[Leica] M8 dismantled - photos from Leica Camera User Forum

[firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)]

> Alastair Firkin wrote:
>>> I stumbled onto this, and find the photos quite fascinating.
>>> http://www.leica-camera-user.com/digital-forum/21331-anatomy-leica-m8.html
>>>
>>> Hope you'd enjoy to.
>>
>> Enjoy: I had NO IDEA it would be so hard to install the IR cut-out
>> filters!!!!!!
>
> :-)
>
> What I found curious is that Leica has gone back to a pre IIIc design
> for the body. It is not one piece anymore, but two halves.
>
> Probably doesn't matter, but it was a nice advance when the IIIc came
> with a one piece body.

it may make access more convenient of course. Especially if you want to
repair your own !!!. Hard to believe anyone would pull one apart. I wonder
if he does lens coding ;-)

Cheers