Just shy of being four weeks in with the M10...
In short, I'm very happy (although I've had less opportunity to use it than I might have, 1200 frames though)
It's a little strange just how much what I notice about it has changed!
When I first held one, and eventually bought one, my most immediate impression was how thin it felt compared to the M240 (even though it's only 4mm or something)
Playing with it in the store I couldn't really tell you that it had
an improved viewfinder but now I'm really conscious of just how noticeably better the VF is!
My biggest concern was the battery life... I've gotten really used too 7-800shots from the 240...
I bought a new battery with the camera (it came with one too) and I got 660ish from the supplied-with-camera one and 750ish from the brand new one.
So I'm delighted with that.
I'm so far very happy with the IQ! (which isn't a big shock)
I'm predominantly a LR user (although I do have C1 as well)
The 'adobe standard' profile is kinda muted (nothing new there then huh adobe?) and perhaps a little too rusty-brown, but that said it's a strong stable starting point for editing.
The native
profile (some folks wax lyrical about Leica profiles, but really they're just two Color Matrices, so IMHO not a profile
per se) is nice in the sun, big bold colours (that I like - OMWV), but it's shockingly bad under artificial light!
During the past lockdown I've
been learning all about custom profile creation fallen into a custom profile creation rabbit hole, where my ambition far outweighs my abilities, so I've made a few tweaks here and there to how the M10 renders images. It's all a work in progress really.
Although there's plenty of places on the 'net suggesting that the M10 and M9 have very similar rendering... I'm not really seeing it... but for sure (erm IMHO) there's a certain how shall we say,
family resemblance between the two (I don't necessarily mean in the shots I'm posting here) and that's a good thing in my book.
The M9 resemblance I'm seeing is in the deep blue handling (the M9 has quite a cyan bias)
The M10 presents clean images, that have strong colours and strong contrast and I'm fond of this look in my work
The photographer community often uses words like; 'pop', 'glow', 'bite' etc... Of those I'm learning towards the M10 having a
bite to it's images
Of course even secondhand the M10 is very far from being
chump change and it has the dubious honour of being the most money I've ever spent on a single item of photography equipment (by a considerable margin), but equally at secondhand values the M10 is less than many spend on more mainstream brand cameras (top end DSLRs and Sonys and medium format options) so the cost of ownership is what it is.
Personally I find I only ever fret about the cost of something if I'm
unhappy with it (eg
I can't believe this crap cost that much or
damn why did I buy the cheap one, this is rubbish) and so far there's no signs of this happening with the M10.
Now I just hope that things stay unlocked down, and maybe even some travel, (although I just visited the UK I had to cut the trip short when the green list changed and my flight home got cancelled!), but whatever summer holds I hope for photos, many photos!