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Subject: [Leica] M8 questions
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu Feb 14 17:26:58 2008
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Tarek,
I use these for my Nikon digitals (recommended to me by John Shaw) -
they work very well:

http://www.lenspen.com/?cPath=1&products_id=SK-1&tpid=146

Cheers

Jayanand




On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Tarek Charara
<tarek.charara@pix-that-stimulate.com> wrote:
> 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...
>  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??
>
>  All the best from Paris!
>
>  Tarek
>
>  -------------------------------------------------
>  Tarek Charara
>  <http://www.pix-that-stimulate.com>
>
>
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