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Rick

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After one week M10 I'm getting used to ISO dial and I like it. It's a well executed add'on to the camera, very intuitive and you always know in a split second before taking the camera to eyesight what the ISO it is set to.

 

If you prefer the menu ISO, put the dial on the M position and from there on you can change ISO by pressing Menu and ISO in your favorites list. It's an extra action in the menu, I know, but since you love to control the camera using the menu that should not be a problem I guess.

 

To me however the ISO dial is something you will get used to in minutes. Going back to my M240 and MM2 is ... well going back to the previous generation.

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That's the problem I have never understood with auto ISO

 

I have two requirements from auto-ISO:

1. quality = keep the lowest ISO - go down to 1/30 - assume non-moving target

2. sharpness = Keep the speed minimum to 1/125

 

No system allows you to flick between these states. They are mutually exclusive and no system I have found makes it easy to alter minimum speed without many menu clicks if they even allow you to do it at all ..

This is how I use M240 (and I guess M10 is similar) that should satisfy your requirement.

(If you are full manual user then there is nothing here for you. Skip this. )

 

Configuration and shooting mode for AUTO ISO:

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Set auto ISO with acceptable high range and minimum shutterspeed that you want (1/30 or 1/FL or 1/2xFL depending on your comfort). Also keep "auto ISO in manual" ON. shoot in A mode (aperture priority).

 

Therefore decision tree is like below:

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Does shutterspeed displayed in OVF falls below your "action" threshold (1/125 for walking people, 1/250 for sports....) ?

Yes:

    Do you want higher shutterspeed for action? (note that camera can't decide this for you).

    Yes:

          Option1: Open aperture.

          Option2: Set shutterspeed manually to your higher threshold (1/125, 1/250 or whatever)

    No:

          Can you handhold at this speed?

          Yes:

               nothing to do. keep shooting.

          No:

               Option1: Open aperture.

               Option2: Use tripod or set the shutterspeed manually to what you can handhold. ISO will climb till it hits your ceiling. You may have to push in PP after that.

No:

    Nothing to do. Keep shooting

  

This decision tree (along with the auto ISO configuration mentioned above, guarantees best picture quality).

 

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Is it just me?  No dust spots on sensor.  Have any of you had a problem with dust on the sensor?  The snow shots from today showed no dust on the sensor (I know, somebody will now find one).  I've had many different lenses on my M10 and by now I should have a bunch of junk on my sensor.  

 

Leica doing something new?  Anti-static coating?  Cleaner clean-room at the new factory.  Less oil on shutter?  Cleaner employees?  What?

 

Rick

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Is it just me?  No dust spots on sensor.  Have any of you had a problem with dust on the sensor?  The snow shots from today showed no dust on the sensor (I know, somebody will now find one).  I've had many different lenses on my M10 and by now I should have a bunch of junk on my sensor.  

 

Leica doing something new?  Anti-static coating?  Cleaner clean-room at the new factory.  Less oil on shutter?  Cleaner employees?  What?

 

Rick

 

 

They added a mini vacuum above the sensor. The filter must be replaced once a month. 

The iPhone app will send a reminder.

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Is it just me?  No dust spots on sensor.  Have any of you had a problem with dust on the sensor?  The snow shots from today showed no dust on the sensor (I know, somebody will now find one).  I've had many different lenses on my M10 and by now I should have a bunch of junk on my sensor.  

 

Leica doing something new?  Anti-static coating?  Cleaner clean-room at the new factory.  Less oil on shutter?  Cleaner employees?  What?

 

Rick

 

I haven't needed to wet clean my M240 sensor glass in the 3.5 years I've owned it.  

 

Jeff

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I think my first blow dry on the M240 was after I had it for about 9 months.....and only a couple of times since.  This was a significant improvement from my two M8.2s.

 

Jeff

 

 

That wasn't my experience with hey M240.  But, I shoot stopped down much of the time and that brings out the blobs.

 

Fair enough.  Let's toss it out into the forum and get some perspective.  

 

Rick

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Is it just me? No dust spots on sensor. Have any of you had a problem with dust on the sensor? The snow shots from today showed no dust on the sensor (I know, somebody will now find one). I've had many different lenses on my M10 and by now I should have a bunch of junk on my sensor.

 

Leica doing something new? Anti-static coating? Cleaner clean-room at the new factory. Less oil on shutter? Cleaner employees? What?

 

Rick

There is a little bit of space between the sensor and the sensor glass, so that dust is less visable. Stefan Daniel told me that.

 

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Is it just me?  No dust spots on sensor.  Have any of you had a problem with dust on the sensor?  The snow shots from today showed no dust on the sensor (I know, somebody will now find one).  I've had many different lenses on my M10 and by now I should have a bunch of junk on my sensor.  

 

Leica doing something new?  Anti-static coating?  Cleaner clean-room at the new factory.  Less oil on shutter?  Cleaner employees?  What?

 

Rick

Did you use the Dust Detection?
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Hey Rick, you weren't the only one out in the Seattle snow yesterday!

 

Here's a shot from Green Lake with the M10. (Working from home, so I took a walk down my hill to the little lake)

 

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Given the wet snow, I was rather happy that the camera is weatherproof since it was getting pretty darn wet.

 

-George

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George,

 

Great shot.  We lived just up the hill at 7th and N 62 and looked down at the lake from Phinny Ridge.  

 

Mark at Glazers only got 4 cameras.  We could have been the only Seattleites out shooting the M10 in the snow yesterday!

 

Rick

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