How many of your friends have an M240? ...

I'm 99% analogic. To me digital is boring (it's a personal feeling). If I'd have a friend with so much money to buy an M240 and who has an M240, I'd ask him: why? There are so many cameras and lenses, Leicas and not you'd buy with 7-8k€!
 
To answer Sparrow’s original questions:
  1. None.
  2. All of them… though I’m seriously considering not inviting in the future one friend who eats far more of his fair share of the roast spuds.
 
Michael Markey said:
But why would you want to ... what would be the point of that , unless you like collecting cameras.
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Leica M3 or M2 are out of production, but are wonderful cameras. MP (I have one) is in production. I have several film cameras from 135 to 4x5 and enjoy shooting with them. I don't collect them, bus use them. so far no digital camera has convinced me to leave the film. but, I repeat, this is what I feel. we are all different and each of us is having fun with what they like.
 
shortstop said:
Leica M3 or M2 are out of production, but are wonderful cameras. MP (I have one) is in production. I have several film cameras from 135 to 4x5 and enjoy shooting with them. I don't collect them, bus use them. so far no digital camera has convinced me to leave the film. but, I repeat, this is what I feel. we are all different and each of us is having fun with what they like.
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Fair enough.
I currently use an M3 DS and an M2.
I would love an MP too but I would also jump at the chance of a 240 or a monochrome.

I always carry a film and a digital body in my camera bag.
 
"Friends" in English means absolutely nothing. You would call people you never seen in your life as "friend".

But I'm bloody Russian, it means you could have one, two friends, who will risk something valuable for you. I have one and half. One has same old Canon Rebel I have, half has something fancy from Sony, because it is Sony.

Some of my flickr "friends" should have some of OP is asking about. Not a big deal, honestly.

Did I go giggly? Sorry. "Friend to be Friends"
 
Keith said:
I think the 240 was a leap too far for some Leica users, video, live view etc ... modern stuff! :D
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Keith, I actually kind of agree with you. All I wanted to replace my M8 was the M9-P with the Maestro processor in it. The M8 is just too slow once in a while. The new M10 though improved with the lens selector level is too much.
 
5 friends have a 240. All are serious amateur &/or semi-pro photographers & shoot dSLRs, too. Many more friends have the M9, (including my old one), M-E, &/or various film Leicas.

While I don't host dinners, I have shared meals & drinks w/all of them & would gladly do so again, particularly if they're paying the tab.
 
I have 4 friends that we shoot together 2 have M240's, 1 with a M-9, one of the guys with a M240 also has a S, I shoot with a RX-1 and the other one has a number of film M's but no digital. One is laid off, two are a retiree's, I was laid off in 2008 and now back working but not any where near where I used to be in $$. No Doctors or Dentist's photography is where we are. Three out of the five of us have been using Leica since 1970.

wbill
 
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