Each system is good for something...the problem is trying to suggest one system is best for everything; it is not.

jaapv wrote:
Funny - 99% of their sales are to users..... Buy cheap- buy twice, my grandma used to say.

99%? Somehow I doubt that. Anyway, I was merely expressing my personal opinion about Leica Camera. YMMV.

Their binoculars, OTOH, are top-notch.

Vandit

I would not call the binoculars exactly cheap either.

jaapv wrote:
I would not call the binoculars exactly cheap either.

I bought mine (10x40B) new 31 years ago, have used 'em in the arctic & the tropics and most places in-between and have had no problems.

I haven't read this whole thread (7 pages!) but wonder if this review has been mentioned. It's by a photojournalist who tried the M8 in his work in Iraq; in fact he tried three of them and decided they were unusable for his work.

http://web.mac.com/kamberm/Leica_M8_Field_Test,_Iraq/Page_1.html

The OP and others may find it informative.

DIS Ottawa wrote:
I haven't read this whole thread (7 pages!) but wonder if this review has been mentioned. It's by a photojournalist who tried the M8 in his work in Iraq; in fact he tried three of them and decided they were unusable for his work.

http://web.mac.com/kamberm/Leica_M8_Field_Test,_Iraq/Page_1.html

The OP and others may find it informative.


Yes it's been discussed at length.

telyt wrote:
jaapv wrote:
I would not call the binoculars exactly cheap either.

I bought mine (10x40B) new 31 years ago, have used 'em in the arctic & the tropics and most places in-between and have had no problems.
My first ones which I got ages ago were stolen in Nairobi about ten years ago. I got new ones back then and they serve me well. Leica loaned me the newest type a few weeks ago. Now I wish my current ones will be stolen . They have been spectacularly improved over the last decade.

just leave them on the back seat of the Jag jaap

Looks like this thread is about to die.
Olympus just announced a 4/3 camera without optical viewfinder and mirror - could be the answer to a small interchangable lens camera on a budget?

yes this one could be interesting, especially since it can use the standard 4/3 lenses