jrp Posted May 4, 2013 Share #1 Posted May 4, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) http://findingrange.com/2013/04/28/leica-m-typ-240-review/ Positive review. Reads a bit like a sales pitch in tone, to me, but it's always good to look at others' pics. He came from an M9, prefers the rendering of the M240 and finds none of the color balance issues that others here have objected to. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted May 4, 2013 Posted May 4, 2013 Hi jrp, Take a look here Another M240 review. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
dwbell Posted May 4, 2013 Share #2 Posted May 4, 2013 Nice read. Not too sales pitchy, just very pro, which is his opinion, and valid. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DFH1022 Posted May 4, 2013 Share #3 Posted May 4, 2013 Thanks for the link. Not enough details about file quality vs. M9...and unfortunately lackluster files. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
01af Posted May 5, 2013 Share #4 Posted May 5, 2013 ... and finds none of the colour balance issues that others here have objected to. But I find them. In his pictures. Reds are over the top and skin tones are radio-active. That said, I'm sure the bubbly M colours can be tamed with some tinkering or a carefully-made profile. But they definitely are not okay right out of the camera. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted May 5, 2013 Share #5 Posted May 5, 2013 Hard to tell on somebody else's images. For instance he says that Camaro is exactly the red as he remembers it. But I find the difference in skin tone between the outdoor shot of the Chinese girl and the one with the Golden Retriever interesting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest malland Posted May 5, 2013 Share #6 Posted May 5, 2013 I'm put off by gratuitous statements of this type, written perhaps by someone taking camera forum posts too seriously: I think there are many who are in a way hoping that this M isn’t as good as the M9.... —Mitch/Paris Lanka Footsteps [M-Monochrom/Sri Lanka] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboch Posted May 5, 2013 Share #7 Posted May 5, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) I'm put off by gratuitous statements of this type, written perhaps by someone taking camera forum posts too seriously: —Mitch/Paris Lanka Footsteps [M-Monochrom/Sri Lanka] No, but I think he wants to say that a lot of people are aggressively defending the M9 while nobody says that the M9 out of the sudden is a bad camera... In some way he is right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicaiste Posted May 5, 2013 Share #8 Posted May 5, 2013 I mainly agree with this review. But I think the led lit frame lines are really an improvement, specially with frames like those of the 75. The never disappear like they sometimes did with previous M cameras. On the other hand I don't like the delay when using the new types of metering modes. In rangefinder mode I reverted to the classic mode. And when I really need spot, I switch to the EVF and manual and then back to the rangefinder. Imo it's faster than to change mode in the menu. It is to bad that Leica didn't found a way to print or insert only a white spot on matte black blades, instead of that large white blade. But at the end of the day, I agree that the M is a big improvement over the M9. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrp Posted May 5, 2013 Author Share #9 Posted May 5, 2013 But I find them. In his pictures. Reds are over the top and skin tones are radio-active. That said, I'm sure the bubbly M colours can be tamed with some tinkering or a carefully-made profile.. Even the M9 suffers from oversaturatlon at it defaults. However, some of the color issues that we are seeing may be down to the way that the jpegs are rendered in the particular browser that you are using. (I have not tried downloading originals and looking at them in a properly color managed application, but it would be worth doing if colors are an important factor.) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted May 5, 2013 Share #10 Posted May 5, 2013 Is it me or did he forget to say what raw converter he's used? Hard to say anything w/o knowing that IMHO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted May 5, 2013 Share #11 Posted May 5, 2013 If Leica stopped giving all these M240's out into the hands of reviewers, they could get more into the hands of customers. It is almost reaching the point, where I feel guilty for having got mine but then I remember that it has to go back on holiday to Solms. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted May 5, 2013 Share #12 Posted May 5, 2013 Is it me or did he forget to say what raw converter he's used? Hard to say anything w/o knowing that IMHO. If you drill down into the data behind the picture, it looks like he used ACR then tweaked in PS. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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