johnvanr wrote: Scott Stoness wrote:
I have r8 (and r5,r5ii, r7) and have tried Voigt 15v2 - the old dslr type - Leica mount adapted. I have also used it with adapted EF lens. I general it works well but for my Voigt 15, it has colour cast. So I would say yes it works well but it encounters some of the colour cast issues (similar to r5) for uwa lens. The R52 with stacked sensor largely eliminates these colour issues.
WRT r8, I love it for backpacking. Very light with stm lens. If you are hand holding you will not see the difference between r5 45mpx and r8. It's really light. I bring my rf 100-400 and sim's (16, 24-105, 15-30, 28, 24-50) and again if you are handholding its as good as the r5 with L's.
The downsides are: only c1,c2 - not c3. no ibis but I have not found this to be an issue because it does well at high iso (keep the shutter up). Its menu is a bit more limited than r5ii (no pre burst, no clog2,and no mechanical but efcs ...)
I would say that it's better than the old 5diii (with same 24mpx size and no ibis). It's very adaptable to lieca lens, EF lens. It has really useful stm lens available. Its focus is better than 5div and pretty close to r5. But biggest downsides are colour cast on uwa. I have not found ibis to matter but I am travel (good light), tripod (not matter), and wildlife - not a portrait guy. It has a efcs that limits to 6fps, so it has rolling shutter challenges at 40fps for birds in flight or very long mm for moving animals. Its fps is not as variable (fixed choices) as the r5ii. But I would not hesitate to use it for portrait (grandchildren) who move a lot with an adapted ef 24-70 2.8 without IBIS (because Ibis only works for photographer hand shake, not grandchildren movement).
[I have recently bought the r7 for extreme reaches and it is a great compliment to r8 for travel].
Thanks. I expect a color cast of the 15mm on just about any non-Leica camera, but it’s not a lens I use much. I found my R5 and old R6 better than the R6II, with adapted lenses and this R8 has the sensor of the R6 II. So good to hear it’s not that bad.
On a side note, is the R5 II really that much better than the R5 with M lenses?
Looks like the R8 could work. It would be about as small and light as a Leica with M lenses and smaller and lighter than my R5 and Nikon Z6 III. Matches the Fuji X-E 5, but R8 would be full-frame and one less system to remember.
Wish I could rent here in Spain.
The R5ii is way way better at colour cast (very usable. I think I have a post somewhere in this forum about it.
Mar 10, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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