[Leica] M8 craps out

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Me too I think the Leica R glass would balance well on many Leica full frame
bodies the 3 grand 36mp D800 would be ideal though the new 2 grand 24mp D600
might have advantages but my existing D700 might do in a pinch.
It would be interesting to see how the results compared on the New M I'd
love to be the one to experience that personally in an ongoing manner with
my own gear. My first Leica R lens would be the 60 macro.
The Leica 15mm f/2.8 Super-Elmarit-R ASPH ? 2001 is now probably a
collectors item proudly displayed behind glass cabinets. I cant see them
having had time to have made many of them. Another dream lens.

Mark William Rabiner
Photography
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: Howard Cummer <cummer at netvigator.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:14:08 -0700
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] M8 craps out
> 
> 
> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 07:02:09 +1000
> From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] M8 craps out
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> 
> I will almost certainly get the new M once they are both available and
> proven to actually do more for me than my M9.
> If using R lenses was my primary goal, I think I would follow Howard's
> route which is to adapt those lenses with the Leitax kits and use them on a
> full frame Nikon.
> 
> Cheers,
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> 
> Geoff,
> Thanks for the vote of confidence!
> As all know, I have been shooting EVF's on my GH2s in India (tigers with
> Jayanand)
> and Africa (all sorts of wild life with Henning, Alastair, and Jayanand) 
> and
> basis
> those experiences (the EVF on the GH2 and the Olympus attachable EVF have a
> similar number of dots)
> I believe the best platform for Leica R lenses is a camera with an old
> fashioned bright prism with no
> smearing or delay in viewing the image. Especially since there will be no 
> auto
> aperture for Leica R
> lenses using the adapter on the new M. There is no auto aperture on my 
> D800E
> either but the 
> picture is certainly clear and focus confirmation works in a more or less
> reasonable way.
> So, that's the road I have chosen. And so my R lenses continue to sing!!
> Howard
> 
> 
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