Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, you are pretty funny. So you admit that people have made some excellent images with the M8, yet it belongs to a historical footnotes?!! What, those images are no longer considered as "excellent?" Did Nikon stop selling cropped beasts once the D700/D3 were released? Of course not. M8.2 and used M8x will remain the entry market for people looking for digital rangefinders. Heck, even the Epson R-D1 still has a loyal following for that reason. On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > An M8 would get from me and many a pretty low grade at this point thank god > hindsight. The M8 is really all about hindsite. > And I almost got one when they first came out but for the Fates. > Yes many of us here have made some excellent images with them. And still > will in the near future perhaps. > But if ever there were was a camera which belongs squarely in the past as a > quirky historic footnote its a Leica M8. On that front will make an M5 look > like a rousing winner. > It kept the price of Leica glass up and kept some people using their Leica > M > system ?And I'm not selling mine Leica glass I'm getting them going again > on > a Leica M9. However long it takes. > To me and many a ?Leica M9 is a real camera. > An M8 is a first out experiment. With the best intentions. > I was glad to watch it go by. -- // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com // w: http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/Portfolio09/ blog: http://rfman.wordpress.com // book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/745963