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Subject: [Leica] Has anyone tried the new M9 firmware yet?
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:10:27 +1000
References: <20100315202222.GT16654@jbm.org> <36172e5a1003151440ob6ed1bcu9774a889cbc4b44@mail.gmail.com> <20100315224331.GZ16654@jbm.org> <eb6799211003151609j25d6c66cg4aa2a500b3038b57@mail.gmail.com> <36172e5a1003151636l6c33ee76n7ecb3b85f00d39bc@mail.gmail.com> <eb6799211003151644k23993581t89ee38979165f20a@mail.gmail.com> <008c01cac499$efcb9f20$cf62dd60$@net> <eb6799211003151653t694666d6i9738419f437f85ad@mail.gmail.com> <36172e5a1003151702r56d83911y6a29edfb015bb05d@mail.gmail.com> <464D68E3-854F-4A58-B63E-02F4C82C97B5@gmail.com>

I just like to learn about Leica stuff!! This is just from Michael
Reichmann's interview with Stefan Daniel. I think they talk about it in the
M9 FAQS on the German website anyway.

Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman


On 16 March 2010 10:59, Leo Wesson <leowesson at gmail.com> wrote:

> How do you know all this?!?
>
> Leo Wesson
> photographer?videographer
> leo at leowesson.com
> 817?733?9157
>
> On Mar 15, 2010, at 7:02 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
> Yes, the electronics still came from Jenoptik who wrote the new firmware
>> again.
>> They used two DSPs instead of one. Keep in mind that there is a lot more
>> data to handle and also the M9 was a lower risk project done while the S2
>> was occupying their resources.
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Geoff
>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>>
>>
>> On 16 March 2010 09:53, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> wrote:
>>
>> If I remember correctly, it uses two of the same CPU as in the M8.
>>>
>>> One question at launch was how it doesn't use the Maestro CPU as in the
>>> S2
>>> and the answer was that using the same M8 CPU would simplify writing of
>>> the
>>> firmware.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i at 
>>> earthlink.net
>>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>> I do not own an M9... I have an M8... so please excuse the basic
>>>> question....
>>>>
>>>> Does the M9 have a dual processor?  Is this different to the M8 guts?
>>>> Is the processor different from the M8 processor?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks....
>>>>
>>>> Frank Filippone
>>>> red735i at earthlink.net
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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