Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/14

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Subject: [Leica] Comparing micro 4/3 and M8
From: rhart76 at gmail.com (Roger Hart)
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:55:55 -0400
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I agree with George. I bought my M8 rather early on and have used it
like my other photographic tools, and it has performed as expected.
The camera has not been upgraded beyond the firmware updates Leica has
released. I have had many images taken the M8 published in AutoWeek
magazine and on our website, not to mention thousands of family
photos. When it comes to travel where I don't need to use a long
telephoto lens, the M8 remains my go-to camera. The camera and four
lens take up a fraction of the space my Nikon DSLRs take, and the
weight-savings is much appreciated while on the road. If the M8 could
accrue frequent flier miles, my guess is that it has racked up nearly
300,000 miles. My only real quibble with the M8 is its inability to
return great results at high ISO settings. For that type of work, my
D3s is far, far superior.


Roger Hart
Detroit


On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:05 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> 
wrote:
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> On Apr 12, 2011, at 12:35 PM, Henning Wulff wrote:
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>> While many people, Nathan and Howard Cummer among them, have had problems 
>> with their M8s there have also been many who haven't had any issue. Mine 
>> (non-upgraded) have been just fine, and I didn't treat them any 
>> differently than I treated earlier Leicas. Many tens of thousands of 
>> photos, and they weren't babied and show the signs of use on edges and 
>> slight dings. If the rangefinder is in proper adjustment everything works 
>> just fine.
>
>
> Likewise.
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
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In reply to: Message from simon.ogilvie at gmail.com (Simon Ogilvie) ([Leica] Comparing micro 4/3 and M8)
Message from imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] Comparing micro 4/3 and M8)