[Leica] I did not buy an M8, but I want one.

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

On 12/17/06 3:41 PM, "Peter Klein" <pklein@2alpha.net> typed:

> Dave:  We know you don't like the M8.  No need to join the Department of
> Redundancy Department, keep repeating yourself, and say the same thing
> multiple times.  :-)
> 
> Seriously, you are right that people are more critical of Leica than of
> other companies, simply because Leica is Leica.  However, a Leica is not a
> short-term purchase or an impulse buy.  If Leica fixes things within a
> reasonable time, eventually people will remember what a great camera it is,
> and the wonky launch will be a distant memory.
> 
> The question of how long it will take to fix everything, or if it will
> happen is another question.  I am in the "so what?" camp about the need for
> IR filters, if that's the price of high resolution, so be it.  The other
> stuff is more worrisome, especially the new vertical stripe issue.  We'll 
> see.
> 
> Go to flickr.com, search for groups with "leica M8" in the name.  One group
> has most of the photos.  Look through them.  You'll see that the M8 is
> capable of taking some very fine images.  The B&W in particular is amazing.
> 
> I am holding off on buying one until things settle down and we really the
> camera's performance well.  Then I'll decide.  I might be like Sonny and
> get something else in the meantime.  The Pentax K100D and K10D are looking
> very tempting.
> 
> --Peter
> 
> At 09:43 AM 12/17/2006 -0800, "David Keenan" <ausdlk@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, have you been reading about all of the NEW problems with the new
>> "fixed" M8's that are just now reaching people's hands?
>> 
>> I think now that Leica is doomed with the M8. People are so hyper-critical
>> (as a bitterly disappointed former owner, I am too) that the camera is 
>> being
>> examined with such fine-toothed comb(s) that I question whether Leica will
>> ever "get it right" in the eyes of enough consumers to make it a success.
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________


I'm sure we'll see the list of people somewhere who brought back their M8s
just as quick as we got the reasons why Dave did.
ma?ana and ma?ana and ma?ana.


Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;


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