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zernikepolynom · 05/09/08, 10:17 PM

I'm using a M3 as well as a M8.

The M3 is simply emotional, a perfectly balanced and proportinoned fine mechanics tool. In direct comparision, the M8 seems to have a touch of clumsiness - compare a micrometre calliper to an industrial quality tool for the different feeling. It took some weeks to 'like' the M8, but after some time it 'grows' to one's hands. It is an excellent tool I wouldn't like to miss. But I wouldn't take it out of it's box just to listen to the shutter. Maybe in 10 years?

Financially - one can expose quite some rolls of film before bridgeing the price gap between a film M and a M8. I got the M8 for the digital workflow (Capture One is my favourite image processing program now) and the option of getting large high quality prints.

Summing up - I'm using the M8 as a 'working horse' and the M3 for the emotional aspect.

05/09/08, 10:17 PM	#19 (permalink)
zernikepolynom Erfahrener Benutzer Join Date: 03/22/07 Posts: 834	AW: M7 or MP or M8 I'm using a M3 as well as a M8. The M3 is simply emotional, a perfectly balanced and proportinoned fine mechanics tool. In direct comparision, the M8 seems to have a touch of clumsiness - compare a micrometre calliper to an industrial quality tool for the different feeling. It took some weeks to 'like' the M8, but after some time it 'grows' to one's hands. It is an excellent tool I wouldn't like to miss. But I wouldn't take it out of it's box just to listen to the shutter. Maybe in 10 years? Financially - one can expose quite some rolls of film before bridgeing the price gap between a film M and a M8. I got the M8 for the digital workflow (Capture One is my favourite image processing program now) and the option of getting large high quality prints. Summing up - I'm using the M8 as a 'working horse' and the M3 for the emotional aspect.