Peter Klein
Well-known
Tom Abrahamsson, the designer and maker of the Rapidwinder, posted his thoughts on the M8 this weekend. Tom is a longtime RF user and expert on all manner of cameras. He is also known for being a diehard film guy. So his impressions are of special interest.
He had an M8 for about a month. Read all about it here:
http://www.leica-users.org/v33/msg00653.html
I doubt that Tom can answer any questions on this forum. As far as I know, he is not on RFF. He is also heading for Photokina and Solms/Wetzlar.
Enjoy,
--Peter
He had an M8 for about a month. Read all about it here:
http://www.leica-users.org/v33/msg00653.html
I doubt that Tom can answer any questions on this forum. As far as I know, he is not on RFF. He is also heading for Photokina and Solms/Wetzlar.
Enjoy,
--Peter
newyorkone
Established
Peter Klein said:
Nice find! The fact that Tom even remotely likes it is amazing.
ywenz
Veteran
Enuff of these "semi" reviews.. Gimme the full in-depth reviews and sample pictures already! When are those coming out? Anyone know?
boilerdoc2
Well-known
WOW! I'm chomping at the bit for that M8 now. Praise from an 'old' film meister. It doesn't get any better than that.
Steve
Steve
Peter Klein
Well-known
ywenz said:
Ywenz: One of the well-known reviewers told me that he would receive a camera with production firmware right after Photokina. This probably means Leica will make production firmware available to major reviewers at that time.
Photokina ends October 1. So I suspect that if you give the usual suspects time to get home from Cologne, recover from their jetlag, shoot a few pictures and write a coherent English sentence, you should start seeing some real stuff the first week in October, or very shortly thereafter.
We now resume our regularly-scheduled speculative drooling. . .
--Peter
John Camp
Well-known
That whole thing about smooth low-light photographs so good that they are disconcerting, is really a turn-on. Just think what it'll be like when they get the firmware right.
JC
JC
ywenz
Veteran
John Camp said:That whole thing about smooth low-light photographs so good that they are disconcerting, is really a turn-on. Just think what it'll be like when they get the firmware right.
JC
What's the big deal with that? Canon's have had smooth high ISO for several generations of their DSLRs now. I expect the M8, which is a street/available light shooting machine to perform nothing less than "well" at high ISO.
