davichan
Member
Leica M8
What more can i say...
1st week out with it.
and shooting two jobs with it allready.
nothing in life is perfect, or we would all be bored to death.
(I make very few post, but visit this site everyday for the past year since discovering)
Right now, the M8 is another tool that makes me want to pursure taking pictures for both work and myself.
is it perfect?
nothing is.....
all my camera's have their persoanlity.
and this is an all subjective question that i am sure wiil be keeping M8 blogs full for years to come i hope.
i am not talking about the know issues: bugs, glitches, blobs, IR problems, (i am prepared to deal with those due to having been an informed customer, beofoe purchasing.) and future problems, but real life users ineraction with it is what i wil continue to follow and comment on.
from being a consumer of a digital age, buying computers (a new mac) evey few years (to keep upgraded, and in good workflow) is kind of a mindset that is part of our consumersit (american) society...
do i agree with it all, NO.
it makes some of us questioning and fustrated to think that tecnologoy is being held back, graded, and step introduced, in major manurfactured goods based on quarterly earning and product upgrads from the companies that produce the item we fancy, and invest tons of researc on before investing on those purchases.
but I chose to go with it, not be a ludiate attitude. and creat work and art along the way with this new investment/tool.
what i am saying, is that i will use the M8 for when i feel i need to use it, and chose to use my owe, borroed, or rented tools (35mm, 6x7, film, polaroid, alt printing, C-prints, video, I can list forever,ect.) as when them seem fit for their tasks and jobs.
whatever formate fits best.
do I have a lolve afair's with my camera, YES.
was i attracted buty the Leica M8, maybe even say, suduced by it.
YES.
but i have had that with al my camera purchase.
I love / hate them all in their own certin ways.
sometimes i carry one with me for months, letting the others go and sit, and then have affairs with others for special nights.
other nights i carry two or three in a bag.
I grab for what i feel, and think will serve me best.
I am sure others feel simalar.
just like eatting, I need a varity.
i love getting tied into the new Tasty find on the block, and getting my full.
hoping to see it gauge into my lifestly after repeat meals.
but i return to my solid comfort foods know and worn.
sometimes my mouth needs fast food, and other times, my wifes' home cooking.
The Leica M8 was an expensive purchase for me, just as these other camera sets would have been.
I was never expecting to enter the prosumer level of digital photography at coast.
nor did i do so in my coasts of film photographer either..
But at this time, my reasons fit me to do so, and am sure will not fit into many other's choices to do the same, or any matter.
I worked the math out for myself vs. many other digital camera set up coasts, from hasselblad h2 / canon 5d / and a few others.
thoses camera are really great for my needs, and would love in a Fake reality, to have ability to fund them all into my tool set.
but this is not my reality.
The Leica M8 is my 1st real digital camera purchase ( besides an panasonic lumix DMC-LX1),
I must say, after renting a fair amount of canon / hasselblad digital (h2, 5D, 1D) gear for jobs for the past year.
i was fed up with having to check out sometimes sketchy heavly used digital gear (from top NYC rental houses) for jobs before assigments. and having that insucere feeling about something going wrong with it on set, was really startign to creap up on me.
I also carry my camera like my keys.
and shoot everyday for myself. (primarly 35mm BW)
more and more recently,
there were times i just wanted to have a digital camera at my call and whime alongside my other daily camera.
i have so many thoughts / concerns / joys, and unexpected events that probably might/will ocure with this new camera. What wil come; will come. is my attitude towards it, and most things in life.
I have had conversations with many friends, users, camera shops, followed blogs, disscussion sites, for many months.
Now i have one.
and can only give back a bit of my personal journy with it.
the M8's short introduction into the real world of users who are on the cutting creative brink of Leica's next step.
we are the tool holders.
we are goign to be the ones who experiance
we have a responsibility to create as humans.
so take a picture.
i know i will.
What more can i say...
1st week out with it.
and shooting two jobs with it allready.
nothing in life is perfect, or we would all be bored to death.
(I make very few post, but visit this site everyday for the past year since discovering)
Right now, the M8 is another tool that makes me want to pursure taking pictures for both work and myself.
is it perfect?
nothing is.....
all my camera's have their persoanlity.
and this is an all subjective question that i am sure wiil be keeping M8 blogs full for years to come i hope.
i am not talking about the know issues: bugs, glitches, blobs, IR problems, (i am prepared to deal with those due to having been an informed customer, beofoe purchasing.) and future problems, but real life users ineraction with it is what i wil continue to follow and comment on.
from being a consumer of a digital age, buying computers (a new mac) evey few years (to keep upgraded, and in good workflow) is kind of a mindset that is part of our consumersit (american) society...
do i agree with it all, NO.
