Anyone get an M9 for Christmas?

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perter said:
Are they Leica socks? :cool:
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Yes, there are, but I have removed the red dot to make them more stealthy. Now they look like normal black socks and nobody will ask headturning questions like "Dude - are these real Leica socks?" while I try to do candid street photography.
 
Yes an M9.

Along with an Aston Martin, the new Norton, a set of steak knives in a presentation box, the complete memoirs of Donald Sinden (Leather-Bound Edition) and one of those little furry toys that goes `eek eek` when you squeeze it. ;)

Actually, Christmas was and continues to be the largest, dissapointing and manufactured pile of bol***ks, consisting of 4 pairs of socks (to small), boxer shorts (to large), a scarf (itchy) and `HIS` dressing gown hanger (the wife got `HERS`).

P.S. I hate boxer shorts. They're like trying to safely carry an M8 inside a large empty wooden box . . . on a roller coaster.
 
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I got Robert Frank's The Americans.

and a $25 gift certificate to B&N, somebody posted a photographer here, I don't know or remember his name. But there was this awesome series of photographs on a New York City Subway in the eighties (I think) I want one of his books. Does this ring a bell?

thanks,
James
 
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For me Christmas came a week early.. I got (bought) myself a 2nd hand early series M8 in november. Turned out it had "the streaks" in high iso shots.. So it was sent to the elves in Solms. They did fabulous job of springkling magic dust back into my M8 and while at it, changed the whole sensor+logics. And then shipped it back in a velvet pouch just before Christmas! :angel:

As for the real xmas.. nothing photo related and wife @work through most of it. So it's just been me and the cats. Still, could be worse! :)
 
IdeaDog said:
That's interesting. I wonder if the love will last and I hope it does! I have drifted (away from M8) to film, mainly because of an MP. The MP body is a little thinner, I like winding it, the shutter doesn't sound like the M8's patented mouse-fart® shutter, it's not really battery dependent, I must economize the number of pictures I take...

Completely aside from any discussion on digital vs. film image capture, of I'm hugely sold on the many advantages of digital (i.e. paperless office, quit using a fax in the 1900s). If any kid on the block would have an M9, it would be me... but I am gaga for the MP ergonomics.

The M9 is really "stunning", eh? Wow.
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Point fully taken about ergonomics: I have both MP and M9. For B+W the MP is the easy choice but for colour, digi usually has it, especially if I have to illustrate articles. Actually, even for 'fine art', I'm arriving at a different kind of colour photography with digital, as compared with what I shot on slide (my preferred film medium in colour). Then again, I find myself moving from slide to Ektar 100 in colour film too. Sometimes we define ourselves too rigidly in terms of our past: I do not take the same kind of pictures today as I did 40 or even 30 years ago.

More to follow when I actually put the review on the site -- a few weeks yet, I expect. But for me, the M9 really is MUCH more like a film Leica, probably because of 40 years of being used to full frame.

Cheers,

R.
 
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Didn't get one yet, but today is Boxing Day with the Brits, right?

So, I'm counting on some anonymous benefactor to make it happen.

:eek: Come on, suprise me? :eek:

:p
 
Ming Rider said:
P.S. I hate boxer shorts. They're like trying to safely carry an M8 inside a large empty wooden box . . . on a roller coaster.
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That's an interesting analogy. Personally, I would've compared it to carrying a HUGE Canon Pro dSLR with a BIG, LONG tele lens attached etc... :)
 
IdeaDog said:
Thank you for that response. It must feel really good to you to have a 50mm lens "really be 50mm". Though I learned on film 20+ years ago, I am part of that population that really exploded back into photography with crop sensors (in fact, because of them) and so I don't really notice or mind the crop.

I look forward to your review.
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It's not just focal length. It's speed, too. My standard lens for decades has been 35/1.4. To get close to that I'd need a 24/1.4. The M9 is only slightly more expensive...

There's also the point that 18 megapixels really does give something akin to film quality instead of the 'airbrushed' look you get with fewer megapixels, even with the best lenses.

I may do some more work on the review today, though equally, I may just sit by the fire. Our wood-pile is at the back of the courtyard, about 5 feet/1.6 m above road level and about 15-20 yards/metres from the road. Fortunately we have a couple of kind, generous friends who helped us move a cord (maybe 2 tons) of wood from the road to the wood-pile at lunch time this morning.

Cheers,

R.
 
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bwcolor said:
Better than an M9, I spent the day with my family.
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To some people that might mean you spent the day with your M6 platinum, MP Titanium, M3 SS ser #1000001 and 35 aspherical lux (not the crappy asph version) :D

Ahhh, a M9 would have been nice, but for now I have to tolerate all the inadequacies of film Ms and hand prints ;) One day I will take the digi M plunge, just not yet.
 
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