No, it isn't really important. we are out of Infrared season anyway. And the question if i wish to revive the old Leica M8... well, to be honest - I am not so sure. It is a real Leica, but it ain't that good really. (it's still the camera i used the most, around 22000 images, compared to perhaps 13000 with the newer (fullframe) Leica M9.

Which by the way also leans Infrared light, but very little only, while the M8 was totally leaky - which made colors in PURE tungsten light unusable; think candle light and pure tungsten light bulbs only (turning portraits into bright pink) without an additional UV/IR-Cut filter. Black & White however, was absolutely no problem what so ever. Which is what i used the most anyway.

Sven in almost entirely tungsten based light • Skien, Southern Norway • 25 Oct 2007

However, with mixed tungsten + LED light

that contains not exclusively tungsten but even other light sources, the overall color balance was a bit better manageable. (Plus that later firmwares made the color balance better. At first in 2007 it was literally catastrophe in color.

Claus, who is selecting a sandwich, his uniform is all pink. In reality it is very dark blue.

Claus selecting a sandwich or was it chocolate pralines ? Stockholm • 22 Oct 2007

Same scene but in Black & White - no problems regardless light color, or the heavy IR leakage in the Leica M8

Leica later sent out

for free two UV-IRCut filters - which eliminated everything, and gave wonderful natural colors. But they induced like with an iPhone these green spots in images, when there are strong lamps present.

Yeah, the Leica M8 - for which i paid 42.000 SEK for back in 2007 - which back then was a lot of money, more like 7700 € today. It was a totally half baked camera; sub-standard and with many faults followed in the wake of that model (as well the Leica M9, did too).

But boy, did I love my Leica M8... *LOL* Strange isn't it ?

Well, it was the first time ever i was able to use my Leica M lenses... which I had no used for more than a 15 years, and thought, that it likely was a dead end in the new, digital era.

Leica couldn't provide replacements parts anymore later in the mid 2010s decade. Such as as the dreaded "spider" issue on the back of the LCD screen. The company who made those LCD's didn't exist anymore - so they couldn't repair Leica M8's affected by that fault. My screen is and was all fine. Instead the dreaded shutter lock-up fault, also hit my camera, last spring. The Leica M8 is now a dead weight.

*rolling my eyes*

I still lean towards a full spectrum conversion

in a Canon EOS 6D instead. I see no advantage in reviving the Leica M8, to be really honest. I think it is just an emotional attachment, which would make me want to revive it. But do i even use that camera ? No, I don't. It acted later more like a digital backup camera for Leica M lenses.

Nevertheless - this is hardly the time to pick my brain about it. It simply has no priority - albeit I LOVE Infrared photography. I truly do !! I would love to explore IR even further. Especially given that a full spectrum IR camera, would be much more sensitive, flexible, cheaper as well allowing shorter shutter speeds compared to the Leica M8 + IR filter.

Plus that the EOS 6D has live view, which the Leica M8 (and M9) do not have.

So, there are a lot of advantage points collected in favor of converting the Canon EOS 6D instead. Or... the Olympus EM-1 Mark II also makes a splendid candidate. Given that i have most lenses you can think of - which are smaller than Canon EF lenses.

Well, we will see.

Maybe it is time to include some extra work in the 6 month to come. Gosh, I have not done that for a year... but it is a good way to get some extra cash. Especially in November and December.