ho_co Posted September 21, 2007 Share #1 Posted September 21, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) New M8 firmware, but not available for download. Just want us to know that 1.108 is shipping only because some electronic parts are no longer available. (Does that make our cameras more valuable? Or less repairable? ) Hey, guys & gals, what other camera company gives this kind of full disclosure? Praise be to Leica! Reference is of course to today's email from m8.support@leica-camera.com. And I love the title: New firmware version 1.108 - Not available for download! These guys have class! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted September 21, 2007 Posted September 21, 2007 Hi ho_co, Take a look here So, out of parts, are we?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
Shootist Posted September 21, 2007 Share #2 Posted September 21, 2007 Well I'm looking at it from a different point of view. I'm not happy with this. See my post "Firmware 1.108 NOT Available". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ho_co Posted September 21, 2007 Author Share #3 Posted September 21, 2007 Back off, Ed! Ever hear of irony? Think, man, think! Enjoy what's given. You'll never make Bodhisattva on that route! --HC Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisC Posted September 21, 2007 Share #4 Posted September 21, 2007 Howard - I'm shocked. Shocked I say; that you could stoop to humour when some of us are franticly searching for a conspiracy. It's outrageous that Leica could inform us that we don't have to do anything when we have nothing better to do, how dare they! ................... Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted September 21, 2007 Share #5 Posted September 21, 2007 Everybody knows this camera is not for taking photographs but for counting resistors.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted September 21, 2007 Share #6 Posted September 21, 2007 One more time It is a nothing update folks . What it is, is cameras leaving the factory will have 1.108 on there camera's some parts are replaced and it is just an update for those parts so it has nothing to do with existing camera's. I actually loaded the beta on both my existing camera's to test and no changes to the camera's . Really i would call it a spec update so please don't read into it as anything else but that. There are no changes to be realized whatsoever on the performance of existing camera's in place today reason it is not a downloadable update. Best advice carry on and not too worry about it. This has nothing to do with a real downloadable firmware update that will make any user changes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan States Posted September 21, 2007 Share #7 Posted September 21, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) God, what a bunch of panics. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tummydoc Posted September 21, 2007 Share #8 Posted September 21, 2007 If, as Guy says and I have no reason to doubt him, version 1.108 works perfectly on exisiting cameras, making it available as a download would've had far less negative repercussion than telling the public more than they needed to know. Surely any one of us could have told that this sequence of events would start the rumour mills churning at top speed. Head-scratching threads pondering the non-existent changes between 1.107 and 1.108 (similar to those between 1.102 and 1.107) would have been preferable to speculation of a secret M8 MK-II. Once again, as with the magenta/IR issue, Leica's technical reputation is undermined by a poorly-thought-out management decision. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill W Posted September 21, 2007 Share #9 Posted September 21, 2007 Will future updates have two versions, those with the different hardware and those with original hardware? It makes no sense then. If your M8 requires warranty work will you be given the new hardware? Whatever that hardware might be. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted September 21, 2007 Share #10 Posted September 21, 2007 No.... There will be one update to the next firmware in November. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastFashnReloaded Posted September 21, 2007 Share #11 Posted September 21, 2007 New M8 firmware, but not available for download. Just want us to know that 1.108 is shipping only because some electronic parts are no longer available. (Does that make our cameras more valuable? Or less repairable? ) Hey, guys & gals, what other camera company gives this kind of full disclosure? Praise be to Leica! Reference is of course to today's email from m8.support@leica-camera.com. And I love the title: These guys have class! Electronic parts are obsoleted very quickly. A new version of a flash memory replaces an old one, they change the processor to have more onboard space etc., and the old part leaves the catalog. It happens all the time, children. This isn't liek the old days where one type of photocell for the meter was what you got, and what you got was what there was for ten years. ...Bunch of panicky yobs... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastFashnReloaded Posted September 21, 2007 Share #12 Posted September 21, 2007 Will future updates have two versions, those with the different hardware and those with original hardware? It makes no sense then. If your M8 requires warranty work will you be given the new hardware? Whatever that hardware might be. "If your M8 requires warranty work will you be given the new hardware?" Quite probably. If the parts you have on hand don't match or can't be placed on the old pc board (assuming you repair PC boards at all now instead of just recycling them) then it's easier to replace the entire sub-assembly or sub-assemblies. Look, what you buy in 2006 might look like what you will buy in 2008, but that doesn't mean the guts are even close to being made by the same company in China or Taiwan. One of our controllers has a display on the front, but that display has been made by three different companies in a year, and the backlights have changed, and the readability is different. The first M8s might be completely different except in function from what you'll buy next year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted September 21, 2007 Share #13 Posted September 21, 2007 I am going to close this thread, because there is a full and frank discussion elsewhere in this section. Thanks http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/leica-m8-forum/34434-firmware-1-108-not-available.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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