Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]yeah, there were showing this camera @ PMA behind closed door, i played around with it for a while. pretty nice. leica for sure has spent a lot of R&D money @ the right time, when the market comes back, they are going to do well if they are around On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Chris Williams < leicachris at worldnet.att.net> wrote: > So this was an interesting evening. My wife and I went down to the French > Quarter to see some clients and then get some dinner at Napoleon House. We > were there eating and this pretty well known photographer sits across the > room from us. Now he has people with him so I don't want to bug him. I > notice he has an M8 with him and he taking photos around Napoleon House. So > I get up to go to the bathroom, figuring on the way back I'd mention what > camera he's using. > > So I came back and mention "that's a great camera your using, M8 huh?" > > "Yes, sort of" > > "Oh the new M8.2" > > "Well, no. It's sort of a prototype" > > "Wow" > > "Let's just say a 50mm is now a 50mm" > > "Holy crap!" > > I think he had the new 18mm on there but I'm not 100% sure. If that's the > case, he's really shooting wide once again on a Leica M! He would not > really > say anything else about the camera. It was all black, no red dot, no white > lettering where the M8 should be. > > So here's a grab shot from my wife's iPhone of the two of us, you'll know > the face well. > > > www.zoeicaimages.com/Untitled-1.jpg > > > Chris > NOLA > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- ------------------------------------- regards, mehrdad