Do you like your M8?

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Hi,

I have used R-D1s until now.

But I have purchased second hand M8 (12/06) version at $4000.

I'm just want to hear M8 users feedback for your experience.

Thanks~~~~ : )
 
I absolutely love mine. I didn't like the greater crop factor of the R-D1, so I'm just thrilled to be able to have a rangefinder camera and digital capture.
 
I do like mine a lot ... I'm using it mostly in black and white mode due to the IR problem and no filters yet. I like the black and white files that much it could become a preference. We'll see when my filters arrive from Leica! :)

It goes everywhere with me at the moment! :D
 
It's a great camera and it is quickly becoming "my camera" above and beyond all the others.

Don't get me wrong, I really like the R-D1 especially since it got me back into RF photography, but the M8 is a cut above.
 
I was very sceptical at first, but my M8 is far beond my expectations. At ISO 160 it produces files just as sharp as my 1Ds II at ISO100. I love the Leica feel of the camera, - the feeling of mechanical quality. And it's great looks. The ability to utilize the wast sortiment of Leica bayonette lenses is ofcause it's absolute highest quality. It has the ability to show it to us how good these lenses are. That is a real joy. As such the M8 is a great enrichment of the camera world.

I have never owned a RD-1, but have tried one extensively. I soon found the high crop factor limiting. '1,33 crop isn't all that much', was my first response when trying out my glas on my M8.

I have not received any filters yet and takes what comes of mangenta cast. That is not my worst consern. I am an amateur that is not dependant on reproducing everybody's clothes with the exact colour.

My worst consern would be a camera freeze. Have had my M8 for a month now and it has worked flawlessly. Knock on wood.
 
I got mine two weeks ago, and my D200 is gathering dust...

And not just on the sensor, I should add ;)
 
It's great that this camera is receiving the appreciation it deserves. Yes it's expensive and it does have the IR issues and other reported problems but ... it is a hell of a camera and if I don't put it down soon and shoot some film I may have to go to confession .... "father I have sinned ... I haven't used film in over two weeks now!" :D

Ps ... a software developer in the UK has just had me send him an M8 DNG raw file ... they wanted an example for their software recovery program ... my M8 is famous! :)))
 
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The ultimate joy using the M8 - except for the 'quality feel' of the camera, - you hand it to just anybody with marginal photo experience they say 'wow' - is the fantastic optics you can put on it.

First of all; the Leica lenses are remarkable! I have three lenses; a Noctilux 50 mm 1,0 - a 35 mm 2,0 Summicron and the Tri Elmar. The dullest, believe me, is the Noctilux. I have sent both this and the Summicron to Solms for tagging & adjusting. Which means 10 weeks without them.

The Noctilux I had used extensively so the weekend before the send-off I used the 35 mm 2,0 exclusively, - to try it out (bought 2.hand a few months ago). In this absolutely flat overcast day in a windy and cold weekend here in Oslo the Summicron found light where you would least expect it. Remarkable! Simply a stunning lense.

Then it is the Tri Elmar. Most likely one of the best zoom lenses for digital cameras ever made. I have compared it extensively to Canon's new 16-35 mm 2,8L II - which is also a hefty lense. But it can't reproduce this 3 dimensional look of the Tri Elmar. Is it micro contrast it is called? A bit difficult to use on low ISO indoor sometimes, but the Tri Elmar seems to find light where there it is not supposed to be.

Leica has come far with the M8 when they can now reproduce the qualities of this range of fine optics...
 
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