ghost
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the removable baseplate is an example of marketing driven design. especially the spot they left bare. that'll win over the brass fetishists, yeah!
rxmd
May contain traces of nut
It also says something about the target audience. It's not the professional photojournalist who churns out a couple of hundred pictures a day.ghost said:
pmu
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That removable baseplate is perfect; memorycards and batteries are protected way better than with "normal" digicams. I absolutely do not like those 30D canon plasticy doors... Only complain about M8 is that the usb-thingy connector is not located under the baseplate. That would make the desing even more sturdier and reliable...usability maybe not perfect, but that is a small price to pay...
DaveSee
shallow depth of field
+1 (seconded)pmu said:
- Made of brass, less brittle than Mg of the body housing... less costly to replace if the camera is dropped
- "balck" or "silver" option more easily implemented
- BUT... the USB port should be left outside... Connecting the M8 to a small digital data device... Epson P4000?... or laptop.
- SD cards have reached 4GiB. With firmware updates, the SD capacity issue may be surpassed. At 4GiB, if one saves DNG+JPEG, then you have about 350 images, nearly 10 rolls of film... you'll likely need a fresh battery before then.
...now batteries! Ugh... haven't seen the pricing on individual parts, but I would never head out without a spare... were I to buy an M8!
Haing used M cameras with a tripod, I was thankful for the offset connection: made use of certain tabbed lenses much easier... plus, from a structural POV, the rounded
ends of the brass base plates are more rigid than the center(read: stress on the camera front to back), and the film take-up column is more rigid too. The M8 location really tells me that Leica considered the crop factor, usable lens weight and likely popular notion that M's are not used on a tripod... "but just in case, there is a mount."
rgds,
Dave
Flinor
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many weeks ago when speculation started on the M digital, I posted what I thought was a smartA__ post asking if we would have to take off the baseplate to change memory cards. I really thought that I was kidding.