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adan · 11/17/06, 10:24 AM

Well stated.

Believe me that I empathize with the wedding shooters or the artwork photographers (or anyone else) for whom the M8's color idiosyncracies are crazy-making (or deal-breaking). For whatever reason, I just haven't run into too many purple blacks in my shots with demo cameras (and they are almost always Leica rep's black shirts, believe it or not (!!??))

Leica had to push the limits to get a sensor "package" that behaved well with RF lenses. Perhaps they went further than they needed to, and can 'back off' a bit without compromising sharpness and other optical effects into the image corners. But if they can't, it is easier for me to fix the occasional purple-black than to restore lost sharpness and clarity in the corners of ALL my pictures.

For other photographers, that equation comes out differently - and there it is.

My e-mail to my Leica rep today was along the lines of: "If Leica recalls the cameras already in transit for a fix in Solms - please have N.Y. pull one off the eastbound pallet and ship it west to me!"

11/17/06, 10:24 AM	#2 (permalink)
adan Erfahrener Benutzer Join Date: 03/04/04 Location: Denver Posts: 1,141	Re: M8: "I think it's gonna be all right" Well stated. Believe me that I empathize with the wedding shooters or the artwork photographers (or anyone else) for whom the M8's color idiosyncracies are crazy-making (or deal-breaking). For whatever reason, I just haven't run into too many purple blacks in my shots with demo cameras (and they are almost always Leica rep's black shirts, believe it or not (!!??)) Leica had to push the limits to get a sensor "package" that behaved well with RF lenses. Perhaps they went further than they needed to, and can 'back off' a bit without compromising sharpness and other optical effects into the image corners. But if they can't, it is easier for me to fix the occasional purple-black than to restore lost sharpness and clarity in the corners of ALL my pictures. For other photographers, that equation comes out differently - and there it is. My e-mail to my Leica rep today was along the lines of: "If Leica recalls the cameras already in transit for a fix in Solms - please have N.Y. pull one off the eastbound pallet and ship it west to me!"