Leica M10 Silver with Black Lens

[Schittra]

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All my lenses are black. I found one super mint M10 Silver at quite good price. 
I see black body with silver lens strange look (just my opinion). But I see Silver body can get along well with black lens. Any thought please?

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[jakontil]

I combine any body colour with any lens colour... the strangest is probably a safari green with a black lens but then still it’s leica 

[mheine]

Love it!

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[bandrews]

I've got a silver 50mm 2.4 summarit on my black M10-P and think it looks fine. 

[adan]

Keep in mind that even a silver Leica (excepting a few weird special editions) has a black skin the same height of the lens - a black lens blends in perfectly.

[darkinners]

I used to like Silver body with silver lens then like the black body with black lens. Now I absolutely love Black body with silver lens!

I mean, they all look amazing. So get whatever you want. 

[JimmyCheng]

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I've used both silver lens and black lens on my silver body/black body, like you said, silver lens on a black body is not so good looking and the lens could seem a bit stand out from the rest. However, both silver lens and black lens work great on a silver body. So don't hesitate, it will not be an issue.

[MikeMyers]

As I'm reading this, if someone is buying the camera to use it (not to show it off), none of this matters.  For me, I usually try to get black everything, so the camera doesn't stand out or attract attention.  

If Leica introduced a "pre-worn-out" look, with brass roughly showing through all over, meaning nobody would want to steal it, I think THAT might be useful.

[Jeff S]

9 minutes ago, MikeMyers said:

If Leica introduced a "pre-worn-out" look, with brass roughly showing through all over, meaning nobody would want to steal it, I think THAT might be useful.

 Body and lens kit was a mere $24.5k...

https://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2015/02/24/leica-m-p-240-lenny-kravitz-edition-correspondent-special-edition/

Jeff

 

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vor einer Stunde schrieb Jeff S:

 Body and lens kit was a mere $24.5k...

Darn, my M8.2 looked similar after 80,000 shutter releases and the dealer didn't give me an extra bonus.😂
 

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Maybe Leica will come out with a limited special edition Kravitz aging sanding tool for DYI people.  $1500 ea. 

(What nonsense...)

[MikeMyers]

When I bought my first Leica, in the 1960's, it was an M2, in black, and while I thought it was a very nice camera, it was nothing "special".  Back then there was a big choice in rangefinders, and having started with a Contax II, and worked my way up to a Nikon SP, I just wanted to try something different.  I gave or sold me Nikon SP to my brother, got the Leica, and took it off to college with me.  Eventually it got stolen over there, but while I was plenty upset, I could have gotten a replacement, but somehow joined the Nikon F people.  

Back then, there was no "magic" about the Leica.  It was just a very reliable, well-built camera, very strong, and reporters seemed to have one hanging around their necks in many of the Vietnam photos of the day.

I still think of Leica that way, and the M10 easily meets the criteria I considered important.  Nikons meanwhile got lighter and lighter (plastics), and as I saw it, became computers that captured images.  

I don't get all the "special editions" that sell for a gazillion dollars.  Maybe it's "exclusive", but so what?  I'm guessing most of them stay locked up in a safe.  I did like the titanium version when it came out, but I realize I'm better with the all black version (and one of these days, the red logo will be replaced or covered with black).

Some people refer to their Leica almost as it if's a family member.  I guess I got put into my place very quickly by people in the Photography area at the University of Michigan, who beat me over the head until I realize what they were telling me, that the camera to me, was no different than a wrench to a mechanic.  You use the right tool for the job.  That it's a Leica is irrelevant.

 

I hate to say this, but now that I'm both struggling with, and enjoying, my M10, which now has the memory card I "borrowed" from my Fuji X100f, my replacement card arrived, and I was shocked when I worked with the Fuji for a short time.  There are so many ways in which the Fuji is a "better" camera for me, so many functions that it excels in.  It has a regular viewfinder in addition to the electronic viewfinder, but Fuji has managed to provide all sorts of digital info in the display, if the user wants to see it/them.  I smiled, and put the Fuji back in the drawer.  The only way I'm going to really re-learn the Leica, is using it exclusively.

As to whether it's a work of art, I'm not in the habit of taking photos of my other tools.  The Leica (to me) isn't so special, it's what it allows me to DO with it that was so special to me long ago, and I'm slowly recapturing that ability.

[mujk]

The camera is just a tool and the color of it has naturally no impact on IQ and very little other functional impact (stealthiness, heat reflection?). So it's how you feel about it and what memories you may associate the color with that count. These could of course indirectly influence the pictures you take, but that's all psychology.

For me, silver chrome cameras remind me of the 70's (when I started to get really interested in photography) and for some reason all my current cameras (except my Canon FTb from 1975), are black...

Edited March 14, 2020 by mujk

[M11 for me]

My M10 body is silver. My Summilux lenses are silver as well but my Summicron lenses are black. Thats how I did it.