M11-P and PhotoMechanic issues

[douglas fry]

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Anyone else noticed this?

If I plug in my SD card from the SL2-S - the card is detected by PhotoMechanic and I can download files at a vast rate of knots, flying down in fact...

If I do the same with M11-P cards its as slow as molasses, really slow, like one image every second or two, which is unworkable really. Yes the files are bigger but not by much (36Mp) , its definitely linked to the Leica Content Credentials, if I switch that off, the speed is fast again. 

Has anyone else experienced this? The M11-P seems more responsive too with LCC off. Annoying then that I cannot use LCC as I am downloading images to show a client during a break and waiting 20+ minutes for a few files to download, does not look good.

I have used Photomechanic for years and never experienced this before

Edited November 21, 2023 by douglas fry

[Photoworks]

I think only Adobe was part of the LLC for now, but it would be good to email PhotoMechanic to look into that.

There should be a function of ignoring that part of encrypted metadata.

[84bravo]

I find ingests with PM6 with my M11 are quite slow. Not as bad as you are experiencing, but at least three times as slow as my Express cards from my Canon R5. I didn't make the connection that it might have been PhotoMechanic involved with the speed. I assumed it was my SD cards.

I do have a problem with PM in that it doesn't eject my disks after injest (I use a Mac). Only happens with my Leica cards and so far I've used every standard model from M8 to M11. I addressed it with PhotoMechanic and they were initially eager to help but soon lost interest when they coudn't figure it out.

Please share if you get any help from PM. It's a vital part of my daily workflow.

[scott kirkpatrick]

I haven't noticed any problem downloading M11-P files from SD cards into my laptop (Mac M2), on which I then run Capture One to process them.  I did discover that running Fotos on my Android phone with CC turned on frequently failed, so I have stuck to using an iOS tablet when I needed remote control, and that has been trouble free so far.  CC is the only way offered in which I can put my name in the copyright entry of each shot.

Edited November 22, 2023 by scott kirkpatrick

[Photoworks]

You can use Lightroom and photoshop for does files

no other programs are supported at this point

[jaapv]

Now that Sony has proudly announced that they will be the first to introduce image authentication in 2024.(!) I suspect that more image management programs will follow suit. And I suspect that there will be a legal patent battle. 

[marchyman]

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On 11/21/2023 at 6:48 PM, scott kirkpatrick said:

CC is the only way offered in which I can put my name in the copyright entry of each shot.

M11 allows you to assign a copyright as the image is taken.  Main menu page 5.  Enter the "Camera Information" sub-menu.  From there enter the Copyright Information sub-menu.  You can turn copyright on/off, enter the Copyright string, and enter the Artist name.  If you want your name in the copyright string instead of or in addition to the separate Artist name metadata you will need to use an external program as Leica limits the length of the copyright string.

The external program does not need to be lightroom.  Any program that lets you modify image metadata by key should work.

[scott kirkpatrick]

CC only is offered on the M11-P, which I have.  And it has to be on to put a copyright into an image.  The problem doesn't exist on an M11.

[Chuck Albertson]

On 11/23/2023 at 9:46 AM, jaapv said:

Now that Sony has proudly announced that they will be the first to introduce image authentication in 2024.(!) I suspect that more image management programs will follow suit. And I suspect that there will be a legal patent battle. 

Sony just completed a round of tests of its image authentication hardware with the Associated Press, in conjunction with Camera Bits (probably a good idea, since a lot of AP's breaking news photos are never touched by an Adobe product, but go through captioning, etc., in Photo Mechanic).

https://www.dpreview.com/news/9855773515/sony-associated-press-test-in-camera-authenticity-technology