[Leica] A bad couple of hours

[hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)]

Yep understood on the last setting being retained in SET menu until next
time you turn camera off.  Then it resets to top selection (White Balance).
I was explaining to John how to find it to look at since he'd never seen it
either. I've never used user profiles so I guess that's why I've never seen
this.

If you get these accidental presses, one workaround might be to scroll off
Set user profile after you use your custom profile?  You could park the
default on the Resolution place if wanted (non-functional when DNG
selected). Also if you are using A exposure mode you will get only the
manual dot/arrows display in finder instead of approx shutter speed.
I have once had unintentional selection of JPG instead of DNG courtesy of
phantom  button presses (inside a half case) myself.

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



On 14 April 2012 15:08, Phil Forrest <photo.forrest at earthlink.net> wrote:

> My M9 stays on the last selection tab used in the SET menu. What I
> usually use it for is to select different profiles I have for different
> lenses I own. If the selection tab in SET is still at the profile
> setting, all it takes is two clicks of the SET button and snapshot mode
> is active. Total pain. I wish there were a main menu selection in which
> snapshot mode could be truly disabled.
>
> Phil Forrest
>
>
>
> On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:56:53 +1000
> Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I had to look it up! On an M9 it is no longer an option (S for
> > Snapshot) on the shutter speed dial of course.
> > Three button presses and two scrolls to get there
> > >SET -scroll to Set user profile>SET- scroll to Snapshot profile>SET
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Geoff
> > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> >
> >
> >
> > On 14 April 2012 14:07, John McMaster <john at chiaroscuro.co.nz> wrote:
> >
> > > I thought that the "snapshot mode" was dropped with the M9?
> > >
> > > john
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > >
> > > I just had the s---t scared out of me. I took the SD card out of my
> > > M9 and processed a few shots in LR4. I put the card back in the
> > > camera and reformatted it. I then noticed that the main menu cycled
> > > through only about eight alternatives and the ISO button on the
> > > left was inoperative.
> > >
> > > I was just about to think about re-installing the firmware into my
> > > "busted" camera when I noticed that the camera had somehow (mea
> > > culpa) gotten into "snapshot mode".
> > >
> > > Now why in hell would anyone who spent $7000 on a camera want to
> > > put it into
> > > an idiot point-and-shoot mode? I can just barely accept the fact
> > > that there is an option for the camera to output .jpg although I
> > > can't image using it myself. But snapshot mode !#$&^%$#!#$^%#$!!!!!
> > >
> > >
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