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...
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...
6 December, 2019
Leica M8 – A Year with an Ageing Digital Rangefinder – 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...
30 October, 2019
5 frames with 5 Leicas – by Per Wilhelmsson
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...
30 December, 2018
5 Frames with a 90mm Summarit on a Leica M8 – 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...
22 August, 2016
Leica M8 Review – A simple, digital, rangefinder
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...
How important is the use of a CCD in the look of Leica M8 photos?
18 June, 2016
A few snaps with the Leica M8 and Zeiss 28mm ZM Biogon
My Leica M8 has been out of action for a little while. It'd become difficult to use for anything other than close up portraits, so I just lost interest in using it. Yesterday mo...