Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Another reason to wait for the M9. Hopefully Leica will learn from these moisture issues and seal the camera a little better. In my neck of the woods you can go from minus 40C to plus 20C on some winter days. Never had an issue with my film M's and R's so far. Greg Lorenzo Calgary, Canada > Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:53:35 -1000 > From: dennis at hale-pohaku.net > To: lug at leica-users.org > Subject: Re: [Leica] M8 > > interesting, especially in light of Tina's positive experience with her M8 > > Then again, it looks like you are not alone with moisture and the M8: > http://photo.net/leica-rangefinders-forum/00QzFD > > It would seem that the M8 does not have weather sealing equivalent to > that found on the top end Canon and Nikon SLRs, but they should. > > Is weather seal in the M8.2 improved? > > > michael at rosenblumtv.com wrote: > > Repair shop in Solms tells me I totally trashed an M8 by shooting for 5 > > mins. in a light rain in England. Anyone have similar water damage > > issues? Now, M8, 8.2 or wait for 9? > > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail? is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=PID23391::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HYGN_faster:082009