firmware update & magneta cast

[barjohn]

Check the thread on LUF where the 5D was compard to the M8 at high ISO 2500. The 5D was a little smoother and less noisy but had nowhere near the detail the M8 had. And with the new frimware the M8 looked pretty darn good and very close to the 5D. I was surprised given that the 5D has alwasy been the low light king.

 

[masters]

stop wasting hyour tima and put a macbeth color checker in the photo instead of a glove that can change withe the slightest color temp. then you might have a more acurate color test.

 

[Sailor Ted]

Check the thread on LUF where the 5D was compard to the M8 at high ISO 2500. The 5D was a little smoother and less noisy but had nowhere near the detail the M8 had. And with the new frimware the M8 looked pretty darn good and very close to the 5D. I was surprised given that the 5D has alwasy been the low light king.

I'm not surprised and this is not a dig just an opservation. As I've been saying for a long time now, if you want your M8 files to look like they were shot with the 5D under high ISO, low light conditions, simply apply smoothing and noise reduction in Lightroom and presto- instant Canon. The fact is Leica gives you the creative control to have fine detail or apply smoothing and NR post process so you can create the look you want, as opposed to a look camera software engineers create for you.

 

[boilerdoc2]

Other than the improved (lessend) magenta cast is that the high ISO files are much less noisy. Leica really improved this. ALso the new info bar at the top of each photo playback on the LCD screen is nice! Big improvement. Now to fix the cyan shift next with IR filters and -hopefully- allow one to manually enter the lens info to take advantage of non coded lenses.
Steve

 

[grduprey]

While the new info bar is better than the original, I would like to see it disappear, and the info float on the image edges. Make better use of the review screen. I also agree the high isos seem less noisy.