Blasphemy

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Some may even call it Heresy, but what ever, I'm saying it!

I actually have decided, after plenty of real world testing, that the Leica R8 is a faster shooting camera than any of the Leica M's, of which I have plenty. From the POV of sighting a target, raising the camera, capturing the image, after having manually focused. Most recently, my 'experimental' gear was an M10 with Summilux 50/1.4; V's the R8 with 80/1.4 Summilux.

In my hands, the R8 easily outstripped the M10 for nailing subjects on the move. I really believe the VF of the R8 is so easy to focus and does so over the entire screen. M's need to be focussed first, then recomposed to shoot. That is the critical difference, IMO. Note: I am talking about manual focussing, not zone focussing!

Just my idle musings.