Leica M-two hundred

[Godfrey]

They were fatter (as were the M8 and M9) than the film Ms. The M10 finally got it down to normal M size. I don't think the M fatties were offended.

To me, the intrusion of the LCD, control pad, and function buttons ... regardless of the trivial difference in thickness ... is a much bigger detraction to the elegance and feel of the M4-2 and M6TTL bodies. The M-D typ 262 felt far nicer in the hand, and I suspect the M11-D does as well. (The M10-D annoyed me with its faux wind lever more than any other detraction of the M typ 240, etc, body thickness...) 😉

These notions are all, in the end, trivialities. I put up with the LCD and control protuberances on the M10-R and M10 Monochrom, and adapt to them, because the cameras work so very well. 😀

G

 

[JohnGellings]

To me, the intrusion of the LCD, control pad, and function buttons ... regardless of the trivial difference in thickness ... is a much bigger detraction to the elegance and feel of the M4-2 and M6TTL bodies. The M-D typ 262 felt far nicer in the hand, and I suspect the M11-D does as well. (The M10-D annoyed me with its faux wind lever more than any other detraction of the M typ 240, etc, body thickness...) 😉

Could be, I never held the D versions... those are cool, whether fat or not.

These notions are all, in the end, trivialities.

Of course, I used the M9 and M240.

I put up with the LCD and control protuberances on the M10-R and M10 Monochrom, and adapt to them, because the cameras work so very well. 😀

G

Well, they are certainly nice.

 

[rfaspen]

M10-R is near perfection. Don't really care what the nom-de-plume may be 😎

 

[Freakscene]

Do you have a 2D FFT routine handy? Would be nice to know the frequency.

I could write one in R or C++, but I'd rather just forget the whole thing.

That camera almost made me give up photographing I got so frustrated with it.

 

[wlewisiii]

There is a genus of Australian snakes in the genus Vermicella, known as bandy-bandy because they are black snakes with white bands around their bodies. Those typ 240 series cameras are also bandy bandys, but their bands are sometimes mesh, or other patterns.

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Leica bandy bandy.
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Reptilian bandy bandy.

Huh, I've Never managed to get banding that bad and I've pushed mine at 6400 a lot. It gets noisy as f*** but more in that grainy nasty way. I usually only see banding when my images are compressed massively for uploading to websites.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

They were fatter (as were the M8 and M9) than the film Ms. The M10 finally got it down to normal M size. I don't think the M fatties were offended.

IMO. Normal size is any Leica M without fatty half-case or without extra grip and thumb support. 🙂

 

[Freakscene]

Huh, I've Never managed to get banding that bad and I've pushed mine at 6400 a lot. It gets noisy as f*** but more in that grainy nasty way. I usually only see banding when my images are compressed massively for uploading to websites.

That's from my 246. I think it's at ISO 12,500.

IMO. Normal size is any Leica M without fatty half-case or without extra grip and thumb support. 🙂

I can't hang onto them without a grip. I don't use a thumb support, but they all have a grip. My FM2n and other similar size Nikons have a grip too. It's still like the digital Ms to be slimmer than the M9 and typ 240 series.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

That's from my 246. I think it's at ISO 12,500.


I can't hang onto them without a grip. I don't use a thumb support, but they all have a grip. My FM2n and other similar size Nikons have a grip too. It's still like the digital Ms to be slimmer than the M9 and typ 240 series.

I guess it depends on the roots. My first camera was FED-2 and for many years.
I need no grips and so on. They are just extra bulk for me.
But I added not too bulky, non-prestigious half case for protection 🙂
Everything with the grip and VF in the middle is not my cap of tea, only if no alternative...

 

[former member]

That's from my 246. I think it's at ISO 12,500.


I can't hang onto them without a grip. I don't use a thumb support, but they all have a grip. My FM2n and other similar size Nikons have a grip too. It's still like the digital Ms to be slimmer than the M9 and typ 240 series.

The M246- that makes sense. A 12-bit image, and black level reduced it further. Big Endian Format DNG. The M Monochrom at ISO 10,000 had some banding when used with fast cards. I put 4x cards in it, never had a problem again.

 

[Freakscene]

The M246- that makes sense. A 12-bit image, and black level reduced it further. Big Endian Format DNG. The M Monochrom at ISO 10,000 had some banding when used with fast cards. I put 4x cards in it, never had a problem again.

The M10M and M11M don’t display file weirdness unless you get really carried away. But the Pentax Ki-3 iii Monochrome is even better.

I loved the files from the MM at ISO5,000, hut avoided using it at higher ISOs.

 

[former member]

Leica M Monochrom, TTArtisans 50/0.95, wide-open, ISO 10,000. "Dark, No Light" Batman Dark.
Gamma curve added and black level changed, but no noise reduction.
No need to pass through my IEEE mixed-Radix Fortran FFT routine that I've used since 1982.