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Buying a Leica M ( 262) reasons


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No 1:1 viewfinder nor reversible LCD though and hello to the 75mm framelines that don't bother us on the R-D1... You will miss the latter sometimes but you will gain the best rangefinder ever made with a quieter shutter and you can use faster wides without spending little fortunes at last. I would not sell the R-D1 though. Still the only digital rangefinder one can shoot both eyes open.

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 No attack on who is here my post is about the camera and where it is today, how it will be perceived and why Leica seems to be diluting the leica image . The camera has a mythical image that has been carefullu cultivated by leica and its followers. In this section of the forum people write about the cameras their quirks problems comparisons to other manidfacturers etc not about photographs. Maybe you should read more carefully but that is your choice how you perceive it all The sigh is in response to the sigh from another poster.

 

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Buying a Leica M ( 262) reasons

Because of the camera not the images  that can be produced

 

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1) My old Epson Rd1 is on its last legs

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I am very intrigued regarding the quieter shutter

As am I.  I think it possible this might turn out to be the best part of the 262.  (reduced cost notwithstanding. :) )

 

The other differences are largely about removing something that some find annoying.

 

The shutter deal would be about adding something that I suppose everyone would be pleased about.

 

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On reflection, maybe I should think further about the quieter shutter.  At my age I'm deaf as a post and might need the louder shutter noise to tell me I have made a photograph. :)

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 ...why Leica seems to be diluting the leica image ...

 

 

 

I think your basic premise is flawed.  People are about "image."   Leica is a business.  Businesses are about income and profit. Leica has done well getting people to buy into an image of them and their products, but corporate Leica saw market potential and has moved to fill it, replacing the M-E with the M Typ 262.  I don't think it's anything more or less than that.

 

And the best reason to buy any camera is for the images you can make with it.  

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As am I.  I think it possible this might turn out to be the best part of the 262.  (reduced cost notwithstanding. :) )

 

The other differences are largely about removing something that some find annoying.

 

The shutter deal would be about adding something that I suppose everyone would be pleased about.

 

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On reflection, maybe I should think further about the quieter shutter.  At my age I'm deaf as a post and might need the louder shutter noise to tell me I have made a photograph. :)

I wish they had removed the LED-lit frame lines and gone back to the ingeniously simple, no-moving parts, nothing-to-burnout, non-power-consuming, present-even-in-sleep-mode system that worked fine.  That would have been a differentiating feature which would have made me pause to consider switching from my M240s. 

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bocaburger, on 24 Nov 2015 - 00:28, said:bocaburger, on 24 Nov 2015 - 00:28, said:

I wish they had removed the LED-lit frame lines and gone back to the ingeniously simple, no-moving parts, nothing-to-burnout, non-power-consuming, present-even-in-sleep-mode system that worked fine.  That would have been a differentiating feature which would have made me pause to consider switching from my M240s.

The parts and system are similar- and the framelines/patch move the same way. The only difference is the illumination by a LED instead of by a window. Leds are not really power consuming and rarely burn out. I must confess I rather like the new framelines, I have set them to red to match the display and in that colour they are not overly bright. YMMV.

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I think I'll probably get this camera. However without being a party pooper I would have liked live view, simply as it's the best way to test new/old lenses for being set with the rangefinder correctly, and of course periodic checks of the internal rangefinder generally

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