[Leica] Re:M8 issues

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 4:17 PM -0800 1/28/07, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote:
>Nice! But a virtually irrelevant test. In the 
>usual shooting situation, the average working 
>distance is usually within 15 feet. Those that 
>need to reach out for a closer shot, such as the 
>sports photographers, usually use ED, etc, 
>optics with vibration reduction.
>Now for critical digital landscapes, as it was 
>practiced very early on by large format 
>photographers, one used the camera as a scanner 
>attached to a laptop. 200 to 400 megabyte files 
>for one shot, with multiple (layers) exposures, 
>tended to be the norm. The files are larger now.
>
>s.d.


Possibly the M8 was never intended to replace an 
EOS IDII with 600/4 IS, or a view camera with a 
Betterlight back....

It won't even challenge a Seitz 6x17:

http://www.roundshot.ch/xml_1/internet/de/application/d438/d925/f934.cfm

(note that it's half a meter wide).

Although personally, if I could get a 6x17 like 
this for the price of an M8, I'd not mind if I 
had to find IR hot filters to make it work.


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>On Jan 28, 2007, at 3:53 PM, F?lix L?pez de Maturana wrote:
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>>I usually have the same opinion on Leica 
>>snobbery than B.D. but I cannot agree this time 
>>about the low capacities of thew Leica M8. It's 
>>true that battery is not a champion of 
>>endurance because my EOS 1Ds may easily 
>>triplicate the life of the M8 battery. It's 
>>true also that the Kodak sensor cannot obtain 
>>every possibility of the marvelous Leica M 
>>lenses but this would have been a miracle for 
>>the first true digital camera attempt from 
>>Solms. Wait for new firmwares as usual in 
>>digital cameras. I've found the M8 as a very, 
>>very good digital camera as good as my EOS 1Ds 
>>as you can see in this folder not very 
>>scientific and some approximative but 
>>corresponding to my real way of photographing .
>>
>>http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=689069
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>>And the more important criticism is about color 
>>and I have found that the Jamie Roberts color 
>>profiles for Capture One solves most of this 
>>true problem
>>
>>Look at a horrible but significant picture 
>>processed with camera row where the magenta 
>>rules specially in some books of the bookshelf
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>>http://gallery.photo.net/photo/5518842-md.jpg
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>>and look now at the same "horrible picture" 
>>processed with capture one with the mentioned 
>>color profile of Jamie Roberts
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>>http://gallery.photo.net/photo/5518826-md.jpg
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>>The magenta issue is very minor one.
>>
>>I hope this helps.
>>
>>Felix
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