How many of you will buy the M8 or Digital M

How many of you will buy the M8 or Digital M

  • I have my unit pre-ordered already.

    Votes: 122 15.1%

  • Need more cash

    Votes: 141 17.5%

  • Will buy it for sure sooner or later

    Votes: 234 29.0%

  • Not interested or have no plans to get one.

    Votes: 311 38.5%
  • Total voters
    808
Ben Z said:
Hmmm. The Canon 1DS-II seems to be built to the same standard as the 1V, good for 150,000 shots before a $200 shutter replacement and then on to another 150,000. If the M8 can do that, I don't see much of an argument here.
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Life expectancy of digital can not be counted on the number of images produced. Long before it gets mechanically worn out their built-in obsolescence in terms of number of pixels and sensor size will give them away.
How much will be worth a 2 year old M8 the day a spanking new M9 shows up displaying a 20 M full-frame super steady shot sensor and being able to use a 35 summicron lens at its proper 35 mm angle of view ?
 
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Why not? Plenty of pro's are still shooting the Canon 1D,Canon and Nikon are happily replacing worn shutters, and I cannot see myself replacing the Canon 10D or my Digilux2 in the forseeable future. I'll just add a M8. What is great now doesn't suddenly turn into cr@p overnight because some engineer dreams up something <new-better>. It is not digital that is the problem, it is the "I wanna keep up with the advertising"mentality. 95% of the so-called "upgrades"on new technical products (not just camera's) are gimmicks anyway. Real improvements are few and far between.
I think most Leica M buyers with their affinity for vintage equipment will be far less affected by this virus than the average DSLR affectionado.
 
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jdos2 said:
Have a Pasteis de Nata for me, please, and a cup of "Chave d'Ouro" (Uma bica!), and take a nice picture of bronze Fernando Pessoa (Rua Garret). I miss Lisbon so.
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Pasteis de Nata ! Oh si. My very first food a few minutes after landing in Lisbon (and taxiing to Oriente to jump on the first Alfa to Porto) together with a bica at the station bar/store. Delicious!

Sorry for the OT. I just had a memory-trigger episode.

As for the M8, I'm afraid I won't :( RD-1s or Digikon, that's to be seen but I see it more feasible.
 
taffer said:
As for the M8, I'm afraid I won't :( RD-1s or Digikon, that's to be seen but I see it more feasible.
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Don't worry, mate your time will come! At your age I was shooting an EXA II ! Ain't I a fossil?:bang: :D
 
It often happens that products are recalled because of mechanical, electronic or software defects. Sometimes you just cannot test everything before a product is shipped.

Paying to be an alpha tester just doesn't sound right to me.

I would rather shoot with my film rangefinders for a year longer and then know all of the problems before I buy into the new technology.

Even though money does grow on trees, my small branch will not be spent to perform functional tests on someone else's product, no matter how legendary the company which made it might be.
 
Hi all,

reading this thread makes me wonder : is it really necessary to explain something even not planned to do?:eek:
There must be something very attractive then.:rolleyes:
So if I could afford, I'd buy one - but can not:bang:

nemjo
 
Kevin said:
Paying to be an alpha tester just doesn't sound right to me.
...no matter how legendary the company which made it might be.
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I don't think we're going to be alpha testers at all. The camera has likely been out there for a while in various guises and the last year will have been spent refining the firmware and getting it production ready. Sean Reid here is more than likely to have been one such tester which gives me great confidence the camera is going to be as good as we hope.

Kevin! Don't know if you're German - Kevin doesn't sound a very German name to me - but I would have thought that you'd be more supportive of this effort by your compatriots. Leica is indeed a legendary company and they deserve to succeed.
 
Mark Norton said:
I don't think we're going to be alpha testers at all. The camera has likely been out there for a while in various guises and the last year will have been spent refining the firmware and getting it production ready. Sean Reid here is more than likely to have been one such tester which gives me great confidence the camera is going to be as good as we hope.

Kevin! Don't know if you're German - Kevin doesn't sound a very German name to me - but I would have thought that you'd be more supportive of this effort by your compatriots. Leica is indeed a legendary company and they deserve to succeed.
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Oh I am very supportive of Leica (I have two M6 bodies and 3 of their lenses) and I believe this camera is going to be a great shooter. I just know that bugs creep through, even though a company has tried everything possible to spot them before first shipment.

I suppose that I am bit more patient than most here ;-)
 
Well, nobody hammered Mercedes for recalling 1.5 million (figures from Auto Motor und Sport) E-class vehicles in 2005, so in analogy I guess Leica is going to make good on any glitches.
 
Sure thing, but the expectation of finally getting a great tool and then to be disappointed by the glitch is just too much for me to bear.

It is probably like a mother holding its newborne for the first time when suddenly the nurse comes to take it away for a few weeks until it heals.
 
Actually, I had one of the earliest Digilux 2's and a C-lux1 from the very first batch from the factory - no glitches at all. And these camera's were tested to a far lower level than the M8 will be. Add to that: built in small series in Germany, by a workforce that is highly trained in in the mechanical part of high-end camera's, tested mechanics and with the experience of the DMR, that is fairly similar in the digital part, well, I don't really expect any of the foul-ups that some DSLR's exhibited over the years. Most of those had to do with AF and the like, which the M8 doesn't even have. It is noticable, by the way, that the newest generations of all major digital camera makers attract very few to no negative reports in this respect.
 
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Hmm, you almost have me convinced.

But I am a firm believer in Murphey's Law!

Of course you know what that is, oder?
 
M8

M8

I would love to have one, but until I win the lotto I will have to stick with my Leica M6 and lenses and Mamiya 6 and lenses.

HHK:
 
Kevin said:
Sure thing, but the expectation of finally getting a great tool and then to be disappointed by the glitch is just too much for me to bear.
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Expectations are wishes....be careful about what you wish for........you know how it goes;)
 
jaapv said:
Yesterday my bread and jam fell on the floor facing the right side up! :D
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I think there is some law of physics that explains why the jam-side will face the floor more times than not.

Therefore you were just lucky this time ;)
 
Kevin said:
I think there is some law of physics that explains why the jam-side will face the floor more times than not.
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This tells us that jaapv's table is very high (so the bread had anough space/time for a full looping)! :D
 
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