» Topic: Director Wim Wenders On Photography And The Leica M8

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May 12, 2009 at 11:30 am #8021

david king
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I caught this short film about photography and the Leica M8 camera featuring the great director Wim Wenders. I hope to own a Leica some day! Great narration regarding Wim’s connection with photography. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlOppFsQGEY

May 12, 2009 at 3:08 pm #67637

Douglas Barnes
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Great find! Thanks for posting.

May 12, 2009 at 4:21 pm #67638

Chad Simcox
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Great video. I’ve been wanting a digital rangefinder/p&s with manual controls like this, but if I’m going to spend over $3K on photo gear, it’s going towards lenses for my SLR…
I wish a manufacturer would make a small compact digital camera with apeture and focus control on the lens and a dial for shutter selection and ISO. Oh and no shutter lag. Imagine a Canon G10 type camera with all physical manual controls. How great would that be?!?

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May 12, 2009 at 4:35 pm #67639

Douglas Barnes
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Great video. I’ve been wanting a digital rangefinder/p&s with manual controls like this, but if I’m going to spend over $3K on photo gear, it’s going towards lenses for my SLR…
I wish a manufacturer would make a small compact digital camera with apeture and focus control on the lens and a dial for shutter selection and ISO. Oh and no shutter lag. Imagine a Canon G10 type camera with all physical manual controls. How great would that be?!?

Have you seen the Lumix LX3? Not quite there but lots of pixels and shoots raw with a wide and fast Leica lens. I just picked one up last month and love it!

May 12, 2009 at 5:56 pm #67640

david king
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I’ve come really close to buying the Leica Digilux-4. Which is about the same thing as the Lumix except you don’t get the Leica look that is in the firmware and it come with some very cool software from PhaseOne. The M8 and a real Leica lens wouldprobably be 7k to 9k. The Digilux-4 goes for about 600.00. If yoiu would like to see some good samples from both cameras check out this site http://www.boxedlight.com/index.htm Nice shots Douglas!

May 13, 2009 at 5:22 pm #67641

Mike Anderson
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Lieca and Minolta worked together for a few years and there are some older lenses out there from that era that work and are even stabilized, on my Sony. Sweet lenses for sure.

If I were in the market for a high end P&S I’d buy the Panasonic Lumix hands down.
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