 Hey guys welcome back to my YouTube channel this is Daniel Rosal here I want to do a very very quick video hopefully on the Canon XA40 which is a professional camcorder and what I want to do in this video is quickly show how to check what firmware the camera is running just one of the rights of passage I go through whenever I pick up a new electronic of any sort is to check the firmware generally firmware updates are free and firmware updates sometimes bring new functionalities to a type product and sometimes they also patch security vulnerabilities and stuff like that so it's really in your interest to check the firmware because stock can sit in a warehouse for a couple of years as a consumer of retail or consumer technology we often don't know exactly what the supply chain is what where the product actually came from so sometimes you will pick up a hardware that's a couple of years old and you know in the intervening period new firmware has come up that hasn't been written onto the product because it was post after it left the manufacturer so that's why I recommend always checking even if you've no reason to suspect it's old firmware so on the XA40 here's what you're going to do I get to the open up the LCD now I configured menu as a one of my two shortcut buttons on the home screen otherwise just click on the menu button now I'm going to just move this slightly closer to my other camcorder what you want to do is as follows you want to go down and then go across in the tabs sorry go to the first layer of the tabs then you want to go across to the settings cogwheel then you want to descend into the second layer and over on level four we have firmware written here just under certification information so you can see I'm running at one decimal zero decimal one decimal zero which is actually I checked on their website the latest firmware there was a previous version of firmware for this camcorder called one zero zero zero so if you saw that then you can just follow the instructions on the Canon website in order to get yourself running on the latest firmware so that's all there is to say that's how you do it and if you do want to check into the menu you will find it there thank you guys for watching