Who still loves their M8?

[Lss]

Visible Dust is a Canadian company, you can order the products from their web site. I don't know whether any store carries the items. I use their liquids and swabs for wet cleaning and a generic bulb blower when wet cleaning is not necessary. Many people like the brushes and loupes, but I have never tried them. I find wet cleaning easy, quick and effective, and I need to resort to it very seldom anyway.

I think you are looking at a bit less than $100 for a set that gets you started and going for at least a year or two. I'm sure there are many other similar products. Visible Dust is the one I found some years ago when I started looking into wet cleaning.

 

[eleskin]

Still have mine too along with A7r

Still have mine too along with A7r

I still have my M8 with 80,000 clicks. When I have a rangefinder itch, Ill use that and or my X Pro-1. I would have gone for the M 240, but I cannot justify the price when compared to the performance of the Sony A7 options. My full frame itch is covered by my A7r (and I am contemplating the thin sensor stack modification at the moment). In my gut I feel Leica is flawed in this respect: They build camera bodies that will last way longer than the digital rot we get with the electronics. I really wish Leica would have made a digital back for the film M cameras and or a modular M where the body is recycled and the electronics module is replaced at reasonable cost. Leica should consider constructing the lower part of the M modular like the A7r, so it would be simple to upgrade it. If that were done, the camera would be worth the $8000 they charge. Until that happens, I will hold on to my M8, continue to use the Sony offerings, and maybe consider a used M240.

 

[eleskin]

Leica and Sony?

Leica and Sony?

I still have my M8 with 80,000 clicks. When I have a rangefinder itch, Ill use that and or my X Pro-1. I would have gone for the M 240, but I cannot justify the price when compared to the performance of the Sony A7 options. My full frame itch is covered by my A7r (and I am contemplating the thin sensor stack modification at the moment). In my gut I feel Leica is flawed in this respect: They build camera bodies that will last way longer than the digital rot we get with the electronics. I really wish Leica would have made a digital back for the film M cameras and or a modular M where the body is recycled and the electronics module is replaced at reasonable cost. Leica should consider constructing the lower part of the M modular like the A7r, so it would be simple to upgrade it. If that were done, the camera would be worth the $8000 they charge. Until that happens, I will hold on to my M8, continue to use the Sony offerings, and maybe consider a used M240.

I would also have Sony make the electronics for any future digital Leica M.

 

[Mudman]

Love my M8, still shoot with it regularly. Even survived a car crash tuesday without being knocked out of alignment!

 

[raid]

I am glad that my job keeps me so busy that dwelling on which camera to use is not of any real importance to me anymore. I use whatever I happen to be owning. The M9 is quite sensitive to electronic failure, and this startled me when I had my M9 fail. The M8 keeps on ticking. I like it a lot.