jdlaing Posted November 14, 2013 Share #21 Posted November 14, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) If you buy the silver one you get both black AND silver. Best of both worlds. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted November 14, 2013 Posted November 14, 2013 Hi jdlaing, Take a look here Black or Silver. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
Keith (M) Posted November 14, 2013 Share #22 Posted November 14, 2013 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. Sent from my iPad Mini using Tapatalk 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicaiste Posted November 14, 2013 Share #23 Posted November 14, 2013 I will never buy a silver M which has a red dot. To difficult to hide. Lucien Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo Posted November 14, 2013 Share #24 Posted November 14, 2013 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 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicaiste Posted November 14, 2013 Share #25 Posted November 14, 2013 You are an awful lot bigger than that little red dot .... do you hide too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkP Posted November 14, 2013 Share #26 Posted November 14, 2013 Get a silver M and a black MM. That's what I did Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerndReini Posted November 14, 2013 Share #27 Posted November 14, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) 50 Apo only comes in black, if that helps. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannybuoy Posted November 14, 2013 Share #28 Posted November 14, 2013 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 ;-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanetomlane Posted November 21, 2013 Share #29 Posted November 21, 2013 I'd get whichever is avialable due to the waiting list. Despite what Pete says they both take excellent photos. __________________________ Cheers, Tom 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
norbertnl Posted November 21, 2013 Share #30 Posted November 21, 2013 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Essemmlee Posted November 21, 2013 Share #31 Posted November 21, 2013 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ananda Posted November 21, 2013 Share #32 Posted November 21, 2013 Black is for real pros, working photographers. Silver is for sissies. This is irrefutable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozoyo Posted November 21, 2013 Share #33 Posted November 21, 2013 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcraf Posted November 21, 2013 Share #34 Posted November 21, 2013 Get a silver M and a black MM. +1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Essemmlee Posted November 21, 2013 Share #35 Posted November 21, 2013 Black is for real pros, working photographers. Silver is for sissies. This is irrefutable. Hard to disagree, or agree, for that matter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Photojazz Posted November 21, 2013 Share #36 Posted November 21, 2013 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoltanpatkos Posted November 22, 2013 Share #37 Posted November 22, 2013 This silver color will pass soon, black is more discrete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
larsv Posted November 22, 2013 Share #38 Posted November 22, 2013 What a very nice limited edition black paint lens that is! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
larsv Posted November 22, 2013 Share #39 Posted November 22, 2013 I was under the impression that the red dot could be taken off and used as a softy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest borge Posted November 22, 2013 Share #40 Posted November 22, 2013 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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