On Jun 12, 2008, at 1:38 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > frank theriault wrote: >> >> Geez, I've got a first-generation Pentax digital body that does a lot >> better than his in virtually every problem that he mentions... > > Yep, the usability issues sound pretty terrible. The "remove the > bottom > plate to swap memory cards" thing is inexcusable. It sounds like they > made the camera for the cardiologist/camera-collector crowd who'll > keep > it on the shelf 99% of the time and proudly show it off to guests > every > now and then.
Of the 20 or so people I know who've bought an M8, 14 are professional photographers who use it in the course of their work. They seem quite happy with it now that some of the initial release problems have been corrected in a firmware update, and find it no more inconvenient than a Leica M6TTL was to load film into (had to remove the baseplate on that one too, if you weren't aware, and certainly less intrusive than Frank's Leica CL which requires you drop the entire back off, flip the pressure plate down, load film, flip pressure plate up, re-fit back). One of them posted to the Leica forum that they've turned over 26,000 exposures with the M8 so far. None of them are combat photojournalists, of course. And they use other equipment (Nikon, Olympus and Canon TotL DSLRs, usually) when their work requires a different kind of camera. Again, I'll reserve judgement on the M8's performance until I get a chance to use one myself. I don't trust this photojourno's judgement on it. The work I've seen from Tina Manley, Tom Abrahamson and a couple others who are using it certainly demonstrates that it is a quite capable performer. You might ask Juan Buhler what he thinks of the M8 ... ]'-) Godfrey ... yes, I wish I could afford one ... not that wealthy just for the moment. :-\ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
