Removable bottom plates, and how to deal with them.

[AlanG]

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Obviously Dave is not that traumatized using a M9.

 

And anyway: Who say's that his picture would have been better or as good as Ut's (maybe being the one with the nearly as good picture would have damaged his career) and who knows if both pictures would have become such Icons. Maybe no one would remember this incident if there had been two slightly different pictures.

 

It didn't stop him from using film Leicas either but he wasn't happy about missing it. Anyhow, he tells a good story about it.

 

Did you miss this from my post? "I think the larger cards and battery capacity make this less important today, but if Leica did not have the legacy of the M do you think they really would have designed the M9 like this?"

[KevinA]

The bottom plate helps to keep dust out of the battery and SD card compartments. One is no more likely to drop it than to drop a lens while changing it. Is that an argument against prime lenses rather than zooms?

Alwyn

 

I can't think anyone would defend the use of a bottom plate that comes away. It really should not be like that, to call it a design fault is being polite. You should not have to take a camera to bits to drop in another card. And yes in some situations using a zoom so you don't drop it or let the weather/dust in is a good reason not to use primes.

 

Kevin.

 

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[dwbell]

I do use a bigger card, in my canon. The battery lasts for days and there have been no file corrupting issues.

 

Alas, using a 16GB Sandisk on my M9 usually outlasted the battery, that is until the recent "issue" with larger cards.......

 

Ya know?

[Lord Fluff]

to call it a design fault is being polite.

 

Not to mention inaccurate.

 

It's a design choice. Leica opted to give a nod to the past, to its long heritage, by keeping the bottom layout like the film cameras before it. I can understand those who've not used a film M not liking it, personally I think it's lovely.

 

I'd also understand some people not liking using a rangefinder, or a viewfinder that is the same for all focal lengths - that doesn't mean these are 'design faults' either.

[Guest srheker]

Did you miss this from my post? "I think the larger cards and battery capacity make this less important today, but if Leica did not have the legacy of the M do you think they really would have designed the M9 like this?"

 

 

No, but that would lead to the question why they should build a range finder at all. And I wanted to avoid another "make the M10 an big-sensor-MFT" discussion.