"Watching TV" | Leica M8 + Nokton 35/1.4 @ f/1.4, 1/45 sec, ISO 640
The M8′s output is great for b&w conversions!
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“Balzer’s underground parking is open: ONLY FOR CUSTOMERS and employees in assigned places. Mo.-Fr. from 6:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Retract antenna! Don’t park overnight! Parking at own risk”  "Balzer's Tiefgarage" | Leica M8 + Nokton 35/1.4 @ f/1.4, 1/45 sec, ISO 160 I haven’t shot my new (old) M8 much yet, but did a bit and got some nice results already. And as my wife requested that I post some of the pictures I took, here you go.  My wife and Lilly | Leica M8 + Nokton 35/1.4 @ f/1.4 or f/2, 1/6000 sec, ISO 160 Here’s why I wouldn’t have wanted a shutter-upgraded M8 or M8.2 – you can shoot your fast glass wide open using shutter speeds > 1/4000 sec.! Despite all the ranting about a flawed lens and a (potentially) misaligned rangefinder, my new toys do deliver great shots. It just takes some adjusting. Nonetheless, I do hope I can get either camera or lens adjusted so that at least at one given aperture setting I get in focus what I’m focusing on …  "Juxtaposed" | Leica M8 + Nokton 35/1.4 @ f/8, 1/350 sec, ISO 160 This was of course processed in Lightroom, but the M8′s out-of-camera JPEGs aren’t actually that bad if the white balance is correct. When first processing the DNGs, I had a hard time getting the same look in the processed pictures that I saw in the ooc pictures. Again, it takes some adjusting … In other news: I’m not reporting on the new Sony NEX cameras, as everyone on the web seems to be doing so. Go somewhere else to find your information! I don’t seem to be getting anything in focus with the M8 + Nokton. I’ve been doing tests over and over and over, and results seem to be highly contradicting. What I can say for sure is that from f/2.5 onwards there’s a back-focusing issue, meaning the lens draws sharp what is slightly behind of what I was focusing on. Below f/2, it first seemed the lens was front-focusing, i. e. drawing sharp what was before what I was focusing on, but in another test I couldn’t make out anything as sharp since before f/2 the lens just isn’t sharp enough to determine what’s in focus anyway. I’ve got a feeling that both rangefinder and lens aren’t correctly aligned, but the rangefinder problem seems to be the only one that can be solved (as reportedly most Nokton 1.4′s have focusing issues). |
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May 14th, 2010, 11:16 am | 
