[Leica] M8 - a reversal of viewpoint

[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

On Mar 15, 2007, at 6:01 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote:

> Whenever I got a new Leica lens, I always had to contemplate  
> whether the
> camera body, the film, the developer, or the scan/print would do  
> the lens
> justice. With the appearance of the M8, we seem to have reached  
> something of
> a great equalizer. A lot of variables have been eliminated, and now  
> one has
> to wonder if he/she is doing the M8 justice with the lens attached  
> to the
> front of it. ;-)
>
> With the Santa Fe trip nearing, I was agonizing over how I was  
> going to get
> 50 rolls of film to and from New Mexico without the authorities  
> nuking it
> silly. For 6 months, I was agonizing over whether or not I would  
> buy an M8.
> I finally tried to quell two agonies with one decision and got the  
> M8. It
> arrived today. I got a chrome one so it would "go well" with any  
> one my
> lenses except the funny titanium-colored one.
>
> Now I agonize over which lens to put on the front of it.

hi Jeffery,

too much agony, too few photos.... you can decrease the agony if you  
send me the funny

titanium colored one...


:-)


Steve




> Things were much
> easier for the young Capa and young HCB, when the answer was "A  
> Leica with a
> 50/3.5 Elmar" or "A Contax with a 50/2 Sonnar".
>
> I guess I'll start with the 50/1.4 'Lux. Can't wait until dawn.
>
> Jeffery
>
>
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