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Hey does anyone has leica m8 good pictures apart from the ones on leica's webpage, I'm Thinking on selling my soul to the devilto get one of those. any reviews of it are ok too
>> Anonymous
Enjoy your faulty infrared filter for $8000.
>> Anonymous
What do you mean faulty infrared filter?
>> Anonymous
>>36644
Reddish color cast on photos due to insufficient IR filtering. Solution: Leica will give you a couple screw-on filters for free.
>> Anonymous
It's my impression that it has close to the same dimensions and styling as the M6/M7, only without the winding lever. If I wasn't so far in debt already, I'd get one.
>> Anonymous
But why? More than $4000 just for nostalgia seems a bit too much for me... and for practical uses, a $1000 DSLR seems superior in all aspects.
>> Anonymous
>>36648
A $1000 DSLR doesn take Leica-lenses.
>> Anonymous
>>36650
Leica lenses for rangefinders are mostly nostalgia stuff too, no matter how optically good they may be. No AF, no serious telephoto, no macro, no zoom, awkward framing, etc.
And for the $3000+ price difference you can get a few *very* good lenses for DSLR.
>> Anonymous
Let's hope someone makes a retro-styled camera that takes fine lenses, but has no color problems and actually has modern technology.
>> Anonymous
>>36648

$4000 is a lot, but it's not about nostalgia. Personally I prefer rangefinder focusing and simplicity as well as the handling of Leica bodies. I have a D200 and absolutely love it, but I still use my Leica M3 as much if not more. If not for the fact that I do all of my photography-related business through the internet and that I archive on the computer now, I wouldn't care one way or the other if there was a digital Leica. It would, however, be nice to be able to remove the scanning phase from my workflow without losing all of the things that make me like my M3 more than any other camera I've ever owned or used.
>> Anonymous
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>>36684
<-- Leica Digilux 3 is retro-styled, packed full of modern technology, has no color problems and takes some very fine lenses from Leica and Olympus (especially if you have the OM adapter). However, it fails for several other reasons.
>> Anonymous
>>36650

Panasonic's shitty dslr does. Hell, even their shitty P&S have Leica lenses.
>> Anonymous
The lecia lenses on panosonic are not lecia. They are still made by panosonic they have the license to use the name. A real lecia lens would say Leitz which are the lenses the M8 takes. Also most of the lecia digi cameras bar the M8 are just rebaged panosonics.
>> Anonymous
>>36688
>Personally I prefer rangefinder focusing and simplicity as well as the handling of Leica bodies.
If you buy a M8, the simplicity will be mostly gone - it requires the same amount of tinkering as an entry-level DSLR, or even more because Leica forgot to put dedicated buttons for some of the most useful settings, like ISO speed.
>> des
I think I'd agree with
>>36704
If you've got a working style that you enjoy and an artistic style involving Current Favourite Chrome(tm), is the scanning phase all that bad?

I read about the IR problem at the library, probably pop-photo article. The problem isn't a big deal, the problem is Leica's solution. For an upscale brand's $4000 camera, I'd expect some sort of recall.
Free filters is an almost ridiculous concept. Don't most leicaphiles hate putting anything in front of their lenses?
>> Anonymous
>>36708
>Don't most leicaphiles hate putting anything in front of their lenses?
Also, any leicaphile capable of spending $4000+ on a M8 will most likely have a collection of lenses with different threads, so 2 free IR filters may not be enough.
>> Anonymous
Completely insane. $7000 more and you don't even get autofocus? Do you $7000 worth of prefer-manually-rangefinder-focusing? I mean, I really like manually focusing my old Minolta manual SLR, but I'm not going to spend an extra $7000 for the privilege. Autofocus is damn convenient.

Yeah, it'll let you use your Leica glass, but I'm sure you could buy a nice collection of high-end Nikon glass for the amount of money you'd save from not buying an M8. If you really like your rangefinder focusing *that much*, just keep your M3. That $8000 will buy a hell of a lot of film and developing.