101 reasons for having an M8

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#40 Women find you irresistable and agree to sleep with you - sometimes without you even having to pay.

 

You'll pay, you may not realize you're paying but you'll pay.

[Fotomiguel]

44.

Because even God wants to see personally the M8 in action.

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[Fotomiguel]

45

Is the one camera that I enjoy just touching her.

[Fotomiguel]

46

because even a bad shot becomes a great file through a M8

[pklein]

#47

Because it has no anti-aliasing filter, you can crop down to 2:1 (50%) and still get a tonally rich, detailed picture that will print nicely at 8x10.

 

#48

It gives some of the nicest B&W images I've seen out of a digital camera.

 

(both pictures illustrate both 47 and 48)

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[pgk]

Detail, detail, detail - of yesterday's glorious summer weather here in North Wales (the place is called Porth Niegwl or Hell's Mouth - very apt yesterday) - 24mm Elmarit.

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[markgay]

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No 50. Because I can take pictures when a well-built bearded guy has just spotted my camera and get away with it.

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[markgay]

No 51. Because there is a space and a time where only something which looks like an old Soviet camera (cloned from a timeless German camera) will do.

 

(neither picture is cropped)

 

Best regards,

Mark

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[cre8ing]

#52

just because you can.

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[luigi bertolotti]

TO THE ATTENTION OF WILLIAM PARSONS

 

Bill.. this is going to become another book... title is obvious...

[jedi996sps]

No53 Because i dont hav to carry a huge backpack with me and i wont compromise on some things

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[Guest Ridder Cornelius]

#41

 

Takes more than fifty year old lenses for that vintage look

 

 

That'll be the first legitimate reason for me......

 

the others can do everything else as well ----

[luigi bertolotti]

#54

Because your wife maybe neither takes note is ANOTHER camera, after 16 years of marriage with you and a M4... ... so she cannot charge you of fool spending for your passions... and doesn't claim to go to costly exotic places for holidays.

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[Guest Ridder Cornelius]

45

Is the one camera that I enjoy just touching her.

 

and this ....

[chris_tribble]

Reason #55

 

Because it can spot spelling mistakes in the dark...

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[markgay]

Jaap, I take your point. Surely the M8's advantage really lies in its lenses, with amazing flare control for example. No. 56.

 

Regards.

Msrk

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[Albert4321]

Reason #57: - it is simply the best tool for the job (most jobs)

 

shot last Friday...

 

 

The rest of the session photos had too much skin for this forum...

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[jaapv]

# 58

 

because it has tranposed the beautiful M series into the 21st century...

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[markgay]

Apolgies in advance for hijacking the idea but I think an M7 can help to hilight the M8's strengths and differences.

 

This is not the m8 at all, but it's the same lens. Can we take a 5 minute break to remember how it looks on film?

In the first picture, an old Soviet submarine commander is recalling stories at his dacha in the total darkness. Lens is the Noctilux.

In the second picture, friends constructed a chess set out of paper and are lost in concentration. Noctilux.

The M8 would capture both scenes but in a very different way.

 

Regards,

Mark

 

(No numbers as these are not M8 pictures)

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Hallo,

Look here: Leica M

[SJP]

I agree the M8 output looks a lot better! Thanks for the reminder.

 

Great photo's though - it is not at all about sharpness or grain or film/digital like. It is about taking pictures with whatever comes our way and that moves us.