Now it is 2007, any news about DMR firmware?

[itn]

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The shops, once asked, they still accept the order.

I managed to arrange one DMR for my RLFC friend. However, that was a last one in the shop. Although, I do not confirm with Leica Japan whether they still have a stock, there may be a few shops still have the DMR stock.

 

I am quite concerned about the circumstance surrounding the R-System in terms of its viability as well as its future !

[marknorton]

I don't think the R9 / DMR will ever be good at AWB. How could a film body have a dedicated WB sensor like other dSLRs?

 

The R10, on the other, will have no excuse for very bad AWB, unless it too is based on a film body!

 

I agree, they didn't bother to put a WB sensor in the M8, so obviously they have not learned anything from the DMRs WB problems.

[itn]

Mark,

 

I really think, that the development of M8 system has been done with DMR simultaneously. Then, the DMR came first which also has a role to test the market. Therefore, M8's AWB is basically the same level of DMR's one.

I stick to set the WB at 5200K.

[ptomsu]

The shops, once asked, they still accept the order.

I managed to arrange one DMR for my RLFC friend. However, that was a last one in the shop. Although, I do not confirm with Leica Japan whether they still have a stock, there may be a few shops still have the DMR stock.

 

I am quite concerned about the circumstance surrounding the R-System in terms of its viability as well as its future !

 

And I think your concerns are fully justified!

 

Peter

[bono0272]

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I stick to set the WB at 5200K.

 

But that will lose the flexibility that a digital machine should be.

[itn]

No, no no...

 

Set at 5200K and take a picture always with RAW.

Then process with C1 Pro or whatever, you may change the color temperature as you like.

[marknorton]

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Sorry, I have better things to do than process each and every shot to correct WB. My D2x sets the benchmark for me for AWB excellence and the M8 falls a long way short. In practice, I use a Gossen colour temperature meter to make the measurement the camera should doing itself.

 

The DMR and M8 were not developed in parallel - not only that, the firmware for both was done by different companies but I would have expected the bad AWB news from DMR land to at least leak across the corridor to M8 land, or is there such a gulf between them?

 

All these forelock-tugging "professionals" who were meant to be testing did not have the courage to tell Leica that "White Balance Sucks" and were taken in by Leica's new adopted mantra, "We'll fix it in firmware". That will be their corporate epitaph.

[sdai]

So what have you done to your M8, Mark? ... sold it?