[LRflex] Re: IMPORTANT: Re: DMR Support

well david, you have summed up all of what i am looking for in 1.3 and
i think these are very reasonable and not out of the ball park.

On 1/30/07, David Young <telyt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 30/01/2007, you wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Disclaimer: I am not a DMR owner.
> >
> >In all this hubub about v 1.3, I'm having difficulty understanding the
> >critical problem needing to be fixed. According to David and supported by
> >numerous excellent pictures of his, v 1.2 is more than satisfactory. What
> >will one be able to do that one can't do now?
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Neil
>
>
>
> Good Morning Neil!
>
> There are always areas for improvement, in any firmware:
>
> 1) The DMR has always had problems with white-balance... particularly
> indoors.  I've found v1.2 to be much better, in this regard, than
> v1.1, which was, in turn, better than 1.0. However, it is not yet as
> good as the Nikons or Canons, in this regard, so an improvement here
> would be appreciated by all users.  That being said, v1.2 is good
> enough that when I develop in Silkypix, problematic photos usually
> only take seconds to cure.  Still, better performance, here, would be nice.
>
> 2) The DMR is very slow, both turning on (7seconds in real life,
> despite the 3 claimed by Leica).  Optimizing some of the code to
> improve this would be good.
>
> 3) The DMR is very slow, writing to cards.  Again, optimizing the
> code may help.  That would be nice.
>
> 4) Noise.  The noise in the DMR's shots at high ISO's is better than
> the M8's, but not as good as the better Canon dSLRs.  Noise can
> *always* be improved.
>
> I know nothing about which areas may be improved, which is what I
> think Mehrdad wants to know.  However, Leica are, wisely, not making
> any claims until they know what they can deliver.  Or even if they can 
> deliver.
>
> All I know is that v1.3,  is supposed to be "a big improvement".
>
> I, too, wish I knew more!
>
> Cheers!
>
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