LeicaPassion Posted April 3, 2013 Share #1 Posted April 3, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) LFI reports that Leica is working on a firmware fix for the camera freezing up in the discreet mode. No time framework was provided. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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marknorton Posted April 4, 2013 Share #2 Posted April 4, 2013 You really wonder how difficult it can be, keeping in mind this used not to happen in earlier versions of the M9 firmware. Suggests Jenoptik's efforts may not be the best, I think Leica did the right thing to bring firmware development in-house. Also suggests the M9 firmware is a can of worms. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest borge Posted April 4, 2013 Share #3 Posted April 4, 2013 I heard the same... About 6-7 months ago. Leica was apparently working on it then as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ecar Posted April 4, 2013 Share #4 Posted April 4, 2013 Suggests Jenoptik's efforts may not be the best, I think Leica did the right thing to bring firmware development in-house. Also suggests the M9 firmware is a can of worms. Well, I hope so. But let's see how long it takes to get a meaningful update (say, only 1/3 of the improvement suggestions mentioned in the "improvement thread" you started a couple of weeks ago) of the M240 firmware. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
theno23 Posted April 5, 2013 Share #5 Posted April 5, 2013 From personal experience, outsourcing software development is not something you do out of choice twice, but sometimes you have no option. - Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonoslack Posted April 5, 2013 Share #6 Posted April 5, 2013 You really wonder how difficult it can be, keeping in mind this used not to happen in earlier versions of the M9 firmware. Suggests Jenoptik's efforts may not be the best, I think Leica did the right thing to bring firmware development in-house. Also suggests the M9 firmware is a can of worms. HI Mark I might be completely wrong, but I think that it's to do with power consumption - which is also an issue with the SD card problem. I think that fixing the SD card issue has resulted in this problem with discreet mode. So it isn't really that simple. On the other hand - I quite agree that it's better to have brought the firmware development in house. all the best Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott kirkpatrick Posted April 5, 2013 Share #7 Posted April 5, 2013 (edited) Advertisement (gone after registration) You really wonder how difficult it can be, keeping in mind this used not to happen in earlier versions of the M9 firmware. Suggests Jenoptik's efforts may not be the best, I think Leica did the right thing to bring firmware development in-house. Also suggests the M9 firmware is a can of worms. M9 feezeups (more often when in discreet mode than when not) are something that certainly DID and DO happen in M9 firmware. This left us with the choice of continuing with reverting to 1.176 but continuing to use discreet mode or advancing to 1.196 with discrete mode turned off. Worms? Yes, but I hope someday they will finish the M9 firmware, maybe with the in house team*. (Like we used to say about Bruckner Boulevard in NYC.) scott *of course, if the in house team is a team of Maestro specialists, perhaps M9 firmware is perhaps best left alone. But who is supporting the M-E and MM? Edited April 5, 2013 by scott kirkpatrick 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wattsy Posted April 5, 2013 Share #8 Posted April 5, 2013 But who is doing the M-E and MM? Nobody (it seems). The Monochrom has been on the same 'beta' firmware since it first showed up last May. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott kirkpatrick Posted April 5, 2013 Share #9 Posted April 5, 2013 HI MarkI might be completely wrong, but I think that it's to do with power consumption - which is also an issue with the SD card problem. I think that fixing the SD card issue has resulted in this problem with discreet mode. Fixing one problem while causing another has always reminded me of the Robert Sheckley story about the smags, firgels and queels. It came up back in the M8 discussions. scott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjh Posted April 5, 2013 Share #10 Posted April 5, 2013 But who is supporting the M-E and MM? Still Jenoptik. And as far as I know, these developers are the only ones who know their way around the M9/MM/M-E firmware. Leica’s own firmware development team wouldn’t be much help. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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