[Leica] IMG: M8 1st Shots and impressions.

[len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier)]

Luis,

Thanks. Even before I got the M8, and shot with my D200 or other  
digital, I would take my M6 and both color and b&w film with me. Of  
course with the D200 I have two spare batteries.

Best regards,
Len


On Jan 18, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Luis Ripoll wrote:

> Congratulations Len, enjoy your toy!
>
> This is one of the advantages of a digital camera, and if it is an  
> M8...!,
> but everytime I read about the spare batteries etc..., I become  
> affraid to
> be depending to have a battery to shot..., I'm not use to be..., I  
> have my
> camera on my armschair and when I want I get it, no troubles about the
> battery....
>
> All the best from Barcelona!
> Luis
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org] En  
> nombre de
> Leonard Taupier
> Enviado el: jueves, 18 de enero de 2007 17:20
> Para: Leica Users Group
> Asunto: [Leica] IMG: M8 1st Shots and impressions.
>
> I received my new M8 late yesterday afternoon. By the time the battery
> charged, it was already dark and pretty cold out. So I played  
> around in the
> house experimenting with different lighting, lenses, and Ultra Violet
> photos.
>
> First impression. If you're shooting in tungsten lighting you  
> better get the
> WB right for color or shoot b&w. My first color shots in my living  
> room (WB
> tungsten) turned my blue chair purple. I expected that. So I took  
> the same
> shot with a Tiffen hot mirror filter on the lens. The blue/purple  
> chair
> turned brown. That I didn't expect so I took the same shot with my  
> D200.
> Same tungsten WB, no filtering. The color came out exactly like the  
> M8 hot
> mirror shot, brown chair. My only conclusion is I have some pretty  
> screwy
> lighting in that room.
>
> I then decided to have a little fun. Put my Visoflex III and  
> bellows II on
> the M8. Put an EL Nikkor 135 on the bellows and the whole thing on  
> a tripod.
> Pretty kludgy but everything fits perfectly. Didn't have anything  
> to shoot
> except the leaves on my African Violet. No flowers in a couple  
> months. Here
> it is. Black light and B+W UV bandpass filter.
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/LeonardT/M8/M8_UV1.jpg.html>
>
> I then spent the rest of the night trying to figure out why I  
> couldn't put
> my photos on my computer. I thought I had a bad SD card.
> It was on Leica's list. Should work. It turned out my multi  
> everything card
> reader doesn't like SD very much. I ended up using a little SD only  
> reader I
> bought for my cell phone. Works like a champ.
>
> I then went to bed knowing at least that my camera works. Slept  
> like a baby.
>
> This morning, after coffee, I went out to my cold, frosty backyard and
> looked for something to shoot in daylight. Took a few boring shots of
> hibernating shrubs and stuff but the sky looked pretty interesting  
> so I shot
> that.
>
> <ISO 160, 21mm Elmarit ASPH, about f11>
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/LeonardT/M8/Dawn.jpg.html>
>
> A few impressions about the M8.
>
> It's an extremely well made camera. Mechanics and esthetics A+
>
> Capable of very fine images given the right lighting and camera setup.
>
> Purple problem doesn't bother me.
>
> Uses Leica glass. No vignetting with any lens I tried including the  
> Noctilux
> at f1.
>
> Don't like jpg photos. Kinda dark in comparison to raw taken at the  
> same
> time. Most noticeable on flash photos ( SF20 in A mode). RAW shots  
> nicely
> lit. SF24D on order but I don't think that's the problem.
>
> Operation (mostly firmware dependent) not nearly as refined as any  
> C or N
> digital I have ever used. (Many models, mostly N).
>
> I'm able to use CS2 to process raw files in exactly the same way as  
> my C and
> N files. I did not install any other software on my Mac.
>
> I'm definitely not sorry I bought it. Need more time to learn it's
> idiosyncrasies. Like most of you I couldn't find a spare battery.
>
> Sorry for being so long winded but it's cold outside and I'm not going
> anywhere for awhile. Now to catch up with the last 100 or so LUG e- 
> mails.
>
> Len
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