Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 1/24/2007 10:11:01 A.M. Central Standard Time, imagist3@mac.com writes: Others find the quirks unacceptable. The difficulty lies in determining which you will be - I'm in the last camp. One of the joys of M photography is being able to shoot without much reaction from your subject. I'm not sure I could stand the whir of the shutter wind. I hate the click-clack of my K10d shutter. Most other things about it's performance, I love, but I long to be shooting with my little Summicron, and the jewel of a 21 CV. I am not at all worried by the M8 magenta cast to synthetics, but the rather poor performance at high ISO's is a problem to me; likewise, the performance in candlelight. How would the extraordinary firelight of Tina's recent submissions would have looked on the M8. My guess is not that great. I could afford the entrance price to the M8, but only because I've recently shed some other gear in anticipation of getting one. But when the quirks started happening, I was dismayed, and now feel reluctant to dive in. I forgave my M6 for arriving with a faulty film counter. That was the only brand-new piece of Leica I've ever owned. Most of the rest has been purchased from LUGgers or LHSA members. You know, we lived with an ugly kitchen floor for several years, and when we finally had the spare change to replace it, we went with a ceramic. That lasted about a week before the joints started giving. It was a bad job by the installers. It all had to come up, and we had to wait while the new materials arrived before we had a floor that was not our first choice. Today the kitchen looks great, but I am disappointed it did not turn out the way we planned. I'd hate to feel the same way about a nearly $5000 investment in an M8. Waiting and watching, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane ?galit?, libert?, crawfish