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madNbad wrote
Ready to back to the P&S after carrying the R9 around? The R9 is akshully the light weight version. The R8 was made of solid something really heavy, so on the 9 they made the top plate out of magnesium. I can tell the difference. I really can. Fer realz. I mean if I put both of them on a scale. Erwin said it was a whole 100 grams lighter! And not only that (because it's Leica) it's amazing-er because it's made out of magnesium alloy and aluminum (not like those other camera manufacturers that hate us completely and prove it by using magnesium alloy and aluminum). The R9 has such few changes over the 8, it really should have been called the 8.2, or 8S.
It is an incredibly well designed camera apart from one bizarre flaw. It should have had a dedicated on/off switch. Instead it is incorporated into the exposure mode setting dial, so say you like Aperture Priory most, everytime you turn it off and turn it back on you have to spin the dial going passed a bunch of modes until u get to Aperture Priority. Really annoying. That sounds incredibly silly. How is it that Leica struggles with on/off switches? Why does my M7 (which, at least has the switch in the right spot) take time to boot up? The location of the on/off button on the new SL3 makes no sense to me. I don't use that on/off switch (and DAG said not to because Leica's awesome design apparently causes wear on the shutter plunger which can make taking pics balky). But it is weird there is a boot up time - what other camera of that era or before needs time to boot up? My F3 is instantly on. My Minolta XK - two decades older! - is instantly on.
I just leave the power switch on and it is only activated if the shutter is cocked - then a tap springs the meter to life. Like a camera decades older...
Huss, are you saying you don't use the on/off switch on the R9 or the M7? I've owned an R9 for a few months now and was wondering if your were suggesting leaving the camera an any other mode other than "off" when not using the camera.