Leica M240: The Full Review from Ride Earth

[Herr Barnack]

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Sebastiaan de With gives the M240 a run for its money on a long haul motorcycle trip.  One of his "tests" was a motorcycle crash in Alaska at 55 mph (88 km/h) with the camera slung over his shoulder. 

 

This is a comprehensive article with quite a selection of photographs to have a look at - enjoy!

 

 

 

http://rideearth.net/2016/05/04/leica-m-the-full-review/

 

Edited May 5, 2016 by Carlos Danger

[jmahto]

Sebastiaan de With gives the M240 a run for its money on a long haul motorcycle trip.  One of his "tests" was a motorcycle crash in Alaska at 55 mph (88 km/h) with the camera slung over his shoulder. 

 

This is a comprehensive article with quite a selection of photographs to have a look at - enjoy!

+1 for bike related article.

 

Now let me read....

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[jmahto]

BTW, my next M is going to be chrome.... that picture with scraped top looks so rad !!

[j0e_5]

This is great. Thank you very much for sharing 

[sdw]

Thanks for posting and glad you all enjoyed it!  

[ECohen]

An enjoyable read I wouldn't have found without you.

Thank you very much for sharing.

[Skip Heitzig]

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This article was excellent. Thanks for posting it. As a Leica photographer and motorcyclist, it was right up my alley! 

[bencoyote]

Thanks for posting and glad you all enjoyed it!

 

This is so true and so overlooked. It's absolutely on the top of my list for the next gen M. Well said!! "The most important quality of a sensor in this day and age, for me, is its dynamic range. The dynamic range is essentially simply how well it can cope with images with very bright and dark areas in one frame. You can imagine the camera attempting to expose to retain detail in the highlights, but in doing so making the image darker, and thus losing detail in the shadows. If a camera sensor deals with this well, it has excellent dynamic range.

 

Having read the whole article. The only thing that I disagree with you about is the soft release. :-)

 

Regarding the repair, I agree that at this price point, it should be faster. If they don't want to add add more headcount, then I think that they should make the problem go away by doing 3-way swaps. They send you, a loaner, and take whatever time they need to, to fix yours, send your unit back to you when it is repaired, and then you send the loaner back in the same box. With the current price of used M's and the relative price stability, of used bodies. I was going to do something like that myself when my M needed repaired but ended up trading in my M and upgrading to a M-P instead.

 

Having a built in GPS would be nice but I've been able to work around that for the most part with a Suunto Ambit watch. I haven't tried it Mark Wallace from Adorama TV says that the acquisition time for the GPS in the handgrip is too slow.

Edited May 8, 2016 by bencoyote

[Exodies]

Only if you think eleven minutes is slow...

[jaapv]

Depends on how fast you are moving.

[Exodies]

Thank you Albert.