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.!
Continue reading Some M8/Nokton first shots

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).