Guest Lotw Posted June 1, 2007 Share #1 Â Posted June 1, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) I would like the software of M8 to define the needed ISO-value when I give in a certain F-stop - shutterspeed combination, with three choices: Auto (which is as low as possible) Confirm Off Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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wparsonsgisnet Posted June 1, 2007 Share #2 Â Posted June 1, 2007 I would like the camera not to store the shutter click when the buffer is full. That is, when the buffer is full, if I click the shutter, then the camera takes a picture when there is room in the buffer. Â In the future -- is not when I generally wish to take the current image. If the buffer is full, the camera should disregard the shutter push. Â I'm not sure if I had this problem before 1.09 or 1.102. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsjxyz Posted June 1, 2007 Share #3 Â Posted June 1, 2007 Choosing lenses via menu. Leica should be more sensible regarding this and the back log of process in Solms. This will make a quick fix for the people who already have the IR/UV filter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjphoto Posted June 1, 2007 Share #4 Â Posted June 1, 2007 4gb Sdhc ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott kirkpatrick Posted June 1, 2007 Share #5  Posted June 1, 2007 Choosing lenses via menu. Leica should be more sensible regarding this and the back log of process in Solms. This will make a quick fix for the people who already have the IR/UV filter.  Please expand. Many of us want to be able to choose lenses by menu. Leica currently has a lens focal length selection menu that  * only applies to the WATE * is a royal pain because it insists on asking you every time there is any uncertainty in LENS ON+UV/IR, and doesn't ask you at all in LENS ON mode when it could be useful to know.  Think about how you would want this to work and describe your vision. At present I think I understand why Leica thinks it is a bad thing on engineering and human factors grounds. Their example is not what we want more of.  scott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott kirkpatrick Posted June 1, 2007 Share #6 Â Posted June 1, 2007 Just to copy a suggestion into this thread where it might be seen, Â Several cameras have the funny property that they need a shutter button press to complete the bringup. If this is not a hardware fix but a weak spot in the firmware, let's get it fixed. Â scott (for others) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andit Posted June 1, 2007 Share #7 Â Posted June 1, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) I wish that they would split up the Delete Single and Delete All options to two different main menu items. Has this happened to anyone else - I was chimping the other day, did not like the shot so I hit delete and set - gone were all images, instead of just the one. Shows you what happens when you pay attention to six things at once. Â But then it was probably just me... Â Andreas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsolomon Posted June 1, 2007 Share #8 Â Posted June 1, 2007 it will be VERY interesting to watch and see if an "ease of use" FW update is made by leica. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wparsonsgisnet Posted June 1, 2007 Share #9 Â Posted June 1, 2007 To follow up on Scott's suggestion, I would like to see a menu option that would allow the user to capture the lens description (or code) not merely the focal length, and the aperture used, at the user's option. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsjxyz Posted June 2, 2007 Share #10 Â Posted June 2, 2007 Just to copy a suggestion into this thread where it might be seen, Â Several cameras have the funny property that they need a shutter button press to complete the bringup. If this is not a hardware fix but a weak spot in the firmware, let's get it fixed. Â scott (for others) If we set autodetection on, everytime the sensor find 000000 (which is in this case all the lights been reflected back), M8 ask which lens that we use. After we choose the lens, the next question comes, IR/UV filter installed (yes/no). Â In the flow chart is only 2 steps. Â Then M8 also put the order of the lens listed, and put the most usage lenses are on the top of the list, so we don't have to scroll down. Â Jerry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikau Posted June 2, 2007 Share #11 Â Posted June 2, 2007 Another vote for telling the camera which lens is being used via a menu - this could be a huge benefit for many of us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_tribble Posted June 2, 2007 Share #12 Â Posted June 2, 2007 Most critical for me - and I've said this elsewhere - is a quiet mode. This could be the default for S (single shot mode) - press to release the shutter ONLY, release to re-cock the shutter - this would transform the M and bring it back into the discrete tradition of the M line (which it's stepped out of in this one area as of now). Â Please Leica, pretty please. Can you hear me? QUIET mode? shhhhhh... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MP3 Posted June 2, 2007 Share #13 Â Posted June 2, 2007 I'm with Chris. Just give us the QUIET mode if there is only one wish. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carstenw Posted June 2, 2007 Share #14 Â Posted June 2, 2007 Honestly, I would rather just have a less buggy firmware than any feature I can think of. My arrow buttons still skip pictures regularly, and I find the overall sluggishness of picture preview to get in my way very often. The whole system seems a little underpowered, and the response to various button presses is never snappy. Less bugs, more snap. Â After that, I would like a quiet mode. