New Firmware 1.162 for M9 released!

[Gabriel M.A.]

Originally Posted by Paul Luscher

Be careful, boys. This might give Digilloyd another excuse to thrash the M9 because "it needs all those firmware updates."

Careful, you complaining about his complaining means you don't like progress.

[zleica]

Anyone tried Zeiss Biogon 21/4.5?

[Benjamin Marks]

Originally Posted by zleica

Anyone tried Zeiss Biogon 21/4.5?

Lots of vignetting/red edge with the M9. In fact Tony Rose's site contains an explicit warning about this. Am testing a Cornerfix fix this weekend. The ZM 21/2.8 is not nearly as bad.

[Benjamin Marks]

FWIW, the new firmware I uploaded makes the C/V 21/4 , 24/4 and the Zeiss 21/2.8 quite usable on the M9 without the need for Cornerfix (mostly). The 21/4.5 still needs some help though. I just ran some quick test shots with the following lenses wide open.

C/V 15/4.5 (M-mount, LTM 2 samples, identical result. Still needs cornerfix)
C/V 21/4 (fine) !!
C/V 24/4 (fine) !!
ZM 21/2.8 (a _very_ little green edge-I shot a white wall in the shade o/w hard to notice. In general, I will not be correcting this)
ZM 21/4.5 (still needs cornerfix)
ZM 25/2.8 (fine)
Leica 28/2.8 (fine)
Leica 35/2 v. IV (fine)
ZM 35/2 (fine)
ZM 35/2.8 (fine)

Both vignetting and red-edge appear _very_ well controlled. I know that some have had issues with the firmware update but mine went very smoothly, and I have to say, the camera is much more useful with these wides. Leica gets a very big thumbs up from me for the improvement. Loved the camera before. Over the moon about just using the wides.


Ben

[Benjamin Marks]

See what I can do this PM

[gdmcclintock]

For "uncorrected" lenses, does that mean that the lens type is set to "automatic" and is "uncorrected" because the lens is not coded?

Or are you setting the CV 21/f4, for example, to a Leica equivalent with the manual setting?

Sorry to be a bit thick here....