My Impression on M8

[rfleica]

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really useful info. thanks.

 

for my part, i care most about what things look like after raw development/tweaking...both in detail and noise terms. if c1 (or any other raw developer) can yield relatively low noise/hi quality/detail results...great. all of my own raw work is "developed" in the software (with simple, presaved profiles).

 

once upon a time i had images on my contax n digital which were horribly noisy above 160iso. now, thanks to decent raw developers i can get far better results at all iso settings (what a misjudged camera, let down by unfinished firmware, take note:) )...the fact that i need to invoke the services of a raw developer are irrelevant to me. that's the beauty of having (just) enough time to use a raw software programme, rather than the "jpeg to print asap" school.

[gurtch]

One point I need to supplement. The above ISO findings are based on the followings:

 

For JPEG: High ISO noise are reduced by in-camera firmware.

 

For DNG: ISO noise from 640 onwards as described above are based on DNG converted files. While all settings of C1 are set as standard, C1's M8 default profile are set to exercise different degrees of luminance and chromatic noise reduction automatically. So, the accurate interpretation should be, the description I stated above regarding high ISO performance is AFTER C1's standard M8 profile noise reduction. C1 definitely did a great successful job here. Original INTACT DNG, in this regards, will show a relatively higher level of noise.

 

Cheers

Matthew

Matthew: Did any of the lenses you used have the 6 bit coding? If not, it appears the vignetting was not a major problem, even without the coding, which I think is supposed to "fix" vignetting, CA. etc.

Thanks

Dave

[rsh]

Thanks for the info. For the most part, my lens lineup should work well with the M8.

[MP3]

Matthew: Did any of the lenses you used have the 6 bit coding? If not, it appears the vignetting was not a major problem, even without the coding, which I think is supposed to "fix" vignetting, CA. etc.

Thanks

Dave

 

Hi David

 

All lens I used are uncoded. I'm also interested to see what effects the coded lens bring.

 

Cheers

Matthew

[marknorton]

All lens I used are uncoded. I'm also interested to see what effects the coded lens bring.

 

Sean, I assume you are watching this thread but are refraining from commenting as we'd expect (and respect you for not doing so). However, are you going to be in a position to comment on what the effect (if any) lens coding brings to the image quality? Will you have access to coded lenses?

[sean_reid]

Sean, I assume you are watching this thread but are refraining from commenting as we'd expect (and respect you for not doing so). However, are you going to be in a position to comment on what the effect (if any) lens coding brings to the image quality? Will you have access to coded lenses?

 

Hi Mark,

 

Once that production camera arrives for evaluation, I'm free to discuss any aspect of the camera. I haven't gotten confirmation yet from Leica as to which lenses are coming when but I hope to see a 28/2.8 in the set early on and that can be tested with the coding feature on and off.

 

Cheers,

 

Sean