Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/15

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Subject: [Leica] M240
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 16:05:25 -0400

One more camera enthusiast also enthusiastic about blogging software.
First sentence really put me off and I've not yet gone on from there:

" While the other traditional camera maker Hasselblad infuriates its last
loyal customers with a luxurized NEX-7 hardly anyone understands, Leica
seems to feel the pulse of what the market wants. After the highly
successful M9, world?s smallest compact full-frame rangefinder camera,   "


Are the loyal Hasselblad customers infuriated by the Hasselblad Lunar camera
which appears to be a luxerized Sony NEX-7 obviously targeted at rich
dilettantes?
No I don't think they could care or pay much attention to something that has
nothing to do with them and are too busy making photographs to become
obsessed with niche market ploys.
This to me is not getting his blog off to the right foot.

I include his second sentence in that paragraph:
"After the highly successful M9, world?s smallest compact full-frame
rangefinder camera..."

Highly successful?
Not to split hairs but I'd call it successful but skip the adjective.
The M250 NEEDS to be and I think WILL BE highly successful because the M9
was not. The M9  was not a failure it was a successes because sold lenses
and kept the company in the black.
In bright light it took great commercial pictures. Problem is Leica is more
of a location street or photojournalist camera than a tripod bright light
camera it would make more sense for the DSLR'S to not have low light
performance let them shoot the catalogs its a Leica M which needs to shoot
handheld indoors and at night.
As far as the "Highly successful" M9 went Pro's and serious amateurs stayed
home in droves. As nice as the Leica focusing system is and Leica glass is a
working photographer cant make that kind of an investment on a camera body
which is not going to come close to doing what his and all the other
photographers he is competing against with DSLR'S can do. But a M250 CAN do
this and in the coming year we'll be reading articles about serious projects
and serious shoots done with the camera by those people. This was not the
case in recent years with the M9. As with very few exceptions is was a
camera for rich people not top people hitting deadlines.
As this should be a moot point by now as Leica has moved on from the M9 to
the M250 it won't be for many people on the camera lists who expect their
first out seven grand investment to outlive all technology and common sense.
I sympathies for those who cant afford yet another grand on Leica digital
camera technology. The pictures you've taken and will in the future take
with your M9 will remain viable. The prints will not fall off the wall in
shame and the images will not fade overnight.
Its just now when you see a group of photographers shooting something with
the conspicuous white lenses and the rest black DSLR'S now you'll also see
maybe one or two with a glint of Leica M in their hands. Like in the 1990s
you saw M6's.  And it wont be an old body in their hands whose iso' s  end
where the DSLRs start.
Im excited about the progress Leica is making. Frankly it sat on the M9 way
too long but now that the M250 is out Leica is in the drivers seat. And the
S system doesn't hurt either.





On 5/15/13 1:54 PM, "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> wrote:

> LUG:
> 
> The same internet magazine with the article about B.D. has a long article
> about the M240, including most of the reviews published so far:
> 
> http://the.me/the-leica-m-typ-240-file/
> 
> Tina




-- 
Mark William Rabiner
Photography
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/




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