Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yup, M8 is definitely an M8. The size, weight, shape, and of course the viewfinder say, :Leica M: The shutter sound is different, yet... very similar to low speed on the film Ms. Imagine the sound of the 1/15 on a film M sped up. Here's my obligatory "test" picture: http://www.dragonsgate.net/pub/richard/PICS/L1000005.jpg 75/1.4 'lux at 1.4 The ISO 1250 shots look worse than the RD-1 at 1600, IMHO, but that's a very unscientific observation. Apparently there are now 28 people on the K&S waiting list :-) and the Norcal rep. says he has 250 camera in the first batch and of course they are all accounted for. Too bad there are 5003 reasons not to buy it: the first 5000 are the killer reasons, the last 3 are nits: - 5001: lack of shutter arm (no biggie) - 5002: various white balance, banding issues (almost certainly software fixable) - 5003: magenta black (almost certainly don't happen all that often "in real life" and most likely will be fixed one way or the other) Now to address the first 5000 reasons... At 12:31 AM 11/11/2006, pmcc wrote: >Here's the pdf: > >http://www.kspphoto.com/media/event_data/leica/Leica_card.pdf > >Peter. >SF, CA // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)