[Leica] A new M from Canon

[images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)]

Now, Mark.  I have two Leica M8's and I still use them.  There is
absolutely nothing wrong with the Leica M8's.  You just have to learn how
to exploit their advantages. All of your lenses are automatically longer!
 Anything you want cropped from the edges is already cropped.  I never used
a filter with the M8's unless I was photographing a wedding with lots of
black polyester.  I never photographed a wedding with black polyester.
 Mine were all pure silk or wool - no problem for the M8.  If I hadn't had
M8's I would have missed many, many photos still trying to use the Canon 5D
and 1DMII.  I would still be deleting those photos as I came to them in my
files.  Instead, I'm happily saving all of my M8 photos.  You just have to
try it and you will see.  Or look at some of the many wonderful photos
posted here from the M8.  I don't know why you accept less-than-full-frame
photos from some cameras and not from Leicas?  M8 photos are better than
full-frame photos from any other digital camera.  Try it out and you'll see.

Tina

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> If there was somebody I really hated who I though was a real idiot who
> sociopathicly harmed people I would advise them to go out and and spend
> money on a Leica M8. Not a friend. Not an acquaintance. Not somebody I'd
> like to not cross the street way before they came up to me.
>
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photography
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>
>
> > From: John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 22:51:10 +0000
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] A new M from Canon
> >
> > There are some one-owner M8s appearing on Fridays here and M9s for <$4K
> but
> > sadly nothing other than those and the Ricoh A12 cope with wide angle
> Leica
> > lenses very well.
> >
> > john
> > ________________________________________
> >
> >
> > Spending two grand on a six year old cropped sensor is blatantly foolish
> > even if it wasn't almost guaranteed trouble.
> > I tried to buy it when it first came out I had the money I'd just sold my
> > house. But they delayed it. Then they re did it . Then they fixed more
> > stuff. They were handing out expensive filters for your glass then they
> > stopped doing it.
> > To anybody getting good results with your old M8 I say more power to you.
> > But there's not 6 year old digital camera out there which is worth a
> quarter
> > of that kind of money even a full frame one. I'm afraid Leicas first out
> > digital M is no exception. The M9 however should retain much more of its
> > value.  Its a camera to take much more seriously. Unfortunately priced as
> > such.
> >
> > Mark William Rabiner
> > Photography
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
> >
> >>
> >> Wouldn't a sub-$2K M8 make more sense for the Leica glass? Larger
> sensor than
> >> X2 or Canon M.....
> >>
> >> john
> >> ________________________________________
> >>
> >>
> >> When that full frame mirrorless comes out with a Leica M adaptor I'll
> really
> >> be looking at it as of course I'd like to get my Leica glass going
> again and
> >> I need a price point way lower than Leica is about to give me.
> >>
> >> But I'm looking long and hard at the Leica X2.
> >> The camera is simply gorgeous.
> >>
> >>
> >> Mark William Rabiner
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Aren't you the one that wanted an M10 with an optical VF?
> >>>
> >>> Frank Filippone
> >>> Red735i at earthlink.net
> >>>
> >>> Its a mirrorless fairly tiny body with interchangeable lenes but a
> >>> reasonably sized APS-C sensor. For such a tiny body I think its a very
> >>> reasonable sensor to body ratio. At a very reasonable price point as in
> >>> cheap. I like it. Looks like it would fit in most pockets and take very
> >>> competitive pix against  DSLR cameras three times its size. I call that
> >>> Leica-Like.
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Leica Users Group.
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>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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>
>


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Tina Manley, ASMP
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