Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Dave, >Like your Diana pics a lot. Also, of course the RD1's. Your style, it is. >BTW, I remember your bitter disenchantment at the time of the M8 >presentation. Has your perception of that camera changed in any way? > >cheers, >ed a Ed -- Thanks for your support. Ah, the poor, pathetic M8... I remain completely in the camp that believes the M8 was a horrible, nearly failed, attempt at advancing the M camera into the digital age. Some of Leica's (vain?) attempts to "upgrade" the camera, particularly the replacement of the shutter, I think vindicates some of my initial criticism. It was, after all, the first click of the shutter when I viewed the camera at Photokina in 2006 that utterly destroyed my dream of a digital M camera. I regret to say that I do not see anything on the horizon that will change my opinion -- lest Leica take an M7 and replace the film mechanism with a digital sensor. No LCD, no other external digital gizmos. That would be a "true" digital M. But I hear that hell rarely freezes over... Dave. -- Portfolio Slideshow: www.david-keenan.com/portfolio 2008 PAW Gallery: www.david-keenan.com/paw Web Site: www.david-keenan.com