[Leica] M8 - a reversal of viewpoint

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

Jeffery,
Trust me, you will be shooting much less film.  You do have to learn some
software to make the images you mind saw, but no different than working on a
new developer/dilution combination.

On 3/15/07, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote:
>
> I still like the look of film. The film cameras will always be a big
> factor
> in my photography.
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
> http://400tx.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Red
> Dawn
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 8:46 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] M8 - a reversal of viewpoint
>
>
> 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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Don
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