[Leica] M8 - a reversal of viewpoint

[grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)]

Chris,

Congrats on the new M8, You'll love it.  As for the funny Titanium colored 
lens, mine looks real cool on my chrome M6TTL, much better than the Chrome 
ones.  Even looks cool on my black M8.  ;-)

Gene

-------------- Original message from "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith342@cox.net>: 
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> 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. 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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