Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yikes! 8 bit! I may have to rethink my upcoming purchase. Do the histograms fall apart when you stress them? I am NOT paying an M8 price for that kind of rubbish. My 2 year old Sony toy does better than that. I might as well just keep it if that's the case. But I have my heart set on the M8. Please tell me it isn't so! Thanks, Dom On 06-Dec-7, at 2:47 PM, Tina Manley wrote: At 10:28 AM 12/7/2006, you wrote: > So if my vote counts, testing should be done with the > manufacturers' freebie SW, not > altered in any way, and compressed using the standard freebie MS > Jpeg compression program. Period. > > Frank Filippone, hasn't seen a clear choice ...... > red735i@earthlink.net Except I'm getting much better results converting M8 files with SilkyPix than with Capture One :-) The only problem is that SP doesn't support the 8 bit DNG files of the M8 so you have to convert them to Adobe's DNG files first and then convert them in SP. What fun! Tina Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA http://www.tinamanley.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information