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luigi bertolotti · 06/05/08, 11:25 PM

Well, compliments for your new M8, first of all ! And welcome here, too.
Your questions require ather questions to you... first of all, which lens did you use ? and was it coded ? (the code is a 6 black and white "dot string" engraved into the lens flange). If it isn't, no reason to set lens detection ON, and if you set it ON with uncoded lenses, maybe can happen that it has some instabilty, even if i cannot remember to have read something about. Btw, the lens aperture is not, definitely, available in the EXIF data, for the simple reason that the camera hasn't a sure system to "know" the aperture itself , there is no coupling of the diaph ring to any device that can record it (to be precise, camera software does compute an "estimated aperture" and records it somewhere, but the value isn't precise, and Leica decided apparently not to make it available in the exif editable data).
Focusing: sorry but I cannot make any constructive consideration... I'm not familiar with flickr images... don't know how to enlarge them to give a look at focus... my only observation is that the arm of the chair looks jagged... is the pic the original jpg from M8 or a jpg converted from RAW in some editing tool like PS or similar ?
IR issue: no doubt that it's probably the M8 point that is most striking at first : before acquiring my M8, I red about it, saw some example... my inner thought was "oh, well, sometimes, maybe...", then when in one of my first pics taken with M8, no filter, I shoot my daughter in a blue gown... ouch ! a n awful violet ! Ok, IT'S really a problem: so, to make it simple, the rule is "mount always the UVIR filter, period".
White balance: has been a problem for many, and for me too, but general consensus is that with the last firmware release it has been rather well tuned : personally, I prefer not to use AWB in standard daylight or incandescent lamps in interiors, but observed anyway that some vary situations I got with AWB prior to the last firmware update have disappeared... but my problem is that I haven't direct comparision with other digital cameras... M8 is my only digital... you have a 5D... I do not find it strange that you have the feeling of a different, and possibly less stable AWB behavior.
Go on, take other pics, and, if you like, post some issue directly as attached images in your post (it's easy to learn how to make it)... and, of course, when you'll get some NICE pic, post them in the photo section !!!

06/05/08, 11:25 PM	#8 (permalink)
luigi bertolotti Erfahrener Benutzer Join Date: 01/24/07 Location: Brescia Posts: 2,968	Re: Advice for an M8 rangefinder newbie Well, compliments for your new M8, first of all ! And welcome here, too. Your questions require ather questions to you... first of all, which lens did you use ? and was it coded ? (the code is a 6 black and white "dot string" engraved into the lens flange). If it isn't, no reason to set lens detection ON, and if you set it ON with uncoded lenses, maybe can happen that it has some instabilty, even if i cannot remember to have read something about. Btw, the lens aperture is not, definitely, available in the EXIF data, for the simple reason that the camera hasn't a sure system to "know" the aperture itself , there is no coupling of the diaph ring to any device that can record it (to be precise, camera software does compute an "estimated aperture" and records it somewhere, but the value isn't precise, and Leica decided apparently not to make it available in the exif editable data). Focusing: sorry but I cannot make any constructive consideration... I'm not familiar with flickr images... don't know how to enlarge them to give a look at focus... my only observation is that the arm of the chair looks jagged... is the pic the original jpg from M8 or a jpg converted from RAW in some editing tool like PS or similar ? IR issue: no doubt that it's probably the M8 point that is most striking at first : before acquiring my M8, I red about it, saw some example... my inner thought was "oh, well, sometimes, maybe...", then when in one of my first pics taken with M8, no filter, I shoot my daughter in a blue gown... ouch ! a n awful violet ! Ok, IT'S really a problem: so, to make it simple, the rule is "mount always the UVIR filter, period". White balance: has been a problem for many, and for me too, but general consensus is that with the last firmware release it has been rather well tuned : personally, I prefer not to use AWB in standard daylight or incandescent lamps in interiors, but observed anyway that some vary situations I got with AWB prior to the last firmware update have disappeared... but my problem is that I haven't direct comparision with other digital cameras... M8 is my only digital... you have a 5D... I do not find it strange that you have the feeling of a different, and possibly less stable AWB behavior. Go on, take other pics, and, if you like, post some issue directly as attached images in your post (it's easy to learn how to make it)... and, of course, when you'll get some NICE pic, post them in the photo section !!!