Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/27

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Subject: [Leica] M8 and the Future
From: bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)
Date: Fri Oct 27 11:25:44 2006

I was simply reporting a review by someone other than a member of this
group. The person who wrote the review reports not only handling, shooting
with, and examining the camera, but also reports the fact that he has
consulted with Leica on the camera. Make of it what you will. ;-)


On 10/26/06 9:31 PM, "GREG LORENZO" <gregj.lorenzo@shaw.ca> wrote:

> G Hopkinson writes in part:
> 
>> B.D., I follow your observations on this and would like to add
>> some questions and comments.
>> Where are the review images located that you have used to compare
>> the high ISO performance?
>> I have only read reviews thus far based on pre-production
>> examples. Those reviewers, quite properly, have refrained from posting
>> images, commenting that the firmware is not the commercial release.
> 
> Hoppy,
> 
> A quick check of recent Lug archives should bring up some reviews from List
> members who have actually seen, handled, used an M8, and produced images 
> with
> it. Tom A., Henning and Howard C come to mind.
> 
> Henning, I believe, actually posted an on-line photo.
> 
> Although these three have posted their subjective opinions and impressions
> there have not been a lot of publicly available image results to see for
> yourself.
> 
> That said, I tend to believe that our on-List reviewers have posted their
> opinions subsequent to actual usage... which is intellectually more honest
> then uninformed, idle speculation.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
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