Zou
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 05/02/2007
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Loc: Edinburgh
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http://www.flickr.com/cameras/leica/m8/
Oh dear!
By the way, what are the indications of future value of M8s - depreciation in line with M6s and M7s, or likely to drop significantly if/when it is replaced? Just thinking for 10 years ahead...
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Fen
BAD WOLF
Reged: 12/03/2002
Posts: 19571
Loc: Currently Unknown!
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I like this...
"I have this camera and a Cannon 5D, both are great with comparable image quality. The M8 is great for walking around the streets and taking photos,..."
Reviewed by someone that doesn't even know how spell the name of the camera they own!
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Edited by Fen (29/06/2008 18:36)
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LargeFormat
old hand
Reged: 24/10/2006
Posts: 979
Loc: Buckinghamshire and Cumbria
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I have a feeling that they will depreciate far more than the film versions. If you buy a 10/20/30 year old Leica there may have been a modicum of development over the years, say in coating technology, but essentially the old camera will perform much like a new one. In ten years time say Leica is producing a full frame 50MP low noise camera what price today's M8?
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Mark_Norton
Reged: 29/06/2002
Posts: 1125
Loc: London, UK
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I don't think any digital camera holds its value and it's better to think of it as a 3 - 4 year rental paid up front. On that basis, an M8 costs about £15/week.
Leica is first and foremost a lens manufacturer and that is where there is somewhat better value retention. For Leica, the need to produce bodies to mount their lenses on is an inconvenience, as is the business of actually producing an image from the captured data.
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Benchista
Wich Tyler
Reged: 11/08/2000
Posts: 36434
Loc: Everywhere and nowhere, baby
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Quote:
I don't think any digital camera holds its value and it's better to think of it as a 3 - 4 year rental paid up front.
Yup. However you look at it, you really need to depreciate the thing to nothing over that sort of time period and see how the costs stack up. If there's any value left at the end of the period, you're laughing.
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El Sid
Going potty
Reged: 14/04/2003
Posts: 9160
Loc: Sussex-by-the-Sea
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A point and shoot eh?
Mind you, don't a lot of street' togs more ore less use them that way?........... 
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Benchista
Wich Tyler
Reged: 11/08/2000
Posts: 36434
Loc: Everywhere and nowhere, baby
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Yup. Prefocus, set the exposure, shoot away - that's a fairly traditional way of using a Leica - and it's a fun way, too.
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www.nbrphoto.com
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chromatin
journeyman
Reged: 26/06/2008
Posts: 83
Loc: NE Lincs
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By way of contrast, the Nikon D300 comes with a 7.5x optical zoom.
I've been diddled!
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Learning
Ethelred the Ill-Named
Reged: 26/09/2006
Posts: 2043
Loc: Nottingham
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Quote:
By way of contrast, the Nikon D300 comes with a 7.5x optical zoom.
I've been diddled!
And that's a point and shoot as well, if you choose to use it that way.
Edited by Learning (19/08/2008 19:55)
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