[Leica] M240

[photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)]

Let's hear how you feel about the M8. Enquiring minds want to know.

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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On May 15, 2013, at 10:05 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> 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.
> 
>