M is for Magenta

Over the last few days it has become clear that the M8 has far too weak
of an IR blocking filter. The problem is textiles that are dyed black
often reflect a lot of IR, which the camera sees as both red and blue.
The result is that many clothes that should be black photograph as
magenta.

In watching the Leica forums I find it interesting that a number of
people are saying that this is not a problem since it is easy to change
the colors in Photoshop. Now call me crazy but I would be more then a
little upset if I paid $5,000 for a camera only to find out that I had
to hand adjust colors in my photos. The problem is that you can't
just do a global replace of black for magenta since the real world does
have magenta in it.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out over the next few
days.

Acott