Replacement Logo for my M10

[Simon]

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Is that light window (not to mention the M9 logo) stuck on with tape???

 

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My M4 doesn't have any kind of a dot.  People still recognize it as a Leica.  I covered the red dot on my M10 with "automotive black chrome tape" (best camera tape ever) and no one recognized it in the street as a Leica except the occasional photography enthusiast.  Then I took the tape off and spent weeks shooting in the street and STILL no one recognized it as a Leica except other photographers.  I've concluded that the dot thing is really a non-issue unless you are photographing photographers in the street  .  Most street subjects could care less about the dot or the camera you are shooting with.. It's about HOW you are shooting in the street ...

 

I very much agree that the way you shoot can be as important as the appearance of your camera, to a certain point.  And there will always be exceptions. like what I mentioned earlier in this thread:

 

"As for the red dot: I have a black M9 with black tape, and a silver chrome M7 with no tape.  I've had the M9 for years and the only people who identified it as a Leica were passing camera enthusiasts who were carrying similar cameras.  Family and friends had no idea.  The first time I took my M7 out with friends, one of them looked at the camera and said, "You have a Leica?  I didn't know you had a Leica!"  But I had been shooting them for the past few years with a black taped M9, and he had never mentioned it."

[erl]

I very much agree that the way you shoot can be as important as the appearance of your camera, to a certain point.  And there will always be exceptions. like what I mentioned earlier in this thread:

 

"As for the red dot: I have a black M9 with black tape, and a silver chrome M7 with no tape.  I've had the M9 for years and the only people who identified it as a Leica were passing camera enthusiasts who were carrying similar cameras.  Family and friends had no idea.  The first time I took my M7 out with friends, one of them looked at the camera and said, "You have a Leica?  I didn't know you had a Leica!"  But I had been shooting them for the past few years with a black taped M9, and he had never mentioned it."

I think it is reasonable for family and friends to notice "things" about you, because they are interested in you. Strangers, OTOH, have no real interest in you and will not notice things about you unless they are visually unusual. This is why I maintain that your posture and behaviour, as a photographer, will be noticed well before the camera type in your hand.