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  1. JDFlood

    I get it.

    When I was 16 years old, I really wanted a good camera. It was not to come from my parents, so I snuck into the bank and cashed the single hundred dollar bond my aunt had given me. It was a Minolta rangefinder. A good camera, but not the SLR I really wanted. I got inexpensive Nikons until I got a Maymiya 645 after college, before my first vacation to the South Pacific. After my MBA, work became 70 hours a week and I did light photography through the end of the film era… a inexpensive film Leica was an amazing alternative to the cheap film cameras colleagues had in the mid 90's. I climbed up the small digital since the late '90s. Then Nikon D700, then D800 preorder as DSLs started to approach film resolution… and I really made progress as a photographer, with the instant feedback. Preordered Leica X2, Fuji XE-2, then Xpro-2 for international travel. So, for the last 6 or 7 years I have been improving as digital cameras and my 1,000 to 2,000 photos per month and international travel would permit. The 25 or 30 lenses for the systems helped as did Lightroom. My like my Leica for local street photography, but when I go to a remote city, I want big glass for shooting at night, and real wide. So it is D800 or Fuji. I appreciate the finer things in life. Fountain pens, high end audio, fine wine, and have always found the value in really expensive stuff. I am careful, research the living daylights out of things and then purchase. I am at the time of life when a Rolex was appropriate. I dipped my foot in with a Tag Heuer as a way of getting to know the terrain. I was stopped dead. What do you mean accuracy of one second a day? Luxury means best performance AND aesthetics. I was really disappointed. So I finally went with a Seiko Astron… the ultimate in accuracy and really good looking, but not a Rolex. When I bought my Lexus, I was ecstatic because I got so much more than I expected… that is the way luxury goods work…well unless you get fooled, I don't get fooled. My $14K preamplifier is incredible… beautiful and unparalleled performance. So here I find myself pondering a Leica M10… is it like a Rolex or Lexus, you can find articles proclaiming either, overpriced anachronism, or pinnacle of contemporary perfection? I have two Takahashi telescopes… optics are superb, I have always been rewarded when spending really large amounts on optics. So, a couple of weeks ago, I ordered a M10 and Summicron 35. I have had it for 2 days: I get it, wow, it is there, it is not subtle, incredible output, beautiful, a sense of quality throughout the device. Something I can be proud of owning and use to reach new levels in photography. Huge sense of relief, and excitement anticipating all the wonderful things we will achieve together. New York, Shanghai, Tokyo, Pacific Northwest forests here we come! The Leica M legend, I get it.
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