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pascal_meheut · 11/15/06, 09:04 PM

There was a Leica Event in Paris today to show the M8 to professionnal photographers. I've been able to get some informations. To be confirmed of course:

- the banding problem is almost fixed but it will require returning the body to Solms
- the IR filter will be the solution and they even had a B+W 486 on a 28mm to demonstrate it. But the final filters will be labelled "Leica" and may or may not be B+W.
- the reason the filter cannot be in front of the sensor is that an interferential filter cannot be coated to avoid reflection. If not, the sensor reflects too much light creating flare. If the filter is not interferential, it consumes light and has a bad impact on optical quality. I'm just repeating what I understood so don't shoot if I got something wrong
- filters will be available end of November or beginning of December. A commercial gesture is sill being considered

And of course, they are working on the R10 but no details.

11/15/06, 09:04 PM	#1 (permalink)
pascal_meheut Erfahrener Benutzer Join Date: 09/26/02 Posts: 963	Some news about the M8 There was a Leica Event in Paris today to show the M8 to professionnal photographers. I've been able to get some informations. To be confirmed of course: - the banding problem is almost fixed but it will require returning the body to Solms - the IR filter will be the solution and they even had a B+W 486 on a 28mm to demonstrate it. But the final filters will be labelled "Leica" and may or may not be B+W. - the reason the filter cannot be in front of the sensor is that an interferential filter cannot be coated to avoid reflection. If not, the sensor reflects too much light creating flare. If the filter is not interferential, it consumes light and has a bad impact on optical quality. I'm just repeating what I understood so don't shoot if I got something wrong - filters will be available end of November or beginning of December. A commercial gesture is sill being considered And of course, they are working on the R10 but no details.