Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Richard, and others who have commented. I have an M8u and had an E3 - sold last summer to a birder in Saskatchewan. It took me three tries to get a fully operational M8 and I am happy with it for what it does. I am not rushing to buy an M9. I used an Oly 330E for several years with my Leica R lenses and adapters and liked it well enough to upgrade to the E3. The E3 is a well built, competent camera for its time, but its CMOS performance has been outpaced by more recent full frame DSlrs like the Canon 5D MkII and the Nikon D700. As everyone on the LUG knows I really like the D700 and rebayonted R lenses and have posted a lot of pictures to illustrate the qualities of the combo. See: <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/R+lenses+on+Nikon+D700/ > The point of this rambling is that I think comparisons should be made between like tools. So if you are comparing the E3 to anything perhaps you should compare it with other Dslrs and in that case I think the E3 will fall short of the Canon 5D II or the Nikon D700 - newer updated models with FF chips. For the comparo, Richard, I looked at four photos and was able to pick out the M8 every time based on colour rendition. I didn't think, like Nathan, to look at the picture dimensions. But, what does it matter? The M8u is a great travel camera with superb fast lenses which overcome the less than stellar high ISO performance. The E3 is a very strong competent platform for its matched zoom lenses and for R lenses with adapters. Nothing wrong with the images from either - but they are different horses for different courses in my view. My 2 cents - and just for fun on a Sunday morning, (I don't mean to bend anyone out of shape) - where the village next door is practicing a loud barong dance - free entertainment. Cheers Howard (just awake in Bali)