As the title says, this is going to be slightly OT: after considering this for a while, I finally ended up purchasing a Leica M8 for my street work - as lenses go, budget & availability in my local store didn't allow more than a (not so) lowly Voigtlander 35mm f2.5, for the moment, soon to be sided by a couple more CV lenses. Leica glass will, hopefully, follow - in the meantime, I will try and put what I have to a good use. Here a few samples out of my first day of shooting with the new M8: I love it already, feels like going back to the days I begun photography. My photographic story started more than 20 years ago, went through Nikon F, Fm2 - I got the chance to use a couple of film Leicas but never owned one - then F5 & finally digital with a short D70 time followed by D2x (2)... ok, enough talk, here comes the pics, from a day out in Istanbul, I hope you will not mind me posting non-Nikon pictures here for once, just I thought I'd share the news and the pics with all the old friends from the Cafe' :redface:
Old lady & cat at the bodrum cafe', Istanbul:
Istanbul is room for literally millions stray cats:
one of my usual old door shots :wink:
and, of course, one of my fiancee:
last, my very first M8 pic: of course, the Leica salesguy...
C&C welcome and much appreciated.
Old lady & cat at the bodrum cafe', Istanbul:

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Istanbul is room for literally millions stray cats:

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one of my usual old door shots :wink:

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and, of course, one of my fiancee:

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last, my very first M8 pic: of course, the Leica salesguy...

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C&C welcome and much appreciated.
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