I love my M 240 part two!

[Paulus]

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When the M 240 was released, I started a thread:” I love my M 240 “ 

with my other camera’s in service, I am now taking the M 240 with me a lot more. 
 

I must say I really love this chunky M and actually started filming with it again! 
 

so If anyone can find the old thread:” I love my M240 “ please tell me, because this M deserves our attention, especially now it can compete with the new M EV1 in an original way , finding new M users!  

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[jakontil]

My most nostalgic M body.. happened during the time when i had many trips, so many memories

[LocalHero1953]

My last digital M. M10 and M11 were backward steps IMO.

[david strachan]

I never understood the silly criticisms.  It's only problem was loose lugs, if I remember correctly.  Unlike the very long problem saga of more recent M cameras.  ;(

Mine continues without hicup  colours are great and I can use a vast array of lenses having live view viso...particularly zoom Nikkors for example.

I'm happy. 😀

[Paulus]

I would love to find and merge the original :” I love my M 240 “ to show all those “ used camera” beginners that this camera still is a very, very good canera to start in the digital M . After so many years! 

[catacore]

I love my M240(P), but I have to say it has not (even used) a friendly price for any sort of "beginners".

[Paulus]

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vor 2 Stunden schrieb catacore:

I love my M240(P), but I have to say it has not (even used) a friendly price for any sort of "beginners".

The M EV1 is meant to be a camera which would lead the way into the rangfinder Leica . €8000,- certainly is more than a €2000,- beginners M 240. Imho. 

[jdlaing]

No it’s not.

[Paulus]

vor 3 Stunden schrieb jdlaing:

No it’s not.

Yes it is, imho . This means:” In my humble opinion it is. “ 

I guess you are trying to say, that in your opinion it is not? But which part of my opinion is different in your opinion, I do not understand.  Please elaborate? 

[jdlaing]

2 hours ago, Paulus said:

Yes it is, imho . This means:” In my humble opinion it is. “ 

I guess you are trying to say, that in your opinion it is not? But which part of my opinion is different in your opinion, I do not understand.  Please elaborate? 

The M-EV1 is not and entry level camera to the M system. It’s just another mirrorless camera.

[RexGig0]

I learned to love rangefinder focusing, with pre-owned and/or demonstrator M Type 240 cameras, at a local Leica dealer, Houston Camera Exchange, in early 2018. The M10 had already been released, in 2017, but, due to the demand, none were available, for demonstration or sale, until one day in mid-April, when I finally decided to buy the pre-owned Summilux-M 50mm ASPH, which I had been "visiting," multiple times*. Two new M10 cameras were suddenly available, freshly-delivered, with no customer's names left on the waiting list, so, I "accidentally" bought a new M10, to be my first M camera. The next month, however, a mishap damaged my new M10, necessitating a return to Leica USA, for repair. To "get back onto the horse that threw me," I immediately bought a pre-owned M Type 246 Monochrom, which shares the external features of the M Type 240. Though M10 and M Type 246 cameras now make for a good "team," logistics of batteries and accessories would be simpler, had I first bought a 240, then added the 246.

One under-appreciated aspect of the M Type 246 Monochrom is that it performs at high ISO settings somewhat BETTER than the original M10. Life is largely blacks and grays during darkness, anyway, so, a 246 can be seen as "The Night M" of its day, a title not relinquished until the M10 Monochrom arrived, and, even then, the M10 Monochrome does not clearly exceed the high ISO capability of the M 246 until something like ISO 25000, which I would rarely want to use, anyway. (My source for this is images shot by David Farkas, posted at the Red Dot Forum site.)

Rather than buy an M10 Monochrom camera, in 2021 or 2022, I did the "homework," and in 2022, opted for faster/brighter lenses: APO Summicron-M 75mm ASPH, Voigtlander Nokton 50mm f/1.0 Aspherical VM, and Voigtlander 21mm f/1.4 Aspherical VM. a 240-series M camera, the 246, remains my "Night M." Life is good! (Well, OK, I can cheat, in low light, with my Nikon D5 cameras. 😉 )  

*I had not not yet decided which camera body I would be buying, upon which to use the Summilux. I had simply concluded that I did not want to let it "get away," as I knew that it was accurate and sharp, on multiple M9 and M Type 240 bodies. To fund an M camera body, I decided to indefinitely suspend plans to purchase an exotic telephoto "dream lens," Nikon F-mount, for bird photography. I was still rehabilitating my left shoulder, so, would not be hefting any large telephoto lenses for a while, anyway. (To this day, I still do not have a 600mm f/4 "bird" lens, and, notably, have no regrets. Though the shoulder healed, I learned to appreciate different nature photography priorities, such as "action macro," pursuing active wee beasties in their habitats.)

Edited 7 hours ago by RexGig0