Thanks for sharing Sarah's website. Loved the images. Mitch Alland wrote:
Am traveling and so busy that I've only been able to shoot a bit at night, and have continued with the M10 at ISO 3200.
My hotel is around the corner from the Leica Store - Mayfair. I stopped in briefly and met Sarah M. Lee, who was buying her second M10, a camera about which she very excited. A freelance photographer for the Guardian and the Observer — newspapers these days largely don't have staff photographer — she's a great talent, with originality and a great sense of color; her B&W work is also exciting. If you want inspiration for you work, I highly recommend you look at the projects on her excellent website.
Some great people shots (portraits and less formal ones) in the last page.
Well, I sold my M9 as hoped for and collected a 3 month old M240 yesterday after the seller and I each drove some 300+ km to a rendezvous. The seller has just bought an M10 and it did look really cool, however the M240 will be my digital Leica M for some time I suspect. Incredibly I only lost about 10% of the purchase price of my own M9 after buying it about 4 years ago via this forum. I lumped in a quality Leicatime case, two extra aftermarket batteries and a cheap but reasonable Industar-61 LD lens in my sale.
M9s here seem to be going for as little as A$1000-1300 less than M240s, that was my experience (apart from PP and eBay fees!). (A$ = 0.76 US$)
I'm on a learning curve, reading the manual (!!!) tonight and reading that if I select 100 ISO it results in lower contrast than base ISO shots. I wonder does the M9 also do this when pulled to 80 ISO?
I have taken about 20 shots using the M240, with my Summarit 50 f/2.4 and my converted Contax G21 f/2.8. Edge discolouration is worse than it was on the M9, coded as 11134, other lens codes being worse on both M9 and M240. (I can correct edge colour shifts using an LCC image to compensate in Capture One Pro (or similar in LR).
No corrections to G21 shots yet, so just posting one two more from Havana and two from yesterday using the M240.
Gundagai is an iconic country town in rural SE Australia. The beautiful 19th Cent era Post Office has a 'Sold' sign on it, yet another wonderful P.O. building sold off by Australia Post as it no longer meets their criterion for larger retail-space. They attempt to offset declining postal service income by selling diverse crap, as well as massively increased postal rates!
Well I caved and bought a 35 f/1.4 but I went into the past for this one as I felt it would align better with the signatures of my other lenses. Going to give the Summilux Pre-Asph a whirl! I don't mind the look wide-open as I've been growing to like the drawing style of older Leica glass.
Separate question: The leatherette on my M240 is reasonably scuffed up and peeling away, I knew that when I bought it and it doesn't bother me but should I want to replace it, would it be best to let Leica do it, or are there any decent coverings for digital M bodies out there? I know there's loads of options for film Ms.
Keep posting wonderful work everyone! I love looking through this thread.