Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ooops, my bad, I meant ISO2500 of course, which makes it OK to be worse than 1600 on the R-D1. Sorry for the confusion! At 03:11 PM 11/11/2006, Richard wrote: >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)