[Leica] Re:M8 issues

[douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)]

But Felix,
it may be minor but the issue is there, along with others, and it 
shouldn't be! And it's in a camera that costs a small fortune and is 
built by a company that used to be a synonym for quality. 
I personally don't want to play about with fixes, filters, excuses and 
cover ups - I want a camera that works perfectly, particularly when I 
buy it from Leica.
Until Leica produces this digital RF I shall leave well alone.
Regards from Hannover
Douglas

F?lix L?pez de Maturana wrote:

> I usually have the same opinion on Leica snobbery than B.D. but I 
> cannot agree this time about the low capacities of thew Leica M8. It's 
> true that battery is not a champion of endurance because my EOS 1Ds 
> may easily triplicate the life of the M8 battery. It's true also that 
> the Kodak sensor cannot obtain every possibility of the marvelous 
> Leica M lenses but this would have been a miracle for the first true 
> digital camera attempt from Solms. Wait for new firmwares as usual in 
> digital cameras. I've found the M8 as a very, very good digital camera 
> as good as my EOS 1Ds as you can see in this folder not very 
> scientific and some approximative but corresponding to my real way of 
> photographing .
>
> http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=689069
>
> And the more important criticism is about color and I have found that 
> the Jamie Roberts color profiles for Capture One solves most of this 
> true problem
>
> Look at a horrible but significant picture processed with camera row 
> where the magenta rules specially in some books of the bookshelf
>
> http://gallery.photo.net/photo/5518842-md.jpg
>
>
> and look now at the same "horrible picture" processed with capture one 
> with the mentioned color profile of Jamie Roberts
>
>
> http://gallery.photo.net/photo/5518826-md.jpg
>
> The magenta issue is very minor one.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Felix
>
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