Leica M8

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Leica M8

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Maker: Leica

Dates: 2006-

Variants: silver-black or black

Camera Type: 35mm rangefinder system

Focusing: manual

Viewfinder: Reverse Galilean (×0.68)
with automatic or manual selection of parallax corrected framelines
additional color LCD display: 2.5", 230,000 pixels

Rangefinder: coupled, combined (ERB = 47.1 mm)

Lens mount: Leica M

Shutter: focal plane
metal curtains, vertical travel
from 8s to 1/8000

Exposure meter: TTL

Exposure modes: manual, aperture priority auto exposure

ASA/ISO range: 160 to 2500 ISO

Shoe: fixed hot shoe

Synchronized: X

X sync speed: 1/250

TTL Flash: {{{ttl flash}}}

Motor drive: internal

Battery: Lithium Ion

Dimensions: 139×80×37 mm

Weight: 545 g without battery

Number produced: unknown

The Leica M8, the first digital camera in the Leica M series of rangefinder cameras, was introduced by Leica Camera AG on 14 September 2006.^[1] It uses a Kodak KAF-10500 CCD sensor. The sensor has 10.3 million 6.8 μm pixels and is 18×27 mm inducing a 1.33 crop factor, with a ISO 160–2500 sensitivity range. An electronically controlled metal focal plane shutter replaces the cloth shutter of all previous Leica rangefinder cameras, permitting 1/8000s exposures and 1/250s X-sync. The viewfinder magnification is x0.68 making for an effective rangefinder base of 47.1 mm. The combined viewfinder has frameline pairings of 24 mm/35 mm, 28 mm/90 mm, 50 mm/75 mm (actual focal lengths) or 32 mm/48 mm, 36 mm/120 mm, 67 mm/100 mm (full frame 35mm fields of view equivalents).