it makes some of us questioning and fustrated to think that tecnologoy is being held back, graded, and step introduced, in major manurfactured goods based on quarterly earning and product upgrads from the companies that produce the item we fancy, and invest tons of researc on before investing on those purchases.
but I chose to go with it, not be a ludiate attitude. and creat work and art along the way with this new investment/tool.
what i am saying, is that i will use the M8 for when i feel i need to use it, and chose to use my owe, borroed, or rented tools (35mm, 6x7, film, polaroid, alt printing, C-prints, video, I can list forever,ect.) as when them seem fit for their tasks and jobs.
whatever formate fits best.
do I have a lolve afair's with my camera, YES.
was i attracted buty the Leica M8, maybe even say, suduced by it.
YES.
but i have had that with al my camera purchase.
I love / hate them all in their own certin ways.
sometimes i carry one with me for months, letting the others go and sit, and then have affairs with others for special nights.
other nights i carry two or three in a bag.
I grab for what i feel, and think will serve me best.
I am sure others feel simalar.
just like eatting, I need a varity.
i love getting tied into the new Tasty find on the block, and getting my full.
hoping to see it gauge into my lifestly after repeat meals.
but i return to my solid comfort foods know and worn.
sometimes my mouth needs fast food, and other times, my wifes' home cooking.
The Leica M8 was an expensive purchase for me, just as these other camera sets would have been.
I was never expecting to enter the prosumer level of digital photography at coast.
nor did i do so in my coasts of film photographer either..
But at this time, my reasons fit me to do so, and am sure will not fit into many other's choices to do the same, or any matter.
I worked the math out for myself vs. many other digital camera set up coasts, from hasselblad h2 / canon 5d / and a few others.
thoses camera are really great for my needs, and would love in a Fake reality, to have ability to fund them all into my tool set.
but this is not my reality.
The Leica M8 is my 1st real digital camera purchase ( besides an panasonic lumix DMC-LX1),
I must say, after renting a fair amount of canon / hasselblad digital (h2, 5D, 1D) gear for jobs for the past year.
i was fed up with having to check out sometimes sketchy heavly used digital gear (from top NYC rental houses) for jobs before assigments. and having that insucere feeling about something going wrong with it on set, was really startign to creap up on me.
I also carry my camera like my keys.
and shoot everyday for myself. (primarly 35mm BW)
more and more recently,
there were times i just wanted to have a digital camera at my call and whime alongside my other daily camera.
i have so many thoughts / concerns / joys, and unexpected events that probably might/will ocure with this new camera. What wil come; will come. is my attitude towards it, and most things in life.
I have had conversations with many friends, users, camera shops, followed blogs, disscussion sites, for many months.
Now i have one.
and can only give back a bit of my personal journy with it.
the M8's short introduction into the real world of users who are on the cutting creative brink of Leica's next step.
we are the tool holders.
we are goign to be the ones who experiance
we have a responsibility to create as humans.
so take a picture.
i know i will.
IGMeanwell
Well-known
cool ... congrats
post pics
post pics
bottley1
only to feel
Geez, its only a camera!
cmogi10
Bodhisattva
god....I want one hah
Joe Mondello
Resu Deretsiger
Yeah that pretty much sums it up! Stephen, you can close the Forum now!
of course I'm j/k ;-)
You have expressed something that many of us feel but haven't taken the time or thought to put into words, so thanks for that.
But enough typing . . . let's see some pictures!
of course I'm j/k ;-)
You have expressed something that many of us feel but haven't taken the time or thought to put into words, so thanks for that.
But enough typing . . . let's see some pictures!
davichan
Member
some pics
some pics
ok,
here is a snap from this morning walk throught chinatown with the M8.
i used this lense.
M8-CV_35_f2.5_A.jpg
Voightlander 35mm F2.5 pancake with a standard hoya UV filter.
iso 160 @F4 1/250
newest firmware.
M8-CV_35_f2.5_B.jpg
iso 160 @F2.5 1/8 (out of focus)
use PS cs3 beta to import RAW, set white balance and some other setings.
then standard resizing, and minor selective color, no sharpen. save as JPEG with 10 quality.
will post more with another lenes next.
some pics
ok,
here is a snap from this morning walk throught chinatown with the M8.
i used this lense.
M8-CV_35_f2.5_A.jpg
Voightlander 35mm F2.5 pancake with a standard hoya UV filter.
iso 160 @F4 1/250
newest firmware.
M8-CV_35_f2.5_B.jpg
iso 160 @F2.5 1/8 (out of focus)
use PS cs3 beta to import RAW, set white balance and some other setings.
then standard resizing, and minor selective color, no sharpen. save as JPEG with 10 quality.
will post more with another lenes next.
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