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WATE and the Frankenfinder: A journey with the wide-angle Tri-Elmar and the Leica M8

Leica Gordon Brown -
Gordon Brown dusts off his Leica WATE lens and the bulky Frankenfinder to explore remote corners of Idaho and Colorado...

Around Japan in 2008 with the Leica M8

Feature Articles Richard Scott -
As Leica enters its third digital M decade, it's worth looking back at the camera that saved the company - the Leica M8. Richard took his then-new M8 to Japan in 2008 and here recounts some of his adventures.

Leica M8 in Japan: A very different culture, a groundbreaking digital camera

Feature Articles Richard Scott -
Leica’s first digital rangefinder, the M8, had a mixed reception. But it was the first step towards the full-frame M range which has proven so popular among more traditional photographers. Richard took his M8 to Japan over ten years ago and captured the flavour of a very different culture.

Leica M8: Looking back on Leica’s first digital M

Leica Jean Perenet -
Jean looks back at Leica's first digital M, the crop-sensor M8

Leica M8: Tanning for 2,000 years and a much missed digital M 

Leica Paul Glendell -

Paul's looks back to his photoshoot at Baker's tannery brought a pang of nostalgia. How he misses his old Leica M8.....

Zambia with the Leica M8: Cropped CCD sensor still produces the goods

Leica Richard Alton -

Reader Richard Alton, who lives in Zambia, has a focused approach to his photography: He uses the first two Ms of their type, an M3 for film and an M8 for digital. Why change a successful formula?

£1,200 for a second-hand Leica M8 or choose the Lego version

Leica Mike Evans -
Superceded it might have been, but Leica’s 2006 M8 range-finder digital camera is still one of the best. Especially...

Leica M Digital at Ten: Remembering the M8

Leica Mike Evans -

It's not only the iPhone that is ten years old. The Leica M8, introduced a few months before the Steve Jobs wonder, arrived in quantity at about the same time. And, in its way, it represented a similar seminal moment for the Leica company.

A Leica is a visual notebook: You can take everywhere

Leica Jean Perenet -
For Jean Perenet Leicas act as perfect light visual notebooks for recording life.

Making a case for Leica: How my passion for rangefinders turned into a vocation

Leica Paul Glendell -
Change is never easy, but when forced to reassess your life you discover how to marry old skills and interests to create new opportunities.

A chance encounter with a Leica M9 that became something more

Leica Mark Catto -
A 20-year love affair with Leica cameras highlights their unique engagement with photography, transforming mundane moments into artistry, fostering community among users, and encouraging a patient, thoughtful approach to life.

A 55-year Love Affair with Leica that started with a Leica III

Leica Tom Lane -
Some relationships are meant to be, no matter how innocently and unassumingly they start out. Tom Lane's relationship with Leica is not a brittle affair, but one that accommodates differences as it grows.
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