The Leica M8 doesn't just have a pretty body, nor is it resting on the laurels of its predecessors: it's got a 10.3 megapixel resolution, with a low-noise CCD image sensor that starts at ISO 160 but that can also kick up to ISO 2500.
"The aircraft had to be able to land and take off in 125 meters, it also had to have a very lownoise output and the aircraft needed to be able to accelerate rapidly up to 350 mph in order to get point to point at low level very quickly, " said Avcen managing director Mike Dacre.