Forum Login  Leica M8 Revisited  By James Russell  The Purchase
I'm not a range finder guy.  In fact for my entire career, other
than hold somebody's point and shoot at a party, I've never shot
a frame of film or digital with a rangefinder camera.  I just
didn't see the point of looking through one window, focusing,
then composing with little lines and then shooting through a
lens that is probably not near the composition you intended.
Given this, for the last year or so I've longed for the Leica
M8.  When I have a few hours break my favorite place to go is
the Leica Gallery on Broadway. It's a quick 5 minute walk from
our studio and going in there just clears my head of downloads,
clients, promos, agents, e-mails and takes me back to simpler
times where a photograph was just a subject, background and
light.  No overt manipulation, color correction or weeks of post
production. Just shoot, print and ship.  The Leica Gallery has
one other attraction for me in the fact it has my photo school
in one of it's gla