{"id":35884,"date":"2022-05-16T16:20:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T20:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35884"},"modified":"2022-06-16T14:57:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T18:57:07","slug":"studio-display-firmware-15-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/16\/studio-display-firmware-15-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio Display Firmware 15.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/05\/16\/studio-display-firmware-15-5\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/05\/16\/studio-display-firmware-15-5\/\"><p>According to Apple&rsquo;s release notes, the firmware refines camera tuning, offering improved noise reduction, contrast, and framing. We tested out the firmware update when it was in beta, and there is a clear difference in camera quality, mostly as it pertains to the way the framing works.<\/p><p>In addition to better framing, colors are not quite as pale, the contrast has been improved, and the overall look is more vibrant. Skin tones are also better than before, and there is less de-noising for more clarity, but ultimately Studio Display owners should not expect dramatic changes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The first few comments talk about how the camera on the 24-inch iMac&mdash;a whole computer that&rsquo;s thinner and costs less than the Studio Display&mdash;is better.<\/p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t understand why the update requires macOS 12.4.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/16\/macos-12-4\/\">macOS 12.4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/04\/studio-display-15-5-firmware-beta-2\/\">Studio Display 15.5 Firmware Beta 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/26\/studio-display-15-5-firmware-beta\/\">Studio Display 15.5 Firmware Beta<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/11\/studio-display-software-update-failures\/\">Studio Display Software Update Failures<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/08\/upgrading-to-a-14-inch-macbook-pro-with-a-studio-display\/\">Upgrading to a 14-inch MacBook Pro With a Studio Display<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/08\/studio-display\/\">Studio Display<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/20\/imac-24-inch-2021\/\">iMac 24-inch 2021<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"studio-display-firmware-15-5-update-2022-05-17\">Update (2022-05-17): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattjfullertech\/status\/1526274399762014208\">Matt J Fuller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattjfullertech\/status\/1526274399762014208\">\n<p>I ran the macOS update + #AppleStudioDisplay Firmware Update 15.5 today (took 45 min). My office has no windows so lighting did not change. I used PhotoBooth w\/full-screen Screen Shots to compare. I see improvements. Before: image is more washed out. After: blacks are improved.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ccgus\/status\/1526281887626317824\">Gus Mueller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ccgus\/status\/1526281887626317824\">\n<p>Studio Display got into a loop of &ldquo;updating please don&rsquo;t unplug&rdquo; and a warning symbol with the URL &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/display\/restore\">http:\/\/support.apple.com\/display\/restore<\/a>&rdquo;. It cycled between the two about 6-8 times before I just powered off the Mac and disconnected the display.<\/p>\n<p>I rebooted the Mac with another display connected, waited a little bit, and reconnected the Studio Display. It tried the update again and it went through successfully this time.<\/p>\n<p>Not being able to trust future display firmware updates, or my display in general, is a bummer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"studio-display-firmware-15-5-update-2022-06-16\">Update (2022-06-16): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ditheringfm\/status\/1536694958949732352\">Dithering<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover: According to Apple&rsquo;s release notes, the firmware refines camera tuning, offering improved noise reduction, contrast, and framing. We tested out the firmware update when it was in beta, and there is a clear difference in camera quality, mostly as it pertains to the way the framing works.In addition to better framing, colors are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-05-16T20:20:51Z","apple_news_api_id":"53339456-9354-4995-a6cf-7bb7ec566a11","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-06-16T18:57:10Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AUzOUVpNUSZWmz3u37FZqEQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[152,30,2077,2182],"class_list":["post-35884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-camera","tag-mac","tag-macos-12","tag-studio-display"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35884"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36237,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35884\/revisions\/36237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}