wilfredo Posted January 21, 2009 Share #1 Â Posted January 21, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) This is a thread devoted to anyone who has had no issues with their M8 cameras. We always get the bad on this forum, now lets get the good (please no ugly). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashwinrao1 Posted January 21, 2009 Share #2 Â Posted January 21, 2009 I must say that I have had very few problems with my m8, but I do not pick it apart for its faults very much but use it within the capacity of its limits. Most importantly, I find it to be a wonderful tool to actuate the capacities of Leica glass! I'm happy!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leolaksi Posted January 21, 2009 Share #3 Â Posted January 21, 2009 good idea wilfredo. i have a m8 amd 8.2 and have not had any problems other than when i dropped my m8 on a concrete floor. the focus went out of whack and i had to have it adjusted. an issue with the amount of time for my 8.2 to be ready to shoot using sdhc cards. i have no problem with it. leo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Phillips Posted January 21, 2009 Share #4 Â Posted January 21, 2009 I bought my M8 in July 2007. God alone knows how many images I've captured - and thrown away in fits of self-criticism - since that day. It has performed flawlessly so long as I keep the sensor clean. I am addicted to the "improvement through instant feedback" process, the pleasure of reliability and the matching of my addiction to the rangefinder with the quality of digital imaging. I'm a happy man. Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
epand56 Posted January 21, 2009 Share #5 Â Posted January 21, 2009 Hi Wilfredo, I only have an issue, i can't use my M8 as much as I would like... Sometimes I also have to work :-( It is a great camera, no regrets at all for buying it. Mine is always ok, always ready and always working. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_torben Posted January 21, 2009 Share #6 Â Posted January 21, 2009 Takes only one rotten egg to spoil the omlet! Sad, that there are so many rotten eggs in this basket!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
digger1914 Posted January 21, 2009 Share #7 Â Posted January 21, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) I have had mine since last September and have loved every minute. It has reinvigorated my interest in photography by getting me back to the mechanics of the shot, and not being lost in the world of auto everything. Â The camera has performed flawlessly (touch wood) and I am looking forward all the way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanhulsenbeek Posted January 21, 2009 Share #8 Â Posted January 21, 2009 After a brief interlude with Canon DSLR's I am glad to be back with Leica M since March 2007. I have refound my my old street shooting style - certainly after the update and my now much quiter M8u - and also enjoy the blessings of digital: panorama and easier filing. Â No tech problems at all:D Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank_dernie Posted January 21, 2009 Share #9 Â Posted January 21, 2009 Mine has been faultless, though I find the body slippery and it has been pulled out of my hand once by a very weak tug on the strap. Results great, new lenses great, old lenses uniquely interesting (can't use them on other digital bodies). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted January 21, 2009 Share #10 Â Posted January 21, 2009 No problems either, other than a very occasional need to remove the battery - don't know if that's been cured by the latest firmware. Â IMHO there will always be negative threads about anything and everything. It's the nature of the internet. Not just the Leica forum, not just photographic forums, but all the forums I've ever looked at. If you believe what you read online _everything_ is rubbish, nothing works, and everyone is being ripped off by all suppliers of anything. Â The best response IMHO is to pick out from the forums things that help _you_ and you find interesting. That's not to say that people haven't had problems with their cameras or say leica NJ, but what's missing is a sense of perspective, the larger picture if you like. Â Rather interstingly the LUG is much more positive towards the M8 than here. That's something I didn't expect. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
netdog Posted January 21, 2009 Share #11 Â Posted January 21, 2009 Absolutely flawless used M8. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caparobertsan Posted January 21, 2009 Share #12 Â Posted January 21, 2009 I am happy with M8. But I am not happy at all. I take it to work with my billingham L2 black bag. Both camera and bag are new but they look so old because I am taking it to my car in and out every day but. Â I have no time to take photos!!!!!!!!! Right now I am repairing my bathroom. And this weekend I have to take my mother in law to fishing. No chance for me to use my camera! I do`nt use m8 with fishy hand!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aj55 Posted January 21, 2009 Share #13 Â Posted January 21, 2009 Happy owner here! Just got my 2nd body when exchanging it against my 5D. No more slr for me! (or zoom etc. for that matter). Less is - as usual - more. Arnold Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
