M10 silver or black ?

[anickpick]

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You are on the horns of a dilemma:

 

If you go for a silver M, everyone knows you have been fed with a silver spoon your whole life.

If you go for a black M, everyone thinks you're black hearted.

If you go for a (black) Sony, you're the black sheep in this forum.

 

Best advise is to wait for a limited edition M10.

Edited December 6, 2017 by anickpick

[otto.f]

Naturally none of this has any relevance to your photos, so don’t obsess over it.

 

Except that the way people like or not like your camera has influence on how they are portrayed. But this has also to do with how the camera fits you

Edited December 6, 2017 by otto.f

[otto.f]

You are on the horns of a dilemma:

 

If you go for a silver M, everyone knows you have been fed with a silver spoon your whole life.

If you go for a black M, everyone thinks you're black hearted.

If you go for a (black) Sony, you're the black sheep in this forum.

 

Best advise is to wait for a limited edition M10.

Yeah the red transparant metallic one

Edited December 6, 2017 by otto.f

[David Millstein]

I'm not sure I understand why anyone wants or needs to rely on someone else's opinion on which camera looks better to them. But okay, maybe some folks need a bit of assistance in this regard and so I've developed a foolproof way to make that decision. First, pick up the black camera with the right hand and the silver camera with the left. Look at them very carefully. Then switch hands and look at them very carefully again. Then determine which of the two is more pleasing to your eye. Voila!!!  Glad I could be of help.

[jip]

It seems you're looking for a jewel rather than a camera, I'd go for ant of the special edition camera's since they have more bling, and more of  story you can tell your friends after have spend 30K on one. 

Really can't get my head around these threads, there's about 7 of them weekly if not more. 

 

It's like me asking what colour tie I'd wear, and even that questions is warranted since the sole purpose of a tie is to look nice, while the camera's sole purpose is to take photos so the colour should be irrelevant. 

 

No one can decide this for you dude.

[M11 for me]

I'm not sure I understand why anyone wants or needs to rely on someone else's opinion on which camera looks better to them. But okay, maybe some folks need a bit of assistance in this regard and so I've developed a foolproof way to make that decision. First, pick up the black camera with the right hand and the silver camera with the left. Look at them very carefully. Then switch hands and look at them very carefully again. Then determine which of the two is more pleasing to your eye. Voila!!!  Glad I could be of help.

This is the most useless advice I ever heard. David, you forgot: A Leica is like a women. 2 Leicas are like 2 women. Now I ask you: Did you ever look at 2 women and then you took one of them into your left hand, then you change hands and then you decide? And thats then the woman that . . . That is weard. Of course you take the 2 women if they did not give you a right slap by now after all this hand treatment.

[David Millstein]

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This is the most useless advice I ever heard. David, you forgot: A Leica is like a women. 2 Leicas are like 2 women. Now I ask you: Did you ever look at 2 women and then you took one of them into your left hand, then you change hands and then you decide? And thats then the woman that . . . That is weard. Of course you take the 2 women if they did not give you a right slap by now after all this hand treatment.

Oh Alex, you Swiss are so precise. Hmm, maybe that's why you make such good watches. Yes, in a perfect world you could have the two cameras, but only in a perfect world could you afford both. As with women, sure, in a perfect world you could have both, but there is no world anywhere perfect enough to afford both. But as long as the hand treatment works  and they are receptive to it, who cares how weird it is. They're not going to complain, and neither am I.

[otto.f]

I'm not sure I understand why anyone wants or needs to rely on someone else's opinion on which camera looks better to them. But okay, maybe some folks need a bit of assistance in this regard and so I've developed a foolproof way to make that decision. First, pick up the black camera with the right hand and the silver camera with the left. Look at them very carefully. Then switch hands and look at them very carefully again. Then determine which of the two is more pleasing to your eye. Voila!!!  Glad I could be of help.

 

 

It seems you're looking for a jewel rather than a camera, I'd go for ant of the special edition camera's since they have more bling, and more of  story you can tell your friends after have spend 30K on one. 

Really can't get my head around these threads, there's about 7 of them weekly if not more. 

 

It's like me asking what colour tie I'd wear, and even that questions is warranted since the sole purpose of a tie is to look nice, while the camera's sole purpose is to take photos so the colour should be irrelevant. 

 

No one can decide this for you dude.

 

 Oh yes, it's so useless these questions and apparently so fun to answer them. 

[TinyTempo]

I got mine in black, but only because my M6 is already in silver. I did not regret this choice, I think the black M10 is the most beautiful camera I have ever called my own.

 

Cheers,

Markus

[Peter H]

I usually choose black because it reflects less, so is less obvious when I accidentally or unavoidably catch myself reflected on a surface.

 

But If the first one available to me had been silver, I'd have been happy with that too.

[Wonzo]

Wanted to get my first Leica CL camera yesterday , but when I was in the Leica shop in Singapore I had tried the M10 in hand with some simple shoot , it changed my mind to getting M10 instead of CL,

but I couldn't make a decision what color should I take both silver and black are awesome , I have been thinking of it for long enough ,anyone has any suggestion for me to pick up a color ?

 

thank you

 

P/S: Please share ur beautiful M camera here =)

 

If you don`t know, how can we know ?

[pop]

Wanted to get my first Leica CL camera yesterday , but when I was in the Leica shop in Singapore I had tried the M10 in hand with some simple shoot , it changed my mind to getting M10 instead of CL,

but I couldn't make a decision what color should I take both silver and black are awesome , I have been thinking of it for long enough ,anyone has any suggestion for me to pick up a color ?

 

thank you

 

P/S: Please share ur beautiful M camera here =)

Take a coin. Any coin. 

[david strachan]

Well, if you choose a silver camera...it's silver AND black anyway.

 

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[pico]

Perhaps an enterprising person will come out with a body cover to change it to any number of interesting designs and colors. Really, there is an Asian company that has transparent plastic film appliques to protect Leica M bodies. They could go ballistic with variations.

 

... or should I do it first. Nah. I'm retired.

Edited December 6, 2017 by pico

[Stonewall Brigade]

I got mine in black, but only because my M6 is already in silver. I did not regret this choice, I think the black M10 is the most beautiful camera I have ever called my own.

 

Cheers,

Markus

 

who cares?

[Arai]

This is the most useless advice I ever heard. David, you forgot: A Leica is like a women. 2 Leicas are like 2 women. Now I ask you: Did you ever look at 2 women and then you took one of them into your left hand, then you change hands and then you decide?

I took one woman (silver) then I got bored, the dresses I bought before her didn’t suit her well (titanium lenses), sold her then get another (black). Hopefully will last longer..

Edited December 12, 2017 by Arai

[a.noctilux]

When M10 will come in BP, Black Paint we would have three nice choices...if not the leatherette color that make à la carte M10 even harder choice.

After that M10 "Panda" or "Pre-used" or what ever (Leica's imagination is the only limit factor) we would have more choices and people can criticize those "colors" at will .

[otto.f]

Wait for the Hermes version with cognac leather

[Bokeh]

A multi coloured combination looks fine, but a battered well used Leica trumps them all for Me. 

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[Bill W]

I told my dealer I would take whatever he offered first. It was a silver one and I was trading my silver 240 in on it. I also told him I sill wanted a black one and I finally found one with another dealer. I had more than enough cash waiting for the black body after selling all of my Nikon equipment. M10 is a dream to use and I am very fortunate to own both. I already had both silver and black lens. Despite rumors going round they seem to both work about the same.