xrogers Posted September 11, 2009 Share #21 Posted September 11, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Thanks for the nice review, David. I did bring the flower jpgs into CS3, but it didn't help (on a NEC 2690). It looks like some of the reds went out of gamut and were lost on jpg conversion. Could you possibly post a reprocessed L1001324, or put the DNG somewhere we could give it a whirl? Thanks again! Clyde Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted September 11, 2009 Posted September 11, 2009 Hi xrogers, Take a look here David Farkas' review up. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
Guest roey Posted September 11, 2009 Share #22 Posted September 11, 2009 Thanks David for all this information. I can't wait for getting my M9. Can you comment on the apparent lack of HSS (high speed sync) support in the M9? I had started a thread on this yesterday (http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/leica-m8-forum/97790-high-speed-sync-what-am-i.html) but I guess that it got overlooked in all the excitement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfarkas Posted September 11, 2009 Share #23 Posted September 11, 2009 Thanks David for all this information. I can't wait for getting my M9. Can you comment on the apparent lack of HSS (high speed sync) support in the M9? I had started a thread on this yesterday (http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/leica-m8-forum/97790-high-speed-sync-what-am-i.html) but I guess that it got overlooked in all the excitement Actually, that's a great question. I know that the S2 supports HSS with the SF58. I didn't really think about why the M9 doesn't. And, I didn't ask Stefan about it. Let me look into this. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eleskin Posted September 11, 2009 Share #24 Posted September 11, 2009 David, Your on! I would love to meet up as well! Hollywood FLA is no strange place to me. I used to stay at the old Diplomat Hotel when I was a boy with my parents, and loved to eat at Pumpernicks and The Rascal House! I have a second home on Singer Island to the north today, but live mostly in Allentown PA. Ed Loved your review! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jquimby Posted September 11, 2009 Share #25 Posted September 11, 2009 Thanks for the write-up David, very informative. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter in Cairns Posted September 11, 2009 Share #26 Posted September 11, 2009 Dear David, Many thanks for a wonderful review/report on the new Leica M9. You managed to create an atmosphere which made me feel like I was there with the three of you, holding and using this beautiful new piece of photographic equipment in a very pretty part of the world. I felt that you gave an honest appraisal of the M9 and I look forward to getting my hands on one to use along with my M5, M7 and MP. We have to wait a couple of weeks till they arrive out here in Australia. Your superb photographs included have me thinking that I just might have to go out and buy some of that fabulous Summilux glass whilst I am waiting! Thanks once again. Kind Regards Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug_m Posted September 11, 2009 Share #27 Posted September 11, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) This "review"- by David Farkas- was very helpful to me and well written. Since I live in Seattle, USA and as such I buy my Leica Ms from Glazers who has always given me excellent service. However, Mr. Farkas has provided lots of helpful information to this forum and he deserves our thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfarkas Posted September 11, 2009 Share #28 Posted September 11, 2009 This "review"- by David Farkas- was very helpful to me and well written. Since I live in Seattle, USA and as such I buy my Leica Ms from Glazers who has always given me excellent service. However, Mr. Farkas has provided lots of helpful information to this forum and he deserves our thanks. I'll be going to Seattle in early October for the LHSA Annual Meeting. If you're not already an LHSA member, you should consider joining and attending the meeting. Highly recommended. Hope to see you there. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthury Posted September 11, 2009 Share #29 Posted September 11, 2009 David, I must say that your images (especially, the large ones) are the best I have seen in the web so far compared to all of the other samples. Even the Leica brochure did not really bring out the best of this new camera. The shots in the brochures, IMHO, were focused too much on the artistic side of things. Were your images shot from a production M9 or a pre-production version? -- Arthur Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double Negative Posted September 11, 2009 Share #30 Posted September 11, 2009 Thank you David, that was a good read and the large photos droolworthy (and nicely done I might add). The M9 does sound like a much more polished go at it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin_lam Posted September 11, 2009 Share #31 Posted September 11, 2009 Thank you David, excellent review indeed! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean_reid Posted September 11, 2009 Share #32 Posted September 11, 2009 Hi David, I enjoyed your review and it brought back good memories of the trip. Cheers, Sean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfarkas Posted September 11, 2009 Share #33 Posted September 11, 2009 Hi David, I enjoyed your review and it brought back good memories of the trip. Cheers, Sean Sean, Let's do it again when the M10 comes around!!! Next time, though, I'm sitting to your right. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest roey Posted September 11, 2009 Share #34 Posted September 11, 2009 I didn't really think about why the M9 doesn't. And, I didn't ask Stefan about it. Let me look into this. Thanks! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfarkas Posted September 11, 2009 Share #35 Posted September 11, 2009 David, I must say that your images (especially, the large ones) are the best I have seen in the web so far compared to all of the other samples. Even the Leica brochure did not really bring out the best of this new camera. The shots in the brochures, IMHO, were focused too much on the artistic side of things. Were your images shot from a production M9 or a pre-production version? -- Arthur Thanks for your kind words. If you thinik the 1500x1000 shots are good, you should see the full size images! I'm considering going back and putting in some 100% crops on a few images just to show the detail. I believe we had production M9s (I wsa using S/N 3804376), but we were using pre-production firmware 0.912. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
skimmel Posted September 11, 2009 Share #36 Posted September 11, 2009 David: A really outstanding review -- thank you for posting it. I feel like the images from the M9 seem more 3-dimensional than what I've seen from the M8. That could just reflect your skill as a photographer, but wonder if you can comment on this. Do you get this sense? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean_reid Posted September 11, 2009 Share #37 Posted September 11, 2009 Sean, Let's do it again when the M10 comes around!!! Next time, though, I'm sitting to your right. David It actually happened for real this past Friday. I was stung and hospitalized for Anaphylactic shock. I had a 12-hour shoot the next day and had to do that on steroids so as to keep breathing (always useful). Those little insects scare the hell out of me. I have a short period on the Epi-pen to get to the hospital or I'm done. The anecdote: I have a lethal allergy to wasps and Germany had an unusually high number of them this August. On our trip people almost always wanted to eat outdoors. David was to my left when a wasp came after me. Swinging my hat close to me (rather than out near the precious German beer we were all drinking) I accidentally ended up knocking a good bit of Caesar salad onto David. The salad was good though and it turns out that Wetzlar has excellent dry cleaning. As I'm right-handed David you should be safe on my right next time. And Christian has the art of wasp trapping and water torture down to an art - though I still think that waitress should have been warned. <G> And Amy (Kosh - Leica USA's S2 Specialist) is weally qwuite a gwood wasp warrior as well. Long live the B52. Cheers. Sean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darvin2138 Posted September 11, 2009 Share #38 Posted September 11, 2009 Thanks for the great review! It excites me more....... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vdb Posted September 11, 2009 Share #39 Posted September 11, 2009 Excellent review David. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick parker Posted September 11, 2009 Share #40 Posted September 11, 2009 Nice review thank you. Is the shutter any quiter than M8.2 ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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