[Leica] M8 - a reversal of viewpoint

[david5stones at gmail.com (Red Dawn)]

Hi Jeffery,

I think you should still take your film Ms, plus some film as backup. The M8
has a well documented and well chronicled history (so far) of dying in
users' hands. You have been warned! :)

Enjoy the trip and take lots of photos!!!

-- 
David Teo Boon Hwee

On 3/16/07, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote:
>
> Whenever I got a new Leica lens, I always had to contemplate whether the
> camera body, the film, the developer, or the scan/print would do the lens
> justice. With the appearance of the M8, we seem to have reached something
> of
> a great equalizer. A lot of variables have been eliminated, and now one
> has
> to wonder if he/she is doing the M8 justice with the lens attached to the
> front of it. ;-)
>
> With the Santa Fe trip nearing, I was agonizing over how I was going to
> get
> 50 rolls of film to and from New Mexico without the authorities nuking it
> silly. For 6 months, I was agonizing over whether or not I would buy an
> M8.
> I finally tried to quell two agonies with one decision and got the M8. It
> arrived today. I got a chrome one so it would "go well" with any one my
> lenses except the funny titanium-colored one.
>
> Now I agonize over which lens to put on the front of it. Things were much
> easier for the young Capa and young HCB, when the answer was "A Leica with
> a
> 50/3.5 Elmar" or "A Contax with a 50/2 Sonnar".
>
> I guess I'll start with the 50/1.4 'Lux. Can't wait until dawn.
>
> Jeffery
>
>
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