New Leica M8! First photos...

[madshutter]

Hello all,

after considering this for a while, I finally ended up purchasing a Leica M8 for my street work - as lenses go, budget & availability in my local store didn't allow more than a (not so) lowly Voigtlander 35mm f2.5, for the moment, soon to be sided by a couple more CV lenses. Leica glass will, hopefully, follow - in the meantime, I will try and put what I have to a good use. Here a few samples out of my first day of shooting with the new M8: I love it already, feels like going back to the days I begun photography. My photographic story started more than 20 years ago, went through Nikon F, Fm2 - I got the chance to use a couple of film Leicas but never owned one - then F5 & finally digital with a short D70 time followed by D2x (2)... ok, enough talk, here comes the pics, from a day out in Istanbul:

Old lady & cat at the bodrum cafe', Istanbul:


Istanbul is room for literally millions stray cats:






one of my usual old door shots


and, of course, one of my fiancee:


last, my very first M8 pic: of course, the Leica salesguy...


C&C welcome and much appreciated.

[engstrom]

Fantastic images...yes, a digital rangefinder would be wonderful in so many ways. Congratulations on the camera and please continue to let us know how you like it.

[CaptainTom]

A fantastic camera with so many features.
Best of all, it is a rangefinder. Is the shutter noisy ??
Nice photos.

[madshutter]

Originally Posted by engstrom

Fantastic images...yes, a digital rangefinder would be wonderful in so many ways. Congratulations on the camera and please continue to let us know how you like it.

Hey John, thank you very much for your comment! I am loving it actually, and it always comes with me wherever I go. A completely different way of seeing the world compared to a DSLR... I did post some stuff done with it here:

http://www.texasphotoforum.com/forum...ad.php?t=47267

and here:

http://www.texasphotoforum.com/forum...ad.php?t=47228

Thanks again for your comments, much appreciated!

[madshutter]

Originally Posted by CaptainTom

A fantastic camera with so many features.
Best of all, it is a rangefinder. Is the shutter noisy ??
Nice photos.

Hey Tom, indeed a camera with just what you need feature-wise, and a rangefinder - not perfect, as you know (AA filter & vignetting problems) and very different from a D2x (my other cameras); but the RF way is a great way of seeing the world through a lens. Smaller, lighter, unobstrusive, great IQ, great glass... what more do you need? the shutter is a little noisy, low-pitch, the cocking mechanism has a humming whirling noise after shooting. Not the clunk of my D2x, but definitely not as silent as the manual M series cameras. Thanks for your comment,