[Leica] M8.. Kurland

[hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson)]

Well Leica is damned for pricing the M8 too high and damned if they discount
it, it seems! Plus reviled for not making it perfect or auto focus or full
frame or a better super high ISO performer or have a 16MP sensor or making
the self timer too easy to set or the body too slippery or choose your own
deficiency. I see nothing ominous nor unsound about reducing stock levels
prior Photokina.
I expect that at least the shutter upgrade may become standard in new
production, maybe with a price rise. I got mine at a discount just prior to
the last announced optional upgrades. Now you can buy it new here for about
16% cheaper again. 
I predict the next firmware release (with higher capacity SD card support
and maybe more noise reduction?) will be announced in September.
At least one new wide for it, 16 or 18 and maybe f3.4?
A new Nocti something that costs a gazillion dollars.
I bet it still says M8 on the front and still makes superb photographs.
Oh and a new R with a new AF lens range.
Knowing Alastair he will win at least two of those by next February.

Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/

-----Original Message-----
Subject: Re: [Leica] M8.. Kurland

and they are out here in Australia: seems a lot of Demoinggoingon. ALL WILL
BECOME CLEAR on September 15, when the Leica site will publish the list of
new gear to be released at Photokina. I shall be dialling up from Paris to
check out the goodies ;-)

--- msadat@gmail.com wrote:

From: mehrdad <msadat@gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] M8.. Kurland
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:34:53 -0700

those are demo m8s ( and i don't know what demo is) but leica sure has
a lot of them, popflash also has those for the same price

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i@earthlink.net>
wrote:
> He has too many M8's and no customers?
>
> I'm waiting for the M9... at which point you will not be able to give away
> M8's......
>
> At least, that is the way I see it.......
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
>
> Perhaps Kurland knows something we don't?
>
> Jim Shulman
> Bryn Mawr, PA
>
>
> Kurland has an M8 advertised at that auction place...... $3995
>
> If someone is looking at a second ( or third, or.... this gets really
> scary.....) body, it is a factory demo.
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
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 regards, mehrdad