Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/13

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Subject: [Leica] some M8 info first hand
From: msadat at gmail.com (mehrdad)
Date: Wed Sep 13 16:25:52 2006

1) First of it is a very light, lighter than m7. it is made out of
magnesium with brass tops and bottom.

2) it takes sd card and battery through the bottom plate

3) view finder coverage from 24-90

4) it is loud, no more cloth shutters, mettal shutter

5) covers high ISO but i don't know the quality at high ISO

6) continuous shooting!!

7) menu option to read in the new lens codes only, no manual way of
telling about none digital converted lenses

8) DNG file format

9) feels real good in hands and feels like M

10) the menu system looks like DMR, same style

11) it comes in two colors blk and silver, i assume, we will see blk
paint at some point also

12) a small view finder on the top shows the number of images left on the 
card

13) quality of the pics, i don't know







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  regards, mehrdad

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