Now that the M8 specs are known...

[sreidvt]

Build quality will be better? Let me put it this way: will the new M8 survive being thrown to a wall? From very close by I've seen an M6 survive such treatment. I'm pretty sure the R-D1 won't survive. I'm thinking an M8 won't either.

Better rangefinder? Perhaps the QC will be better but I've not experienced any of the rf problems that so many other R-D1 users reported. And many of these reports also reported (later) that after proper calibration the rf was spot on.

The 1.5x crop factor on the R-D1 took me a few days to get used to, true, but I'm using a 50mm lens almost exclusively on the R-D1 now. The crop factor just means I have to step back a few steps compared to a 50 on a film camera, and that suits me just fine.

Well, I love the R-D1 too, as you well know, but indeed the build quality of the M8 is higher than that of the R-D1 and it does use a higher quality rangefinder. I still don't have my second body back from Epson and it's been returned twice. I've had two so far with play in the yoke of the RF mechanism (no adjustment for that).

Cheers,

Sean