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Subject: [Leica] Lenses improvement on M8
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:16:54 -0700
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On Sep 10, 2009, at 6:23 PM, Richard Man wrote:

> On top of being the sweet sport, there is at least one more additional
> advantage of the M8 over the M9: as thge M8 sensor being smaller, the
> apparent DoF is greater. Now if you are the give me 1mm DoF so I can
> focus of the 2nd to the first eyelash type, well, this isn't a good
> thing, but for most mortals, that extra apparent DoF can come in
> handy.


so clearly the M8 is the camera we wanted all along,

:-)

Steve


>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 10, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Lluis Ripoll wrote:
>>
>
>>>
>>> If this is true maybe M8 can show better results than the M9, at  
>>> least
>>> with the old lenses?
>>
>> maybe...
>>
>>
>> now that the M9 is out, we can buy an M8, for very good reasons...
>>
>>
>
>
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