[Leica] M8 magenta problems - Leica offer a solution

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 10:33 PM +0000 11/8/06, Steve Unsworth wrote:
>According to a thread posted on the Leica forum...
>
>http://www.leica-camera-user.com/digital-forum/8937-official-leica-statements.html
>
>Leica are offering a solution to the magenta colouring problem with 
>the M8 - in particular on black clothing. Apparently they 
>acknowledge that it's caused by the IR sensitivity of the sensor. 
>Their solution involves using an IR/UV filter on a lens that must 
>have been coded with the relevant 6 bit code.
>
>Not impressed, heads should roll :-(
>
>Steve

Actually, this is one of the reasons I'm very interested in the M8. 
As I wrote a while ago, the high IR sensitivity allows you to use the 
M8 very easily for IR phtography. In fact, as I noted, with an 89b 
filter (or Leica IR filter, which is the same) you can even meter 
normally, and handheld photography with an 87 is possible. Colour 
accuracy at high ISO's suffers on black cloth and things under 
incandescent light, but that's a cheap tradeoff for me.

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