Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, for someone who's not used it you have way too many opinions about it. At 8:15 PM -0500 1/24/10, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> Rabs, please excuse my edit for focus. >> I agree that the M9 is the ideal purchase for M users of course but the >> M8 >> is still the same enormously capable camera it was prior to September 9. >> I >> used mine for all of my photography for 2 years and it never hiccupped >> once. >> Leica considers that a used M8 can be an entry path to M digital these >> days. >> Locally the price is around one third of that of a new M9 (still in very >> short supply of course). Especially if you have the M lenses that you >> want, >> that can make a lot of sense. I was just pointing out another option >> (aprt >> from the mentioned demo) if a buyer was concerned about the very well >> publicised issues with the first M8s to come to market. Its been a stable >> mature camera since those were addressed and many thousands of us have >> use >> them to our satisfation with great results and no issues at all. >> Cheers >> Geoff >> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > >You're in the minority in the photographic community in your view of the M8 >as a "stable mature" camera where it is widely viewed as just the opposite. >Its a first out. And a rocky one. And at this point in the game its being a >cropped format is not good timing. >More to the point the M9 DOES seem to be a stable mature camera; and the >current accepted serious format. . And its the camera Leica is making now. >I predict it will quickly acquire an acceptance the M8 never got. >(this is where our friend goes ballistic but I didn't use the word "top" I >guess) > >No the M8 is not a viable entry level camera into the Leica digital M system >at this stage of the game. The smart advice would be to wait. Wait till one >had the capital to procure an M9. > >Why wouldn't Leica continue making the M8 instead discontinuing it? >Thus giving a photographer a choice in "formats". And provide an entry level >option? >Because the camera was a disaster that's why. And the cropped format is no >longer a serious option. > >[Rabs] >Mark William Rabiner > -- * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw at archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com