[Leica] M8 firmware 2.005

[hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)]

Leica Camera said that it would be too expensive to implement after the fact
and was only possible with the M9 due to writing the new firmware from
scratch.

Is there any reported success with anyone ever making this kind of change to
a camera's firmware? Not just unlocking a feature but adding capabilities
that never existed in the design?
Jailbreaking M8's may become a new cottage industry. Or a lot of dead M8's
for sale for parts on eBay?

Don't do it! Pay for a few lense to be coded  by J. Milich or someone or
live with the feature set that's been there since the very first day.

Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman


On 9 July 2010 22:49, <red735i at earthlink.net> wrote:

> If you are looking for free program space, you could access the memory
> card.... and use that to store n,on critical code,.... like lens
> descriptors......
>
> The downside would needing to have that code on each memory card
>
> Frank
>
>
>
> >Anybody know how much free RAM is still available in the M8(.2) for
> firmware?
> >
>
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