[newyorkone]

Thanks Carsten...

The R-D1 reflection issue is real and someone had posted example photos a while ago either here or on RFF. Could easily be seen for points of light at certain angles.

I think the most severe magenta examples that we saw were bad samples coupled with bad firmware and bad color profiling in Capture 1. That's why it wasn't a red flag during testing. The problem was there but much more subtle. I seriously doubt that Leica would have shipped the camera if they had seen purple/fuchsia faces and severe magenta cast across the entire frame like we have seen from the worst examples. It defies logic and it wasn't some kind of conspiracy. That's nonsense.

The few photos that I have seen from the new batch of M8's look a lot better straight out of the camera without IR filters and with some color profile tweaking should get things very close to where we need to be for general shooting and people can use IR filters for more critical work.