Black or Silver

[jdlaing]

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If you buy the silver one you get both black AND silver. Best of both worlds.

[Keith (M)]

Silver chrome. After three years of black M9 ownership, I swapped it for a chrome M this week and find I can now not only take stunning images but also leap tall buildings in a single bound and catch speeding bullets in my teeth.

 

 

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[Leicaiste]

I will never buy a silver M which has a red dot. To difficult to hide.

 

Lucien

[Gibbo]

I will never buy a silver M which has a red dot. To difficult to hide.

 

Lucien

 

You are an awful lot bigger than that little red dot .... do you hide too

[Leicaiste]

You are an awful lot bigger than that little red dot .... do you hide too

 

[MarkP]

Get a silver M and a black MM.

 

That's what I did

[BerndReini]

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50 Apo only comes in black, if that helps.

[Dannybuoy]

You don't look at a camera; you look through it...

 

Oh go on then... I do look at my M. I love setting it down on the side after using it (usually removing the SD cards after a days shooting). I usually position it at an angle and I often find myself giving it lustful glances while I'm watching TV. I've done this with new stuff; shoes, gadgets etc, since as long as I can remember. Once the shoes become worn and dirty I don't feel the need to look at them in the same way. But as an M becomes worn and dirty it becomes even more difficult to not look at it.

 

Oh, that's just me then ;-)

[lanetomlane]

I'd get whichever is avialable due to the waiting list. Despite what Pete says they both take excellent photos.

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[norbertnl]

I've always had silver chrome Ms: M6 for more than 19 years; temporarily an M4 and M3; 2007 - early 2013 an M8. They keep their finish for a very long time. My M6 still looks fresh and handsome with its grey Leica dot The only black interlude was a chrome .85 pre-TTL M6 that I sold after a short while.

The M (type 240) is basically the first black Leica RF that I'll keep. It started to wear after 7,5k actuations and I knew it would happen, but I've chosen for unobtrusiveness versus obvious beauty. The black paint wears pretty nicely though, and once the camera's out of date I can still keep it as a back-up.

So for unobtrusiveness and modest elegance I'd go vor black; for handsomeness and longterm looks: chrome.

Just my 0,02$, beste regards,

Norbert

[Guest Essemmlee]

I've been told, by informed camera sales staff (so they tell me), that the 'Retro' look is in. Apparently, the silver version is 'Retro" and the black is modern. Make what you will of that.

[ananda]

Black is for real pros, working photographers. Silver is for sissies. This is irrefutable.

[Ozoyo]

Black is for real pros, working photographers. Silver is for sissies. This is irrefutable.

 

Real pros don't care about the looks , as for sissies I have read in somewhere in Vogue that, for the coming season, black is the new silver.

[jcraf]

Get a silver M and a black MM.

 

+1

[Guest Essemmlee]

Black is for real pros, working photographers. Silver is for sissies. This is irrefutable.

 

Hard to disagree, or agree, for that matter.

[Photojazz]

I had a silver/black X1.

 

I have a black M9, and just got a black M240. Do you sense a trend... I like the black myself. Nothing but it. Black lenses mostly, and black body, very stealthy overall.

[zoltanpatkos]

This silver color will pass soon, black is more discrete.

[larsv]

What a very nice limited edition black paint lens that is!

[larsv]

I was under the impression that the red dot could be taken off and used as a softy

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[Guest borge]

I have a black M240 with a red dot.

It matches my black and red motorcycle.

And my black car with red calipers.

And my black Les Paul.

And my black Billingham Hadley's.

And my black straps.

 

Silver would just break the cycle! No can do.