AW: Low light Photography, the M8 and D3
as all previous posters agreed upon, the D3 beats the M8 in low light photography by a huge margin. as far as i am concerned it does so also at low iso ratings, for most shooting situations, due to the wonderful aufofocus, the superior light metering, most likely better dynamic range..... it is comparing a porsche (D3) to a vintage morgan (M8). clearly, also the morgan has its fans but....
the bad news is that there is very little that leica can do about it. certainly a better sensor in a new M-model would not swing it, the rangefinder ideology has finally reached its end (again, i concede a small remaining market segment for the die-hard i-need-a-small-camera-crowd).
this leaves me very curious about leica's medium range survival strategy.
peter
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