[guy_mancuso]

I had a wild thought about why this is taking leica so long to come out with version 1.3. as you all know 1.2 came out and was very buggy from Imacon and it has been months since they fixed it . First question is why so long, second thought is maybe it may not come from Imacon. Hmmmm Long pause of thought here.

Okay this is a wild one but what if . Leica said screw them we will just have our new vendor for the M8 build a new firmware for the DMR. That way we can share the same raw procesing software for both bodies and slightly different firmware for each system to support the M and R within there systems. We all have speculated that Jenoptiks is the company for the M8 and they do have nice software for there MF digital Backs today, so this would give them a chance to increase there software package and support Leica system wide with there firmware. Is this a crazy thought or what. But it actually makes really good sense to do this from leica's point of view. Thoughts


Then to add more fuel to this , someone said on this very board that we will see version 1.3 in October . Now is this not the same exact time the M8 hits the streets. Hmmm, Another very long pause of thought.