Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:00 PM 11/17/2006, you wrote: >Leica have made a candid statement (user forum) saying that it does >not meet their standards. They have also outlined their proposed >fixes. I think that I read that shipping has stopped until it is >resolved, too. I had a phone call today from dealer who sold me my M8. He confirmed that Leica has stopped shipping and he asked if I had any problems or reservations about the M8. I told him that I had noticed the magenta cast on people photos and had seen the banding on two out of 814 photos on the loaner M8. I also told him that I've been able to fix the magenta cast with the software that Leica includes with the M8. And I told him that I'm not worried about an occasional anomaly in some files. That's the reason I take many "in camera dupes". Even with film there's always the chance that the decisive moment and the perfect camera moment are not the same! In fact, that happens more often than not. At the decisive moment I often had the wrong film in the wrong camera set for the wrong ISO and the wrong aperture. __It happens! At least with the digital M8 I don't have to worry about having the wrong film!! I love my M8 and you'll have to pry it from my cold, dead hands :-P >I really hope that people look at the superb results shown by early >users and weigh the significance of the reported shortcomings. I >hope that they sell thousands of them. Me, too. :-) Tina Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA http://www.tinamanley.com