Poor M8 review - feedback from actual users

Well, if you do agree, buy a DSLR and an MP. Nobody is forcing you. But you will need to buy a pretty darn good DSLR and go chemical all the way on film to get something like the image quality of an M8....
 
northernlights said:
I do agree with this guy, somewhat

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1038&message=27423961
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I'm not going to enter into a "what Leica needs to do to survive debate" as I'm in no position to actually have any influence on their business strategy, but I will comment on the idea express in this linked post that "Many defend Leica for its being RF and the advantage of the form factor. Sadly speaking this is not really that much of a real benefit in todays usage and real field condition."

I entirely disagree with this. Perhaps it's true for many people--they don't see a real benefit in the form factor of the classic rangefinder--but for one, I do. For my usage and photographic needs the RF has many benefits over the SLR (film or digital), which are probably the same preferences that anyone who uses a Leica has, and are pointless to enumerate again. This is true whether I stick a roll of Velvia in an MP or an SD card in the M8. It's a different workflow sure, but the essence remains the same. Simplicity of form factor and function.

"...digital just demand [sic] update of technology way beyond how Leica might sees it." Bol***ks. The idea that technological advances help you be a better photographer is one of the biggest con jobs foisted off on people. There are some exceptions obviously with autofocus and sports/nature shooting, but in the broad stroke outside of this it's your eyes and heart that make the image, the camera just records it.

I'm going to stop before the tangent becomes even more philosophical, but it just drives me insane when people seem to equate what the majority of people want or are used to as the "truth" in the "real world". Perhaps this is because I've always felt I've been in the intellectual, ethical minority most of my life... Sorry, way off topic.
 
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Matthew, you are 100% right, but spare your breath, fulminating will not change the minds of the great unwashed; that is how political parties survive ;)
 
jaapv said:
Matthew, you are 100% right, but spare your breath, fulminating will not change the minds of the great unwashed; that is how political parties survive ;)
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True enough.

Form factor wars are so 1990's Jaap..

Dave
 
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