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Used Leica M8 0.68 Digital Rangefinder Camera Body with 0.68 Viewfinder Magnification, Silver Chrome - #10702
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About Leica M8 0.68 Digital Rangefinder Camera Body with 0.68 Viewfinder Magnification, Silver Chrome - #10702
The Leica M8 is the the first Professional Leica Digital Rangefinder Camera. It features high picture quality even with high ISO settings, with logical, Leica-typical intuitive functions, all in a metal housing made of highly stabile magnesium alloy, available in black or silver chrome.
High Resolution:
The minimal noise CCD was optimized for the special needs of the M-lens system & offers a high resolution of 10.3 mio.pixels. The special adaptation of the sensor with micro lens offset helps to avoid disturbing vignetting in the corners of the pictures. A very thin glass covering obstructs unwanted light by diagonal light.
Full Light Efficiency:
It is now possible to take much more detailed pictures with high sensitivity up to 2500 ISO, as never before with analogue film.
Concentrated & Intuitive:
The M8 features only the most relevant photographical digital possibilities. The functions such as time automatic & the manual focus in combination with the preserved rangefinder principal were maintained. A simple & intuitive menu allows for setting on the 2.5" screen in only a few steps.
Rangefinder:
The Leica M8 has a bright light frame for the 24 & 35 mm, 28 & 90 mm & 50 & 75 mm lenses. Through the focal length extension factor of 1.33x, the effective focal length is from 32 to 120 mm. This makes the use of the APO-TELYT-M 135mm/f3.5 not recommendable. The viewfinder magnification corresponds to 0.68.
Compatibility:
The M8 deliberately is without the resolution reducing Moire-Filter in front of the sensor in order to achieve the full performance of the lens. The high resolution of the M-system lenses produced since 1954 can be used with the M8.
Creative Photography:
The electronically steered & very silent metal blades of the focal-plane shutter can realize exposure times of up to 1/8000 sec. In well-lit surroundings, a photographer's creativity is not hindered with the use of selective sharpness with an open aperture. It is possible to take pictures during daylight hours with selective sharpness with the short flash synchronization time of 1/250 second.
Silent & Discreet:
In order to achieve a silent advance of the shutter, a rubberized silencing friction wheel was placed in the first gear step. The power is transmitted over a cam the entire length of the tension arm. This makes for a very silent noise from the motorized tension of the shutter.
Digital & Longevity:
The M8 has been designed to deliver professional results over many years. The closed all metal housing is made of highly stabile magnesium alloy. The top plate & bottom plate of the camera is milled from massive blocks of brass & then silver or black chromium-plated. For the future, raw data formats will implement the DNG technology due to the fact that it guarantees long archive security.
Raw data converter DVD Capture One, is included, as well as the Leica Digital Capture remote control CD software.
Leica M8 0.68 Digital Rangefinder Camera Body with 0.68 Viewfinder Magnification, Silver Chrome - #10702 Features
- A genuine M. No ifs or buts. The LEICA M8.
- Lenses recognized as the best in the world demonstrate their full capabilities on the LEICA M8.
- Excellent resolution of 10.3 million pixels.
- The highest film speed settings of up to ISO 2500 now allow much more detailed pictures to be taken
- Digital and durable - The M8 is designed to deliver professional results over many years.
- The Leica M8 retains the basic range of functions, such as aperture priority and manual focus and combines them with the proven Leica rangefinder principle.
- A simple and intuitive menu system allows the settings to be changed on the 2.5" monitor by pressing just a few buttons.
- The electronically controlled metal blade focal-plane shutter enables shutter speeds of up to 1/8000 second to be achieved.
- The high flash synchronization speed of 1/250 second now allows daylight flash photographs to be taken with selective focus.
- The electric motor cocks the shutter almost soundlessly.
- The LEICA M8 uses an optical scanner on the camera's bayonet to identify the 6 bit-coding of the current Leica M lenses.
- This allows the slight vignetting caused by the system to be compensated, further improving the familiar high image quality.
- Existing M lenses can be retroactively 6 bit-coded.
- The LEICA M8 sensor uses a special micro lens structure with lenses moved right to the edges perfectly tailored to the characteristics of the Leica M lenses.
- The image has uniform brightness right to the edge.
- There is no vignetting caused by the sensor and the existing Leica M lenses can demonstrate their full capabilities on the digital camera.
- The professional Capture One LE RAW data converter ensures that the raw data supplied by the CCD sensor and saved in the future-proof Adobe digital negative format (DNG) is "processed to yield optimum quality".
- The operating concept of the M8 is the result of a great deal of care, many years of experience and an in-depth understanding of how professional photographers work.
- By concentrating on what is essential, Leica has made the user interface simple, clear and intuitive.
- Leica has deliberately avoided function keys with multiple uses and complex menu structures on the LEICA M8.
- The LEICA M8 has a special function for manually cleaning the sensor.
- The battery and the SD card slot are located under the base plate, which is cut from solid brass and provides effective protection from dust and moisture.
- Pressing the Info function key displays all of the photographic settings from the quick menu and additional meta-information saved with the image file
- This enables you to completely evaluate a picture as soon as you have taken it.
- The LEICA M8 has an aperture priority mode with a choice of two delay times of 2 and 12 seconds.
- The LEICA M8 is supplied with special software that allows the camera to be controlled remotely for scientific work or in a photographic studio.
- With LEICA DIGITAL CAPTURE the camera can be operated from a computer via a USB connection and the image data can be saved directly onto hard disk.
- The new M-TTL flash technology with pre-flash for flash metering opens up new creative possibilities in composition and flash exposure.
What's in the box:
- Battery
- Charger
- Strap