wow - I have 24 pages to catch up on, from 1324 forward!
I got back from the major family reunion trip on Easter Monday. I posted some of the P645D images during my travels and lots to Flickr however I hadn\'t taken the time to contribute to this thread while travelling.
The gear I ended up carrying comprised:
Medium format digital: P645D, A35 f3.5, A75 f2.8, P67 55 f4 SMC, P67 200 f4 SMC and a Sirui CF tripod and ball-head
M9, Summarit 50 f2.4, ZM25 f2.8 and CV21 f4
In hindsight the choice was good and I used every lens, although I made the error too many times of not switching back to Auto coding recognition, so on 2-3 days many of my Summarit 50 shots were still coded as 11809
The M9 was great for walking around in urban environments and the P645D was used mostly for landscapes. Lack of a high-ISO performer really hurt when we tried capturing a weak display of the Aurora Borealis one night up in NW Scotland (having missed a fabulous display elsewhere in the country the night before).
I\'ve just returned this evening from 2 days in Melbourne. I put my M9 in for a sensor clean and this morning I learnt that it has sensor corrosion and will take 6-8 weeks for the Leica-funded sensor replacement. The RF also requires some calibration (excuse for somewhat OOF shots posted below ). Trading up to an M240 the cost would be A$4000 (official XR now at about US$0.75), so I\'ve elected to retain the M9. That seemed an easy decision at the time but now I\'m having some doubts. I love the M9 look but I could do with a decent CMOS cam for LM lenses and I could still sell my Sony A7R (no Kolari mod) for probably abut A$1200.
Those of you who moved from M9 / M-E to M240 and its descendants, are you pleased with the switch, purely from the perspective of base-low-range ISO IQ, not for any other reasons such as live-view and higher ISO performance??
Thanks for your replies in advance.
Some Flickr shots shared from the trip...so many more to do. All M9 and Summarit 50 f2.4 apart from one using the ZM25 f2.8.
My parents on their 60th Wedding Anniversary, (aged 90 and 89):
wow - I have 24 pages to catch up on, fro 1324 forward!
I got back from the major family reunion trip on Easter Monday. I posted some of the P645D images during my travels and lots to Flickr however I hadn\'t taken the time to contribute to this thread while travelling.
The gear I ended up carrying comprised:
Medium format digital: P645D, A35 f3.5, A75 f2.8, P67 55 f4 SMC, P67 200 f4 SMC and a Sirui CF tripod and ball-head
M9, Summarit 50 f2.4, ZM25 f2.8 and CV21 f4
In hindsight the choice was good and I used every lens although I made the error too many times of not switching back to Auto coding recognition, so on 2-3 days many of my Summarit 50 shots were still coded as 11809
The M9 was great for walking around in urban environments and the P645D was used mostly for landscapes. Lack of a high-ISO performer really hurt when we tried capturing a weak display of the Aurora Borealis one night up in NW Scotland (having missed a fabulous display elsewhere in the country the night before).
I\'ve just returned this evening from 2 days in Melbourne. I put my M9 in for a sensor clean and this morning I learnt that it has sensor corrosion and will take 6-8 weeks for the Leica-funded sensor replacement. If I wanted to trade-up to an M240 the cost would be A$4000 (official XR now at about US$0.75), so I\'ve elected to retain the M9. That seemed an easy decision at the time but now I\'m having some doubts. I love the M9 look but I could do with a decent CMOS cam for LM lenses and I could still sell my Sony A7R (no Kolari mod) for probably abut A$1200.
Those of you who moved from M9 / M-E to M240 and its descendants, are you pleased with the switch,
purely from the perspective of base-low-range ISO IQ, not for any other reasons such as live-view and higher ISO performance??
Thanks for your replies in advance.
Some Flickr shots shared from the trip...so many more to do. All M9 and Summarit 50 f2.4 apart from one using the ZM25 f2.8.
My parents on their 60th Wedding Anniversary, (aged 90 and 89):
). Trading up to an M240 the cost would be A$4000 (official XR now at about US$0.75), so I\'ve elected to retain the M9. That seemed an easy decision at the time but now I\'m having some doubts. I love the M9 look but I could do with a decent CMOS cam for LM lenses and I could still sell my Sony A7R (no Kolari mod) for probably abut A$1200.
