[Leica] Yo tube m8

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

I am filling my my new phonebook with local contacts and delightedly I find
Leica itself is a neighbor Leica USA. But its not Leica NY its Leica NJ.
Maybe Herr Cohen liked the NJ rents better in cost cutting measures and cut
a deal with Tony soprano on refuge removal. But I think "Roger Horn Leica
New York". Old news its Jersey Baby Jersey.
I can just take the train up there if I wanted to to visit, the MTA
Railroad. The Metropolitan Transfiguration Remuneration.  46 minutes from
Penn Station. And marking things in my City Slicker map with a red ultra
sharp sharpie. Camera stores, custom labs, galleries. Leica people to visit.
Or know where they are. So I can triangulate. Rangefinder people do that.

So I'm looking up Christian Erhardt, Marketing Managers phone number so I
search engine him and a Youtube thing comes up on him and the M8.
Youtube is my new favorite thing.
Other than the M8.
And here there is both my favorite things in the same thing.
And Christian Erhardt is a very likable very cool guy for years.
And its from mreichmann who also is very high on my list. The Luminous
Landscape guy.
http://luminous-landscape.com/
Who is having 2 much fun with his digital palm cam corder. Like I'd like to
be doing. And I'd like to see what he looks like.
... And sure enough!

I shot pictures with the m8 but it was like experiencing it for the first
time as Christian takes you through it.
The fact that you're putting the flashcard in where the film goes is
hysterical!!!
And I love how he takes the lens off and on as he's got to think of things
to do as the pressures on!! But he does a great job and I'm even more sold
on it its like you don't know if somthings real until you see it on video!
Real experience has nothing on it!
So this has been there for a few weeks I hope its not already been a thread
on the lug and I missed it.
Too good to miss. Very on topic!

At B&H the first thing you go through is their huge pro video section and
they have huge video cameras aimed at a little model set with huge monitors
to check out these 5 to 40 thousand dollar babies with which you win the
Cannes film festival and Sundance and Butch and get 40 mil for a low budget
feature..
Biggest logo I saw first thing was LEICA!
A main suppler of glass for one of these puppies.

I think when you go to the movies or whatever you do to see feature films
now they are taken with these things. With LEICA glass much of the time is
entirely possible.
And yes a touch of whimsicalness as this was before the magenta crunch set
and and mreichmann reneged and admitted he against all naturalness held back
critical magenta information as it was being addressed immediately.
But that is in the background he is very much impressed with this camera and
so am I and so would anybody be. You see him; and it; and feel his
enthusiasm. Amazing we've got a guy like this as a Leica advocate! A little
ironic as Leica being basically a low tech mindset and the luminous
landscape as being the church of the opposite. Digital. Inkjet. On off on
off yes no yes no. 
I'm getting one and it's history that just hasn't quite gotten around to
happening yet - its a huge success.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyOTLLnAZk4

Mark Rabiner
New York, NY
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