isaac Posted April 2, 2007 Share #101 Posted April 2, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Hello! I have the 90mm APO Summicron for both the DMR and the M8. What would you have to use for a test target? I have an IT8 target. Will that do? Thank you for the offer. NO! An IT8 targert is far away from have such a high contrast to see differences between. Please try to make picture like this (deep shadows and high lights): Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/20011-m8-feature-options/?do=findComment&comment=218207'>More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted April 2, 2007 Posted April 2, 2007 Hi isaac, Take a look here M8 Feature Options. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
Guest guy_mancuso Posted April 2, 2007 Share #102 Posted April 2, 2007 Guy, As someone who spent two full days and swelled the profits of my local art supplies shop buying about 15 various ink/paint markers, totally without success in manual lens coding (the only indication I ever got was a 90mm), I would be very keen on item I. The rest of your laundry list is absolutely great and may I join the rest of the forum in thanking you for giving up so much of your valuable time helping us. I assume that 1.10 will cure the green JPEG's with filter fitted and improve the auto WB, which even without filter on my 21mm, looks on the greenish side to me after 1.092. Sure I can batch them on PSE4 for auto colour correction but on PSE4 sadly you can't batch for colour cast removal, so the 300+ images I took in Barcelona will all need individual attention before I decide if they are keepers or not. I know I should have used DNG but knowing how busy I was going to be over the next two weeks, I was lazy and went the JPEG route - that will teach me. Wilson What we need is a third party to code Zeiss and CV lenses . But they should put the menu option in , I am not against it at all. I just don't need it given my lenses. But the majority rules also and it should be there as a option in the firmware. It's really not that hard given what I already know. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted April 2, 2007 Share #103 Posted April 2, 2007 Any precision machine shop can do the indentations for coding a Zeiss or CV lens. The only thing one needs to do oneself is buy two little cans of Humbrol paint, a small paintbrush and look up Carstens table. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hankg Posted April 2, 2007 Share #104 Posted April 2, 2007 It's not a difficult job for a machine shop. I would prefer one that works on photographic equipment. However if one where to start advertising the service that might invite a letter from Leica's legal dept. Leica will likely tolerate users tinkering on their own with the aid of a machinist but they might not be so magnanimus to someone setting up shop offering to circumvent their patent. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chanyr Posted July 6, 2007 Share #105 Posted July 6, 2007 I hope Leica will keep the M8 simple and fun to use. Adding too many features will change the camera into a sophisticated digital camera like those 1Ds where you can't remember how to change some feature hidden under some menu setting. It would be better if everything is kept plain and simple as well, so you don't have to fuss over and remember what the camera is trying to do. Having said that, I would like to request an 8-bit Tiff feature in addition to Jpeg and DNG. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted July 6, 2007 Share #106 Posted July 6, 2007 They will not riddle this camera with to many features , i can tell you there not into a lot of bells and whistles and neither are we for the most part. they could have a second screen though for the stuff that is very secondary, although I don't want to give them any idea's either. I like it pretty simple myself. For example how often do you change the LCD brightness, Firmware, date and time, language, etc etc. So obscure stuff like this could make room for more important lines in the primary menu and stick the secondary stuff in a second menu. i would like to actually see less primary line items and also move up format in the line items. Actually maybe rearrange this a little Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
psquared Posted July 6, 2007 Share #107 Posted July 6, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) i would like to actually see less primary line items and also move up format in the line items. Actually maybe rearrange this a little I think they can rearrange things, too. But Format works where it is now, because the menu wraps around. Press the menu button, couple of up arrows (or couple of clicks on the dial counterclockwise) and you're there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMB Posted July 6, 2007 Share #108 Posted July 6, 2007 Guy, Thanks for yet another great initiative. My two main wishes would be 1. Lens selection for all lenses. I do not understand why one would wish to limit this to the focal length of up to 35 mm. Leica's arguments in this respect are plain nonsense. 2. Improved ISO and EV compensation settings AND some warning/indication in the view finder. Any other camera I know indicates what ISO setting you have and when you have selected an EV compensation (my M7 and my Xpan do so, albeit in different manners). With the M8 you get no warning that you selected an EV compensation, and if you forget to set it back, you may end up snapping away with the camera next time with an EV compensation you don't want and unless you check your histograms imidiately, you end up with poorly exposed shots (you can probably guess from this decription that this happened to me recently ) Georg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marknorton Posted July 6, 2007 Share #109 Posted July 6, 2007 With the M8 you get no warning that you selected an EV compensation Yes you do, a flashing dot in the viewfinder - only applies of course when you are in AE mode. