Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have never hit the buffer in all my years of using M8's and M9's. I wonder why? We must have a totally different shooting style. I know I've read lots of complaints about how slow the digital M's are but I guess I'm used to film M's when you have to cock the shutter between shots! I do bracketed shots and panoramas but have never had a problem. Tina On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Henning Wulff <henningw at archiphoto.com>wrote: > I hit the buffer on the M9 with compressed files fairly regularly just > shooting on the street or people in single shot mode. > > Henning > > > On 2012-08-30, at 4:34 PM, John McMaster wrote: > > > Not checked, file size is ~35.6MB and I have not hit the buffer yet ;-) > Usually only hit it on M9 when taking panoramas > > > > john > > ________________________________________ > > > > > > Thanks, John. As I suspected, unfortunately. I don't know if you've > checked, but are the write times for uncompressed files the same with the > MM as the M9? > > > > Henning > > > > > > On 2012-08-30, at 4:30 PM, John McMaster wrote: > > > >> The Monochrom has no option to compress images, seemed odd to me as I > would have thought it would be easier in monochrome than colour... > >> > >> john > >> ________________________________________ > >> > >> on behalf of Henning Wulff [henningw at archiphoto.com] > >> > >> > >> I don't know if the production firmware allows for compressed DNG's, > but uncompressed DNG's on the M9 are largely a waste of time and space as I > have never been able to discern a difference in final output between > uncompressed and compressed. > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > Henning Wulff > henningw at archiphoto.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com