Black or chrome?

Black or chrome?

  • Black

    Votes: 475 53.3%

  • Chrome

    Votes: 269 30.2%

  • I'll stick to film

    Votes: 148 16.6%
  • Total voters
    892
Could some of this be a generation thing ?
In the 60s/70s black had a pro image , so everyone wanted one , so for me , especially with so many plastic cameras in black , it's got dee-valued .
So I would return to my roots with a chrome M8 ... and may even be in a position to do so in a few months ...
 
I remember when discussions ran rampant on pnet on whether Canon's white tele lenses were superior to Nikon's black ones. What with white reflecting more sun light and therefore less susceptible to heating. Apparently someone at Nikon noticed, as a small selection of lenses is now available in both liveries (70-200, 300, 400 & 500)..

I guess you could have the decision on black/chrome sway on that criterion too..
 
TNRL said:
Black. Harder to see, easyer to take photographs without people noticing it...
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Not for me-I always mislay my car-keys. Wouldn't want that happening to my M8...:p
 
I think the chrome one looked so damn cool, so I got a chrome one.

Now I think the black one look awesome, so I guess I'l have to get a black one too.


I still love the chrome one though...
 
Hi Wes! I got the black chrome M8 today, and kind of wishing I got the chrome. I like the chrome finish on my M3 and my former M7 better, but ended up getting black because all my lenses were black and thought it would be easier for resale. First impressions of the M8 are somewhat underwhelming, but I've only had 1/2 an hour with it before work.
 
ugh, Wes, ran into problems with the M8. It has a column of hot pixels that show up at low EV's. See my other thread here for an example photo.
 
I didn't care. I just bought the one that they had in the shop. It happened to be chrome, but it could have been black. Who cares? I want it to take pictures, not look at. My M6 is black, again it was just the one they had.
 
Just saw a chrome M7 on ebay with a black dot instead of the red and I must say it certainly did look good- I might be tempted by a chrome body now...
 
I prefer chrome since I have a black M7 but I have never gotten comfortable with the idea of putting black lenses (all mine are) on a chrome body. I can see putting chrome lenses on black but not the other way around. That make any sense? What do others think of that?
 
Ray Kilby said:
I didn't care. I just bought the one that they had in the shop. It happened to be chrome, but it could have been black. Who cares? I want it to take pictures, not look at. My M6 is black, again it was just the one they had.
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I don't own one yet but my MP is chrome and my M8 will be Chrome. I want to take pictures and look at it. I think the statements above are a bit ingenuous, you spent $5000.00 and you don't care what it looks like? Is that suppose to imply that you have so much money that something like color is not important or your Art is so important you just have no time to worry about small things like the color of a $5000.00 camera. Do you buy your clothes the same way. I want to wear them I don't care what color they are. Give us a break. How pretentious.
 
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