Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/14

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Subject: [Leica] M8 questions
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Thu Feb 14 13:44:06 2008
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Op 14-feb-08, om 22:36 heeft Tarek Charara het volgende geschreven:

> OK, so here I am with a brand new M8... :^)
>
> I'm discovering a lot of things:
> 1) It's a disaster for left-eyed photographers, the small screen  
> gets full of nose grease...

Are there any digitals that do not have this problem?

> 2) The frames are very approximate, I have the feeling they were  
> more accurate with the film M's - Maybe I'm wrong...
> 3) 1/8000 of a second is something that can happen very fast! When  
> I forget to change ISO settings and find myself shooting in  
> sunlight, for example!
> 4) It's nice NOT to have to get rid of all the dust with B&W...
>
> Questions to all the M8 experts out there:
> What is your sensor cleaning technique? I've bought the camear  
> yesterday and allready 3 or 4 dust specks in the blue skyes  
> (nothing terrible)...
> I'm going to take the camera (along with the film M's & R's)  next  
> week and next month to Benin and to Syria/Jordan in April/May -  
> pretty dusty out there - so, what is your technique to get rid of  
> the dust??
>

Nose grease on the body ring before ypu attach teh lens? ;-)

> All the best from Paris!
>
> Tarek

PhO

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