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveB Posted June 2, 2007 Share #15 Â Posted June 2, 2007 I would like to be able to store a couple more customized white balance settings. Â I like to quickly access what I've used most recently for IR shots as well as my current custom white balance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpattinson Posted June 2, 2007 Share #16 Â Posted June 2, 2007 If there is a menu function to set the lens, then as stated above - it should prompt each time an uncoded lens is mounted and lens detection is on. This will avoid both accidentally leaving the previous lens assignment, and the user having to initiate lens assignment manually. Â It should further cache the answer and allow selection from a short list of previously mounted set-ups (including filter on/off) - since most of us will be swapping between a relatively small number of lenses with filter permanently on or off (compared to the entire range available). This will make lens selection much faster and less prone to error. Â This short list should be able to be pre-set up if the user so desires, so that the user does not have to mount each lens in advance. Â Items from the short list should be able to be removed by the user. So that unused items do not clog up the short list. Â The short list should be able to be re-ordered to put most commonly used items at the top. To minimise the time it takes to swap between most-used items. Â The ordering of the short list should not change except when manually changed by the user - so that a set number of clicks in the list always brings up the same item. This will allow for use 'without looking'. Â There should be a 'new' option in the shortlist to initiate the addition of a new item - which would bring up the list of possible lenses and ask the filter on/off question. To allow the user to initiate setup of a new lens combo without having to navigate through some seperate menu. Â The new option should always be the last item in the shortlist - hence easy to get to with an 'up' wheel turn or click, but not in the way when scrolling down to select an item. Â If there are currently no items in the shortlist - then the first time an uncoded lens is mounted it should behave as if the 'new' item had been selected and go straight to the selection from full list of lenses. This saves the user having to say the obvious. This is low priority, since the user would only have to click new to initiate this process anyway. Â As a busy user, if I change lenses and I start shooting before selecting which uncoded lens I've just mounted, I would like the camera to default to a user specified set-up so that I know precisely what will be done to images in this case. For example, if I know I always use IR filter, and my only uncoded lens is a 24 2.8 - then in this situation I would want to be able to specify that the default setup for mounting an uncoded lens is 24 2.8 + IR filter. If I have many uncoded lenses, but my favourite is a 35 cron - then I might assign that as the default. Â As a user who has no particular 'default' setup, the default should be able to be specified to be no post processing (as if lens detection had been turned off ). This will 'do least harm' to any images I take without selecting a setup, and will allow me to use post-process software fixes. This should not actually turn off lens detection, and should be the factory default until a specific one is specified by the user. Â As a user who has skipped lens assignment after mounting an uncoded lens (and has use whatever default was specified), I want to be able to manually initiate the lens assignment once I've taken my grab shot, so that I don't have to remount the lens in order to correctly assign it. Â As an aside, I have tried (roughly) to follow a user-story pattern for the last couple if points, which I find a very useful way of stating a requirement. It should follow the pattern "As a <thing which differentiates this type of user> I want to <thing you wish to do/be done> so that <benefit you hope to derive from that event>. The last part is particularly useful because it allows the implementor (in this case engineer I guess) to evaluate how well your proposed change will meet your stated goal - and perhaps offer a better alternative. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toke Posted June 2, 2007 Share #17  Posted June 2, 2007 Hej Carstenw  I have the same trouble whith the arrow buttons and skipping pictures, as carstenw!  Get that fixed, and let users choose what lens is used!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carstenw Posted June 2, 2007 Share #18 Â Posted June 2, 2007 I personally don't care much about the lens-choosing menu. I am happy coding the lenses I have, and faking the rest. My request for Leica vis-a-vis menu selection: make it so that it doesn't get in the way of those who don't want it. I am already a bit unhappy about the 16-18-21 choice for the WATE with IR filter. I want the camera to get out of my way and stay there. I just want to focus, compose, expose as fast and transparently as possible. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevez4 Posted June 2, 2007 Share #19 Â Posted June 2, 2007 Quiet Shutter and White Balance Fix.....Those should be the basic fixes for the next release. Will Leica include them? Probably not because neither is not high on the list of concerns of those who have Leica's attention. Â Stevez4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carstenw Posted June 2, 2007 Share #20 Â Posted June 2, 2007 Steve, how do you know what is high on Leica's list or who has their attention? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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