M8 User Profiles

[steve_l]

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The M8 has 3 user-selectable profiles and one factory profile.

 

the manual says that it save "all settings" in these.

 

Anyone have any idea exactly *which* settings are actually saved?

Or what the "factory" profile is composed of?

[Guest guy_mancuso]

Steve most likely all procesing parameters for processing in camera jpegs are set to normal or standard. Sharpening /standard , contrast/standard. etc. etc. Than you have 2 settings you can customize , maybe one with more or less sharpening or along those lines

[jrgeoffrion]

The M8 has 3 user-selectable profiles and one factory profile.

 

the manual says that it save "all settings" in these.

 

Anyone have any idea exactly *which* settings are actually saved?

Or what the "factory" profile is composed of?

 

The DMR has this feature.

 

Basically, it remembers ISO, LCD settings, WB, color space, etc. I use it on the DMR to have a LOW, MED, and HIGH ISO presets with the associated parameters. For example, y 800ISO settings includes the tungsten WB.

[robbegibson]

The user profiles on the DMR made it quick and easy for me to switch back and forth between black and white and color of several flavors.

 

Robbe Gibson

[adan]

These are about like the "Film" settings on the Epson R-D1. They will save a lot of time for jpeg shooters.

 

You (or someone) may want to use:

 

1) high saturation, low contrast, high sharpening, Adobe RGB color space, and auto white-balance for low ISO color pictures,

 

2) high contrast and low saturation and sharpening (to cut noise) and a manual white-balance (or preset Kelvin) value for high ISO color pictures, and

 

3) high sharpening, medium contrast, sRGB and ISO 640 for B&W pictures.

 

By presetting all these factors as your 3 profiles, you only have to select profile 1,2, or 3 to change ALL those settings at once, rather than poking through 5 or 6 menus every time you switch from one "film" to another.

 

Not unlike the modes or "styles" in Canon or Nikon SLRs - except that YOU get to pick which sharpening and which color and which ISO go together, rather than the N and C engineers.

 

I guess you can even toss resolution and RAW, JPEG, or BOTH into the mix as well.

[steve_l]

Thanks, but I do already understand the concept of user profiles (I lived in the Canon 1-series world for a while) -

 

I just am unclear (because the manual doesn't say) *which* parameters get saved. Or what the factory defaults are. And is it every parameter in the entire menu system, or a selected subset?

 

e.g., does lens correction on/off get saved? etc.

 

and we shouldn't make assumptions about parameter values for JPEG (e.g., sharpening) until we see the effect of no AA filter, etc. And Sean found that saturation default was high (looked too high, for me)

 

This will probably get covered in a Phil Askey review - he tends to be good on that sort of detail.

[adan]

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Ah!

 

Since the manual says: "ANY combination of ALL main and picture parameters..." I would take Leica at their word. The camera saves everything that can be set on a menu (either via the SET or MENU buttons) as the value for that menu item under that user profile. That would include not only lens detection, but even language preference.