[Leica] Leica M8: "I think it's going to be all right"

[dstella1 at ameritech.net (Dante Stella)]

I get the impression that the problems with the M8 are overstated.   
People love to repeat stuff like that, no matter how seldom it occurs  
- and you can look to the Kodak SLR and the Hexar RF to see where  
that chitter-chatter leads.  So I also wouldn't be surprised if the  
M8 disappears as a result of kvetchmongering.

On Nov 19, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Irving Greines wrote:

> I don't believe a series of filters (eveen if given away for free)  
> will
> solve Leica's problems.  There will have to be a permanent fix to the
> camera itself.  We love Leica because it is a quick, silent,  
> unobtrusive
> street camera; these attributes are undermined if the quickness
> component is compromised by a need to fiddle.
>
> Paying almost $5,000 for a camera that requires fixes in order to
> operate correctly in certain circumstances is a tough sell, except for
> those who "need" to buy and justify the latest Leica no matter  
> what.  In
> my view, after the initial sales are completed to those who simply  
> have
> to have the M8, the M8 will face tough sailing in the marketplace if
> Leica does not solve its present problem.
>
> I'm betting that Voightlander will furnish the fix in the form of a  
> much
> lower-priced body that doesn't have Leica's problems.
>
> I'd love to have an M8, but not the present-version. How many
> photographers will wait for the successor version, or the Voightlander
> version, before spending their money?  I feel many will wait.
>
>
>
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