Colin, thank you for directing me to those wonderful photos of the M8
They are, genuinely, some of the best photos I have seen from an M8
I had one for a while, and sold it for various reasons. It was not my favourite camera, although I did prefer the look and feel of many of the photos I took with it than those from other digital cameras.
However, I think you have demonstrated what we all really know - it is not the camera that takes great photographers, but the person using it.