not autofocus.

ddetloff Loc: Fair Haven, MI

jzehaz wrote:

I donât recall seeing âremove the lens before installing firmwareâ in the instructions Nikon provides. I will check again. After the update all my Nikon lenses worked properly, only the Sigma would not autofocus.

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tenor57

My Tamron 70-200 f2.8 g2 works fine after update.
Why not try to remove lens and reinstall firmware, maybe that will solve problem.

nimbushopper Loc: Tampa, FL

I suggest you research whether the update is something you actually need!

jzehaz Loc: Pleasantville, NY

You are correct in citing the removal of the lens for the distortion control update. My Sigma stopped autofocusing properly after the c 1.04 firmware update. I did try loading the firmware 2x with no change in results. As I mentioned my Nikon lenses were fine. So I called Sigma, got on line immediately with a nice tech guy who said, based on serial number and age (2013 manufacture) it needed a lens firmware update. That was it!

jzehaz Loc: Pleasantville, NY

nimbushopper wrote:

I suggest you research whether the update is something you actually need!

I really only wanted the distortion control update - Nikon instructions said to update camera firmware first.

Brucej67 Loc: Cary, NC

I performed the upgrade on my D500 and my Sigma lenses 150-600mm Sport, 18-35mm, 150mm and 180mm all focused as fast as before the update and were spot on focus.

clemente21 wrote:

Recently, Nikon released firmware upgrade LD 2.017. I have a D500 and a Tokina 11-16 F2.8 DXII. I heard from another UHH that his Sigma lens was no longer doing autofocus. All my other lenses are Nikon's and would like to apply the upgrade, but I would not want my wide angle to stop working. Has anyone applying this upgrade has this Tokina lens? If so, have you noticed any adverse reaction afterwards? -Thanks.

Brucej67 Loc: Cary, NC

I have to add I have a friend with a D500 that can't get any lens to focus without fine tuning the focus, so every camera of the same type can be diffrent.