helen_d Posted January 21, 2009 Share #14 Â Posted January 21, 2009 Great idea, Wilfredo! Unfortunately, the forums tend to attract those with problems and sometimes it does seem like nobody is happy with his/her camera. I love my M8.2, it has opened up a whole new world of basic photography for me. I am still very amateur but I take pictures every day and learn from them, and my good shots are head and shoulders above anything I have ever had from any other camera. The detail is incredible! Nothing can compare with Leica lenses; the 28 'cron lives on my camera and is my everyday lens. The 8.2 is a much better camera than I am a photographer, so there will always be a challenge for me. Thank you for your always positive posts! Â Helen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 21, 2009 Share #15 Â Posted January 21, 2009 It is not so much the camera that is the problem - it is service in Solms, Milton Keynes and NJ. The M8 is the most used camera I have ever had and I really really like it. However the service guys need a bomb setting off underneath them. None of them ever seem to check anything after service or repair. If it is being done, I am guessing it is done by the same person who did the repair. This is against all tenets of good industrial practice. Of 7 or 8 service items, either cameras and lenses over the last four to five years, only one item was completed trouble free, in one visit and within the quoted timescale. By any standards, that is an appalling record and from other posts, my situation is far from unique. Â I was thinking of either an S2 or an R10 but after all the grief, having to borrow cameras and lenses when mine were back at Solms, I am not sure I want to carry on in this fashion. My M8 and MATE are waiting to be picked up yet again to go back to Solms, to have the job done properly, having both just returned from there. I will now be waiting on tenterhooks to see if they come back before I set off for the far east next month, or I will have to buy something else, maybe a Panasonic G1 and M adapter. Â Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UliWer Posted January 21, 2009 Share #16 Â Posted January 21, 2009 No issues but a lot of fun with the M8. Â Though it caused a big problem;) , for it stirred my interest in analogue photography and Leica history much more than i should take for reasonable. The M8 became something like an "Ur-Leica" for me and i am eager to see which new developments in retrospect as well as in prospect direction it will take. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yushcan Posted January 21, 2009 Share #17 Â Posted January 21, 2009 Mine has been faultless, I use it since September 2008 with Lux 35 f/1,4. It brought me back to photography, I am a user of 5D as well, there were a lot of comparisions 5D vs M8... useless, they are simply different; I am keen on M8 at the moment and do not use 5D too much last time. Noise if high ISO is disappointed, but it's nothing bad if set up "black & wite" at the expense of resolution of course, although it depends ... If I have two identical shots with high ISO in DNG and JPG Fine black & wite the last one looks better as regards to noise, less noise, and it's hardly possible to get same image in case of DNG converting in black & wite after. BTW, I appreciate any comments about JPG Fine B&W. Is it worth to do? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornbarn Posted January 21, 2009 Share #18 Â Posted January 21, 2009 Good idea! I've had my mine since March 2007 and it has been flawless with one small exception. In the early days it suffered from "lock-ups" which required removal and re-insertion of the battery but I've not seen this for a long time so one of the firmware upgrades seems to have fixed this. I'm very pleased with the camera. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tollie Posted January 21, 2009 Share #19 Â Posted January 21, 2009 From the moment a year ago I first made photographs with my M8... the camera has reminded me of why I love photography. The photographs... good, bad and indifferent were made by me. All of decisions were mine. I don't miss auto-focus or zoom... or high ISO. I like the slower more deliberate, planned... thoughtful pace and flow of shooting. Â And then the lenses... I now own two new Leica lenses and one old lens... and three CV lenses. They are each individual in the way they draw. Â I have used the camera in a variety of applications... wedding, portrait, travel, "fine art". So far (knock on wood) no problems. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkphoto Posted January 21, 2009 Share #20 Â Posted January 21, 2009 Both my M8 and my M8.2 have worked perfectly and accepted updates without incident. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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