Welcome to the Leica Forum

Guy Mancuso and Ed Albesi will be helping to moderate this forum. They have recently launched their own classifeds site for buying and selling Leica gear and should be able to provide help and leadership in this area.

[Ed Albesi]

Thank you Drew for opening this new space. I am convinced the new Leica offerings will slowly enter the pro scene, as they offer a "third way". No more N versus C, but DSLR + DRF

Rangefinders offer some advantages over DSLRs, and there will be many pros ho will complement their DSLR outfits with the new M8's.

Let's talk about this


Cheers,
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Ed Albesi
www.LeicaMarket.com

[Guy_Mancuso]

Hello Everyone it is great pleasure to help moderate the Leica section of this forum and I look forward to engaging with other members and leica owners. As you may see Ed and i started on a new journey for a Leica classified website and we would love for folks to visit the website to buy and sell there gear. Also would like to offer a personal thank you to Drew and his team to invite us here to partcipate as much as we can. I know Ed and myself look forward to it . As i speak tonight here i am embarking on a 10 day Leica/Porsche tour this weekend and leave for Germany Friday evening. As a working Pro that works with leica gear everyday for my professional work, I look forward to taking a little vacation and shoot my leica M8's for pleasure and i will be sure to post images hopefully during this trip . So stay tuned for a interesting thread coming on the M8 and what it can do. It really is a stellar producer of images.

Warm regards
Guy Mancuso
www.guymancusophoto.com
www.leicamarket.com

[michael wickes]

I am considering the move from an M6 to an M8 but have read about its initial problems. Please post your thoughts on this new body and the wide angle" "zoom" 16 > 21mm lens. Michael Wickes

Heya,

Well i just bought an M8 with a the bad ass Summicron f2.0 28mm lens from Samy's in Los Angeles...it was a close call with a new Canon 1d MkIII and a couple of spare L glass lenses...heh...but I am super glad I got the M8.

I used to have a Leica which never left my side back in the 80s, so I am all about how the they work already. I went to Canon as soon as I went digital a long time ago, and then discovered my Leica had been stolen during a party at my house, and then never bothered replacing it as my Canon's were paying their way nicely.

My initial impressions with the M8 are that this camera is everything I could have hoped for. All the "problems" you read about are I think not at all relevant for most real life daily use. By definition, many Leica users are should we say more "technically picky" aka "true gear weenies" and so things that affect an owner who is super tuned into edge vignetting etc etc when shooting snowy scenes for instance, these don't worry me in the slightest. I LOVE the low noise at 2500 iso and the quality of the lens sharpness makes my best Canon 85mm 1.2 look almost smudgey. Heh, well not quite but that's how it feels a little

It is super stealth, I got the black one and I am now taking it with me everywhere I go. I have REALLY enjoyed the lack of stuff to deal with and lack of "professional photographer profile" when out with it.

People don't see it as a serious camera and so it feels safer in bad parts of town and it gets a very different reaction from subjects.

I am really enjoying actually making images again rather than the technically removed feeling you get from handling a Canon 1d series camera. It's like shooting back in the day again. I like it.

My intention is to only ever use the 28mm (same as my 35mm on my M6) lens and use this camera as my standard wide angle on all my jobs in future, then my Canon bodies will be my more specific portrait and telephoto tools...

The images it takes feel a lot um, blander than I am used to with the Canon 1d mkII when viewed in C1 or Lightroom at defaults, but when you get cranking on the vibrance, curves, clipping the blacks etc, then HELLLLO!

More as it happens

Will

[Ed Albesi]

Hi Will,
Welcome back to the Leica world!
Enjoy your new M8
Even if at first sight the rangefinder looks as a very specific 'street' or candid camera, I bet you'll find yourself using it more and more for more general shoots. Don't underestimate it as a portrait camera, try an APO-Summicron 75/2 asph or an APO-Summicron 90/2 asph (just don't forget to add some blur in PS then :-) )
Great camera, I miss it when I leave it at home

Ed

[Robin7]

Hi Well.
I m very happy to see it.This is a very nice looking forum.Thanks for sharing this.