For proper colour reproduction and best sharpness, lenses must be fitted with uv/ir cut filters.With very wide lenses the depth of field can be so great that zone focusing using the distance scales on the lens barrel can be used instead of the rangefinder. Focusing the image is still carried out using the rangefinder in the camera body's viewfinder. External viewfinders which fit into the camera's hotshoe are used with lenses wider than 24 mm.This is a great aid for composition and capturing that 'decisive moment'. In the viewfinder the photographer can see what is inside and outside the frame lines. At longer distances the frame lines show less than the image captured. They change depending on the lens fitted and are accurate at the closest focus distance of the lens (often 0.7m). Frame lines present in the viewfinder indicate the the boundaries of the image to be captured. An excellent animation of how the rangefinder works can be seen on the Leica website. Focusing is achieved using the rangefinder in the viewfinder. There is a viewfinder which is separate from the lens ie you dont view the image through the lens as you do with a DSLR.The camera is generally designed for use with wide-angle up to short-telephoto lenses (normally 90 mm max). There is no image stabilization in the lenses or the camera body.
The M8 uses manual focus lenses, with manual setting of the f-stop.The sensor is a 1.3 crop, the recorded field of view of lenses designed for FF (35mm) changes accordingly. The Leica M8 is rangefinder as opposed to a single lens reflex camera.M8 Instructions - courtesy of Thorsten Overgaard.Variants - M8u, upgraded version w/ quieter-slower shutter (no 8000s indicator), sapphire LCD screen & more accurate framelines at medium & long distance (per discussion below).Finish - matte black or clear anodized aluminum (also white powdercoat edition) W/ finely grained leatherette.
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