Lovely photography by the way. Funny thing is, an MM would probably suit you down to a t!
That´s why I am considering buying one
Tim Gray
Well-known
For me, that's the big problem. $8k is a lot of cash, but I've been saving since the M9 was announced. The original one. I could afford it. But I can't in good conscious plunk down that kind of money for a camera that has both reliability problems AND slow/expensive service. And I'm not just basing my views on internet forums. The 2 people I know personally who have owned M9's have had problems and loooooooong turnaround times.
The fact that the actual M9's performance isn't up to current standards bothers me in addition to reliability. Not so much on the M-M. Because no other camera offers what it does (monochrome the way it does) and even on a numbers front, they are all good enough for me. ISO 10000 looks fine and is plenty fast enough. Sure, I'd take a faster buffer, a bigger screen, and better battery life, but they are already sufficient.
whitecat
Lone Range(find)er
Too many problems with Leicas. I bought 3 new and had to have service on 2. One took 6 weeks to get back and the other one longer. I have $40.00 cameras that were never serviced. Let's get a thread on better ways to spend 7k. Want a camera that is all BW? Buy some film.
BobYIL
Well-known
Just posted this in another thread:
With the CFA-less sensor, how will the chromatic aberrations be corrected in post processing? Not all Leica lenses are apochromatic corrected.. the residual (uncorrected) chromatic aberrations will remain as blur (actually additional blur) around edges. M9 users can eliminate them for each color separately in PP, what about the M9-M? Anybody thought about these??
(Didn't like this tricky "innovation"; people have M Lenses dating back to the '50s exhibiting truckload of CAs..)
With the CFA-less sensor, how will the chromatic aberrations be corrected in post processing? Not all Leica lenses are apochromatic corrected.. the residual (uncorrected) chromatic aberrations will remain as blur (actually additional blur) around edges. M9 users can eliminate them for each color separately in PP, what about the M9-M? Anybody thought about these??
(Didn't like this tricky "innovation"; people have M Lenses dating back to the '50s exhibiting truckload of CAs..)
Tim Gray
Well-known
BobYIL
Well-known
Same way they were on Tri-X. They weren't
Very true! However the dear old 35mm Tri-X has never been pretentious like the M9M.. Steve M.
Veteran
I'm not a digital shooter, but in my humble opinion Leica is about to market a dud of a camera. WAY too much money, and I'm sure there is only a miniscule market for digital B&W rangefinder cameras w/ this sort of price. No matter what they do to it, it's IQ is gonna be trounced by a $50 film camera loaded w/ Tri-X.