pizzahut88
Well-known
I have not quite figured it out yet.
I've had my M8 for about 2 weeks now.
But my M8 images does not equal my M6 film images.
It's not the resolution, neither is it exactly about the lack of film grains.
The M8 explores the potential of my existing lenses to a new level.
But somehow it feels different.
A certain feeling is missing.
In place of that feeling, is something fresh vibrant . . . the images are very creamy.
but nostalgia is gone . . .
no . . . it's not nostalgia
I simply don't know what it is.
But I agree with someone here in saying I should keep both bodies
an M6 and M8 at the same time.
Don't you feel the same?
I've had my M8 for about 2 weeks now.
But my M8 images does not equal my M6 film images.
It's not the resolution, neither is it exactly about the lack of film grains.
The M8 explores the potential of my existing lenses to a new level.
But somehow it feels different.
A certain feeling is missing.
In place of that feeling, is something fresh vibrant . . . the images are very creamy.
but nostalgia is gone . . .
no . . . it's not nostalgia
I simply don't know what it is.
But I agree with someone here in saying I should keep both bodies
an M6 and M8 at the same time.
Don't you feel the same?
mwooten
light user
The m8 did make the fellow in the image you posted a little lifeless.
yeeper
Newbie
Digital typically looks sterile. Film looks more organic. Different mediums, different looks. I have yet to get an M8. I like my M6 with Tri-X or Porta.
Terao
Kiloran
I know what you mean. Can't put my finger on it either but am finding myself shooting more and more film. I think I like the slowness of film - I take less shots, wait longer to get them back (or scanned if I dev it myself) and this increases the anticipation. Off to Florida for two weeks on Tuesday and I'm seriously close to not taking the R-D1, particularly if it doesn't fit my carry-on...
kuzano
Veteran
Yeah but......
Yeah but......
It's a freaking statue, fcryin autlaud! Is that not lifeless?
Yeah but......
mwooten said:
It's a freaking statue, fcryin autlaud! Is that not lifeless?
cmogi10
Bodhisattva
kuzano said:
I think you missed the humor...and the point of the post.
jaapv
RFF Sponsoring Member.
Hah! Take your tongue out of your cheek, mate! Let's get some life into this fellow! 
Now you may or may not like this rendering, but the point I'm trying to make is the following: Nothing has changed since Adam Ansel: The image is the final print. The output of the camera is only a half-product. The darkroom is the place where the final image is created. In our case that is the post-processing.
(Ps. I would have loved to work on the DNG-file...)
Now you may or may not like this rendering, but the point I'm trying to make is the following: Nothing has changed since Adam Ansel: The image is the final print. The output of the camera is only a half-product. The darkroom is the place where the final image is created. In our case that is the post-processing.
(Ps. I would have loved to work on the DNG-file...)
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msbel
Member
Maybe spend a little more time with the M8 and keep using your M6 regularly. They are not mutually excusive of each other. The M8 is so wonderfully strange...the images have a liquid feel to them that I have not seen before in any digital or film 35mm format.
After a few months, if you are not reaching for the M8, well...you have a nice new MP waiting for you after you sell it! And I might be right behind you!
After a few months, if you are not reaching for the M8, well...you have a nice new MP waiting for you after you sell it! And I might be right behind you!
cmogi10
Bodhisattva
If you do not like it sell it and move on.
Problem solved.
Problem solved.
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
What lens was that taken with ... the OOF area in the top left is certainly strange?
aizan
Veteran
seems more like a post-processing issue.
Dan States
Established
One can not fully grasp the capacity of the M8 in two weeks or two months. Just give it more time. I was a digital doubter/hater until I really learned how to make prints that looked the way I wanted them to look. It can be done and once you grasp what you are missing every week is a new door to open.
I'm now on year three with digital and month 8 with my M8 and every day I learn more about the shooting, processing and printing stages. It has made photography new and exciting again just like when I first started splashing around in the darkroom 30 years ago.
Get a great photo printer (not a cheapo consumer turd, a real fine art photo printer) some good quality print paper (not the Kodak crap you find in Wallmarts) and start experimenting.
Don't give up!
I'm now on year three with digital and month 8 with my M8 and every day I learn more about the shooting, processing and printing stages. It has made photography new and exciting again just like when I first started splashing around in the darkroom 30 years ago.
Get a great photo printer (not a cheapo consumer turd, a real fine art photo printer) some good quality print paper (not the Kodak crap you find in Wallmarts) and start experimenting.
Don't give up!
Symeon
Established
:bang: relax... it'll take you a month to learn how to focus (that is if you use the M8 everyday) and then another month to figure out what happened to all that DOF lost on the 1.33x factor... and if you are still itchy 6 months later, well, sell it to me!
emraphoto
Veteran
hmm... i think i found it balled up in a 15mm heliar.