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38 minutes ago, Artin said:

Ahhh I thought this was the M 11 section , what the heck  you guys need to go down 3 floors down and have your M9 romance there 

We got a room just under you and are banging a broom up against the ceiling so you take it easy up there with the new passion!

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2 minutes ago, Artin said:

Under my room is the M10 room , then the M240 room , the M9 room is in the basement Lol. So stop playing around in the penthouse 

Well we kinda all huddled in the M10-R room to hear better.

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On 1/22/2022 at 5:32 PM, charlesphoto99 said:

I still have mine. More sentimental value than resale, though it does have a replaced sensor. But man it's clunky coming from an M10-R. And that display! May as well have been aa D model all along. But it took some great photographs.With my new in January 2017 M10.  

 

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So this is what the bottom of your M11 will look like.  And we’ll just polish our baseplates.

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7 hours ago, Artin said:

Here you go all the reds and then some 

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Arthur, for showing off the M11’s reds you might be better off going outdoors and/or avoiding casts from artificial lights.

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what a fantastic idea to suggest the M9! This sums up very much my feelings and impression about Leica and the M11. To me, owning a M camera is all about the experience and feel of using this type of (rangefinder) camera and swapping in a 60MP does not improve any of this.

When I heard the first news about the M11 and latest when I saw the pics I knew it was not a camera for me. I even thought about selling my M10 and only to only keep the M9. Anyway, I gave it a try to see if using it would make me change my mind but it did not.

The recent developments at Leica are getting me close to break with the company altogether and I still think about selling my Leica digital cameras and to only keep the analoge ones. Leica cannot keep up with the development in the digital camera world and also should not try to do so. Updating the sensor is of corse fin but this should be only a side aspect. In contrast they should focus on improving the M cameras, digital AND analogue, in the domain that makes the camera the camera it is, which is rangefinder, handling, reliability (it would be great if Leica could finally fix the issues with getting out of alignment after 70 years, giving an example) lenses....

Maybe as a sign of frustration I ordered and received already (most of) the complete range of M and nikon lenses from Voigtländer and so far I can only say that Leica will be facing very strong competition on the M terretory. The optical- and also the manufacturing quality of the recently released Voigtländer lenses matches their Leica counterparts or even surpasses them (and I have the compare). Also worth to note is that the complete program range of lenses will cost you only as much as one, single flangship lens from Leica. They are also a very good fit on a M9. On the M9 I also liked the feature of cocking the shutter only after releasing the button. No idea why this was not kept. Sure, the M11 is "technically" the better camera but this is not why I use a M but this is just my own, personal view.

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Sold it for the M10-P, but miss my M9 ever since, in spite of all its shortcomings (dead on arrival, corroded sensor etc.).

 

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17 hours ago, charlesphoto99 said:

The M9's ability to render reds was unique and quite stunning among cameras, to say the least. Looking at M9 photos always make me wonder why I'm not shooting it still. M10 is just so much more comfortable operationally, alas, and I can get close to the M9 look in post. What I've seen so far of the M11 looks even further away from the M9 than ever before.

 

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These colors are spectacular. I never seriously shot with the M9 and you make me want one! 

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I am seriously considering the m9. My Leica adventure started with the Q but shortly afterwards followed a m8 and m9m.

The Q left (28mm is just too wide for me) and now both m’s are used for b/w. Colour I do with the gfx. However, that one is not for m-lenses, so I really doubt between a sl2(r) and a m. 
 

don’t like video, so m240 and family is not needed. LV, not for a rf. So either a 9 or 8 could do for colour work.

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I wonder if similar to the high MPix count also the high ISO run leads to developments that do not necessarily benefit image quality. I would be happy - as amateur - with an ISO rating of 1600-3200 at maximum. Up to 800 ISO would cover probably >98% of my needs or more, did not check the stats of the pictures taken, just from memory. So for at least 98% of the time I potentially could have an advantage if sensors and software would be optimised for just this range, which could allow alternative technologies to enter the market. Unfortunately also the Foveon sensor in the Sigma cameras seem to have been sacrifised in favour of ISO 100000+. I would have wanted so much that a full frame Foveon sensor would have been in the M11....

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2 hours ago, zwieback said:

I wonder if similar to the high MPix count also the high ISO run leads to developments that do not necessarily benefit image quality. I would be happy - as amateur - with an ISO rating of 1600-3200 at maximum. Up to 800 ISO would cover probably >98% of my needs or more, did not check the stats of the pictures taken, just from memory. So for at least 98% of the time I potentially could have an advantage if sensors and software would be optimised for just this range, which could allow alternative technologies to enter the market. Unfortunately also the Foveon sensor in the Sigma cameras seem to have been sacrifised in favour of ISO 100000+. I would have wanted so much that a full frame Foveon sensor would have been in the M11....

High resolution does not harm image quality. Sometimes it has benefits.

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3 hours ago, Olaf_ZG said:

I am seriously considering the m9. My Leica adventure started with the Q but shortly afterwards followed a m8 and m9m.

The Q left (28mm is just too wide for me) and now both m’s are used for b/w. Colour I do with the gfx. However, that one is not for m-lenses, so I really doubt between a sl2(r) and a m. 
 

don’t like video, so m240 and family is not needed. LV, not for a rf. So either a 9 or 8 could do for colour work.

LV use is not required and it does not get in your way when not needed.

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The CCD sensor seems to excel (for me) with soft colours, bordering on pastel.  When the sensor wore out, Leica offered a trade-up to SL but I was glad to keep the repaired M9 to pair with my M9M (ended up with an SL anyway, for a different reason).

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Summilux-M 50 ASPH.

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43 minutes ago, Jacobjuul said:

That doesn't look like it's SOOC. I would think it's either edited or jpeg (I never got colors like that with my M9 dng)

Might be lenses?  With pretty much every Leica pre asph and Zeiss lens I've used, it's like that every time for me.

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2 hours ago, Jacobjuul said:

That doesn't look like it's SOOC. I would think it's either edited or jpeg (I never got colors like that with my M9 dng)

I apply a strong contrast curve in LR, which is something most people should be doing imo to all digital M files (rarely is sooc perfect unless the image is supposed to be flat). Otherwise nothing done with the color, and AWB actually. Lenses used were 28 Summicron and 50 Summilux pre-asph.

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