Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well done Howard and welcome to the club ;-), I am surprised that your "group" are having supply shortages, but the competition must be fierce. Shooting DNG RAW and developing it will require some work. Looking forward to seeing some results Cheers On 14/01/2007, at 13:36, Howard Cummer wrote: > Dear Luggers, > I have been planning to buy an M8 ever since I sold my third and > best RD 1 to Joe Leung in Vancouver in August after using the demo > M8 that Leica had provided to Tom A. and Henning W.. I became more > resolved to buy one after using another M8 at the Leica Akademi in > Wetzlar in October. But, availability of M8's in Hong Kong has been > very limited, and prices have been very firm (HK$40,000 = US > $5,125). Most units are being sold over the border into China, it > seems, and so there is no discount for Hong Kong belongers. ;-(. > Yesterday I had lunch with Joseph Yao and Joe Leung and then we > went to the First Annual Photo Equipment Flea Market show in Hong > Kong. It was held in the China Resources Hall in Wan Chai and > unlike the dead atmosphere at the August Camera show in Kerrisdale, > Vancouver, the Hong Kong show was bustling with dealers from Russia > and Europe as well as the usual local suspects offering quite > exotic equipment as well as new stuff. The Leica Shop from Vienna > was present, with very nice used but relatively high priced > equipment and the sales rep was wearing an M8 around his neck. We > got to talking - his M8 serial number was 1000003 - the third > prototype he told me - and so I naturally asked him if he had any > M8's for sale - none were on display. Surprisingly he said that > they had brought three pieces from Vienna - all of which had been > delivered to them just before coming to Hong Kong - with 1.09 > firmware in stalled and serial numbers in the 3104500 range > (updated bodies). He had one black body left - which he dug out > from behind the booth and I tried it with his M8 battery and my 35 > Lux Asph that I was using on my M4. The autowhite balance in the > fluorescent lit hall was awful - the manual white balance was > better - but not Canon perfect (Joseph had his Canon Dslr with him > for comparison) but in the end, after a friendly price negotiation > and sage advice from Joseph, I ended up buying the camera for about > 10% less than the Hong Kong price. I will pick it up tomorrow after > I get to the bank. Now I need to learn to shoot RAW DNG and learn > to use Capture One so it should be an interesting week with a steep > learning curve. More later, of course. > Cheers, > Howard > On 14 Jan 2007, at 9:04 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote: > >> Message: 28 >> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:02:04 -0800 >> From: Wade Heninger <lists@heninger.org> >> Subject: RE: [Leica] M8 Test >> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org> >> Message-ID: <001b01c73777$9b7991a0$d26cb4e0$@org> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >> >> All these M8's and me on a waiting list 30 people long. >> >> Where are you all getting these mythic cameras? >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information