Leica M8 : Trouble In Paradise

[jaapv]

jlw,
Too bad because it also solves the issue of- where did I put DNG file number 34567? Any chance of taking images out after a while?

About the same level of question as " which the **** shoe-box did I put that negative in?".....

 

[Rich Silfver]

When you buy a new M8, you receive a offer to send by post for a free copy of, LFI, ( Leica Fotografie International). The magazine is the official publication for the Company. It’s primary purpose is to promote Leica.

LFI is not an official publication of the company.

LFI/IDC is an independent company and even though Leica many times have supported them as a publication the magazine has also from time to time published some not so flattering pieces about Leica.

 

[POINT OF VIEW]

Lfi - Unofficial Leica Magazine

Lfi - Unofficial Leica Magazine

I’ m sorry, so Leica does not publish the magazine. Have you ever seen any ads in LFI that were for some other camera? Every article and add is about Leica, but it’s not official Leica. Do you think the company publishes the Leica magazine with all of the Leica adds and Leica stories with NO COST to Leica. Finely, the M8 article if you would have read it, was the most unflattering stories I ever read about the camera. As a matter of fact if I had have read the article first, I would not own this camera today. Bill

 

[Sailor Ted]

Thank you for the BIG TYPE- I misplaced my reading glasses but have no trouble with your post- KUDOS! The color helps too no?

HIYALL (point of view) How does the Leica impede your photographic style as expressed in your Flickr account? On what level?

 

[Sailor Ted]

I just open my M8 yesterday. It is definitely a engineering marvel. It ain't for every body. If you are a range finder person, you wont be able to put it down. It is a bargain considering the achievement in camera designs. Enjoy. PS - most all of the naysayers out there, can't possibly understand what Leica has achieved here, it's truly remarkable.

Is it the review or what? I've looked over your photographs (I assume you are Hiyall on Flickr) and I'm having trouble understanding your point of view on this- please explain. As you said it's not an iEye its a DRF.

 

[AusDLK]

>There's got to be a board in Vegas having the odds that certain people will
>beat some horses at a given M8 thread

Then there's one also related to other certain people beating their chests...

(Good one, eh?)

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

I’ m sorry, so Leica does not publish the magazine. Have you ever seen any ads in LFI that were for some other camera?

No, I haven't

 

[POINT OF VIEW]

Admiral Ted, my M8 is sitting in Solms Germany as I type, hows that for IMPEDES.

 

[Sailor Ted]

Sorry to hear- why and was it a 1st generation?

 

[Sailor Ted]

Point of View- I just found out you are not Hiyall on Flickr. I do not know how I got that mixed up however sorry for the confusion.

 

[POINT OF VIEW]

We All Make Mistakes

We All Make Mistakes

Hi Sailor, no big deal we all make mistakes at some time, I even made one just recently. I bought a M8. The camera is second addition, bad lens mount. I have no Idea when I’ll see it again. I have requested a lens coding and IR filter to be fitted, ( I had to send the lens with the camera ) be for it leaves the factory. We’ll see what happens. The great irony of the story is I really want the camera. No body talks about the most important feature of the M8, in my opinion is you can mount those great M lens on a 10 mega pixel camera. I don’t care what any body says about the M8, for me, its all about the glass. Bill