[Leica] Problem with new to me M8

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

Mark, for someone who's not used it you have way too many opinions about it.


At 8:15 PM -0500 1/24/10, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>>  Rabs, please excuse my edit for focus.
>>  I agree that the M9 is the ideal purchase for M users of course but the 
>> M8
>>  is still the same enormously capable camera it was prior to September 9. 
>> I
>>  used mine for all of my photography for 2 years and it never hiccupped 
>> once.
>>  Leica considers that a used M8 can be an entry path to M digital these 
>> days.
>>  Locally the price is around one third of that of a new M9 (still in very
>>  short supply of course). Especially if you have the M lenses that you 
>> want,
>>  that can make a lot of sense. I was just  pointing out another option 
>> (aprt
>>  from the mentioned demo) if a buyer was concerned about the very well
>>  publicised issues with the first M8s to come to market. Its been a stable
>>  mature camera since those were addressed and many thousands of us have 
>> use
>>  them to our satisfation with great results and no issues at all.
>>   Cheers
>>  Geoff
>>  http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>
>
>You're in the minority in the photographic community in your view of the M8
>as a "stable mature" camera where it is widely viewed as just the opposite.
>Its a first out. And a rocky one. And at this point in the game its being a
>cropped format is not good timing.
>More to the point the M9 DOES seem to be a stable mature camera; and the
>current accepted serious format. . And its the camera Leica is making now.
>I predict it will quickly acquire an acceptance the M8 never got.
>(this is where our friend goes ballistic but I didn't use the word "top" I
>guess)
>
>No the M8 is not a viable entry level camera into the Leica digital M system
>at this stage of the game. The smart advice would be to wait. Wait till one
>had the capital to procure an M9.
>
>Why wouldn't Leica continue making the M8 instead discontinuing it?
>Thus giving a photographer a choice in "formats". And provide an entry level
>option?
>Because the camera was a disaster that's why. And the cropped format is no
>longer a serious option.
>
>[Rabs]
>Mark William Rabiner
>

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