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Leica-M8

Leica - M8 Review

Price (MSRP): $
Megapixel:
Type: Digital Rangefinder
Submitted by: Reviewer from Belgrade, otherCountries
Date Reviewed: 7/13/2007
Months Owned: 6-11
Photos Taken: 1000-2499
Skill Level: Advanced amateur

What's Hot: Excellent quality of pictures, ease of use, reliability, excellent mechanics.

What's Not: IR issue and a need for IR cut-off filters.

Review: A true M camera. Not for comparison with SLRs. Inobtrusive and versatile. Light and small. Quiet. Amazing quality of pictures. M lenses fully applicable, as well as very good Zeiss an Voigtlaender lenses; I even use older M39 lenses.

Overall Ratings
Overall quality
9
Ease of use
10
Fit and finish
10
Click-to-click speed
9
Display quality
10
Flash quality
9
Image quality
10
Overall value
10
RATING SCALE: 1 = WORST 10 = BEST

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