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The little things we lose with the M10


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.......... BTW @jmahto...your photography is excellent, the landscapes are just stunning. Are these all from the M240?

 

Thanks. No, it is a mix of M240, M9, Canon 40D and ...wait for it... Nex-6 and iPhone. :)

 

I will say that my best landscapes are from M9 mainly because I traveled more with it. For me camera is just a tool. Lenses I get attached to, not cameras. The lens in my avatar is a Konica 135mm hexanon 3.2  :)

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I switched from the M9 and I can't believe there is no Aperture info. I mean I can usually remember or tell more or less what setting I used, but I find this to be a very bizarre omission. 

 

 

please post this comment in the FW thread I linked above.

Im sure you are aware that the aperture info is just an estimate though right?

M lenses can not transmit this info to the body, so the camera has no idea which f-stop was selected. In the past Leica has used a sensor on the front of the camera to estimate the f-stop, its never been accurate and sometimes is completely off. This is the reason they omitted it on the M10...if you search you will find many people complaining that the data was not accurate and they didn't understand that the lens doesn't have a way to send the actual info.

 

Leica will never win, if they supply the estimated data people will complain...if they don't people will complain.

Personally I found the estimate useful...hopefully if enough people request it it will come back in the next FW.

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please post this comment in the FW thread I linked above.

Im sure you are aware that the aperture info is just an estimate though right?

M lenses can not transmit this info to the body, so the camera has no idea which f-stop was selected. In the past Leica has used a sensor on the front of the camera to estimate the f-stop, its never been accurate and sometimes is completely off. This is the reason they omitted it on the M10...if you search you will find many people complaining that the data was not accurate and they didn't understand that the lens doesn't have a way to send the actual info.

 

Leica will never win, if they supply the estimated data people will complain...if they don't people will complain.

Personally I found the estimate useful...hopefully if enough people request it it will come back in the next FW.

 

 

Done, posted on FW request link. I understand it's an estimate but my experience with the M9 has been that it was very accurate. 

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One reason I am interested in the M10 for sure is its simplicity. The added ISO wheel and the reduction of the buttons on the camera back to 3 (not counting the dpad on the right..) is something I dearly love. This means, that day to day operations are extremely simple and efficient. I applause Leica for their great camera user interfaces - even the M9 was in many details ahead of some "computer" cameras. However, this does not rule out that an advanced user should be able to do in-depth configuration of the camera. And with the M10 this does not even require more menus, there is an app which can connect to the camera. So some settings, like configuring what exactly the info screen in image review shows, could be done with the app - the camera could just choose between the default and the custom setting. The complexity would be left out of the camera, while allowing every user to have it behave more to its needs. Yes, the M10 is a camera, but as any modern device it is also a computer. There should be just a plain and an info screen image review. But there is no reason the user shouldn't be able to use the app to determine where and how large the histogram is, whether and where to display ISO, date, time, aperture, lens information etc. 

 

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I wonder what is the rationale for omitting date time info in playback mode.

If I had to guess: They talked to their customers, and most people said "I don't care". Many said "I care, but I have a calendar".

 

It's a weird decision, but easy to fix in an update.

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Putting the date and time in the playback menu uses more energy and is not good for the planet so it was omitted. It's a green thing.

 

As long as the date and time is embedded in the image I don't care if it shows in the playback image on the camera.

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Putting the date and time in the playback menu uses more energy and is not good for the planet so it was omitted. It's a green thing.

 

As long as the date and time is embedded in the image I don't care if it shows in the playback image on the camera.

 

 

If I had to guess: They talked to their customers, and most people said "I don't care". Many said "I care, but I have a calendar".

 

It's a weird decision, but easy to fix in an update.

 

 

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Putting the date and time in the playback menu uses more energy and is not good for the planet so it was omitted. It's a green thing.

 

As long as the date and time is embedded in the image I don't care if it shows in the playback image on the camera.

 

 

You wrote "so it was omitted" and Lss wrote "but easy fix in an update"

It is not omitted as pointed out in the post I referenced, so nothing to fix.

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Hi there

I've checked this one out carefully, and I understand that the hardware required for the level gauge isn't there - so there won't be a firmware fix to fix it.

If you look at the interview David Farkas did with Jesko and Stefan you can see that it was a real issue getting it all squeezed in, and I guess this one had to go.

 

So, No - no firmware fix for this one . . . Keep on asking for the Aperture in the exif though (I know I am!)

 

all the best

 

Hello -

 

A couple of weeks ago, I also sent out an e-mail to a very well known person responsible for the "M" development regarding the "virtual horizon".

I got more or less the same answer as Dempski.

The answer was "… The initial idea was to make the M10 as pure and simple as possible. We are now collecting customer feedback and depending on this, the virtual horizon may be implemented via firmware update"

 

Makes already two people from Leica® who wrote that it should be possible to reintroduce the virtual horizon via a firmware.

 

And also if I remember well, it was the same case with the M240 at the beginning  ->    NO virtual horizon, and a couple of firmwares later it made its appearance.

 

 

 

 

- Dimitri

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