[Leica] M8 time

[afirkin at afirkin.com (Alastair Firkin)]

Well, I'm now in the great position of having the 2 bodies, and its a great 
help, especially when its windy -- the dust is everywhere in Paris on a 
windy day, and changing lenses would be a disaster. Rather than FF, anti 
dust and IS would be a welcome addition to the M9 ;-) 

I agree with buy new, and if you are buying new, you may as well get the 8.2 
-- I think the shutter noise and choice of when it advances would be very 
very useful in some of the places I've been. Helen's OLY is less noisy 
(except for the AF confirmation). My problem is now that there are quieter 
shutters, and better frame lines the cost of upgrading is now double :-) Its 
funny, but I've learnt to live with the framelines -- I often just ignore 
them, but if not, I "feel" how much tighter to frame the image to the 
extent, that when I pick up Helen's camera, I tend to cut things off, 
expecting the camera to capture more than I see!! 

The joys of digital: now to get today's image up 

Cheers

Alastair

--- grduprey@mchsi.com wrote:

From: grduprey@mchsi.com
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] M8 time
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:52:29 +0000

Unlike Vick, I have taken my M8 on the trip (2 months and going on 3) and 
only the M8.  Only problem... I really need a second body so I don't have to 
keep changing lenses all the time.  ;-)

Gene

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Vick Ko <vick.ko@sympatico.ca>
>
> Ric
> 
> I don't know if I qualify to be giving advice.  I dithered a long time 
> before buying mine.  And I haven't used mine for a month.  I did a 
> European holiday with an R7.  Now I'm at university, torn between no 
> time to shoot and walking to campus with just fantastic weather along 
> very scenic pathways.
> 
> But, for what it's worth:
> 
> 1.  buy with warranty.  You'll sleep easier.  Other than not liking that 
> I've tied up so much money in my M8, at least I have the peace of mind 
> that it is covered by the warranty.
> 
> 2.  spend as little money as possible. 
> Buying an M8 isn't like investing in the prior film M's that generally 
> held their value.  Perhaps this is saying "buy used if you can get a 
> decent warranty, or buy used if you can get a cooperative seller (i.e. 
> fellow LUG who'll help with sending a covered camera back to Solms)).  
> The factory warranty on new is 3 years; I've seen that demo warranties 
> are 1 year.
> 
> 3.  I don't see the value of getting an M8.2, when an M8 with the ver 
> 2.0 firmware gets you 99% of the functionality.
> 
> Maybe tell me how much you are willing to invest, and I might be talked 
> into selling mine.   !!!!!
> 
> ...Vick
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Ric Carter wrote:
> > I think it's M8 time. I really wanted a full frame at photokina. Hi Ho.
> >
> > M8 or M8.2?
> >
> > New or used?
> >
> > Help me in my angst.
> >
> > Ric Carter
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/
> >
> >
> >
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