[Leica] Stupid questions about M8

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

>Well, my M8 arrived yesterday, and last night I charged the battery, 
>updated the firmware, and set up the camera to my liking. I do have 
>two somewhat stupid questions:
>
>1) It seems that the shutter release needs to be pushed harder and 
>further than I remember with the film Ms. I still have several of 
>Tom's soft releases. Is there any reason why I should not put one on 
>the M8? Or does he have a special digital edition ;-)
>

The softies are all digital. They're digital to analog converters, 
transferring the digital motion to a smooth analog one.

Actually, I don't find them as useful on the M8 as on film M's, as I 
can't seem to feel the exposure lock point easily, and I use that a 
lot.


>2) More importantly, a question about the instant review. On my E3, 
>it pops up for 3 seconds and shows me the picture and the histogram. 
>On the M8, whatever I do (and yes, I have looked in the manual) it 
>just shows me the picture. In PLAY mode, it does display what I 
>want, but the review if picture only. Am I missing something, or is 
>the M8 just designed that way? (I hope not, since the most useful 
>function of instant review is the histogram).


No, you can set it up that way. Mostly I leave the instant review 
off, but those times I have it on it's with the RGB histogram.


>Today, I will test the camera the Ted Grant way: I will just go and 
>take some pictures.
>
>TIA,
>Nathan
>
>Nathan Wajsman
>Alicante, Spain

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