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At that time, I heard Leica finally releases the M digital camera namely the M8.
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Before that, the only digital rangefinder was the EPSON R-D1. You want to be a digital Sebastião Salgado - and you have $6,300 for a camera and lens.It was 2006 when the M8 was released.
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Capture One LE software is included as a RAW converter. The M8 stores images in two JPEG quality levels or in 16 bits per color in Adobe’s Digital Negative (DNG). Also, you can zoom in 8X to see detail at the pixel level. Simple controls give a color histogram not just for the photo, but for an area of it. To see just how fine the photos are, turn to the 230,000-pixel 2.5-inch LCD. This digital bayonet ring (which Leica can retrofit to existing lenses) helps the camera recognize the lens, provides more EXIF data, and compensates for vignetting. The firmware will handle it, especially when the lens is fitted with the new 6-bit coding ring. As for vignetting with wide-angle glass, don’t worry, says Leica. Nearly all Leica lenses made since 1954 (except for several Super Angulons, which reach far into the body) will work on the new camera. Used to shooting fast film with an M7? You’ll feel right at home, Leica says. The base ISO is 160 (DSLRs often start at 100) and settings run up to 2500, so this is a serious low-light machine. Noise, too, is well under control, according to Leica. In fact, the camera’s promotion material cites “a greater wealth of detail than can be achieved with analog film.” In all, Leica expects resolution and image quality better than usually seen with 10MP. Leica wants all of the resolution of its legendary lenses to shine through any moiré issues are handled by in-camera processing. While sensors typically are covered with a filter to cut moiré fringing, this one isn’t, since that would mean losing some fine detail. The result, says Leica, is true color reproduction right into the corners of the picture. Then, to beat the refraction that comes with that light angle, an uncommonly thin (0.5mm) layer of glass had to be affixed over the sensor. Since light from the corners of the image enters a rangefinder camera at a much sharper angle than on an SLR, these had to be offset to prevent vignetting. The microlenses atop the imaging sensor had to be rearranged for the M8. And the new 28mm f/2.8 Elmarit-M ($1,500, estimated street) is like a 37mm. This provides a 35mm lens factor of 1.33, versus 1.5 to 1.6 for a DSLR with an APS-sized chip. At 18x27mm, the chip is larger than the usual APS-sized sensor. Under Leica’s direction, Kodak customized a 10.3-megapixel CCD sensor for the M8. Of course, the real challenge and - if our tests bear it out - triumph of this camera is what’s beneath the skin. Example: making the sound of the shutter not just quiet, but uniform throughout the click. And in typical Leica fashion, the engineers obsessed over the details.
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About all that’s missing is the film-winding lever. The shutter button and dial haven’t moved, and, like its 35mm sister, the M8 has 460 parts in the rangefinder mechanism alone. In fact, to get at the SD memory card and lithium-ion battery (550-shot estimate), you have to remove the bottom plate - just like loading film into an M7. Virtually the same size and weight as the M7, with a magnesium-alloy body and milled-brass top and bottom. (We’ll post our test results as we get one.) The near-production version our editors tried in a sneak preview was a wow.įirst, this is a real M. Battles raged over which features a digital M-series Leica should sport - or whether these elegantly simple and decidedly Germanic manual-focus rangefinders should be translated into digital at all.īut the new Leica M8 ($4,800, estimated street, body only) could settle these disputes - especially if the production version of this camera lives up to its billing when we run it through the Pop Photo Lab. Leica fanatics have been arguing over this camera for years…even though it didn’t exist until now.