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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Type | Digital rangefinder camera |
| Lens | |
| Lens | Leica M-mount |
| Sensor/medium | |
| Sensor | 18 x 27 mm inducing a 1.33 crop factor |
| Sensor type | CCD |
| Maximum resolution | 10.3 effective megapixels (3936 x 2630 pixels) |
| Film speed | 160 to 2500 |
| Focusing | |
| Focus modes | Manual |
| Exposure/metering | |
| Exposure modes | Manual, aperture priority auto exposure |
| Exposure metering | TTL, center weighted averaging |
| Flash | |
| Flash | Fixed hot shoe |
| Shutter | |
| Shutter | Focal plane, metal curtains, vertical travel |
| Shutter speed range | 8s to 1/8000 |
| Viewfinder | |
| Viewfinder | Reverse Galilean (x0.68) with automatic or manual selection of parallax corrected framelines, additional color LCD display: 2.5", 230,000 pixels |
| General | |
| Battery | Lithium Ion |
| Dimensions | 139 x 80 x 39 mm |
| Weight | 545 g without battery 591 with |
| Made in | Germany |
| Chronology | |
| Successor | Leica M9 |
The Leica M8 is the first digital camera in the rangefinder M series introduced by Leica Camera AG on 14 September 2006.[2] It uses an APS-H 10.3-megapixel CCD image sensor designed and manufactured by Kodak.
As of 15 November 2014, the most recent firmware version is 2.024.
- ^ M8 & M8.2 Technical Data Archived 2012-08-18 at the Wayback Machine, Leica Camera AG
- ^ "A camera legend goes digital" (Press release). Leica Camera AG. 2006-09-14.