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MP3 Posted July 6, 2007 Share #110 Posted July 6, 2007 Dear Guy How about silent shutter or 2 stage shutter release-cocking mode? Shall we add that in the option list to Solms. Cheers Matthew Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMB Posted July 6, 2007 Share #111 Posted July 6, 2007 Guy, I don't know if somebody has said. Why no to make appear the speed in the viewfinder always, but mainly when the camera is used in manual mode? I suppose it is imposible changing only the firmware, but could be an option sending the camera to the factory to customize ($$$$$!!!!!!). I don't remember who, in the Forum, mentioned he likes always to know when he's selecting a speed that is near the his limit of shaking. Thank you Guy for your cooperation with all the members. Francisco. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marknorton Posted July 6, 2007 Share #112 Posted July 6, 2007 I like Guy's idea of grouping together the rarely used menu items in a sub menu and I'd also like to see the greyed menu items (sharpening, colour) removed from the menu when you select DNG only, all to emphasize the fundamental simplicity of M photography. Francisco, I'm sure it would be possible to display the selected shutter speed in manual mode, but the "needle match" indicators used to set the exposure in manual mode are interspersed with the digits and I think the end result would be messy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonoslack Posted July 6, 2007 Share #113 Posted July 6, 2007 Francisco, I'm sure it would be possible to display the selected shutter speed in manual mode, but the "needle match" indicators used to set the exposure in manual mode are interspersed with the digits and I think the end result would be messy. Hi Mark I hope you're well. I think it would be great to have the option to have the shutter speed - I do quite a bit of aperture/shutter speed changes without taking the eye from the camera, and there's always the possibility of forgetting exactly where you are! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_tribble Posted July 6, 2007 Share #114 Posted July 6, 2007 Jono - couldn't agree more. After some very intensive work switching from A to manual, the two things I don't like about the M8 is that there isn't a hard stop on the selecter dial or, in lieu of this, the numbers in the viewfinder. Best for me would be if you simply clicked back to A and that was the end of the road. You could then rotate back click by click through B and up - on the M6/7 I never needed to look at the dial because I'd count the clicks and know where I was (certainly OK up to 1/60th). If you had the number there it would be a real bonus. Best Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMB Posted July 6, 2007 Share #115 Posted July 6, 2007 Francisco, I'm sure it would be possible to display the selected shutter speed in manual mode, but the "needle match" indicators used to set the exposure in manual mode are interspersed with the digits and I think the end result would be messy. Mark, I know how we say en Spanish - I'm a zero in the left - but could I suggest to take the place of the red dot to put the figures, if, as with the red dot, the figures keep lighten alone the exposure is OK. The figures could keep lighten even in auto mode, without the red arrows. May be it would be necessary to enlarge a little the "red" screen. I beg you pardon to dare. Francisco. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMB Posted July 6, 2007 Share #116 Posted July 6, 2007 Something like that > 1000 < (manual mode) > 1000 1000 1000 < 1000 (auto mode) Francisco. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMB Posted July 6, 2007 Share #117 Posted July 6, 2007 Excuse me >1000 1000 1000< (3 manual positions) 1000 (1 only auto position) Francisco. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marknorton Posted July 6, 2007 Share #118 Posted July 6, 2007 Important to realise that the viewfinder display is not an LCD screen with bit addressible pixels where you can display what you like. It's actually an array of LEDs (33 by my count) arranged under a mask which project light into the viewfinder. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! So, assuming no hardware change (and I think this display is identical to that used in the M7), if the display was going to be used to display the shutter speed in manual mode, the exposure indicators (>: o <) would appear in between the digits, something like this: 2 >: 5 o 0 < Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! So, assuming no hardware change (and I think this display is identical to that used in the M7), if the display was going to be used to display the shutter speed in manual mode, the exposure indicators (>: o <) would appear in between the digits, something like this: 2 >: 5 o 0 < ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/20011-m8-feature-options/?do=findComment&comment=299463'>More sharing options...
okram Posted July 6, 2007 Share #119 Posted July 6, 2007 Guy, I think the shorter wakeup time is more important than most things here discussed. The charger is too big???? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMB Posted July 6, 2007 Share #120 Posted July 6, 2007 O.K. Nothing to do without changing the harware. Sorry for your time Mark. Francisco. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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