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UPDATE: The M8 developed a menu glitch that hasn't gotten better. It's got what looks like tv interference running through the menu screens. Scratchy lines like the LCD is going bad or something. It's going back. I'm bidding on a TYP 262 now. I guess this thread is moot now.

Because I was uninformed. Now I know.

You're right. After messing with it for a while I sort of got used to how much to look outside the framelines. I do like the lens and the camera is growing on me, I haven't used a rangefinder since I had to sell my M6 several years ago and I forgot a lot of what I knew.

Thanks guys. It does switch frame lines when I mount the lens but the two sets (I'm assuming it's 50/75) are much smaller than the resulting field of view. I think I'll just send this lens back and use the 28mm Elmarit that roughly corresponds to the 35mm frame lines.

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I just took delivery of my M8 and the lens that I bought with it; a Voigtlander 40mm F/1.4 Nokton Classic. I set the camera up but I'm confused about the framelines. I was under the impression that I could set them manually if using a non-leica/coded lens. I understand that 40mm doesn't really correspond to anything like 28mm/35mm/50mm but I was just looking for something approximate. As it is, the default frame lines that come up aren't even close. Is there a way to set them to say "50mm" or do I have to do a lens coding job on the lens itself?

Thanks! I know that one day I won't be able to do it but for now, I'm really loving it. Printing really finishes things off...it feels like closure.

I'm back from my trip to Florida and Alabama! I took two cameras; the Olympus Trip 35 (zone focus, auto exposure and shutter speed) and my Nikon FM2n as a backup. I shot Tri-X and Ilford HP5 and Eastman Double-X all at 400 (the trip only goes to 400) and all dev'd in Diafine. The negs came out very contrasty due to being shot at 400 but they were very printable. Here are 3; printed on Adorama VC glossy paper and scanned with my Epson V550. A gator in a local park that we fed doughnuts to A guy dressed funny in Key West and my sister in law's reaction to him: Hanging on the back porch in Florida one evening

Yeah...that's cool. I just really did it to see if I could and what it looked like. (and to save money getting prints done.) Have a good day!

Actually, that's how I print, with Jobo drums on a unicolor base! It's pretty easy; I use a color analyser which gets rid of the need for color-test strips. I generally only do one strip for exposure. When I shoot a roll of film, the first shot is an ExpoDisc reference shot of the sun (if I'm outside) or whatever the light source is. That way I have a perfect color reference. The machine is zero'd to make the reference shot a neutral grey.

And so I decided to go back to black and white for a while. I like color printing but it's certainly a different process than B&W and not as immediate for me. If they could figure out a way to print color in trays with a darkroom red like I'd be in heaven. #1: My wife in the car clowning for the camera. #2: Me, in a tiger head at WalMart. Both were taken with my Oly Trip 35 and Eastman Double-X. Dev'd in D-96 (a bit too long) and printed on Ilford MGIV Pearl Paper. Scanned on my Epson V600 or whatever it is.

Took a trip to Nebraska and found this crumbling sports bar on the way early one morning while stopping for gas. The light was gorgeous! Shot with Oly Trip 35 camera using Kodak 400 color film Fuji Crystal Archive paper Kodak RA chems. This is a scan of the 8x10 print.

Printing really ties up the whole photographic process for me. It really summarizes all of the steps up to that point. I can't imagine just shooting images and letting them reside in a hard drive. Unfortunately though this is a very nice print to see in person, the paper was fogged when I bought it so the edges are discolored. The camera you see in the picture is an Olympus Trip 35 which is the camera used to take it. Shot on Lomo 400 film, developed in Kodak Flexicolor C-41 Chems, printed on Kodak Endura F paper, with Kodak Flexicolor RA-4 chems. Taking a picture of it doesn't do it justice.

Thanks Henry! That was sunrise. I had grown that beard for 8 months and right before I cut it off, this is what I did.

Finally got around to more developing and printing. These are both Lomo 400 film shot with Olympus Trip 35, developed in Jobo CPE-2 at 100f and printed in a Jobo tube on a Unicolor roller base at 8x10. Picture #1 is the fog in the morning on the way to work. Picture #2 is me on the 4th of July this year.