Classic rangefinder digital camera experience: Leica Leica M8 & Voigtlander NOKTON 1.5/50 ASPH VM Extreme Edition


Foreword

After an accidental shoulder fracture several months ago, she suddenly felt uncomfortable with the large and heavy system of the SLR. She wanted a camera that was both weight and size and had a decent quality to use instead of SLR. This is how many people probably should recommend the Sony a7 series, although it is a long grass but after a short time to experience the complex menu options, and the huge size of the lens group. Let the original "micro-single" become like a "big single", even though the performance is strong or not like it. The point is not to have a forehead

Eyes cast on the Leica, manual focus is not a problem, the lens group is small and high quality. The greatest hesitation is whether the parallax of the paraxial finder frame and the macular focus can control the alignment. In the face of high prices and small third-tier cities, there is no experience in the shop, but had to choose a relatively inexpensive M-series machine to try to control. Film cameras such as the M6 ​​are cheap and cheap, but it is not easy to shoot a film in a small place. Had to choose the first digital camera among the M series which is the cheapest and oldest [Leica M8]

In terms of lens selection, considering the fact that the Volenda 35 1.4 (the cheapest) and later saw the 50 1.5 engraved, because if you want to change other M under 50mm is the most commonly used in the end or to buy 50

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Appearance

Bare metal is not as imaginary, but it is far lighter than SLR. There is a heavy sense in the hands.

On the back of the fuselage, the keys are concise. The most commonly used playback keys are the first, then the delete key, the unused protect key and the information key, and then the SET key for setting various shortcut settings, ISO, white balance, and storage format. , all set inside.


The boot consists of 4 gears, shut down, single shot, continuous shooting, self-timer (not used to easily direct hand to the continuous shooting)

The shutter dial is not a full step, but there are also stalls between the scales. They are A-level B-doors and turntables from 4 to 1/8000 second. (It is worth mentioning here that only M8 in the M-series has 1/8000s. The rest of the shutters are 1/4000s. The 8000-shutter is Huge shutter noise, press down and the whole world knows you took a picture.)

The shoulder screen shows a very simple dot that shows the amount of electricity and the number of remaining shots that the memory card can take. Because each RAW has only 10MB, the 16GB memory card has far more than 999 shots, so it will always show 999.

Positive classic Coca-Cola logo and framed light windows, yellow window. Covering one of them is not a relative function.

It's the turn of the Fordund 50 1.5 remake

The same as the classic model of the Volendam 50 1.5 is very likable to ignore the next Zeiss ZM 50 2

Experience

The first must be the APS-H 27×18mm frame CCD sensor. The difference between CCD and CMOS imaging has not been studied before.

The maximum that can be felt is 10 million pixels, saying that the era is really low in today’s 24 million standard 45-megapixel camera. However, after the previous use of the 16-megapixel Nikon DF and Fuji cameras, the pixel requirements are not high, indicating that they are adequate. Or an idea to buy DF before, the secondary composition developed under high pixels is tuned back at low pixels.

No high sense is available. The minimum ISO160 is 2500. When the ISO reaches 640, it is almost unusable. So basically it is always locked in the use of the ISO 160. After a few months at the Folenda 50 1.5's large aperture, it was found that there is no sense of height. It is not a big problem, because the pixels are low, and the minimum safety shutter is 1/15s. Will be the limit of paste.

The APS-H format has a conversion factor of 1.33, because its 50 mm header becomes 66.5 mm long telephoto, but considering that it will just use it and it will come.

The white balance that has been criticized, M8's white balance is really the same as the old seniors on the Internet. Once there was an experience. Behind the model was a red container. The red body turned red when the white balance came out and the face turned blue. In the shade of golden sunlight in the dusk, probably because of the green leaves and the yellowish sunshine, the colors are very strange at this time.

Infrared sensitive physical interference, this CCD's minor problems. Directly on the map

This is the normal color of clothes (clothes in this color) shot with the Sony a7ii

After using M8, the clothes turned purple

The solution is to wear an IR filter for color correction so that there is no color cast problem.

The red color in front of the lens is the IR filter.

The line and the macula, which is also the biggest meaning of purchasing it, in order to experience whether the macula and the frame can be managed.

The frame is very simple, only the frame, yellow spot frame, light meter.

Below the red number in the A file will show the current measured shutter value, under the manual shutter is a simple dot and left and right triangles represent underexposure normal overexposure.

The border line is the range of the shot, the middle area of ​​the macula. Overlapping the two images together is a very simple method of use.

After a few months of use, it was found that the M system is very suitable for itself, and the frame line is still very reliable and is not as large as it is imagined, nor is it as inaccurate as the guess line of Fuji’s current paraxial line.

The other benefit of the rangefinder is that you can see more of the field of view outside the actual finder frame. You don't need to close your eye with one eye and use it to appear like a Google Glass.

When it is used, it is purple sauce, and it is very clear that both eyes can open the world.

Shooting use


In the past few months, there were still some pictures. In order to facilitate sharing, the screen was taken as a reference.

The pictures are later (no later will be hit)

First use after hand

The second time the backlight is used, it is found that the shutter is actually not slow

Love to drink cola

Share Bear Kids

The penultimate graph metering problem face dark, found that latitude is still good pull back effect is not bad. Overjoyed

In the cold wind to the sea to die, cold fingers to press the shutter.

Another bear child

Daily JK

Make a big death to remove the contact of the God Bull X1 flash trigger and then turn on the single contact mode to see if it can trigger flash and try to take a night view. Although very dissatisfied, it was an interesting experience.

After taking these shots, they started salted fish again. All figures above use the Voigtlander NOKTON 1.5/50 ASPH VM Extreme Edition. Full sharpness can be used, dispersion is slightly more serious, feel comfortable.

to sum up!

The current low-cost digital M system machine is a good choice as an experience entry M system. It also established its own decision to use M. Next plan to save money to buy the M240 or watch the M10 price changes.

The use of borderline yellow spots is actually easier than it sounds and is easy to use. The operation and menu options are very simple (simple to a page). Due to the fact that the macular focus of the linkage rangefinder can be easily focused in most environments, the accuracy is much higher than that of the SLR.

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