If you talk to anyone who's got a wide exposure to things photographic, the topic of different camera companies and their strengths and weaknesses will come up. Nikon versus Canon, what second-tier companies like Pentax and Olympus will do to sell cameras... an so forth. Photographers who love cameras will mention exotic brands and films. Among these, for cameras, Leica has a history with cameras as Rolls-Royce has to cars - solid, dependable, luxury.
Leica came late to the digital party, and their flagship model is the M8. The M-series of cameras are renowned for their ruggedness - serving many a combat journalistic in gritty war environments - so it seemed only natural that photographer Michael Kamber would try and take the smaller, unobtrusive M8 with him to Iraq. His experience with the M8 in that environment, however, he sums up in one word - unusable. I'd call his article more of an indictment than a review, but it does show how in the real world a camera can completely miss the mark.
