Gilles L. Posted March 16, 2007 Share #1 Â Posted March 16, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Just wanted to introduce myself and thank everyone for all the useful information in this forum. Like all of you, I long awaited for the M8, but I was much more hesitant when it was finally released. After silently reading all your posts, I was finally convinced by many of you that the camera was worth it. I bought the M8 this morning and I am looking forward to the many great walks with it, as I have in the past with my M7. I must admit that the M7 has been taking more and more dust this past year, as I have been enjoying the my canon 5D, which i use with Canon and R lenses. But then again, this is quite a bulky camera to carry around and therefore did not nearly shoot outside as much as I wished... Â My next step is to try to integrate the M8 in my professional workflow, which consists to shoot decorative and fine art. I have been shooting for collectors a dealers for a while, and actually just published my first book. I am currently working on another one. The 5D has prooved to be a great camera for this, and along with the macro-Elmarit-R 60mm for macro work, I have been getting very good results. I plan to get a visoflex/bellows/elmar 65mm and experiment a bit, and see how they compare with the previous. Â Anyway, thanks again for answering all the possible questions I've had in the past few months, through all your posts. Â Gilles http://www.gilleslorin.com Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ho_co Posted March 16, 2007 Share #2 Â Posted March 16, 2007 Gilles-- Welcome to the forum! And congratulations on getting the M8! Â It's amazing, isn't it, with all the grumbling about real problems, most M8 users still feel the camera is well worth keeping! Â Thanks for telling us hello! Â --HC Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted March 16, 2007 Share #3 Â Posted March 16, 2007 First we Bless you than we Welcome you to the M8. LOL Â Congrats it's a graeat camera Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilles L. Posted March 16, 2007 Author Share #4 Â Posted March 16, 2007 Thank you for the welcome HC and Guy. The camera is simply extraordinary; I am totally hooked! I have been doing some tabletop work today and I am floored by the results. I never expected it to perform so well with this type of work. I was actually anticipating keeping the 5D for this purpose and using the m8 for my personal enjoyment. So far the m8 is perfoming extremely well with tabletop/studio shooting, and if the macro performance with the visoflex is as good, I might consider letting the 5D go... Â I have been using the Leica Digital Capture tethered to my mac, and used a cable release for the shutter. While I have been using Lightroom since the first beta release, I have been working with C1. I like the fact that once you make a shot, the image is directly viewable in C1. With lightroom, you have to import each time. This is a time saver as far as I am concerned, because I can really check to quality of my image right away. Â Also a quick note on the white balance: while the automatic white balance is totally off in my studio (way too yellow), I am very satisfied with the manual setting and it is much easier to set up than with my canon. Â My m8 is nearly 36hrs old, and it is still up and running. So far so good; i noticed two glitches: the screen reviews DNG files in black and white when I shot BW JPG, and once the menu scrolled around the clock at 100mph without touching a thing... Â I am a very happy man! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ho_co Posted March 16, 2007 Share #5 Â Posted March 16, 2007 My m8 is nearly 36hrs old, and it is still up and running. So far so good; i noticed two glitches: the screen reviews DNG files in black and white when I shot BW JPG, and once the menu scrolled around the clock at 100mph without touching a thing... Gilles-- The menu quirk may be the same noted before in a different context: Some have said that when they reviewed images, the scrolling sometimes went thru several at a time. Perhaps this is the same thing, maybe slightly mis-set contacts. Â Interesting about the BW review. One member has mentioned that he liked that feature on firmware 1.090, but that the newer version, 1.092 no longer let him review in B/W when he had the camera set as you do. Â Again, kudos to you for the purchase. Do keep in touch here about glitches. Guy just delivered a list of problems to Solms and there'll probably be more requests for lists of anomalies. Â Let's see--36 hours and running when you posted, now 38 hours--that's much better than some! Â --HC Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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