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Leica, please optimize M8 jpgs


philipotto

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I plan to purchase an M8 as soon as my I have the funds for it, so here is my wish for final firmware.

I hope that ample tuning time is spent to get the most out of jpgs.

 

I know many of you may gasp, using an m8 to shoot jpgs!, but I prefer the simplicity of JPG, and much prefer shooting pictures to fiddleing over them afterwords, so it is my hope that the M8 will produce jpgs that are good enough that im not forced into shooting RAW.

 

An umcompressed but processed format e.g. TIFF would be welcome as well.

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After I started using RSP for my RAW-snaps, I don`t see much use for in-camera jpgs anymore, the new RAW-converters are so effective and quick to use. From what I`ve tried Aperture and Lightroom seems to be really good products too, when they get finished and can run effectively on a normal computer.

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After I started using RSP for my RAW-snaps, I don`t see much use for in-camera jpgs anymore, the new RAW-converters are so effective and quick to use. From what I`ve tried Aperture and Lightroom seems to be really good products too, when they get finished and can run effectively on a normal computer.

 

I used to feel that JPEGs were a waste of time but when the RD1 software upgrade offered RAW+JPEG, I tried shooting pairs as a lark. I found out that if you fool with the settings you can get some pretty darn good results. At any rate, with the M8, if you want to see what the lens coding is all about, you'll have to shoot some.

 

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I know many of you may gasp, using an m8 to shoot jpgs!, but I prefer the simplicity of JPG, and much prefer shooting pictures to fiddleing over them afterwords, so it is my hope that the M8 will produce jpgs that are good enough that im not forced into shooting RAW.

 

 

There are many among us (like myself) who are not professionally working with the M-series but are eagerly waiting for the M8. C1 seems a bit a too "heavy" application for us and the learning curve is rather steep. So indeed, some basic photoshop (element) JPEG editing would be sufficient

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Every D2 users here would surely knows how great a well refined out-of-the-box, in-camera jpeg could be. D2 jpegs at ISO100 is just gorgeous... At a 3 times price point, I hope M8 can achieve that, at least from 160-320.

 

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