[Leica] Was shutter lag - now processing time

[hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)]

Howard the M9 uses two of the M8 processors but they are dealing with much
more data as you noted. Stefan Daniel said that he is not yet happy with the
processing time and has told his engineers to try to reduce this time.
He also said that the decision to use the same processor rather than a
derivative of the new Maestro was in order to reduce risk and the time frame
in design development (which happened concurrently with the S2) The same
development partners were used, being Jenoptik in this instance.

Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman


On 30 January 2010 09:36, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:

> Hi Luggers,
> I have been following the discussion about M8/9 shutter lag with interest.
> My M8 seems plenty fast to me - much like my M4 - the last film M that I
> possess.
> BUT, an area where the digital M's seem slow is in image processing.
> Henning alluded to this in his post.
> If you take three or four pictures in quick succession - (like in a
> panorama - or tracking motor
> bikes - see my Bali pictures) the processor in my M8 grinds away for
> several seconds processing
> the shots - before you can take any more. This doesn't really cramp my
> shooting style because I don't
> usually shoot machine gun style with the M8 - but it is annoying when
> compared with the Nikon D700
> where the processor is big enough to continuously shoot about 40 frames and
> I have never
> been able to choke the camera. When I borrowed the M9 for a day in Seattle
> at the LHSA meeting
> I found its processing to be even slower than the processing on my M8 - and
> it annoyed me.
> Why would Leica use the same processor in a camera with 80% more pixels?
> Cheers
> Howard
> (who likes his M8 despite its foibles and LOVES his D700)
>
>
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