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An affordable Leica?
Leica M Series
Majestic, Classical, Masterpiece. This is Leica M series cameras. Leica is the first company which made small portable camera compatible with ...ideas.lego.com
I can’t begin to guess that, well I can it’s 50/50! But I can only guess
There's a very noticeable difference at that aperture - the first one is much clearer, sharper and better contrast than the second.Hi, spot the differences round 2 ... (M9 - Summarit 2,5/50 - VOIGTLÄNDER Apo-Lanthar 2/50 , f 2,5 ; crops) :
There's a very noticeable difference at that aperture - the first one is much clearer, sharper and better contrast than the second.
All the above?GAS
Gear acquisition syndrome
Greatly accelerated stupidity
Greedy Adam silliness
Whatever...
Sometimes things come together
again - congrats!
Congrats!!!
Congrats!
All the above?
I found it better than the m240 especially in iso (bit bandy at 50k)
Battery life sucks *
* I use evf! Without - probably 500-600 shots.. with between 200-300 (depending if you forget you left it on and evf eating the view).
Bonus parts.. LV/EVF - you can use the control on the back to move the circle and the peek button on the front to peek in (press once and roll the dial under the thumb to the right). Useful for those 'must be in focus' times....
I must make a profile in lr - I almost always do the same things for most pics as a base...
again - congrats!
Hi, in Mannheim/D ... (M9 - Elmarit 2,8/21 asph. f 5,6) :
Lovely colours in those Immo
Very nice candid street style shot Adam, liking this shot very much.
Hi, thank you, Adam, .
Several factors here: the M9 CCD sensor, the 21 Elmarit, and its Leica UVa filter. I bought the Elmarit many years ago used. It was and is my most expensive M mount lens,
and wanting to protect it, I fitted this Leica UVa filter ... ---
In Mannheim/D ... (M9 - Elmarit 2,8/21 asph. f 5,6 ; crop) :
Congrats man. About timeRighty!
First day with the M10.
(I just couldn't help myself, the local store got one that was 'factory refurbished' at a price that merely gave me a nose bleed, not the usual nose AND ear bleeds)
I'm try and keep this short, but I'll fail.
My opinions and usage of cameras changes over time and I'm only 190 shots and a day into M10 ownership.
But what the hell, I often feel like I'm chatting to two or three of my mates in the pub when I post here.
Here's my initial thoughts.
Build, has this strange feeling of being very, very well built yet a little tinny at the same time, WTF Adam?
Well (in digital M terms) it feels TINY, it's like I how remember the fuji X100 feeling (it's bigger than the fuji though obviously), because it weighs not that much less than the M240, and still a bit more than the M9, this makes it feel very dense and solid. (Because it's physically smaller)
The shutter feels a bit tinny, hollow and 'digital camera' sounding compared to my M9/240 though. Meh don't care, it's quiet enough though
Dials and controls and stuff.
Same as the other Ms, Oh yeah has an ISO dial. Stupidly stiff to lift up. I might never have to cut my thumbnail again!
Less is more
They've done away with that really clucking annoying thing the M240 did, when in playback mode the info button went image review / image review + histogram / image review + blinkies / image review thumbnail + info. Which bugged me as you had to cycle through them all too get back to the start.
The M10 has two playback views, image review / image review +info and histogram and blinkies
Battery life
I was a bit concerned about this, as the M240 goes forever on a battery and the M9 is so slow that that you don't take enough shots to run the battery out quickly.. it's taken 190 shots now and says 55% remaining. I'll take that. (I'm not one for chimping that much, occasional live view, I don't have the EVF, I've no intention of installing the mobile app to talk to my camera from my phone - but that usage was also new camera menu trawl and set up)
IQ compared to the M240
Noticeably better. Colour palette cut from the same cloth maybe... but more vibrant images, they have more depth than the 240 but most importantly as a 240 upgrade
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This much shadow lift can be hard on the 240
Images seem to need less work than the 240 in LR
IQ compared to the M9
M9 will always be special. End of. M10 has some charm though... bit like VSCO or someone made an M9 preset
We'll have to come back to this... at the moment my 10 files look like 240 ones cos I'm PP'ing them similarly. I need time here to find my way...
The adobe standard profile is a bit of a dark horse... straight out of the gate it's their usual bland as water look, but add a little contrast, maybes +5 or 10 of sat and it really sings.
Leica embedded profile is more immediate, but (as usual) dicey away from sunlight and with a ton of orange in it
(I've got into making my own profiles lately, so I'll probably stick to keep developing that)
ISO
Nothing to see here for users of other brands.
For us digital M shooters... holy cow! 6400 seems perfectly usable (that's labelled 'push' on the 240)
Nice to have 100 too, apparently it's actually a pull (true base being 150ish), didn't notice any issues using 100 today, besides it's never a great idea to clip highlights on a digital
I'm a happy man
Here's a few snaps, was going to be more but the forum says they're too large!
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Congrats man. About time
Just watch those highlights, better to under expose and push those shadows... M10 easily blows out highlights.
From what I’ve read, better to use ISO200 than drop to 100. Jono Slack did a lot of testing and has written quite a bit on using 200 rather than 100.
Must dust mine down and shoot more with it. Haven’t used it much for the past few weeks.
Cheers! Thanks very much!
I saw the whole iso 100-200 thing... iirc (if...) Andy over on LCF did some tests and said that 200 recovers highlights better, but 100 has cleaner shadows if you push them...
The whole thing's daft IMHO... if a camera has a base ISO of 157 (or whatever) then just make that the base ISO, write "100" on the dial or in the menu, so when we add a stop it says 200 even if really it's 314 :-D
ISO is such an arbitrary concept in digital anyway, the ISO menu could just read 1, 2, 3 etc or have pictures... Hmmm cat has to slow a shutter speed I'll move the dial round to dog
It's just a series of makers which we use to double or halve a value - it's doesn't have to be numeric - the senor's real base iso is fixed anyway, and (according to DxO tests) is seldom exactly what it says on the dial
Anways
I've been working too: critical highlights = 100 and -0.7EV. Need more SS, 200 and -0.3EV. Need a critical exposure = make an effort to get the exposure right.
So far all the M10 improvements have been as good as expected (thinner, nicer in the hand, better OVF etc) but the files are lovely to work with.
Spiritually (sic) they're like M9 files, a little bit of work and they really sing.
Sure they're clean and digital in comparison to the M9, and the 240 (I expected that) but they're punchy and have good colour, and I'm happy with skin tones. That's pretty much all I ask for in a camera, and all cameras can do that... it's just about how much work it takes to get there, with as little work as possible being my preference!
Mine came with the thumb grip (yep, very pricey) but it really does improve the balance of the camera.
Funnily enough I’ve never fancied the handgrip. But I do like the thumb gripI had one of those in stock (I got an M10 one for the M9, when I couldn't find an m9 one) and I actually took it off the M10 as I found I didn't need it
I really want the handgrip, but I'll have to wait for a bargain secondhand one as there's no way I'm buying one of those at anything resembling retail (even the Leica store guy said that it was stupidly priced for what it is)