M8 in Iraq: Extreme field test link

[Jack MacDonough]

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Extreme Field Test: Leica M8 in Iraq - - PopPhotoMay 2007

 

 

Seems to perform better in Iraq than in Antarctica.

[pascal_meheut]

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Extreme Field Test: Leica M8 in Iraq - - PopPhotoMay 2007

 

 

Seems to perform better in Iraq than in Antarctica.

 

It performed well in Amazonia too according to the latest luminous-landscape report.

[jaapv]

Happy to read this. In the true Leica tradition.

[albertknappmd]

I think that with proper care and coddling, the M8 will soon be going everywhere!

[TSK]

What qualification one needs to "borrow" two M8s from Leica USA, bring them to Iraq and gets published on PopPhoto?

[mat_mcdermott]

I want to know how Leica USA lent out 2 M8s for a magazine test and didn't provide IR filters...

[biglouis]

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A very interesting article and some thought provoking pictures. A lot more convincing than lens charts and centre crops.

 

And a new drawback of owning a Leica M8 compared to a professional DSLR body: reduced area of armour plating around your face in violent situations.

 

LouisB

[arthury]

Wow ... this is exciting and refreshing ...

[Guest Walt]

It's very unfortunate there's a war to take a camera to, but we're tickled pink it keeps on ticking with human blood and guts all over it. This maybe be OT, but someone needs to say it.

 

Walt

[Guest tummydoc]

Decisions based on faulty assessment meeting with embarassing results; questionable planning, hugely expensive, large camp of denialist supporters. Wait, I seem to have forgotten if I was talking about the war or the M8

[Guest guy_mancuso]

yea but the images rock.

[albertknappmd]

A very interesting report... I see great potential for the M8 and it is slowly proving itself to be a nice alternative to the DSLR in photoreportage.... plus sa change, plus sa reste la meme chose...

http://www.popphoto.com/cameras/4133/extreme-field-test-leica-m8-in-iraq.html

[Guest sirvine]

Also, notice the technical review of the M8 on the same site, which seems generally balanced and reasonable:

 

Camera Test: Leica M8 - - PopPhotoJanuary 2007

[peggers]

Probably chancing fate here - great to hear a story about the M8 being rugged! There's hope that sudden camera freezes may become part of the camera's history and not its present.

 

I was pleased with my M8's performance in the Jordanian deserts. We had a dust storm or two and the machine coped well. I simply used a hand blub style blower to clean the sensor each night.

 

Phil

[rob_x2004]

I think you guys need to be a bit more critical. The images arent all that flash either.

[Guest sirvine]

I think you guys need to be a bit more critical. The images arent all that flash either.

 

After the first three, I think they're pretty good.

[larry]

I think you guys need to be a bit more critical. The images arent all that flash either.

 

That's your job Rob, knock yourself out. ;-)

 

Larry

[Guest stnami]

A very interesting article and some thought provoking pictures

............I wouldn't go to that extent.................unless you have been totally isolated with what happens there ................. the first three are duds................ I guess the bonus is that it didn't self destruct, like everything else seems to thanks to Uncle Sam and co plus little Johnny Howard boom boom

[martinb]

There are some good images, but I've seen better and this just proves that the camera doesn't matter. One of my favourite photographers Alex Majoli used point and shoot cameras and made many stunning images with them. I don't know know what he use today. Maybe he will give the M8 a try as well..

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[jaapv]

I think the quality of the pictures, nor the rationale of this war is the issue here. It is just nice to see Leica regain some lost ground (i.e. war journalism) with the M8. It is the traditionalist in us.....