Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Congratulations Len! Ed El 18/01/2007, a las 13:20, Leonard Taupier escribi?: > I received my new M8 late yesterday afternoon. By the time the > battery charged, it was already dark and pretty cold out. So I > played around in the house experimenting with different lighting, > lenses, and Ultra Violet photos. > > First impression. If you're shooting in tungsten lighting you > better get the WB right for color or shoot b&w. My first color > shots in my living room (WB tungsten) turned my blue chair purple. > I expected that. So I took the same shot with a Tiffen hot mirror > filter on the lens. The blue/purple chair turned brown. That I > didn't expect so I took the same shot with my D200. Same tungsten > WB, no filtering. The color came out exactly like the M8 hot mirror > shot, brown chair. My only conclusion is I have some pretty screwy > lighting in that room. > > I then decided to have a little fun. Put my Visoflex III and > bellows II on the M8. Put an EL Nikkor 135 on the bellows and the > whole thing on a tripod. Pretty kludgy but everything fits > perfectly. Didn't have anything to shoot except the leaves on my > African Violet. No flowers in a couple months. Here it is. Black > light and B+W UV bandpass filter. > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/LeonardT/M8/M8_UV1.jpg.html> > > I then spent the rest of the night trying to figure out why I > couldn't put my photos on my computer. I thought I had a bad SD > card. It was on Leica's list. Should work. It turned out my multi > everything card reader doesn't like SD very much. I ended up using > a little SD only reader I bought for my cell phone. Works like a > champ. > > I then went to bed knowing at least that my camera works. Slept > like a baby. > > This morning, after coffee, I went out to my cold, frosty backyard > and looked for something to shoot in daylight. Took a few boring > shots of hibernating shrubs and stuff but the sky looked pretty > interesting so I shot that. > > <ISO 160, 21mm Elmarit ASPH, about f11> > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/LeonardT/M8/Dawn.jpg.html> > > A few impressions about the M8. > > It's an extremely well made camera. Mechanics and esthetics A+ > > Capable of very fine images given the right lighting and camera setup. > > Purple problem doesn't bother me. > > Uses Leica glass. No vignetting with any lens I tried including the > Noctilux at f1. > > Don't like jpg photos. Kinda dark in comparison to raw taken at the > same time. Most noticeable on flash photos ( SF20 in A mode). RAW > shots nicely lit. SF24D on order but I don't think that's the problem. > > Operation (mostly firmware dependent) not nearly as refined as any > C or N digital I have ever used. (Many models, mostly N). > > I'm able to use CS2 to process raw files in exactly the same way as > my C and N files. I did not install any other software on my Mac. > > I'm definitely not sorry I bought it. Need more time to learn it's > idiosyncrasies. Like most of you I couldn't find a spare battery. > > Sorry for being so long winded but it's cold outside and I'm not > going anywhere for awhile. Now to catch up with the last 100 or so > LUG e-mails. > > Len > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >