Thursday, November 19, 2009

Leica S2 Fiasco

Yet again the JPEG 64kB segment-size limitations make life difficult for me.

Presumably to avoid this limitation, the new Leica S2 writes the complete maker notes (860kB of them) outside the EXIF segment, and instead writes them after the JPEG EOI. Needless to say, this complicates things for me yet again.

But there are other problems in the S2 maker notes that make me pray my samples are from a pre-production camera and that the format will be fixed in the production model. Many maker note values, including one offset, have a constant value of 0x0800. This can't be right. I will wait until I get some production samples before adding support for this camera.

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