Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And while you have been engaged in years of mental masturbation and spewing your hate of the M8, the rest of us have been taking pictures with ours and been quite pleased with the results. Cheers, Nathan On 24 Jul 2012, at 01:12, Mark Rabiner wrote: > The lug for years was a litany of M8 problems. > Had I not been on the lug, not had the internet but lived on a farm in > southern Nebraska I would have gotten an m8 early on. And been another of > the many sending them back and forth and back and forth in the mail getting > it maybe working. Again to those who were lucky and are out shooting with > them every day it would be foolish to negate that but you were lucky. And > you got the camera many moons ago when it made more sense. > The M8 era has really ended it kept Leica almost afloat but I'm sure its > one > Leica would rather forget. > We are in business big time with the M9 and with the CMOS tweak we'll be > cooking with gravy. It will be interesting to see the work that will be > done > in 2013 with that camera by all kinds of people some of them at the top of > their field. > The M camera is a street camera. And half of street photography takes place > at night. It needs to excel in doing that not be lagging way behind. Next > year I'm sure it will excel. > > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman Blog: http://www.nathansmusings.eu/