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Subject: [Leica] Has anyone tried the new M9 firmware yet?
From: leowesson at gmail.com (Leo Wesson)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:59:48 -0500
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How do you know all this?!?

Leo Wesson
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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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>>
>>
>>
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Replies: Reply from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] Has anyone tried the new M9 firmware yet?)
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