What sets M10 apart?

[lucerne]

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On 4/3/2019 at 3:24 PM, Paulus said:

One can expect a lot and speculate about it. It happens here:

 

 

Paulus

I'm intrigued to know why your post includes the photo of my Angelus Chronodato taken by me on my leather armchair last year. I sold it to a friend in the UK and it could be anywhere now, but the photo is mine.  I miss the watch. Pretty rare in that condition.  Have you acquired it?

 

[Paulus]

vor einer Stunde schrieb lucerne:

Paulus

I'm intrigued to know why your post includes the photo of my Angelus Chronodato taken by me on my leather armchair last year. I sold it to a friend in the UK and it could be anywhere now, but the photo is mine.  I miss the watch. Pretty rare in that condition.  Have you acquired it?

 

I don't know? I copied the link from the thread and it appeared... must be used somewhere in the thread?

[RexGig0]

On 4/2/2019 at 4:21 AM, Nicushor said:

Hi,

Putting everything apart (and lenses too) what is the thing that makes photos so much better than M9 for example? 

Welcome to the forum!

The short answer is that the M10 captures cleaner images at higher ISO. 

Of course, the ability to shoot at higher ISO, at all, is a significant factor attracted me to the M10. I live in the hot, humid, green part of Texas, so tend to shoot in the evenings, at night, and in the very early mornings. I never owned an M9, but as I understand it, an M9 would simply have been unable to capture some of what I have liked capturing with my M10, or, with the Monochrom Type 246 I later added. An image that is successfully captured by a sensor is “better” than one that only exists in my mind, and might be misremembered, or forgotten. A digital or printed image refreshes my memory, every time I see it. An image stored only in my mind fades, with time.

The M10 was my first Leica camera, bought in April 2018. I had previously test-shot M9 and M240 cameras, at Houston Camera Exchange, but the M10 enabled me to see better, while wearing eyeglasses. Logically, seeing better should result in better images, all else being equal.

To be clear, I am not holding M8/M8.2/M9/240/262/etc. Leicas, or their users, in low regard. 

 

Edited April 7, 2019 by RexGig0