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DIGIC8 Metering (and a rant about the evolution of DIGIC software and post processing on the M)

Started Jun 12, 2019 | Discussions thread
OP RLight Senior Member • Posts: 4,417
They're remaining competitive on the software front...

RedFox88 wrote:

RLight wrote:

RedFox88 wrote:

Digic is the name of canon’s CPU. Digic 8 is faster than 7, that's all.

It's more than that...

Then you are whining about the camera programming, not the CPU

They're joined. Canon doesn't ever (that I know of) update the metering/AWB via a firmware update. So it has the appearance to be hardware to your point, but the point I'm driving is it's both as the microcode is seeing revision as newer cameras with same hardware emerge. And furthermore, based off the progression of where Canon is, the R is so accurate (I'm praising Canon here on their progress, not knocking where they've been) that it's very promising for future M offerings to fall in line. The M5 II etc should in theory be just, in fact probably more, accurate. It's nice not having to tweak stuff in post.

I think what's driving this is "keeping up with the jones", the jones being smartphones. Smartphones are getting very good at automatic lighting (metering) and AWB. Canon has to keep up if they want to remain competitive. They're being competitive and kudos to them.

In fact, while I'm on the subject of being competitive on a software front, Canon does a good job with making it as easy as possible to share content from your camera to your smartphone. And that's a good thing too.

Speaking of Apple, I hope now that NFC standard has been opened up for third party use in iOS, that Canon exploits it. Be nice to just tap the two together and off they go with auto-transfer which is a really nice feature.

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