Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bob, A familiar sight, I have shopped at Cooters quite a bit when I lived in the Dallas area. I have used their demo M8 a couple of times, and it clinched the deal for me. I was down there 2 weeks ago, and as you said they are very helpful. I received my M8 from Park Square yesterday, they had an extra and I grabbed it. What you are showing seems to be the Auto WB problem mentioned here and other forums. It is circumvented by using manual WB, or using the custom WB function. It has been said that firmware 1.10 will fix this. My M8 so far has not shown this Auto WB problem. Gene -------------- Original message from "Robert D. Baron" <rbaron@concentric.net>: -------------- > I was in Dallas Texas last week and stopped by Cooters Village Camera, > the Leica dealer in Highland Park Village Center. Very knowledgeable > and nice folks. > > They kindly allowed me to try their demo M8 with a couple of my lenses > (Noctilux and 28mm Summicron ASPH) and sold me an SD card of my own I > could then bring home and look more closely at the test shots I took. > > I have been highly impressed with the shots and comments posted here > recently by the members of the Non-Whining M8 Photographers Association > (you know who you are). > > I did have the usual quibbles of my own (the shutter tripping and > re-cocking noise will take getting used to; too much digital image noise > compared to Canon at higher ISO; is it *really* worth $5,000US?) but > overall I can see how it would be great to use in many situations > instead of my current Canon digital behemoths. > > One question I have is about the color it produced on my test; I may be > having brain fade and not remembering something I should know, but > please take a look at these 4 test shots from ISO 160 to 2500 (you can > see the ISO of each when you click through from the thumbnails to the > full size images) and tell me why there is such a color shift as the ISO > increases: http://www.bobbaron.com/M8TestFeb07/index.htm > > (The lighting - a mix of fluorescent and daylight from the front windows > - stayed the same, and the exposure was set on auto; the only change was > the ISO I believe.) > > Thanks, > > --Bob Baron / Oklahoma City > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information