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Originally Posted by Ken R
After straying away from range finder liecas for many years I have found the return to them very helpful in my photography. It is too easy to get lazy and trust auto focus. The rangefinder makes ou think carefully about exactly where you put the lane of focus. It is fast and very accurate and my percentage of shots with the fouc right where I wanted it is much higher then with the the slr systems. I have also rediscovered shooting with shallow depth of field. The m8 is ideal in these respects and far outshines the slr if you use shallow focus in your work regularly.
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Mind over machine.
It is exactly the distrust with random and uncertain focus I had with all the numerous digitals I owned and that terrible lag they presented. dSLRs lose the lag, but they incorporate a focus mechanism, which like all systems can fail. Last digital I own was a clux 1, and I won't even use it as a backup camera to my m8. I want a backup one? I'll just go and buy the elmarit 28mm and there you go.. compact... and I do own the 28mm 'cron