----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Farr" Subject: RE: [OT] Leica M8 Field Test
> I'm not talking about you of course, Mark, because I don't recall you ever > bitching and moaning about the onerous burden of using a modern camera. The guy isn't bitching about using a modern camera, he is bitching that his modern Leica is fundamentally useless in any of the parameters that a photographer uses to determine usability, and doesn't perform as well as cameras five or more years old. The camera needs to be disassembled to check if there is a memory card in it. Neither auto nor maual white balance seems reliable for giving consistent white balance. The camera is useless to him (and honestly to most anyone else) because the images at ISO's above 640 were too noisy. Auto exposure was unreliable. Furthermore, an *istD outperforms it's buffer size and write speeds. In November 2006, I wrote about the M8 "They (Leica) just bought themselves a coffin and a gun. Bye-Bye Leica. It appears that in a year and a half, they haven't corrected any of the problems with the camera. That is absolutely unacceptable for a 10K piece of equipment. William Robb -- 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.
