IWC Doppel Posted August 6, 2013 Share #1 Posted August 6, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) I am still feeling the attraction of the Monochrome, most well nearly all of my pictures end up B&W, I have only printed 3 pictures in colour and a few hundred in B&W but to date I just can't justify the £6k One thing that genuinely troubles me is whether I would abandon my trusty M9-P. Do those with both still really use both ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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platypus Posted August 6, 2013 Share #2 Posted August 6, 2013 No. The M9 is on the shelf. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkP Posted August 6, 2013 Share #3 Posted August 6, 2013 Monochrom >95% M9 the rest of the time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Lord Posted August 6, 2013 Share #4 Posted August 6, 2013 Too early to really tell for me, but I have no Leica colour-capable body now. No hankering for one either. I have a Lumix GF1 with M mount adapter for colour frolics. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter H Posted August 6, 2013 Share #5 Posted August 6, 2013 I too feel the attraction of the Monochrom like a siren call, but for me the greatest challenge in photography is to create good colour photos, which I still find harder than B&W, so I'm not ready to give up yet! The Monochrom will have to wait... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anupmc Posted August 6, 2013 Share #6 Posted August 6, 2013 60/40 in favour of MM for me. You know you want the MM, it'll gnaw at you till you get it, so you might as well. Don't worry about abandoning the M9-P, if you find yourself not using it, you're enjoying yourself elsewhere, no harm no foul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdriceman Posted August 6, 2013 Share #7 Posted August 6, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) I sold my M9 and use a Sony Nex6 for when I want color and/or auto focus. Like Peter, if find making quality color photos a challenge and I like the color rendering of the M9 very much. But I couldn't justify having so much tied up in digital M's and in the end I prefer my B&W prints. The MM is truly magnificent for that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest malland Posted August 6, 2013 Share #8 Posted August 6, 2013 I got a Monochrom last November and shot exclusively with it until the end of February when I bought an M9 — and I liked the M9 color rendition so much that since then I have shot only color. However, I expect to go back to the Monochrom in two weeks, when I go to Paris for some six weeks. My excitement about the M9 was heightened by not having shot color for almost five months and, more recently, by having discovered that the M9, contrary to conventional wisdom, actually is excellent for high-ISO in view of its color rendition when using this technique. Until I went digital in 2006, I had two M6s, one for color and one for B&W. But I found that I did not like to have the two cameras with me at the same time, but prefer to shoot color or B&W film on extended binges, which is what I expect to do with the Monochrom and the M9. —Mitch/Bangkok Surabaya-Johnny Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinnfell Posted August 6, 2013 Share #9 Posted August 6, 2013 Monogamy is one thing, but honing your vision is another. I sodl my M9 to fund the MM and I have not regretted a day. In fact, I can think of few other cameras that have been so creatively stimulating. Sure enough, the MM is not my ONLY camera, but it is my only leica camera and I am more than happy with that. I have to say that I am not financially dependent on my Leica. If it were, I would keep the M9 for the added verstility. (I make money with my canons and spend it on the leica, ha!) On the other hand, if for personal photography only - why do I need all the options? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjames9142 Posted August 6, 2013 Share #10 Posted August 6, 2013 An interesting question. As a film shooter, I was almost exclusively b/w. when I got theM9 I had a long learning curve with colour and how to print. (b/w on the m9 never quite did it for me.). Now I have a Monochrom ( and a backup m9body) and I am shooting both. I am on holiday at the moment at my summer place in Queben on an island in the Ottawa river, and I am shooting with both cameras, but never at he same time. I like the early morning light, and whatever camera I take will influence how I see. Professionally I am working on a book and exhibition on Canada's oldest prison, and I go in with the Monochrom round my neck and an M9 on my left shoulder. 90 percent of what I do will be Monochrom, but there are moments when it calls for colour. This is going to greatly complicate the book production, but is is necessary. Both are such great cameras that it is a pleasure to,work with them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeicaPassion Posted August 6, 2013 Share #11 Posted August 6, 2013 After getting the MM, the M9 collected dust. I sold it and have never looked back. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealth3kpl Posted August 6, 2013 Share #12 Posted August 6, 2013 but to date I just can't justify the £6k You don't need to justify it. If you'd like to try one, do so. If you'd like to own both the M9 and MM do so. You only live once so you owe it to yourself to enjoy life to the full. I can't justify having any thing more advanced than my OM1 and 28 and 50 Zuikos because I'm rubbish. I do enjoy my toys though. When I'm bored with them I'll sell them. Will I make a loss? Probably. Will I have enjoyed myself? Certainly! Go for it. Which will bring more regret? Trying an MM or never trying an MM? Pete Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted August 6, 2013 Share #13 Posted August 6, 2013 I'm also thinking about selling my M9. It hasn't been used in anger for many months as I've been using large format most of the time. But since getting the MM I haven't even looked at it, and I carry a small Sony RX100 for colour anyway (and that doesn't get used much either). Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ldhrads Posted August 6, 2013 Share #14 Posted August 6, 2013 Just came back from 10 days away. Travelled with M9 and MM and shot about 50/50, this was the first time I took both and although I haven't started editing the images, I'm glad I took both...so far. On the other hand, next time I'll take less glass! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
snooper Posted August 6, 2013 Share #15 Posted August 6, 2013 I've had a MM before I got the M. When I got the MM, I had a M9. Sold the M9 and used the MM full time. Then got the M, but using the MM most of the time. Outstanding camera. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Lemon Posted August 6, 2013 Share #16 Posted August 6, 2013 MM and ME for me - wonderful combo. But if I had a choice of just one of the two it would be the MM. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manolo Posted August 6, 2013 Share #17 Posted August 6, 2013 Just came back from 10 days away. Travelled with M9 and MM and shot about 50/50, I'm glad I took both...so far. On the other hand, next time I'll take less glass! same for me but I used the MM 80% of the time; and I DID take less glass I find that I appreciate more the color images, since I have been using the MM for most things: and having also the m9 has been grate for this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted August 6, 2013 Share #18 Posted August 6, 2013 I shoot a lot of B+W and I will get a Monochrom for sure at some point. But it will be in addition to my colour M. I would never have mono only. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
downstairs Posted August 6, 2013 Share #19 Posted August 6, 2013 Monochrome all the time. I hang on to the M9 as backup. I'm not going the way of Nebucanezzar and his shoes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
349A Posted August 6, 2013 Share #20 Posted August 6, 2013 If my brand new Monochrom had a properly adjusted rangefinder, I might live it over my M9 too:( First day out, nothing but blur. Jonathan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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