Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Tarek, congratulations, I'm sure you'll love the camera. I've had mine for just over 12 months, taken 12,000 frames and I'm still loving it! To assress your questions... 1. Yes it is, but no big deal - it wipes off <grin>. 2. Correct, the frames are accurate at .7 metres. Leica decided that people would prefer to see everything in the frame at the minimum focussing distance. Personally I'd prefer them to be accurate at say 2 metres. 3. Yup, especially in that Mediterranean light <grin>. Sensor cleaning, most of the time I use one of those bulb hurricane blowers. Don't use canned air, the propellant can cause problems. I have a visible dust LED loupe, that makes identifying the dust spots very easy. I also have an Arctic Butterfly for those stubborn spots the bulb blower doesn't remove. As you're probably aware from your other digital cameras the dust is more apparent at smaller apertures, to at f16 it may be obvious, while at f2 you can hardly see it. If you spot dust in post processing it's usually easy to remove using the clone and/or healing brushes in Photoshop. Never, ever, try to remove dust from the sensor by blowing on it with your mouth. You're guaranteed to set particles of spit on the sensor. Finally the M8 is a fantastic camera. It together with Leica glass is a fantastic combination, the level of retrieved detail can be almost frightening. I've printed to A2 without any problems what so ever. Steve On 14/2/08 21:36, "Tarek Charara" <tarek.charara@pix-that-stimulate.com> wrote: > OK, so here I am with a brand new M8... :^) > > I'm discovering a lot of things: > 1) It's a disaster for left-eyed photographers, the small screen gets > full of nose grease... > 2) The frames are very approximate, I have the feeling they were more > accurate with the film M's - Maybe I'm wrong... > 3) 1/8000 of a second is something that can happen very fast! When I > forget to change ISO settings and find myself shooting in sunlight, > for example! > 4) It's nice NOT to have to get rid of all the dust with B&W... > > Questions to all the M8 experts out there: > What is your sensor cleaning technique? I've bought the camear > yesterday and allready 3 or 4 dust specks in the blue skyes (nothing > terrible)... > I'm going to take the camera (along with the film M's & R's) next > week and next month to Benin and to Syria/Jordan in April/May - pretty > dusty out there - so, what is your technique to get rid of the dust??