Wow... Tough crowd (M9)

[Paul Luscher]

Slagging Leica is an age-old sport, it seems. Dunno how much of it is "sour grapes" because they can't afford one, and how much of it is what might be called reverse snob appeal.

But it's also a trend I note whenever a new camera comes out....sooner or later there will be a whole bunch of posts bitching about how they got their hands on the camera, and what a POS it is because of this, of that, etc.,etc......

Saw it with the Zeiss Ikon. Waiting for it with the XP1..and with the EM-5...

[Ken Ford]

Some people (including many on DPR) just don't get that a certain segment of photographers are completely happy with the spartan feature set that a Leica RF provides. Trying to change their attitudes is roughly akin to teaching beets to sing…

[Ken Ford]

As already noted, there is a subtle irony to some of the posts in this thread - there's a undercurrent of scorn for certain digital systems here at RFF. (Nikon 1, anyone?) Pot, meet kettle.

[Paul Luscher]

Originally Posted by GeorgeH

No sure what you mean. Shoot over ISO 400 with an M9 and any full-frame camera available at the time of the M9's release (in anyone's hands), compare the output and get back to me. No amount of of magic-Solms pixie dust is gonna make that file any cleaner.

ETA: My "Canikon D whatever" told me to say this, I can't be held responsible since the darned thing does all my thinking for me.

Dunno what that "Canikon" means. Shoot my M9 at 1600 a whole lot, and I'm pretty happy with the results. Images compare favorably with those out of my DSLR...and in certain aspects are a little better. Guess it's just a case of beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Of course, everybody knows the lightest, quietest, most discreet camera is...a cell phone. So, time to unload the Leica gear and get an iPhone.....