01af Posted July 6, 2013 Share #181 Posted July 6, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) What you say is correct, but by no means does it invalidate what I said that the fundamental design form of a retrofocus lens is a negative element in front and a positive element at the back. Nobody ever tried to say that retrofocus lenses weren't negative in front and positive at the back. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted July 6, 2013 Posted July 6, 2013 Hi 01af, Take a look here diglloyd: "Leica M Typ240: Unreliable". I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
CheshireCat Posted July 6, 2013 Share #182 Posted July 6, 2013 Then, sell an accessory base plate for Leica traditionalist that prefer to go the extra step of taking a base plate off in order to change film, I mean memory card and battery. Leica could even sell limited edition base plates. How cool would that be? Luis Vuitton Python Baseplate Limited Edition for $3000 Now that I think of it... is the firmware made by LV ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted July 6, 2013 Share #183 Posted July 6, 2013 If anybody is unhappy with their new M240 judging it to be "unreliable" let me please, please, pretty please, save you from your anguish. I will buy it from you. And you would be right. I have just shot full day with it. I have only one comment Wow. This is a camera designed by photographers for photographers and to hell with all nitpicking. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheshireCat Posted July 6, 2013 Share #184 Posted July 6, 2013 Removing the base plate (at least beginning with the M4 quick load system) is pretty ingenious. The basket on the bottom end of the base plate pushes itself onto the tulip where the film leader is placed. Once you pop the film cassette in and feed the leader, all you have to do is stick the film leader end into the tulip and then close the base plate and you're done. It's super quick. And better than a conventional swinging rear door, imho. It is super quick unless you have mounted the camera on a tripod. In that case, it is super slow. And then again, it's 2013 and even all good old film shooters can figure out how to insert a flash card and a battery on the side of the camera. Since Leica must sell also to fashion people, place the battery slot on the left side and the card slot on the right side for a nice symmetry. This will still allow selling the LV rhodium-pythonate baseplate Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalArts 99 Posted July 6, 2013 Share #185 Posted July 6, 2013 It is super quick unless you have mounted the camera on a tripod. In that case, it is super slow. And then again, it's 2013 and even all good old film shooters can figure out how to insert a flash card and a battery on the side of the camera.Since Leica must sell also to fashion people, place the battery slot on the left side and the card slot on the right side for a nice symmetry. This will still allow selling the LV rhodium-pythonate baseplate I just realized that I probably have never mounted a Leica on a tripod before. Coming from film, I'd use a bigger frame size camera for making a photo needing a tripod (i.e., 6x9, 6x12, 4x5.) The Leica has always been a hand-held device for me. But yeah, I can understand wanting to mount a 24MP digital camera to a tripod since the file size does equate closer to a larger frame film camera. I just never considered a Leica as a 'slow thought out tripod needing' type of device. But I do get what you're saying. The current base plate system serves no real purpose. Nonetheless for a handheld film camera the Leica base plate quick load system is great, imho. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted July 6, 2013 Share #186 Posted July 6, 2013 I could live w/o the base plate as well since i've lost one of them whilst loading a film a couple of decades ago but some people are perfectly happy with it and don't intend to apologize for the way Leica have been designing their M bodies for half a century. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheshireCat Posted July 7, 2013 Share #187 Posted July 7, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) And you would be right. I have just shot full day with it. I have only one comment Wow. This is a camera designed by photographers for photographers and to hell with all nitpicking. Have you used an EVF full day ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted July 8, 2013 Share #188 Posted July 8, 2013 Not a full day but it has spent quite some time on the camera over the weekend shooting my R lenses in, playing with shoulderpods on long heavy lenses etc, a lens without RF coupling and for wideangle too. All in all I would say over 250 shots with EVF up to now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLea Posted August 9, 2013 Share #189 Posted August 9, 2013 I've used my M for about 5 weeks now and had the lockups at least 4 times where I needed to remove the battery. Also one time when I turned on the camera it displayed all the frame lines at the same time. It looked like when you flicked the frame line selector switch on the M9 halfway between two positions, but with all the frame lines partly visible. I tested the usual, remove and insert the battery and that fixed it. Did anyone else experience this? / Fredrik Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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