LEICA M8
Technical Data
Camera
Order No.
Camera Type
Image sensor
Sensor sensitivity range
Viewfinder
Lenses
Exposure control
icture-taking modes
Controls/
display elements
Color monitor
icture parameters menu /
Main menu
icture resolution
Data formats
Storage medium
White balance
LEICA M8
silver : 10 702, black : 10 701
Com act digital viewfinder/rangefinder system camera for rofessional usage with Leica M lenses.
Micro- rocessor controlled metal-blade slotted shutter.
Low-noise CCD sensor s ecially tailored to the requirements of the M lens system. Pixels : 10.3 million.
Dimensions : 18 mm x 27 mm. Extension factor : 1.33 x. As ect ratio 3:2. Moiré-Filter no, full utilization of lens
erformance. Moiré detection and elimination in digital signal rocessing.
Manuelle Einstellung von ISO 160/23° bis ISO 2500/35°
Viewfinder principle Large light bright line frame viewfinder/rangefinder with automatic arallax com ensation.
Viewfinder lens o timal visibility of all bright line frames whatever the lighting situation. Eyepiece Coordinated to
-0.5 d t. Correction lenses available from –3 to +3 d t. Image field limiter By activating two bright lines each : for
24 and 35 mm/28 and 90 mm/50 and 75 mm. Automatic Automatic activation when lens is screwed in. With the
image field selector each air of the bright lines can be activated manually, so simulating each focal length. arallax
compensation The horizontal and vertical difference between the viewfinder and the lens is automatically com en-
sated according to the focusing distance used, i.e. the viewfinder bright-line frame automatically aligns with the subject
detail recorded by the lens. Magnification 0.68 x (with all lenses). Large basis range finder Combination of s lit
and su erim osed image range finder shown as a bright field in the centre of the viewfinder image. Effective measure-
ment basis 47.1 mm (mechanical measurement basis 69.25 mm x viewfinder enlargement 0.68 x).
Lens connection Leica M bayonet with additional o tical scanning device for the identification of all 6 bit-coded
lenses. Lens system Current 6 bit-coded Leica M lenses with a focal length of 16–90 mm. Almost all Leica M lenses
with a focal length of 21–90 mm manufactured from 1954 can also be used without 6 bit-coding. 6 bit-retrofitting
ossible for virtually all lenses. 6 bit-functions Lens-de endent reduction of system-s ecific vignetting. Identification
of icture file with lens information to sim lify digital archiving. Coordination of flash reflector with motor zoom flash
units. Auto slow sync function with automatic mode.
Automatic mode (Auto) Automatic determination of correct shutter s eed with manual a erture reselection with
relevant viewfinder dis lay. Manual exposure Inde endent selection of shutter s eed and a erture – camera ex osure
check visible via LED light balance shown in the viewfinder.
SSingle frame icture-taking, for one shutter release whenever shutter is ressed CContinuous shooting with 2 ictures
er second and 10 icture in series. Automatic release mode Selectable with either 2 s and 12 s visualization of delay
time via one of the LEDs visible from front of camera in viewfinder window.
Front of housing Lens release ; image field selector Top of housing Main switch and shutter release ; shutter s eed
setting dial, status LCD dis lay : indication of number of frames remaining and residual battery ca acity. Rear of
housing 2.5" color monitor, setting ring for navigation in menu and magnifier function in 4 levels ; 4 x direction buttons
for navigation in menu and in image details, Menu button, Play button, Delete button, Protect button, Info button
Bottom of housing Locking base late rotects the battery and SD memory card from dust and moisture.
2.5" bright LC dis lay with a resolution of a rox. 230,000 ixels for image re roduction and menu selection.
Brightness control in 5 levels. Control o tions after icture-taking : General quality evaluation of ex osure control via
RGB tone value histogram with identification of light image details without detailing (can also be used with zoom-in),
control of shar ness of focus, dis lay of quality arameters selected and dis lay of lens focal length used (with current
6 bit-coded lenses). Image view sizes : 9 thumbnails, 4 thumbnails, single frame dis lay as well as magnification in four
levels u to 1 ixel to 1 ixel view.
Pressing the Set button allows the following arameters relevant to the icture to be changed and selected : User
rofile, Sensor sensitivity, Manual ex osure com ensation, White balance, data format, icture resolution. Main menu
Pressing the Menu button allows settings such as color monitor contrast or selection of color s ace to be made in the
Main menu. Menu languages German, English, French, S anish, Italian, Ja anese, Chinese.
DNG : 3916 x 2634 ixels (10.31 MP), JPG : 3936 x 2630 ixels (10.35 MP), 2952 x 1972 ixels (5.8 MP),
1968 x 1315 Pixel (2.6 MP), 1312 x 876 Pixel (1.15 MP).
DNG™ (Digital Negative Format not s ecific to any camera manufacturer), 2 different highly com ressed JPEG levels.
DNG™ file information 16 bit-color resolution, 10.2 Mbyte file size er icture
SD cards u to 4 GB
The following Internet age includes a list of SD memory cards fully com atible with the LEICA M8 :
www.leica-camera.com/ hotogra hy/m_system/m8
Automatic, 6 resettings, manual white balance, color tem erature in ut from 2,000 K to 13,100 K.
Page 1 of 2 / As at Se tember 2006 / S ecifications are subject to change without notice
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