[Leica] A bad couple of hours

[photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Phil Forrest)]

Sometimes mine does that when it's hanging on my shoulder and I don't
notice it until I try to change something so I wind up with a bunch of
jpg files and not the RAW flexibility that I want. I really hate
snapshot mode and if I keep the M9 I'm going to be gluing something on
the back to prevent the buttons from getting pushed accidentally.

To me, snapshot mode is setting my Super Angulon to f/8 and then
setting the focus on hyperfocal, about 5 feet. THAT is all I need for a
shapshot. At that setting, my SA pretty much outresolves everything
else I own, save for my DR Summicron maybe.

Perhaps May 10 will see the release of a firmware upgrade in which
snapshot mode can be disabled and only enabled by pushing several
buttons at a time (like rewinding a Nikon F5.) 
...and a profile for the 21mm SA f/3.4 would be nice too.

Phil Forrest


On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:00:58 -0700
Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:

> I just had the s---t scared out of me. I took the SD card out of my 
> M9 and processed a few shots in LR4. I put the card back in the 
> camera and reformatted it. I then noticed that the main menu cycled 
> through only about eight alternatives and the ISO button on the left 
> was inoperative.
> 
> I was just about to think about re-installing the firmware into my 
> "busted" camera when I noticed that the camera had somehow (mea 
> culpa) gotten into "snapshot mode".
> 
> Now why in hell would anyone who spent $7000 on a camera want to put 
> it into an idiot point-and-shoot mode? I can just barely accept the 
> fact that there is an option for the camera to output .jpg although I 
> can't image using it myself. But snapshot mode !#$&^%$#!#$^%#$!!!!!
> 
> Herb
> 
> Herb
> 



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