{"id":391,"date":"2008-09-19T10:36:56","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T10:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=391"},"modified":"2008-09-19T11:13:38","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T11:13:38","slug":"leica-m8-firmware-upgrade-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Leica M8 firmware upgrade etc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any owners of the Leica M8 will possibly be pleased to know that there is now a firmware update 2.000 available for download from <a href=\"http:\/\/us.leica-camera.com\/service\/downloads\/rangefinder_cameras\/m8\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Leica\u00a0<\/a> which\u00a0 adds compatibility with SDHC cards up to 32Gb as well as giving us the Auto-ISO feature as found on the Leica M8.2. This is a free upgrade, but it is apparently impossible to downgrade to previous firmware releases once it is installed, so I&#8217;ll perhaps be putting it off for a few days to hear if braver souls have any problems.<\/p>\n<p>From 1 Oct, the chargeable <a href=\"http:\/\/en.leica-camera.com\/service\/service_and_repair\/m8upgrade\/\" target=\"_blank\">upgrade service<\/a> promised earlier this year will be available from authorized LEICA M8 Service Centers in the USA, Japan, Hong Kong and Korea and of course Germany. In addition to the improved and quieter shutter and sapphire glass cover, you can also get improved bright line frames. The whole deal does however cost 1320 euros, and given the current exchange rate I think I&#8217;ll be leaving that too for a while.<\/p>\n<p>But for richer photographers it does almost make the M8 into an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.leica-camera.com\/photography\/m_system\/m8\/\" target=\"_blank\">M8.2<\/a>, though they will still find themselves waiting for the self-timer when they thought they were taking a picture.\u00a0 So you will still need to tape something onto the top of the camera to restrict the movement &#8211; along with the other piece of tape you need to stop the shutter speed dial creeping round when you don&#8217;t mean it to.<\/p>\n<p>[Thanks to <em>Sang Tan<\/em> for telling me about the firmware upgrade &#8211; and you can see some fine street documentary on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sangtan.nildram.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">web site<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any owners of the Leica M8 will possibly be pleased to know that there is now a firmware update 2.000 available for download from Leica\u00a0 which\u00a0 adds compatibility with SDHC cards up to 32Gb as well as giving us the Auto-ISO feature as found on the Leica M8.2. This is a free upgrade, but it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=391\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leica M8 firmware upgrade etc<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","category-uncategorised"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}