[Leica] New 35mm cropped

[jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore)]

2010-01-12-18:34:57 wildlightphoto at earthlink.net:
> Or you could get a used M8 and use your 35mm Summiron ASPH and use the same
> lens on your future M9.5
> 
> 35mm x 1.33 crop factor ~46.55mm
> f/2 and be there, and be sharp.  The image area you'd get with the 35mm
> ASPH on an M8 is bigger than the image area you'd get with the Nikon 35 on
> the D40

He's got a point there.  Despite all the griping (often from people
who've never used one) the M8 is an excellent camera, and the fact
that [I feel Strunk and White twirl in the ground] the M9 is even a
bit better doesn't change that.  If you buy a nice, used,
post-teething-problems M8, whichever one of us drove it off the
showroom floor new subsidizes your purchase to the tune of $3000.00,
plus or minus.  And I expect it's already done the majority of its
value-losing by now, so your net cost to own it for a year or so then
sell it on to the third owner would probably be a three-digit number
of dollars.

Probably.

If most of your work happens at, say, ISO 640 and above, an M8 has
nothing to be ashamed of.  Beautiful pictures from a compact package.

 -J