Jack MacDonough Posted May 8, 2007 Share #1 Posted May 8, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Use this link Extreme Field Test: Leica M8 in Iraq - - PopPhotoMay 2007 Seems to perform better in Iraq than in Antarctica. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pascal_meheut Posted May 8, 2007 Share #2 Posted May 8, 2007 Use this linkExtreme 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted May 8, 2007 Share #3 Posted May 8, 2007 Happy to read this. In the true Leica tradition. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertknappmd Posted May 8, 2007 Share #4 Posted May 8, 2007 I think that with proper care and coddling, the M8 will soon be going everywhere! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSK Posted May 8, 2007 Share #5 Posted May 8, 2007 What qualification one needs to "borrow" two M8s from Leica USA, bring them to Iraq and gets published on PopPhoto? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat_mcdermott Posted May 8, 2007 Share #6 Posted May 8, 2007 I want to know how Leica USA lent out 2 M8s for a magazine test and didn't provide IR filters... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
biglouis Posted May 8, 2007 Share #7 Posted May 8, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthury Posted May 8, 2007 Share #8 Posted May 8, 2007 Wow ... this is exciting and refreshing ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Walt Posted May 8, 2007 Share #9 Posted May 8, 2007 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tummydoc Posted May 8, 2007 Share #10 Posted May 8, 2007 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted May 8, 2007 Share #11 Posted May 8, 2007 yea but the images rock. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertknappmd Posted May 8, 2007 Share #12 Posted May 8, 2007 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sirvine Posted May 8, 2007 Share #13 Posted May 8, 2007 Also, notice the technical review of the M8 on the same site, which seems generally balanced and reasonable: Camera Test: Leica M8 - - PopPhotoJanuary 2007 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peggers Posted May 8, 2007 Share #14 Posted May 8, 2007 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob_x2004 Posted May 8, 2007 Share #15 Posted May 8, 2007 I think you guys need to be a bit more critical. The images arent all that flash either. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sirvine Posted May 8, 2007 Share #16 Posted May 8, 2007 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry Posted May 8, 2007 Share #17 Posted May 8, 2007 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stnami Posted May 9, 2007 Share #18 Posted May 9, 2007 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinb Posted May 9, 2007 Share #19 Posted May 9, 2007 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.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted May 9, 2007 Share #20 Posted May 9, 2007 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..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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