Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/20

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Subject: [Leica] A tad noncommittal X1 review
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:51:24 -0500

> Is that compression lossy?
> 
> 
> On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:45:16 -0500
> Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> 
>>> But it will not be used to take pictures unless the issues
>>> identified in the review are addressed...slow AF couple with
>>> impossible MF--would you put up with it just because there is a red
>>> dot? I would not, certainly not at the price being asked.
>>> 
>>> Nathan
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Yes like the irreconcilable buffer problems with the M9 we read about
>> two weeks ago.
>> Read the last review on that from from two days ago.
>> Just set it at compressed and it works perfectly not with the added
>> jpeg.
>> 
>> Leica is not going to come out with a camera which doesn't work.
>> They've not gotten all of a sudden real stupid.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> 
>> 

Compressed raw files have no loss of info in the image.
They just take longer to open on my computer.

Mark William Rabiner





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