Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Clyde, This is what I needed to hear! Perfect. Tina's comment sent me scurrying and I found a couple of loooong threads on the Leica User Forum and much discussion amongst and between the far more technically literate than I. Someone it seems had probed an M8 DNG's EXIF and found fields stating that the file was 8 bit and uncompressed. There was much discussion about firmware, cancelled orders, file size, lossy and lossless compression algorithms including the specs Adobe's own DNG standard, and so on and so forth. Some sensible sorts said who cares? Look at the quality, and of course they have a point but it's equally true that I cannot tell an 8 from a 16 bit image just by looking. All I knew was that I didn't want the histogram opening like a vertical blind in winter when I messed with it and I couldn't find any comments on that at all. Delighted to hear it's come through an adequate torture test or 2 with flying colours. Dom On 06-Dec-8, at 10:44 AM, Clyde Rogers wrote: Don't worry. Whatever bit the data is, I (and many others) have wrenched the daylights out of some of these files just to force the histograms go bad, and they certainly hang together as well as any others. They are very resilient raw files. Clyde Rogers On Dec 8, 2006, at 7:16 AM, m4y@mac.com wrote: > Yikes! 8 bit! I may have to rethink my upcoming purchase. > > Do the histograms fall apart when you stress them? I am NOT paying > an M8 price for that kind of rubbish. My 2 year old Sony toy does > better than that. I might as well just keep it if that's the case. > > But I have my heart set on the M8. Please tell me it isn't so! > > Thanks, > Dom _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information