I was kind of excited to shoot with the M8 although I did hear about the terrible noise reduction so I knew I wanted just natural light
shot with a fixed 75mm
it was an adventure
first me and ysa went to get some of our peoples food in the ghetto..which meant ysa needed to look the part no?
Damn girl you look so Rican!
anyway while YSA was attracting 30 something year old hispanics I thought to myself
this leica is wack!!!!
the lens was nice but the focusing, forget it! Im not used to a rangefinder but goddamn. Well I was shooting at 2.5 so I'll take responsibility on that
and also the image quality was not worth the 5K you gotta put down to get one....no thanks..for that much you'd better give me some awesome shots at 1600iso kid, not just at 160 like this mother.
then we shot my neighbors kid playing...
cutest kid ever
Anyway leica I just wanna say I still love you just not your M8
and thats not just the complementary mouse pad and pin talking
the focusing is fine lol I just wasnt used to the rangefinder thats all...not leicas fault! plus i should have used hyper focus..but whatev...your right it is the sensor....but I have heard they are creating a better one soon...who knows
strange. whats wrong with the image quality then? maybe it cant match that of a nikon d3 or one of the canon equilavants but surely they would know how to make a proper censor at leica :)
You've echoed a point that myself and many other Leica shooters have about the M8: the chip isn't worth the money you pay for it. It has the ability to produce great images, of course, but in order to make it look decent at higher ISO, one really has to be up to speed on advanced post noise reduction techniques. It also helps to play with the custom color spaces that are applicable to the DNG files. Oh yeah... You also have to shoot in DNG and not JPG.
As it is, I think that Leica should have priced the M8 at around 2800.00. I would have bought one at that price, but after spending a weekend with one of them myself, I decided that 5K was just too much, even for someone who shoots an M because they need what only a rangefinder can offer, which is a level of stealth that an SLR can't match. I figure that, for 5-large though, I can just keep using my M6 and my Voigtlanders until Leica comes out with the next revision of the M8.
it sure does have those things...but they dont mean much if the image quality is mediocre at best..especially for the price..if it was cheaper I wouldnt be so disappointed! haha
