Which would you buy?

Mint_Sauce · 8 Oct 2013 at 17:03

James J said:
Decided on the leica after having a play with one. Extremely fun to use and a nice new learning curve.

Thumbs up from me.

Which did you go for? M8, M9, M9P or the M240?

Edit: Just noticed in your sig, it says M9. :S

James J · 8 Oct 2013 at 17:14

Yeah the m9 as the me is the same camera with less features and the M240 is 5100 quid.

Mint_Sauce · 8 Oct 2013 at 17:15

Some lesser known feature is that you can hold down the play button and pressing left and right will go to the next picture and stay zoomed in. There was one or two others but I can't think what they are at the moment.

James J · 8 Oct 2013 at 17:29

Interesting. Not sure how much I'll be using the screen for checking shots on this as I've turned against it over the last year. I'd only quickly Flickr through them on my D3 and d600 to check composition more than anything else.

XE11 · 10 Oct 2013 at 07:32

James J said:
Interesting. Not sure how much I'll be using the screen for checking shots on this as I've turned against it over the last year. I'd only quickly Flickr through them on my D3 and d600 to check composition more than anything else.

you will be using the screen a lot at the begining to check focus on your new leica

James J · 10 Oct 2013 at 08:34

XE11 said:
you will be using the screen a lot at the begining to check focus on your new leica

Yeah noticed that yesterday. It's easier to focus though than people make out, even for a glasses wearer like me. Not had any issues getting extremely sharp photos at f2 with my 35mm summicron lens so far. I think after a few weeks I should be able to speed up how fast I can focus as well

GTRacer · 10 Oct 2013 at 19:33

I found that this page helped me a lot when I first started shooting with an M (primarily written from a film users' POV, but many points apply): http://www.cameraquest.com/leicaMtips.htm

James J · 10 Oct 2013 at 19:37

GTRacer said:
I found that this page helped me a lot when I first started shooting with an M (primarily written from a film users' POV, but many points apply): http://www.cameraquest.com/leicaMtips.htm

Thanks I'll check it out. Looking forward to the weekend as I'll try put it through its paces on a few outings, although I'll be confined to barnsley... lol