Leica, please add option in menu to turn 'Protect' into 'ISO' button.

[Guest Ming Rider]

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Dear Leica,

 

We, the Forum Members below, would like to have an option in the Menu to change the 'Protect' button into an 'ISO' button.

 

We don't mind if this delays the Firmware Update.

[stunsworth]

Sorry if I'm being thick, but it you double click the 'set' button doesn't it take you into the ISO selection screen? Is that really very different to what you're asking for?

[jaapv]

On the M8 I suppose? Fat chance - the M8 is a done deal as far as Leica is concened. Lens updates? Yes. Bug repair? Yes. New features? No.

[Guest Ming Rider]

Sorry if I'm being thick, but it you double click the 'set' button doesn't it take you into the ISO selection screen? Is that really very different to what you're asking for?

 

It was just a thought as this subject has been bought up many times in the past. Seems the Protect button is rarely used, so changing it to something useful would surely be a good thing and not too difficult a job?

 

Or as someone suggested on `another` forum, the button could function as Protect during review mode and ISO in shooting mode?

 

As Leica will shortly be releasing a new Firmware, this could (I believe) be easily integrated and now would be a good time?

[bill]

...this could (I believe) be easily integrated...

 

...have you relevant expertise in this area...?

 

Regards,

 

Bill

[Guest Ming Rider]

...have you relevant expertise in this area...?

 

Regards,

 

Bill

 

No.

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Assigning a different function to a key on the case would be straightforward. Making this a user selectable option would be a bit more involved but still a simple matter. It all depends, of course, on whether there is still sufficient memory left to accommodate both the extra software and the function selected by the user. There would also be the small matter of the key's label being inaccurate.

[andybarton]

This is also being discussed on the firmware thread and has been demonstrated as not being possible.

[Guest Linsengericht]

This is also being discussed on the firmware thread and has been demonstrated as not being possible.

 

Wrong.

 

As mjh has described in that thread, the idea of "hard wired buttons" is incorrect. Unless there is a stupid design flaw, all buttons are wired to the processor and functions are assigned by software.

[jaapv]

Even if they were hardwired, what is wrong with a soldering iron?:D

[ho_co]

... As mjh has described in that thread, the idea of "hard wired buttons" is incorrect.... [A]ll buttons are wired to the processor and functions are assigned by software.

 

But as Michael and others also mentioned there:

• it's unclear that there's enough room in ROM for the needed code;
  
• if it were easily possible, Leica would likely have implemented the change;
  
• having a permanently mislabeled button on the body is distinctly un-Leica-like.
  

 

IOW, you and I don't know if it can be done in the M8; and whether or not it can be, Leica has moved on to other products and isn't likely to be adding functions to the M8.

 

They've already given the camera a fair amount of functionality it didn't have at introduction, such as SDHC compatibility and discrete cocking, so I think we're ahead of the game.

[Guest Linsengericht]

if it were easily possible, Leica would likely have implemented the change

 

As we can see from the X1 firmware update, there are many obvious improvements which took Leica a while to think about

 

Regarding the firmware memory size (flash memory; ROM can not be updated): true, maybe it has not much memory left. Maybe it does not even have room for new lens data of future lenses. We don't know.

 

 

They've already given the camera a fair amount of functionality it didn't have at introduction, such as SDHC compatibility and discrete cocking, so I think we're ahead of the game.

Very true. Don't get me wrong, I am just thinking loud and don't complain.

[ho_co]

... Regarding the firmware memory size (flash memory; ROM can not be updated): true, maybe it has not much memory left. Maybe it does not even have room for new lens data of future lenses. We don't know...

Thanks for the correction; I knew 'ROM' didn't sound right. Sigh...

 

Remember, in Michael Reichmann's M9 intro video, Stefan Daniel specifically states that the M8 won't get manually selected lens choice because it hasn't enough memory. I think we're close to the boundaries there.

 

But you're right, we don't know; and it never hurts to hope. Sure better than going around shaking our lenses looking for rattles.

[mjh]

I knew 'ROM' didn't sound right.

‘ROM’ is its last name, ‘EEP’ the first: ‘EEPROM’ or ‘Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory’. One could argue that memory that can be erased and re-programmed isn’t strictly read-only, but that’s what it’s called.