ChromaSoft

In a previous post I talked about Leica's delay in delivering revised firmware for the M9. Subsequent to that post, there have been some conversations both on the Leica User Forum and off of it. Here's a summary of the new information:

Firstly, a "usually very well informed source" tell me that the reason, or at least a part of the reason, for the delay to the firmware is an entirely unrelated bug in some new functionality. Apparently this bug has been intermittent, and hard to track down, but has now been fixed.

Separately, Daniel Kennedy ("thrice" on the LUF) is quoting Stephan Daniel as giving a delivery date in late march. The post is here.

pcdMagic is an OS X application for converting Kodak Photo CD image files. Kodak abandonned the Photo CD format many years ago, and since then most solutions for converting the files have been just terrible - blown highlights, bad color, etc

Last year I published pcdtojpeg, which performs basic conversion from the command line and fixes the blown highlights, etc. But pcdMagic is a different animal entirely:

No blown highlights - most Photo CD conversion software blows highlights.

In some posts dating back to last year I discussed the Leica M9's by now notorious red edges problem, starting with this post. At the time, I thought, and commented to that effect on the Leica User Forum, that while Leica wouldn't be able to 100% solve the problem given manufacturing variations in both lenses and the M9, they would be able to make substantial improvements by tweaking the M9's firmware corrections.

For KeyChainDD, which is hosted on SourceForge, I'm using GIT as a repository for source code, rather than distributing the source code via distribution files, as I usually do. This post briefly documents the process I used to get GIT on SourceForge working.

Note that this assumes that you have GIT installed on your system, and will be using the standard GIT command line, and are in your project directory.