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Leica M8

10 November, 2024

5 Frames With the Leica M8 in Providence, Rhode Island

By LASousa

I walked about with this beautiful old box recently in the downtown Providence, Rhode Island area. Providence is a small city bathed in colors from the work of the active arts c...
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7 June, 2024

Leica M8 – A “Better” Alternative to Shooting Film Rangefinders?

By Taffy Ledesma

Today there are some who want to get into film and there are those who want to get back into film. I fall in the category of the latter, having started out with film beginning w...
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26 June, 2020

Leica M8 – (Finally) Falling in love with this aging digital – By Taffy Ledesma

By Taffy Ledesma

I bought my Leica M8 used in 2012. After dabbling in all sorts of digital cameras - Nikon, Fuji, and Olympus — I was looking to replicate the joy of my old Leica M4-2 so I final...
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6 December, 2019

Leica M8 – A Year with an Ageing Digital Rangefinder – By Rui Hu

By Rui Hu

The Leica M8 was the first digital Leica I've ever shot with, and was also the most film-like digital camera I've ever used. I fell in love with a camera for the first time, and...
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30 October, 2019

5 frames with 5 Leicas – by Per Wilhelmsson

By cfperwil

I am honored to be a guest blogger on 35mmc - a blog/webpage that I have been reading for quite some time. When I got the question if I could make a post, I thought of what I sh...
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30 December, 2018

5 Frames with a 90mm Summarit on a Leica M8 – By David Evans

By David Evans

It’s 10 years since I bought my first Leica - the M8. As anyone who knows this camera will testify, it’s a strange beast, albeit one which still manages to deliver excellent res...
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22 August, 2016

Leica M8 Review – A simple, digital, rangefinder

By Hamish Gill

Released a decade ago, the M8 was Leica's first digital rangefinder. By the standards of most people, this thing is now old technology; it's long in the tooth, many times supers...
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15 August, 2016

Leica M8 – How important is the use of a CCD in the look of the photos?

By Hamish Gill

How important is the use of a CCD in the look of Leica M8 photos?
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