Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]We went for a bicycle ride along the beach yesterday. As always on those occasions, the M8 was around my neck with the widest lens I own mounted on it (the 18mm Zeiss), set for f8 and hyperfocal distance. I would photograph while riding. I have done this on several earlier occasions. However, yesterday I discovered a couple of things: - when you brake hard with just the left hand on the handlebar, the results are not good ;-) - the M8 is as sturdy as earlier M cameras (I did protect it when going down, but the baseplate hit the bicycle and the ground, albeit not that hard) - road rash hurts but is curable with single malt http://www.greatpix.eu/gallery/4253606_netUM#533527099_VbMuz-O-LB When we came home, I put the 75mm on the M8, set it at f2.5 and took some close-ups of my medicine cabinet (aka the rack of single malts in our living room) to make sure the rangefinder was not knocked out of alignment. It was fine. Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog