[Leica] Some time with an M8

[len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier)]

Ted,

To me the benefits far outweigh the faults. But that's me. I've been  
shooting color and b&w without problems, unless I take a problem  
photo on purpose. I do not use the filters even though I keep them in  
my bag. I love the camera as do a few others here. And I'll keep  
shooting it.

Len


On Jan 29, 2007, at 6:42 PM, Ted Grant wrote:

> Wade Heninger said & and showed:
>>>> I've not looked at the color at all - probably won't - and as
> soon as I can get a "always preview in B/W" option in Lightroom, I'll
> probably never see it so the IR and WB issues just are not an issue  
> for me.
> Here are a few pictures:
> http://www.heninger.org/gallery/victoria/<<<<
>
> Hi Wade,
> hey some nice photos including some of my garden bits and pieces! :-)
>
> To the crew regarding my garden .  :-)
>
> Wade and I had a wonderful afternoon last Friday during his visit to
> Victoria, had some lunch and a good old fashion photo gab session  
> about new
> stuff and old ..... M8 etc.
>
> Wade you've posted an overall fine series of what an M camera can  
> do in the hands of talent! :-)
>
> As I watched you clicking away like a kid with a new toy (it is)   
> it was obvious how
> well you handled the M8,  it didn't matter film or digital, it was  
> an M
> camera in hands and flying! :-)
>
> It's unfortunate there have been a number of problems with the M8  
> shooting
> colour. On the other hand I can honestly say in all the years I've  
> shot with
> M cameras they were never used but a miniscule moment or two for  
> colour.
>
> I also realize many folks have but one camera for their shooting  
> whatever type of film.
>
> Mine were B&W cameras! When push came to shove in super bad light
> situations it was an M, Noctilux and whatever the slide film of the  
> day was
> at F1.0 and being there.
>
> When colour was required it was 99.999999999% Leica SLR's of some  
> model or
> other. And I certainly appreciate the frustrations of M8 owners  
> over the
> colour situation, however.
>
> In all honesty, I can't for the life of me understand why you don't  
> send
> them back, get your money returned and get on with life.  But oh  
> no, it's
> day after day of e-mail tales of woe and whine about a faulty  
> machine that
> requires "add on fixing!"
>
> Surely if you were to purchase any other appliance and were told,  
> "well it's
> not quite right, but we're going to send you the parts for you to  
> "add on"
> and that'll fix the problem."
>
> Wouldn't you scream bloody murder for a refund and return it?
>
> If nothing else, family members who've whined and kept their  
> machines have
> an amazingly high degree of tolerance for faulty equipment.
>
> However, as noted by one member something like.. "I can't imagine  
> just letting it sit on the shelf gathering dust until the fix it  
> filters arrive. I'd be working it to death shooting B&W and  
> learning all the idiosyncrasies of the camera and it's inner  
> workings!"
>
> Despite what I said above about sending it back.
>
> That's an absolutely champion idea. And what I'd do before giving  
> into whining. I might have a word or two of bitching, but having  
> popped five grand I'd sure make that puppy work as hard as possible  
> until the fixing filter arrived. Then put it in the bag ....." just  
> in case some day I needed to shoot some M colour!" :-)
>
> And the camera would continue to be a B&W machine. ERGO: no colour  
> problems. And smiling all the way to the finished photograph. Sans  
> whine. ;-)
> ted
>
>
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