The Leica R8

My R8 with the 35/2. Some say it is ugly, I think it is gorgeous. Kate on the left agrees.

Meet the Leica R8. A blast from the past, the 90s to be specific, a rather over looked and over priced bit of kit that Leica brought out at the wrong time for the wrong reasons. So, now that we got the bad bits out of the way, let’s see what it is!

I came upon the R8 in 2014 in a round about way. I actually started with the lens, a 50mm Summicron-R (which in Leica-speak is an f/2 lens and I’ll abbreviate to 50R from now on). At the time I…