I'll be putting mine up in a couple of days. Should have done it weeks ago but was procrastinating. It's not due to M9, it's just that after only 3-4 days of use I realized that digital (crop) rangefinders are not my cup of tea. R-D1 sounded very nice on the paper, but having had it for 2 months I realized that I continue using my film gear, R-D1 stays at home. Even when I took it on a trip with me it has hardly left the bag, instead I opted for constant use of R3A.
Don't get me wrong, it's a great camera and it's true that it comes closest to "film experience" but there are three things that made me make up my mind so quickly:
1. Crop factor - I'm still training my eye/perception to the lens' focal length on traditional 35mm. I found that constant re-thinking of FL for R-D1 irritated me slightly. Plus majority of my lenses do not match it's framelines, so I constantly had to guessoframe.
2. It still doesn't feel like a real thing 100%. Little things like shutter lever, the "inadequately" short and weak (compared to film-winding RF) winding feel of it, make me uncomfortable with it.
3. I still do not like working with RAW files as opposed to film processing/scanning.
These reasons are by no means universal, but they're my reasons, and for that I decided R-D1 will have to go. True, I haven't given it enough chance and with a little more time I might get more used to it, but I don't have that time. I like to shoot photos, I hate testing/babying cameras. Most of the cameras that I have/use felt right straight out of the box and I knew we'd get along during the very first roll. R-D1 didn't give me that feeling. For that money a film RF or another glass will provide much greater enjoyment.
