Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The orginal statement on M8 having a lens menu like the M9....had it as not possible...... Not possible and too $$$ are totally different things..... One is a management decision not to supprt your customer base, the other is a technical evaluation of feasibility. I do not understand why this kind of FW could not be a chargeable fee.... If they can get $175 for a $16 battery, why not $100-300 for a FW update with some meat in it? Say a few thousand folk did the update at $300 each, that would pay for the SW inveestment... the code is already written ( for the M9), it just need to be put into the M8 space, and then tested. It is not that expensive to do this.... Your fears over FW hacking..... Both the M8 and M9 code is accessible.... and comparisons can be made. BUT, successful hacking is not done by amateurs, but by people that write code for a living. I am not suggesting that some Physicican/Lawyer/Indian Chief decide to hack code on his M8..... Frank >Leica Camera said that it would be too expensive to implement after the fact >and was only possible with the M9 due to writing the new firmware from >scratch. >