I Love My M8!

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I too am in love with my M8

I too am in love with my M8

Love using this camera.

These were from last night, walking through Central Park

Nice photo Ted.
 

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LichMD said:
Thanks USC,
have you posted any of your pics from NY yet?

Just saw you 1250 iso, very nice.
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heres some from yesterday 🙂

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usccharles said:
yup, union square. still hungover believe it or not 🙂
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How long are you going to be in the city?
If you have the time and if the weather isn't too brutal, I'd suggest you head down to Battery Park City, the WT site and a jaunt through SOHO and the East Village, always plenty to photograph around there.


As far as the hangover, 7-Up, protein, and avoid Tylenol or Motrin (bad for your liver)

Um, cheers?
 
Magentas

Magentas

ywenz said:
are we simply ignoring the magentas nowadays and accept it as a fact of photography?
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I think the CW is that the magentas are a possibility until the IR filters get here, coded lenses and firmware 1.10 should also help.
 
LichMD said:
How long are you going to be in the city?
If you have the time and if the weather isn't too brutal, I'd suggest you head down to Battery Park City, the WT site and a jaunt through SOHO and the East Village, always plenty to photograph around there.


As far as the hangover, 7-Up, protein, and avoid Tylenol or Motrin (bad for your liver)

Um, cheers?
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YES! PLEASE! 😀 😀

can you tell me a bunch of cool places for me to visit while i'm in NY, photo-scenic wise? i'm here on business but i left a few days to be out and about taking photos

thank you!

i decided on wine to get rid of the hangover 😀
 
Hah, usccharles --- you and I were both in Union Square the other day, I almost took a shot of the carrot guy as well.

If you don't mind wicked crowds, try Chinatown (it's the New Year) - always cool things to shoot.

Oh, and I don't think any photographer should visit NYC without a trip to B&H. But hold on to your plastic --- way too many fun things to buy.

Have fun and eat lots,

JT
 
OF COURSE I'M GOING TO B&H! its like disney land. i never have anything to buy but when i leave i always have something in a bag. bought a used rollei 35 last time i was there, i love that little jewel!

i think i'll start at battery park as mr. LichMD pointed out for me and make it over to chinatown afterwards. really bummed that i didn't go today 🙁

what main cross-streets do i look for when i'm looking for chinatown?

thank you
 
ywenz said:
are we simply ignoring the magentas nowadays and accept it as a fact of photography?
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Yea I can't get past the magenta in my shot (or any of my shots).

PS. Ben it's OK you purchased the better camera : )
 
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Sailor Ted said:
Yea I can't get past the magenta in my shot (or any of my shots).

PS. Ben it's OK you purchased the better camera : )
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It's a sad state of affairs for Leica. While I was a believer a month ago, I'm now a total non-believer. The magenta is a problem. Filters are a soloution but flawed. Next thing, people are going to post "money shots" all streaked up with banding and claim that it's all good because firmware 1.10 is on its way. A mythical firmware upgrade and non-existant filters are of little help to us owners who actually want to make use of this rather costly paper weight. Sure, these pictures are ok. Good on ya. I've used the M8 everyday for about three months and am completely sick of its quirks. Pathetic. I don't know what camera Ben has got, but I bet it is better than the M8. The 30D is better IQ wise than the M8, and that's a fact. It's just not a rangefinder. That's why I'm so dissappointed.
 
Funny that large numbers of users are getting excellent results, even better than any 135 class camera on the market. No banding-no streaking-no magenta. So? I am sorry for you that you are disappointed, but maybe, just maybe, it is not the arrow but the Indian?-to quote Ted 😉

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usccharles said:
OF COURSE I'M GOING TO B&H! its like disney land. i never have anything to buy but when i leave i always have something in a bag. bought a used rollei 35 last time i was there, i love that little jewel!

i think i'll start at battery park as mr. LichMD pointed out for me and make it over to chinatown afterwards. really bummed that i didn't go today 🙁

what main cross-streets do i look for when i'm looking for chinatown?

thank you
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No problem-- Walk uptown (North) from Battery Park. If you head towards the East a little you will hit City Hall (around the block from Ground Zero). They've turned a fountain into a garden there and the reactions of people when they walk by can be interesting. It is also across the street from J&R, another sort of electronics paradise with a fantastic CD/DVD section, dragging my son the jazz addict out of there is a nightmare. Keep going uptown and then you will hit Canal Street. Turn right and you will be in the middle of Chinatown. It stretches on either side of Canal for a few blocks, I would say that the most "authentic" part is just North of Canal for a few blocks.

Yup-- my family refers to B&H as my disneyland. Uh-oh, the fact that you said disneyland instead of disney world lead me to believe that the USC part is Univ of Southern Cal instead of University of South Carolina.... I grew up in West LA and virtually every male in my family graduated from UCLA! I escaped to Cal myself 😀.

Have fun!

JT
 
i didn't even know there was a university of south carolina until people here in the east kept thinking i lived in south carolina 🙂

thanks for the info. i need to layer up its going to be below freezing all day today! yikes
 
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