BDaichi said:Yah ma. I loaned my dad my good cam and he went out of the country with it lol.
So by firmware you just mean AKAIO 1.5.1 correct?
To me AKAIO = Software or the AK's operating system because it lives on a memory card. Firmware to me always lives on the devices internal memory and controls it's most basic functions.
The firmware update is here from this post
Someone posted a pair of photos of their bad AK2.1 in this thread. That will give you something to compare yours to.
Externally your AK2.1 looks identical to the Forest Green 2.1's which were shipping 2008-2009
So perhaps DX found an old one sitting on a shelf gathering dust or something which may mean you're lucky as it shouldn't have the save issues the recent ones are having.