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Leica M Edition 60 - Your opinion

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Leica M Edition 60 - What's your opinion?  

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  1. 1. Leica M Edition 60 - What's your opinion?

    • Would have bought the special edition. Too bad it's sold out.
      22
    • As regular model for a reasonable price, please!
      181
    • Regular model, please. But with a slimmer housing.
      114
    • I like the approach but I'm not going to buy one.
      98
    • A digital camera without display doesn't make sense.
      212
    • Leica is completely mad if they offer such a camera.
      42

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tomasis7

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As beautiful as the camera is, and as much I can understand that some people love the simplicity to work without display, I could not imagine to do so.

 

I think to get the best IQ the image exposure should be nailed if possible. The exposure metering of the Leica M just does not cut it in this way IMO.

 

I often look at the histogram and dial in compensation between 0 up to -1, depending on the results. Sometimes I would just use manual and use the histogram to set my values for f-stop and exp. I found it easier to nail exposure with my film M.

I use the standard metering because I dont want any delay when taking an image.

So for me the histogram is important when using the M.

 

I assume if I was using the M60 I would end up with many images being slightly underexposed (to make sure to not overepose) - I would have to compensate in raw developping, leading to less dynamic range, eventually worse color and more noise in some cases.

 

if you compare digital grain to pushed 2 stops Trix 400, it is nothing :)

 

it's dream camera for streetphotographer like me. I always underexpose (in contrary to film) and I bet I'd be happy with iso 6400 bw shots.

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tookaphotoof

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I don't really see a problem in that. my film bodies don't have a screen I can check for focus and exposure. On the M240, I hardly check a photo.

Apart from that, I don't feel the need for a camera without the lcd on the back, but hey...

I'd love to have a Monochrom. I'm guessing a lot of people don't understand why as you can't check focus on a crappy screen and you sure can't shoot in colour... :p

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cvaniperen

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I bought it and I will use it next to my Monochrom. I won't put it on a shelf or keep it as a collectors item, but will use it as a normal Leica camera. Within a year it will be worn.

I love the idea of taking pictures as I did in the old days when I used film: take the picture and don't look back and have the suprise when you develop. I didn't buy it as a investment, but history told us that collector items or limited editions hold a strong value. That's fine when I want to buy the Edition 70 in 2025 :D

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IkarusJohn

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Worst joke I have ever seen use your camera it will brass up nicely do not leave it on a shelt looking pretty. Cameras are menat to be used not as status symbols

 

 

As the M Edition 60 top deck and baseplate are stainless steel, I'll need a pot of paint if I want it to brass up. I imagine any wear will be the coating (no idea what it is) on the sharp corners.

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fotografr

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Leica as a company is quickly moving from a venerable, pioneering and respected maker of precision hand-wrought cameras and lenses to a company pandering to rich, affected, persons who wish to possess an objet rather than a fine tool.

 

Your legendary lenses are sought after and will always be so, but now that Sony is making full-frame mirrorless cameras with focus-peaking, your lenses will be used on these fine cameras with M-Mount adapters, which allow one to do so much more with your lenses than with a Leica camera. The Leica M edition 60 is a puzzling camera, a digital camera that longs to be a film camera, and which has amputated its most important feature to simply obtain that appearance. How sad. How affected you all have become!

Really? The most important feature of a digital camera is the lcd which gives users the ability to "chimp?" I couldn't disagree more. If you trust your ability to correctly meter a scene and to compose utilizing a viewfinder, there is no reason whatsoever to rely on the lcd screen. We all got along just fine with film cameras.

 

Personally, I think the M Edition 60 is a brilliant product.

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Mornnb

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Really? The most important feature of a digital camera is the lcd which gives users the ability to "chimp?" I couldn't disagree more. If you trust your ability to correctly meter a scene and to compose utilizing a viewfinder, there is no reason whatsoever to rely on the lcd screen. We all got along just fine with film cameras.

 

Trust but verify. Why leave anything to chance?

The ability to check composition, focus and exposure is a great aid that has dramatically improved the ability to get the shot right.

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fotografr

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Trust but verify. Why leave anything to chance?

The ability to check composition, focus and exposure is a great aid that has dramatically improved the ability to get the shot right.

 

It is an aid, but an unnecessary one. Chimping is a crutch that makes the photographer think after the fact rather than before.

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That's a bit like discussing whether human eyes are blue or brown.

 

Some photographer make good use of the display, some do not need or use it and may find its presence a distraction, as we now are learning.

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AndrewDD

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I almost never use live view, and I rarely chimp. I do, however, change menu settings in the camera by ... er ... using the screen.

 

This is a camera for people who don't want to use a screen, and don't want to switch the screen off. That strikes me as a very small market.

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IkarusJohn

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I almost never use live view, and I rarely chimp. I do, however, change menu settings in the camera by ... er ... using the screen.

 

This is a camera for people who don't want to use a screen, and don't want to switch the screen off. That strikes me as a very small market.

 

True.

 

As to the menus, there are no settings to change ...

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