Please help me make the jump to M8

[Gabriel M.A.]

Consider this, if the M8 was a new model Canon would the Canon users give Canon a free pass on the problems many are having with the M8.

They did. Can Canon 10D users say "focusing issue"? I won't mention the D60.

 

[Grober]

Sorry, I'm not sure we confirmed RF shooters can put into words why we are the way we are.

We look at DSLR shooters with considerable puzzlement and amazement that anyone would ever countenance such tremendous bulk and all that annoying mirror-slapping noise. SLRs represent, to us, way too much machinery between our brain/eye and the images we seek.

I say with respect that it's kind of a "zen thing" that one cannot describe with any precision.

-g

 

[DaveSee]

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Those who are used to controling the pictorial content of their photos through the lens of an SLR have to develop experience and mental visualization to get the same results with the rangefinder. It's not difficult but it isn't automatic or instantaneous.

This last is really what "the issue" is. However, I would not go as far to say "get the same results" because SLR, TLR, MF and RF systems(to list those rigs "hand held"...[1]) are very different means of making images. And then there's the film v. digital differences... ALL of these differences should be honored and respected.

I agree with the suggestions to buy either a CV Bessa, or Leica M6 to sort out the feel, and come to terms with the aspects of RF rigs "not difficult but ...[not] automatic"... you can then use the lens with the R-D1(s) or M8 if you later decide to "go digital".

rgds,
Dave
[1] OK, so I include SpeedGraphics, and Linhoffs, Polaroid LandCameras as, um, "MF"

 

[shadowfox]

just buying a cheapish pocket digi point and shoot (and if I could find one that came with both RAW and even minimum noise issues, I'd do it --- Canon's discontinued S70 seems like the last, best attempt) uh-oh , where did this sentence start?

In that case, Olympus C5050