[Leica] Quick M9 Review from the UK Daily Telegraph

[passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro)]

Frank
I agree the M9 is great although I've never laid eyes on one. I don't know
enough to  be sure it's the best 35mm full frame digital but the lenses
certainly should make it so, as long as the camera basically works.

But that guy is a terrible writer and an intellectually dishonest writer and
if I were his editor I'd fire him in about three seconds flat.  It has
nothing to do with agreeing with him about the m9; he didnt' say a single
interesting or thoughtful thing and in the midst of saying the M9's a great
camera he said a LOT of stupid shit. Primary among these is complaining abut
the price and suggesting tha tCanon or Nikon could or would make an
identical (?) camera that "the rest of us" (??) can afford. How much would
that be? $399? It's an idiotic remark.


On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 4:16 PM, FRANK DERNIE
<frank.dernie at btinternet.com>wrote:

> You may not agree with what he wrote but I do. The longer I use my M9 the
> less inclined I am to get my Nikon D3x out. Autofocus is not essential for
> me, and I find with fast primes I can get the part of the frame -I- want in
> focus more consistently and faster than I can dicking around trying to get
> the AF sensor pointing at the right part of the frame. For slow lens shots
> of active grandchildren AF is a godsend, though.
> I am always bowled over by the results from the M9.
> I do have movie capability on a couple of DSLRs but don't use it (I thought
> I would...)
> Frank
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Vince Passaro <passaro.vince at gmail.com>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Saturday, 15 May, 2010 20:58:14
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Quick M9 Review from the UK Daily Telegraph
>
> While to many of us video on a photo camera seems a useless waste of
> resources money weight and whatever else goes into it, they filmed Monday's
> final episode of House with a Canon 5d Mk II and there are videographers
> out
> there quite excited about the possibilities of this semi-new 'medium' or
> new
> format.  And the multi pixel multi color screens and other features within
> an elaborate DSLR menu that the review casually dismisses do in fact
> contribute to better photographs. Leica's lack of autofocus is great for
> the
> purists among us but it's idiotic to say that other cameras are wasting
> your
> time with such things. He says this is technologically the best digital
> full
> frame 35mm camera in the world but I hope Canan or Nikon make one that we
> can all afford? How does that work? Nikon's best camera costs $8K.  And
> Nikon and Canon? They don't MAKE rangefinders. Hello.
>
> What's really aggravating about the breezy bullshit of the review is that
> the writer of it clearly knows enough about this stuff to not say this
> nonsensical crap but he doesn't care: no knowledge will be permitted to
> come
> between him and his typing.  He probably didn't even start this largely
> content -free piece until about 90 minutes before dealine. That kind fo
> critical writing gives writers a bad name.
>
> Vince
>
>
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> 
> wrote:
>
> > I agree.  Read my comment. ;-)
> >
> > Tina
> >
> > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Rei Shinozuka <shino at panix.com> 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Let's cut to the chase here:
> > >
> > > "The Leica does one thing and it does it better than any other digital
> > > camera on the market today: it takes pictures. Coupled with any lens
> that
> > > Leica produces, it will take sharper, more dynamic and more accurate
> > images
> > > than anything else. ... The M9 is the best digital camera on the market
> > > today. "
> > >
> > > Hyperbolic?  Perhaps, but my soul agrees.
> > >
> > > -rei
> > >
> > >
> > > On 05/15/2010 02:01 PM, Neil Beddoe wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> >
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/advice/7725261/Leica-M9-review.html
> > >>
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