Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/31

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Subject: [Leica] New kit
From: crbirchenhall at googlemail.com (Christopher Birchenhall)
Date: Sat Jan 31 15:57:21 2009

On Topic:

At long last I succumbed to a M8 - a M8.2 to be precise - just love
the "vulcanite"!

My first real usage:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/crb/_keith.jpg.html

Took it for a walk: Just to test it

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/crb/_m_amp_S_lambton.jpg.html

I quickly discerned th M8 had a lower dynamic range than my recent
DSLRs so I took my Lee R75 0.6 grad filter with me. As all filters you
need to "get it" and this one encroaches on the viewfinder. Here is an
example: what do you think?

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/crb/_on_the_cusp.jpg.html

Off Topic and for contrast:

Nikon F6 Zeiss 50mm Macro Kodak Gold 200:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/crb/_bridge01.jpg.html

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/crb/_marple_dock.jpg.html

Nikon D3 60mm Micro G

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/crb/_3_on_the_ridge.jpg.html

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/crb/_evening_cloud.jpg.html

The M8 is a nice camera but it will one of several I use - need to get
1 or 2 spare batteries though - the Nikon batteries have spoilt me!

Chris B

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