Selling M6TTL for X100s

[jsrockit]

I see it two ways:

• Which is the better tool for your photography (if photography is your main concern)?
• Which is better tool to fondle (if fondling is your main concern)?

 

[L Collins]

My X100 was a nice toy, a diversion from real photography.

My Leicas are photographic instruments meant for a lifetime. they'll never be out of date, or superseded by a newer, better model. They just are.

 

[jsrockit]

My X100 was a nice toy, a diversion from real photography.

My Leicas are photographic instruments meant for a lifetime. they'll never be out of date, or superseded by a newer, better model. They just are.

Is it really that extreme? Real photography cannot be done with a X100? 🙄

 

[willie_901]

My X100 was a nice toy, a diversion from real photography.

My Leicas are photographic instruments meant for a lifetime. they'll never be out of date, or superseded by a newer, better model. They just are.

Never out of date?

 

[Ansel]

Hi Adam,

I went through this recently myself, but it was whether to sell my Hasselblad for a smaller and more portable Leica M6 or not and decided in the end that I needed both - which I suspect would be the ideal situation for you. You will never recover the absolutly stunning image performance you are getting right now with your M6 - it may look good but never the same.

By the way, what 35 mm lens are you using? The f2.8 or f2?

 

[thompsonks]

At a portfolio critique – at a time when I was 100% M8 – Mary Ellen Mark said "Don't sell your film camera!" She repeated it over and over like a mantra. And sure enough, not directly because of her but just by inclination, i wandered back for two years into the retro-world of film. You never know when the urge will strike you.

Now I have film cameras, M9, and 100s as backup to the Leicas. It's just good enough so that if you boost the color a bit, you can make a 14x21" print that will slip into a portfolio of digital Leica images.

"Don't sell your film camera!"

Kirk

 

[Jan Pedersen]

It is so difficult to advice others about something like this as we all have different ways of getting into our camera posessions and how we attach to what we have.

I can say that no digital camera will ever force me to sell my M6. I bought it new in 1986, it's never been serviced but it works as the day i took it out of the store.

Think you can have a digital camera that will do that?
It may not be important how long a digital camera will last but to sell an M6TTLto get a "Cheap" Digital camera is really short term GAS.
Just my 3 cents.

 

[danielsterno]

I'd say sell the 28mm and get a used x100. If you like it you can upgrade later when the price comes down. Ultimately is a hobby so if you enjoy using the m6 then keep doing so.

to boomguys point. I would sell the 28mm AND definitely get a used x100 versus the x100s for three reasons, 1- with the last firmware update its equal to the x100s for the most part 2- IMO the sensor has a different feel than the x100s that is the closest OOC JPEG to film and if you shoot raw you will play with the image to PP it to B&W or color as you would in a dark room. 3-I looked at your work- you have a good eye despite no matter what you shoot with: film or digital- you'll enjoy the immediacy of digital/x100 and the x100 used will be equal to the sale of your lens thus no $$ out of pocket…. i wouldn't over think it- get it, shoot the 35mm FOV that you like(me too) and you'll be glad you did. good luck!

 

[thejameskendall]

I would have never thought about selling my M6 but now I've fallen hard for my X100 and I'm not even that bothered about upgrading it. Will I sell my M6? You know what, probably I will.

Sell the lens, buy a used X100, see how it works out for you.

 

[thejameskendall]

My X100 was a nice toy, a diversion from real photography.

My Leicas are photographic instruments meant for a lifetime. they'll never be out of date, or superseded by a newer, better model. They just are.

That's pretty silly, and a bit trolling, surely.

 

[B-9]

I know the new 23/1.4 has a DOF scale, and so does the 14/2.8 if I'm not mistaken.
I'm making similiar decisions with my gear, since wal mart no longer cheaply developed C41 in house, I couldn't and can't afford to shoot c41.

I also develop my own b&w, which has thwarted those nasty thoughts of digitalis (for the most part)
Now that I have a big DSLR and pro zoom for color, I'm thinking of replacing it with either a x100 or xpro.

No pocket full of.clams here, the slow nature of reseilling gear is giving me plenty of time to hash it out.

Hope you enjoy the X100!

 

[Gary Sandhu]

Had the x100 and x100s and sold both. Kept my film Leicas. Impossible to substitute the rangefinder focussing of the Leica.