Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/18

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Subject: [Leica] 24 hours with my M8: long
From: firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Sat Nov 18 15:01:52 2006
References: <24a.db98482.328fab69@aol.com> <p0623090ac1840aefc2af@[10.1.16.129]> <15C76E5A-78FD-42DE-B111-FDE0C88F5151@ncable.net.au> <7.0.1.0.0.20061118071314.019fe980@telus.net>

Helen has been a keeper for a long time and should stay that way god  
willing for a lot longer ;-) I am still waiting for the DMR to come  
home from the fatherland, hopefully with new firmware, a clean sensor  
and fixed SD card door. I think I should have plunged in on the DMR   
a bit early in retrospect, but better late than never ;-) I did not  
want to make the same mistake with the M8 and leave my lenses  
gathering dust: that cursed dust it drives me around the proverbial  
twist ;-)

Cheers
On 19/11/2006, at 2:21, David Young wrote:

> Alistair Firkin wrote:
>> I have had the M8 for 19 hours (including one sleep, while the
>> battery recharged) and I can report that at this stage --
>>
>> When I turned 40, Helen surprised me with an M6, a decade later, I've
>> just bought my first pair of reading glasses and Helen has bought me
>> an M8.
>
>
> You are a lucky man, my friend.  Helen sounds like a "keeper" to me!
>
> Glad you're enjoying your M8!  I think most who try one will love it!
>
> <<huge snip>>
>
>> The colour problem needs to be solved:
>
> The colour is pretty good, and I am sure Leica will work on that.  
> Still, the colour was pretty good in the two tester's I've used  
> (firmware v0.23 and v1.04).
>
> Colour and AWB have been issues with the DMR since it came out, but  
> each new release of the firmware has improved things greatly.  And  
> V1.3 (due out, with luck, prior to Christmas)  will, I am told,  
> improve things considerably, once more!  I'm sure the same sequence  
> will go forward with the M8.
>
> BTW: Nice gallery of shots.  Many will find them most helpful in  
> their decision making, I'm sure!
>
> Cheers!
> ---
>
> David Young,
> Logan Lake, CANADA
>
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