[Leica] M8

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

Welcome! Looking forward to share your photos and wisdom. Here's some tips 
on Surviving the LUG Saloon:

- Brian is God. Don't p*ss him off. He doesn't get PO'ed easily, but don't 
pick fights with his friends.
- Listen to every word Mark Rabiner writes. You may think Yoda talk that he 
does in Bizarro World, but you will learn much from him, joke not.
- Kyle is another great photographer. He started the whole PAW thing. His 
hyperbole are always interesting, as are his photos.
- Tina is one of the few females here, but she is no token.
- Don't pick fights. It's never worth it. (Learn it the hard way). If you 
must, there's always the lug-forums.
- It's easy to pick fights with BD, now even his name evokes fights.

At 04:11 PM 4/9/2007, carlton phelps wrote:
>I'm a newbe to the LUG list. My son-in-law Chris Williams, has been 
>telling me about the list for years so I thought, I'm an old Leica user so 
>I'll see what new things I can learn from the pros.
>
>Chris finally talked me off my wallet and I bought the M8 and so far I'm 
>very pleased. I take more landscapes than people so the color shift has 
>not been a problem for me. I realize it could be a problem for the 
>professionals and would like to see that fixed soon.
>
>I have spent more time with screw mounts and film so it always amazes me 
>how closely the M8 is to a film camera and the controls are a lot less 
>complicated than even my nikon D70, another camera Chris talked me into 
>and again he was right about that to.
>
>Well I hope to learn a lot from all of you with more experience and hope 
>to meet a few of you the next time I'm back in New Orleans.

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