Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It seems to do well in black and white. What I've seen so far looks almost as good as with my 50-year-old M3. :-) grduprey@mchsi.com wrote: >Larry, > >If it seems I am attacking David, then I apologise to him and everyone >else. My point is that he has given no specifics of any merit for his >trashing of the M8 and that is what we would like for him to define. I >think that is also what Steve is asking and also what Ted said in his reply >to David a week ago. I have no problem with making negatgive statements on >the M8, but lets give the specific reasons, not generalities. > >Gene > > >-------------- Original message from Lawrence Zeitlin ><lrzeitlin@optonline.net>: -------------- > > > > >>On Nov 25, 2006, at 6:30 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote: >> >> >> >>>>>>hi David, some superb photographers (their work is very well known >>>>>>here and long time M shooters they are)...have been more than >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>favorable about the M8. More, they have been explicit and detailed >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>about their M8 experience... >>>>>> >>>>>> >>Enough of these ad hominum attacks on David. Good photographers have >>learned to rise above the inadequacies of their equipment. I suspect >>that Ted and Tina would make prize winning photographs with Holgas. >>Therefore their judgments on equipment should count LESS than those >>of less talented mortals. We have been told to learn to accommodate >>the flawed WB of the M8, ignore blobbing and banding, and artfully >>arrange the subject matter to minimized the dreaded magenta cast. If >>we don't know enough to do this, we don't deserve the M8. But for >>those of us that depend on our equipment to compensate for our >>photographic inadequacies, the anti M8 sniping in the LUG provides a >>valuable caution. Wait for the M9, or at least the M8.1. >> >>Larry Z >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >