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Subject: [Leica] Has anyone tried the new M9 firmware yet?
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:44:16 -0700
References: <20100315202222.GT16654@jbm.org> <36172e5a1003151415s637c82adxe19eb1367dda208@mail.gmail.com> <36172e5a1003151440ob6ed1bcu9774a889cbc4b44@mail.gmail.com> <20100315224331.GZ16654@jbm.org> <eb6799211003151609j25d6c66cg4aa2a500b3038b57@mail.gmail.com> <36172e5a1003151636l6c33ee76n7ecb3b85f00d39bc@mail.gmail.com>

Sorry, I misunderstood the under exposure warning giant red arrow.

The smooth zooming is great. All this means is that the dual CPU does have
enough power to handle the data processing needs, just that the prior
firmware wasn't optimized.

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> Richard the Overwrite option was always there. Some people have guessed
> that
> it is like a secure delete function, I don't know, I've never needed it.
> I'm not seeing this giant red arrow you are describing for exp comp. Maybe
> you got the custom red calligraphy version???
> How good are the previews on the LCD now?? Excellent and with smooth
> zooming. That was one of the things that really made the camera feel
> sluggish for some folks.
>
> Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>
>
> On 16 March 2010 09:09, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> wrote:
>
> > Clearly what happened was that the old firmware did a full format rather
> > than a quick format to just overwrite the FAT entries. The old slow way
> is
> > now called "Overwrite."
> >
> > I like the new GIANT red arrow that says exposure compensation is on.
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Jeff Moore <jbm at jbm.org> wrote:
> >
> > > 2010-03-15-17:40:03 Geoff Hopkinson:
> > > > Well it doesn't brick your camera if you follow the instructions
> [...]
> > >
> > > Okay, thanks for the description and shot of courage.  Mine done, too.
> > >
> > > Yes, the card format is dramatically speedier.  I'll figure the rest
> > > out in the fullness of time.
> > >
> > >  -J
> > >
> > >
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