[Leica] Re: M8 - collectible status

[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

On Aug 31, 2007, at 4:55 AM, G Hopkinson wrote:

> Dan, discussions are fun but pictures are everything.  Fondle,  
> discuss, speculate, theorise, worship Leica asph glass (I do!)
> Advantages (and challenges) with the M8 sure, but you need equal  
> skills levels, just different details. Dance with who brung ya!
> C'mon and add to the Aus LUG postings. Let's see some pics.

love to see M pics, any M pics, M pick a number,  we can always tell...

:-)


Steve...


> I heard a rumour that Alastair will be back soon with some knockout  
> new
> stuff.
>
> Cheers
> Hoppy only slightly south of you, I think (in your rain shadow).
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: [Leica] Re: M8 - collectible status
>
> Friends in the LUG
>
>> From the responses that I have read in this subject, it would  
>> appear that
> the M8, apart from some issues related to battery availability and  
> uncertain
> costs to keep the camera in "good working condition", serves well  
> as an
> image capturing tool.
>
> Obviously this is a camera that is meant to be used and not  
> closeted, or to
> be looked at and fondled once in a while. Keeping its value is not  
> an issue
> as the M8 is likely to be owned by leicaphiles who have no second  
> thoughts
> about putting it to its paces in order to achieve its purpose.   
> Ultimately
> it's the image captured that matters.
>
> In the back of my mind I often wonder if leica lens characteristics  
> that had
> a certain signature when film was used is also visible when an  
> image is
> recorded in digital. We used to have colourful discussions about  
> "bokeh" of
> various optics for example when we were not too distracted by  
> Tilley hats
> and single malt whiskeys. Sharpness, contrast and shadow details  
> were other
> attributes that we often talk about when we discussed new lenses. I  
> get the
> impression that it's now the megapixels that counts or for many  
> folks the
> only issue that matters.
>
> It must be difficult to be a professional in this day and age. Once  
> upon a
> time, if you did not know a bit about f-stops and shutter speeds,  
> or had bad
> eyesight, you did not venture into photography. Automation put image
> capturing into the hands of more people. Even then you had to know  
> about
> films and depended on the lab to produce the hard copies. Now its  
> utopia. An
> average person with a functioning index finger (or thumb) can bring  
> home
> beautiful images that possibly outclass the best that even pros can  
> achieve.
> Digital photography has an effect of a class equalizer similar to  
> the way
> education elevated people from poverty into middle class. I wonder  
> often:
> What do professionals now have to do to keep above the herd, to  
> maintain
> that cutting edge, to corner that market, so that the income keeps  
> coming
> in?
>
> Leically,
>
> Dan K.
>
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