Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Helen has been a keeper for a long time and should stay that way god willing for a lot longer ;-) I am still waiting for the DMR to come home from the fatherland, hopefully with new firmware, a clean sensor and fixed SD card door. I think I should have plunged in on the DMR a bit early in retrospect, but better late than never ;-) I did not want to make the same mistake with the M8 and leave my lenses gathering dust: that cursed dust it drives me around the proverbial twist ;-) Cheers On 19/11/2006, at 2:21, David Young wrote: > Alistair Firkin wrote: >> I have had the M8 for 19 hours (including one sleep, while the >> battery recharged) and I can report that at this stage -- >> >> When I turned 40, Helen surprised me with an M6, a decade later, I've >> just bought my first pair of reading glasses and Helen has bought me >> an M8. > > > You are a lucky man, my friend. Helen sounds like a "keeper" to me! > > Glad you're enjoying your M8! I think most who try one will love it! > > <<huge snip>> > >> The colour problem needs to be solved: > > The colour is pretty good, and I am sure Leica will work on that. > Still, the colour was pretty good in the two tester's I've used > (firmware v0.23 and v1.04). > > Colour and AWB have been issues with the DMR since it came out, but > each new release of the firmware has improved things greatly. And > V1.3 (due out, with luck, prior to Christmas) will, I am told, > improve things considerably, once more! I'm sure the same sequence > will go forward with the M8. > > BTW: Nice gallery of shots. Many will find them most helpful in > their decision making, I'm sure! > > Cheers! > --- > > David Young, > Logan Lake, CANADA > > Wildlife Photographs: http://www.telyt.com/ > Personal Web-pages: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information