Jim--fantastic stuff for sure!
I have a little rolling exhibition of M8 black and white shots on my blog. The first person I asked to pick 10 shots / BW / M8 was Johannes Borger--who has a true photographic talent in my view and does marvellous work with his rangefinders (he also uses an RD1).
You can see this work here:
http://jamesroberts.bigfolioblog.com/
I'm going to be asking folks for 10 shots and putting them on the blog from time to time.
But if you like photography, stop by and have a quick look. If you have any doubts as to why someone like Han likes the M8, here's what he writes about using the camera:
" I work with a complete B&W wokfkow, shoot raw + jpeg and set the saturation to B&W so I can review in B&W.
"I convert with C1 and the JFI labs profiles or go with the raws immediately into CS3 and use Alien Skin Exposure for B&W conversion. I work the tonality with curves ... sometimes dodge & burn.
"For B&W I use the M8 permanently at Iso 640 ..... it ads a bit of structure to the files, making them look less clinical/ sterile.
"The lenses I use most are 35 & 50mm with the 15 CV recently added .. there are quite a few pictures with them in the batch.
"I use a combination of vintage and modern lenses:
- 35m summaron/ 3,5 LTM (1950)
- Canon 35mm/ 2,8 (1950)
- 35 Summicron pre-asph (type IV)
- 35 Summicron asph
- 50mm summilux asph
- 50mm rigid summicron (1957)
"For the occasional posed portrait or concert picture i sometimes use a 75mm summilux or 90mm Macro Elmar.
"The pictures in the batch I sent you were taken with the following lenses...
JA = 35 summicron asph
JB = Canon 35/ 2,8 serenar
JC, JE, JG, JH, JK = CV 15mm Heliar
JD, JL = 50mm Rigid summicron
JF = 35mm summicon pre-asph (type IV)"
I hope you like Han's work; I think it's exceptional!