Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Luggers, I have been following the discussion about M8/9 shutter lag with interest. My M8 seems plenty fast to me - much like my M4 - the last film M that I possess. BUT, an area where the digital M's seem slow is in image processing. Henning alluded to this in his post. If you take three or four pictures in quick succession - (like in a panorama - or tracking motor bikes - see my Bali pictures) the processor in my M8 grinds away for several seconds processing the shots - before you can take any more. This doesn't really cramp my shooting style because I don't usually shoot machine gun style with the M8 - but it is annoying when compared with the Nikon D700 where the processor is big enough to continuously shoot about 40 frames and I have never been able to choke the camera. When I borrowed the M9 for a day in Seattle at the LHSA meeting I found its processing to be even slower than the processing on my M8 - and it annoyed me. Why would Leica use the same processor in a camera with 80% more pixels? Cheers Howard (who likes his M8 despite its foibles and LOVES his D700)