[chuckpjones]

Banish you for what Jack? For liking a different camera better? No way! Each of us does his own type of work, and each selects his tools based upon our needs. We won't see any Sports shooters out on a socker field shooting an M8 either. Just not the right tool for the job. I know you, and know also your extensive use of T/S lenses. Well, there aren't any for the M8. Again, just not the right tool for the job. No Jack, your decision was well researched, and very well thought out, which I commend you for.

As for myself, I am staying put. This M8, even with it's problems, is freaking awsome for the kind of work I do. However, I do agree completely with you that the solution Leica is presenting, from what we have heard, is a bit on the cheezy side to say the least. But we have not heard it directly from the horses mouth yet, so I am not going to be too trigger happy on passing judgement just yet. That may change tomorrow though. Seems to me that an exchange program for the defective product is more in order here, as is a proper fix. The very idea that a defective product this expensive be handled as a warranty repair is truly insulting. Leica needs to step up, issue a product recall, and exchange at their cost for a product that meets the published specifications, the product we all paid our hard earned dollars for. Some half baked scheme of warranty repair back in Germany just isn't going to fly with me, as I can't afford to have that much money tied up in any camera that doesn't earn it's keep. But I am a working professional, so I look at my cameras as my tools of my trade, not as a hobby. I don't shoot, we don't eat. Simple as that. Hard to shoot when my tools are on a slow boat over the big pond heading off into what is sure to be a very large pile of it's brothers, with no idea how long that vacation to the mother land will take. And with the limited availability of M8's, I only have one, so no backup yet. But let's wait until the official word to discuss this more.