Leica M8

Brilliant as a go-anywhere camera for journalistic and candid use, landscapes and opportunistic photography. Small enough to be inconspicuous in the field, but sufficiently technically competent for studio work too.

Easy to scoff at - until you've tried one. Then everything else you ever used feels too big and clunky, too complex and a bit tacky. This Leica M8 is a piece of old-fashioned craftsmanship that puts creative photography first and hides its 21st Century technical excellence behind superb ergonomics. It handles intuitively, it takes wonderful pictures and it'll go easily wherever you want to take it.

Experts only, expensive, but for the professional or advanced amateur the Leica M8 is the ultimate tool.