The M8

Terrific-looking camera. Very clean. Of course, Jorge's spy is now being led into a dank little dungeon in Solms...

Is the screen recessed? It's hard to tell, but it appears to be, because the selector switch seems to sit out from it.

Is there any text with it?

JC
 
Looks great...still so many questions...
 

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when i first looked at this thread there were some specs/details accompanying the picture, but now i can't find them, are the specs still available somewhere on the site?
 
i think the buttons on the left say "play" , "delete", i can't quite read the third one and "set." the button on the right is "menu" i think. the slot on the left is maybe for the SD card?

i was kinda hoping for exposure compensation around the shutter dial, but it looks like that stuff is probably menu driven. hopefully it's a good interface.
 
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Maybe it's just JPEG compression, but doesn't the perspective of the M8 nameplate look a little "off"? And the lens-release button on the front view, and the knurling around the edge of the four-way controller on the back view, appear to be lit from the bottom, which is a bit unusual (unless they photographed the camera on a backlit copystand or on top of a glass display case.)

I'm not questioning the veracity of Jorge's source, just noting that we're still seeing a pretty darn compressed photo here.

Anyone want to make a guess as to the purpose of the little blue dot seen above and to the left of the Leica "red dot" in the front view? It looks a bit retouched, but again, that could just be JPEG compression. I'm thinking maybe white-balance sensor...?
 
Wha? No engravings on the top plate?

J|W: The lens release is lit from the bottom. The focus tab is also lit from the bottom. Looks legit to me
 
I was surprised to see a chrome M8 in the first photo. I had read somewhere that only black bodies were going to be released initially. Did anyone else read the same or did I have some day-dreaming experience again?
 
humanized_form said:
i think the buttons on the left say "play" , "delete", i can't quite read the third one and "set." the button on the right is "menu" i think. the slot on the left is maybe for the SD card?
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The upper-right button says "MENU," the top two left buttons say "PLAY" and "DELETE", and the bottom two say "INFO" and "SET." I can't read the middle one. It looks as if it says "TROUBLE", but let's hope not!
 
ghost said:
the back looks kind of cramped on the right side where the arrow buttons are. that's where my palm would rest.
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Right.

Would anyone send to me the original photos of the chrome version? (just to see).

Specifications, please?
 
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