[Leica] M8 and the Future

[hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)]

Thanks Greg, yes of course I was aware of the LUG reviews/previews. I do 
recall Henning posting a single small image, not related to
his review. I haven't seen any other publicly available images. But then, 
since B.D. has now mentioned that he has had a visit from
Ted, perhaps he's seen hundreds? ;-)
It does sound as though the Reid Review is very informative. I haven't seen 
it. As mentioned it appears that Leica asked that images
from those preview examples not be published in that the firmware was not 
the production version. I don't recall any content
specifically commenting on very high ISO performance. I shall re-read the 
reviews. In any event, I have no idea except what has been
shared with us. I was asking about where the comparison had been done vs the 
Canon performance.
Howard in Hong Kong has just posted that his experience was that the 
camera's performance was spectacular at 1250 ISO. That is a
marvel and shows some huge potential for that low light creativity that many 
Leica users love. I am certainly looking forward to
early owners sharing their pictures and experiences with us all. I thought 
that the on-line reviews that we have seen were certainly
intellectually honest and also very interesting to us all. I hope you don't 
consider that I've made uninformed, idle speculation
regarding the camera's performance. Certainly I've never handled one. I do 
hope to be shown one of the early deliveries ordered in
Australia, maybe early in 2007. I suspect that handling one may be very bad 
indeed for the wallet.
Cheers
Hoppy

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
GREG LORENZO
Sent: Friday, 27 October 2006 11:32
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: RE: [Leica] M8 and the Future

G Hopkinson writes in part:

> B.D., I follow your observations on this and would like to add 
> some questions and comments. 
> Where are the review images located that you have used to compare 
> the high ISO performance?
> I have only read reviews thus far based on pre-production 
> examples. Those reviewers, quite properly, have refrained from posting
> images, commenting that the firmware is not the commercial release.

Hoppy,

A quick check of recent Lug archives should bring up some reviews from List 
members who have actually seen, handled, used an M8, and
produced images with it. Tom A., Henning and Howard C come to mind.

Henning, I believe, actually posted an on-line photo.

Although these three have posted their subjective opinions and impressions 
there have not been a lot of publicly available image
results to see for yourself.

That said, I tend to believe that our on-List reviewers have posted their 
opinions subsequent to actual usage... which is
intellectually more honest then uninformed, idle speculation.

Regards,

Greg


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