Picked up my M8.2 today!

[Dingo]

My black chrome m8 is wearing nicely, showing some brass around the edges. I think the M6, M4 black chromes had zinc, or whatever, underneath and so weared out differently.

My M8 wears a little and shows kind of silver colour instead of brass colour, will wait til it wears more to see if I am wrong.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

So it is black paint with a black chrome look? :angel:

I had a look this weekend. I like the camera, and it shows that Mr. Not-So-Best-Buy Lee had his "maverick" hand in the M8 looks with the awful vulcanite. The M8.2 is, I have to admit it, a better camera than the M8 except in the top shutter speed. I still think they really dropped the ball on that one, but I'm sure that that was the most "cost effective" (another great United-Statian business value: short-term savings with long-term losses) option.

I actually had forgotten it was supposed to be "black paint", until it was pointed out to me. It is not the gaudy "I miss my black Tonka" look of yore. It really looks like the best of both worlds: not shiny, not plastic-y, and it's even darker. Now, if they could back to the old-fashioned chrome instead of the odd "silver" of the M6 models until today...

I am calling NJ some time this week to see if I can schedule the "discreet shutter release" upgrade. I'm undecided over the black dot; I like the black dot. But come on: how else are you going to boil the blood of a true Leica basher? If you're going to spend all that money, it better be worth a Nikonite's ire.

 

[TJV]

I checked out the M8.2 today and the shutter is certainly a lot quieter. I'm not sure about the frame line improvement because I only looked through the viewfinder. Much better grip too.

Saw a photo of Rene Burri using an M8 original today. Looked good in the masters hands!

 

[GrahamWelland]

I'm undecided over the black dot; I like the black dot. But come on: how else are you going to boil the blood of a true Leica basher? If you're going to spend all that money, it better be worth a Nikonite's ire.

I don't think it's the Nikonians who have a bee in their bonnet about the M8 and anyone who'd buy one - it's the Canon G9/G10 or Canon 5D crowd that seem to have the problem with people spending their own money on what suites them.

Graham
(M8, M8.2 & D3/D700 shooter so I guess I'm biased 🙂 )