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SD1 Merrill - Old firmware 1.00.06538

Started May 9, 2018 | Discussions thread
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kalwe9 New Member • Posts: 6
SD1 Merrill - Old firmware 1.00.06538

Hello,

this is my first thread on dpreview. Please apologize for my  English - it is not my native language.

3 month ago I purchased an almost new SD1 Merrill with firmware 1.09. I use the Merrill exclusively with manual lenses (mostly Leica-R lenses). As years ago with my SD14 and SD15.

The SD1 produces more or less always a magenta colour cast which is hardly to eliminate. It's a pain for me.

Yesterday I tried accidental some old SD1 files from 2012. In 2012 I returned my first SD1 Merrill because of its terrible psychedelic colours in the preview (camera and on PC). But when the files was processed in SPP the "real" colours appeared - without colour casts.

Also ISO 200 works fine. The EXIF-files shown the firmware 1.00.06538.

Now I've "downgraded" my SD1m to firmware 1.03 (I found it somewhere at SIGMA), and it works much better than FW 1.09

Has/had anyone similar experiences?  And: Is there a chance, to get this ur-firmware somewhere?

I could live with the not really usefull preview because of the funny colours, but the results speaks for itselfs.

Regards

Karl

Sigma SD1 Sigma SD1 Merrill Sigma SD14 Sigma SD15
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