Several years back I photographed an imaging scanner that is used in macro nuerosurgery that is used during procedures while the patient is awake so the surgeon can see where he is removing things and can avoid areas that can damage function while removing tumors. That imaging device almost the size of a smart car was Leica and costs about a half million dollars. Most of the microscopes in healthcare are Zeiss or Leica.
Also let's remind ourselves that Leica Camera, Leica Microsystems, and Leica Geosystems are different entities with different ownership. One thing they have in common though besides the Leica original name - they are all expensive.
I am very lucky in the fact my pro work pays for all of my equipment. And that work has put in in a position to be able to buy anything I need to do my job. For me Leica M fits the way I see and work period. Also if I still had a darkroom I would still e shooting film (probably M3 or M2) in some capacity. My clients moved me out of film(kicking and screaming) to digital in 2005. Canon was FF digital (Leica hadn't entered the digtal world yet) so I went Canon.
I would say that the Nicanon pro cameras, give or take, are in the same price range as the M 10. I old enough to remember when Leica M was twice as expensive as the top o the line Nicanons. BTW I still have my old F-1s. Leica has always been expensive.
If I didn't do this professionally I don't know if I would have Leica M or any of the top o the line Nicanons either. I do think when I retire I will sell my 2 M 10s and mhy M 262 and pick up the M10 mono (depending on what that will look like) and keep my original MM and an CCD M-E. Or if I retire to Northern NM an old 8x10 Deardorff and return to large format.
Nov 25, 2019 at 11:21 AM
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