sean_reid Posted September 14, 2006 Share #1 Posted September 14, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) It's September 15 in Australia so, with Leica's permission, my review of the Leica M8 is now live. Part 2 is coming soon. A very, very concise version of the review is available freely on Luminous-Landscape at: Leica M8 Preview And...those of you who want to complain about this announcement...let it go...people want to know this and have been waiting. BTW, there is also a page with some general information about other new cameras that Leica is introducing and that page is freely available to anyone. See: September 15 Pictures of the new cameras will be on that page later today. Cheers, Sean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ckthual Posted September 14, 2006 Share #2 Posted September 14, 2006 Live on DPREVIEW too : http://www.dpreview.com/news/0609/06091412leicam8previewed.asp Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nachkebia Posted September 14, 2006 Share #3 Posted September 14, 2006 Thats great! I just wish I could subscribe! damn paypal does not list my country! is there anyway I can make credit card payment without paypal? Thank you Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean_reid Posted September 14, 2006 Author Share #4 Posted September 14, 2006 Thats great! I just wish I could subscribe! damn paypal does not list my country! is there anyway I can make credit card payment without paypal?Thank you E-mail me at sreid@sover.net and we'll figure it out. Cheers, Sean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertwang Posted September 14, 2006 Share #5 Posted September 14, 2006 Sean, can you slap on a Noctilux and tell us how the M8 performs in EV -4 to +2 lighting? Seriously if the M8 can deliver this very cleanly, I may not consider buying that car now for next year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean_reid Posted September 14, 2006 Author Share #6 Posted September 14, 2006 Live on DPREVIEW too :Leica M8, Exclusive Preview: Digital Photography Review Just read it. Lots of good details but a very different kind of review, not surprisingly. Phil and I are writing to different audiences and have different senses of what's most important to write about. I'll be diplomatic and leave it at that. Cheers, Sean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean_reid Posted September 14, 2006 Author Share #7 Posted September 14, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) Sean, can you slap on a Noctilux and tell us how the M8 performs in EV -4 to +2 lighting? Seriously if the M8 can deliver this very cleanly, I may not consider buying that car now for next year. Hi Albert, I don't have an M8 with me any more but will be getting a production version right after Photokina. No one is allowed to publish example photos from the M8 until they're able to make those samples with a camera that has production-level firmware. Leica had been tweaking the firmware all along. The one exception to that will be the pictures made the photographers (Magnum) hired to shoot for the M8 brochure. Their photos are all checked carefully by Leica and must be approved before publication. (And no, that's not a conspiracy by "Big Brother", they just want to be sure that people don't get carried away analyzing some flaw that is just a pre-production bug in a camera with early firmware.) So, I can't talk about ISO performance in any detail now other than to say that people will likely be surprised and pleased. So, there's one aspect of low light performance I can't talk about. The other is focus and I would say that anyone who can get good focus with a Noct. on a .72 M7 will get the same on the M8. For critical use, I recommend the magnifier that I discuss in the article. The theory of RF base length and the practice are two different things. Cheers, Sean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertwang Posted September 14, 2006 Share #8 Posted September 14, 2006 Just read it. Lots of good details but a very different kind of review, not surprisingly. Phil and I are writing to different audiences and have different senses of what's most important to write about. n Another thing is that Phil is a Cannonaut and never ever wrote a negative thing about them baubles... Perhaps that FZ50 review was a fluke? (actually Phil writes for a general audience who actually don't care about image quality but about tech specs...) whereas Sean is very impartial and balances everything perfectly in his reviews. In fact, I like his E1 review as a classic example of what a review ought to include. In fact, the point is that Sean is a real photographer who knows how a camera is to be used in practice whereas Phil is directed to an audience who prefers to slam various combos and play menus like a Nintendo controller. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddawn Posted September 14, 2006 Share #9 Posted September 14, 2006 It's September 15 in Australia so, with Leica's permission, my review of the Leica M8 is now live. Part 2 is coming soon. A very, very concise version of the review is available freely on Luminous-Landscape at: Leica M8 Preview And...those of you who want to complain about this announcement...let it go...people want to know this and have been waiting. BTW, there is also a page with some general information about other new cameras that Leica is introducing and that page is freely available to anyone. See: September 15 Pictures of the new cameras will be on that page later today. thanks Sean for the very detailed part 1 review... just spent 45 mins perusing it thoroughly... I'm looking forward to ur part 2 review of the actual image quality! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravastar Posted September 14, 2006 Share #10 Posted September 14, 2006 Another thing is that Phil is a Cannonaut and never ever wrote a negative thing about them baubles...<snip> Ah, you mean the salad bowls Thanks for the review Sean, I don't have to stay up late now I notice the serial number of the M8 on DPR is 3100507, good news. Bob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastFashnReloaded Posted September 14, 2006 Share #11 Posted September 14, 2006 Thanks! I had not ben to your site before, Sean, but I will be again. Looks like Leica may have pulled a rabbit out of the hat at the same time Pentax is getting serious. Two companies I've always liked, looks like a great fall. Now how the H___ will I be able to afford an M8??? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
burkey Posted September 14, 2006 Share #12 Posted September 14, 2006 To a fellow Vermonter - thank you very much!!! I look forward to reading your review. . . David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertwang Posted September 14, 2006 Share #13 Posted September 14, 2006 Also please include some information about the dynamic range for the M8... that's a very very important point for me before I consider. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean_reid Posted September 14, 2006 Author Share #14 Posted September 14, 2006 First of all, my apologies for people who have had problems logging in. The site has been hit hard and we've just changed some programming to handle the actual traffic. I talked about the hold from Leica on publishing example pictures. I should have a camera with production level firmware right after Photokina and will get tests and samples done with that as soon as possible. Cheers, Sean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchell Posted September 14, 2006 Share #15 Posted September 14, 2006 Sean, Excellent reveiw as usual. Can't wait for Part Two and image quality. Best, Mitchell Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean_reid Posted September 14, 2006 Author Share #16 Posted September 14, 2006 Sean, Excellent reveiw as usual. Can't wait for Part Two and image quality. Best, Mitchell Thanks Mitch! Cheers, Sean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
semrich Posted September 14, 2006 Share #17 Posted September 14, 2006 Sean, I am able to log into your site and get the M8 photo and the first line of text, and that's it. After the long wait and reading others posts about your review and having already seen pictures of it, I am anxious to read more than the first line of the review. Is this the problem you are working on? Richard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
humanized_form Posted September 14, 2006 Share #18 Posted September 14, 2006 nice going Sean. also, i gotta say i was really pleasantly suprised with the dpreview coverage. Phil Askey obviously loves the camera and made a nice effort to explain it to the dslr dominated dpreview universe, and with that audience that is quite a difficult task! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Mitchum Posted September 14, 2006 Share #19 Posted September 14, 2006 Another thing is that Phil is a Cannonaut and never ever wrote a negative thing about them baubles... Perhaps that FZ50 review was a fluke? (actually Phil writes for a general audience who actually don't care about image quality but about tech specs...) If anything he has been critical of Canon and seems partial to Nikon, at least when it comes to SLRs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfage Posted September 14, 2006 Share #20 Posted September 14, 2006 I guess they are all live. Tony over a popflash has published prices for the D3, Dlux3 and Vlux3. The M8 is still on the 1,000 down payment plan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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