Auto review corruption

[jimbobuk]

I just got my M8 today, and all looks great with it so far (not used it much yet).

I've took a few photos and will shortly be getting them (.dng) off the camera and onto the PC. Anyways i've seen about 3 times now, maybe more a problem when taking a shot where the auto review screen comes up and all thats there are horizontal black and white alternating stripes in the shot.

I've heard of most of the M8 problems but this one was a new one for me, I worried the pic had been corrupted and that was what was taken, but when the review dissapears pressing the play button and all is well, the shot looks fine!

I've also noticed occasionally that the time to showing the preview varies and can take quite a long time (a few secs instead of <1) in this scenario the problem has occured but other times its been fine after the delay.. i assume perhaps the scene is being processed sometimes and it takes longer?

I'm using a 2gig sandisk ultra card, so not a cheap one. I put it in from new, so never let the camera format the card, perhaps this was a mistake?

Any thoughts?

 

[Bill Blackwell]

I have experienced what you describe on a hand-full of occasions. In fact it happened to me at least once this last weekend (card formatted in-camera with latest firmware).

I have mentioned it to my Leica dealer, Tony Rose, who says "no big deal." After the problems I experienced with my first M8 (I am on my second one) I must agree.

 

[jimbobuk]

i get few to no corruptions.. what i get now is where it shows you the preview of the shot you took before last, not the one you just took. Again, pretty flacky but not a killer, the image is fine on the card. I'm a software engineer by trade so i appreciate the potential for bugs, but I'd hope for leica to be able to try and recreate it and then fix it. Perhaps its an issue with the card though.

Then again in context of potential issues, i can definitely live with it! 🙂

 

[Tuolumne]

The title for this post makes it sound like it's about bribery in the automobile magazine business. LoL. 🙂

/T

 

[jaapv]

Yes - the venetian blind syndrome. It will be cured in a next version of the firmware. I've never seen it, as I don't use autoreview. I hate the light flashing into my eye when I'm shooting and as an old filmshooter I don't feel the need for it.
General opinion is to always format the card in the camera before use.
The long wait is probably the black frame exposure. Any sensor will produce hot pixels on long exposures, so the M8 will take a second one with the shutter closed if you take a long exposure. It maps the hot pixels and cancels them out.