A lot of the pro photographers I know own a Leica M8. Very few use it. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Anthony Farr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > No argument from me about those points, William. The Leica seems > ill-conceived for its traditional purpose. As others have said, the new > purpose of a Leica is as bling, or investment on the collectors market. A > camera's prestige value should flow downwards from the pointy end of > professional usage, but Leica apparently seeks to redefine prestige as > flowing upwards from the lowest common denominator of "how much cash can we > screw out of our wealthy clientele who don't know shit from clay". > > When Godfrey points out that many pro-photographers are successfully using > M8s, I am reminded that many pro-photographers could produce art from a > Diana. That's no great defense for the Leica, it's praise for those > photographers. > > Regards, > Anthony Farr > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > William Robb > > Sent: Friday, 13 June 2008 11:29 AM > > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > Subject: Re: [OT] Leica M8 Field Test > > > > > > ----- 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. > > > -- > 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.
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