Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/23

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Subject: [Leica] Some time with an M8
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)
Date: Fri Feb 23 12:35:34 2007

Frank,

Don't know, the camera is so intuitive to operate, not sure if any of us has 
actually read the manual completely through.  ;-)  Besides, button pushing 
is part of the fun!  ;-)

Gene


-------------- Original message from "Frank Filippone" 
<red735i@earthlink.net>: -------------- 


> I always am amazed at the willingness ( necessity?) for digital folk ( 
> applies 
> to computers too) to fool around with the buttons to 
> get some result. Isn't this stuff in the manual? ( Last comment does not 
> apply 
> to computers because the computer nor the SW comes 
> with manuals these days...) 
> 
> BTW, do you carry the manual around with you, get or make up a set of 
> Cliff 
> Notes on the M8, or do you actually remember all this 
> esoteric stuff? 
> 
> Frank Filippone 
> red735i@earthlink.net 
> 
> Wow, hadn't even thought of this, but by playing around you can get 
> it to do this. 
> 
> First, go to the "shooting menu" and set compression to one of the 
> JPEG modes (press SET -> Compression -> DNG+JPG fine). Next go to the 
> "camera menu" and set Color Saturation to B+W (press MENU -> Color 
> Saturation -> B+W). Finally go back to the "shooting menu" and set 
> compression back to DNG. You can leave the JPG setting as well, but 
> you'll get fewer exposures on a card. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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