My favourite camera: The Leica M8 

Dedication and focused on your craft. Can’t ask for anything more. Great job

Love the M8, mine is now at Leica (already 3 months) for a pixelmapping. My favorite analogue Olympus OM1n, I wish other brands woud have made the shutterspeed as a ring around the lensmount. That way you can really controll everything with 1 hand. Grts Wim

I use my M8.2 mainly for daylight shooting with the 50 mm Summilux lens and I like it a lot. The black and white images are fantastic.

Fantastic review on the Leica M8! @dromokratis Your passion for photography really shines through. I appreciate the detailed insights you provided about the Leica M8. It’s very clear that this Leica M8 masterpiece holds a special place in your heart. Looking forward to more of your camera reviews! ❤❤❤

Taking just a M body on trips is so satisfying. At first it's a right of passage and then it feels like freedom. The camera disappears into the experience. I've been sticking to one lens as well.. but I recently picked up an old Leica 90/4 Elmar-C to pair with my 35/2. Even still, the kit is so small I can just pocket the spare lens. The days of backpacking 5 kilos of kit feel like a totally different life ha. I like the M8 shutter sound...but I LOVE the M240 shutter. Such a dorky thing to love, but here we are.

I have a black M8 and I absolutely love it. Still going strong after 15000 shots. I wouldn’t trade it for a newer M

your photos are enjoyable to watch

Amazing pictures

Well done, the M8 is a true gem, keep up the lovely work.

love it too- but with the Nokton 35 1.2 III : fantastic combo... and just find out: broken pictures with some digital noise- when the battery gets empty ...(not a broken shutter!)

Just amazing. This is actually my favourite and dream camera among the other red dot

Hello ! Very intresting philosophy of the Leica M8 ! I thank you for sharing your ideas and your pictures with us all. You explain very well. Very lovely images, also the B+W's. A great job ! The M8 was also my first Leica + the Voigtländer Nokton Classic 35 mm F 1.4 II + the B&W UV IR Cut filter. The setting is always on DNG + I use Capture One I subscribed to your channel ! Greetings from Antwerp, take care, Roger.

I also own Leica M8 it one of my fav cameras!! The Sound of shutter of M8 is stunning ~ Its really joyful ! Also CCD image quality its slightly different from mordern CMOS image :) Love your works as well !!

Love your videos, thank you.

M9 is awesome too

I so much agree. I it is the only camera I regret selling. I did that because the value had doubled, and I needet founding for Leica M7 and MP.

Great video ! - I have just one thing regarding what you have said about the M8 - I have a M8.2 so maybe not the same as the M standard M8 BUT I have never found the display to be poor!. I have every other Leica Digital so I can compare them and I have never found the display lacking. I honestly think that there is a reverse hype about the M8 display and reviewers feel that they HAVE to say that the display is "useless" which to me is just not true. It does it's job by showing the picture and composition and maybe not being able to pixel peep on it but so what! It shows everything that you need to know when you look at it - so sorry I like your review but I can't agree on the display! Regards

I use it alongside the M9-P and the M8 only feels better because the photos taken look brighter and more satisfying on the rear screen because of the different DNG processing. The rest feels pretty much the same, both cameras are great.

The battery doesn't last forever, around 100 to 200 shots maximum, depending on how you use it.

That covering it called Vulcanite. Some Ms have leather, but others had that non-leather stuff.

Hi the lens hood triger my atention, what is thet model? I use same setting M8 with te 35 1.4, (still lerning) are your pictures dng or Jpg. Looks great

Great video ❤

More M8 videos. Plus do you print and what size?

Great video. Thanks for making it and sharing. Still have my M8 ... by the way, you mentioned you use Voigtlander lenses - do you use the IR filter and do you code your lenses with equivalent 6-bit? Thanks.

I am looking for that rectangular hood for my Nokton 35mm classic 1.4 - can you share where you got yours?

Oh l’amour…

Is a special cable required to connect to the iPhone?

I found the M8 to be frustrating because my beautiful old lenses became the wrong focal length with the smaller sensor. For example, my 35mm Summicron became a 50mm. My favorite camera for the last almost 10 years is the Leica M262. I like the lightness (aluminum body) and simplicity.

Just one question; where can I get one cheap?

nice video 😊 I personally really like my X100F. But the Leica system has been tempting me…

Great video! Do Leica still service M8?

I also have and love the M8. I own the 40 mm nokton classic, but having the 35 mm seems like it could be just a bit more versitile. I am curious, what lens hood do you have? Thanks for sharing!

Do you worry about charging the old leica batteries for this camera? I have been told they can be dangerous and can cause fire.

Ah ok il faut un leica pour faire ça .oupsss

Very nice video. Great part of music also in the last part. What is that. From all my cameras, the M8(u) speaks the most to me. I will never let it go

I agree completely with your take on the M8. I bought my used black M8 long time ago and now I used it also for shooting black and white and infrared. At first I don't like how loud the shutter sound and how slow the transfer of the image but now I really like the loud shutter and the slow transfer that it give me time to slow down and think about the next image. Like you said, it feels like analogue, takes picture like analogue and gives you an analogue like color and black and white result. Mine has several dead pixels but I will never sell it. It is a masterpiece from Leica.