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Leica M9 / M9-P : Specifications and Opinions

Leica M9 / M9-P

The Leica M9 / M9-P is a mirrorless camera with FF (1.0x) sensor and 18.0 megapixels manufactured from 2009 to 2012 (discontinued). The range of sensitivities, including ISO extension, is 80 - 2500 ISO and it has a continuous shooting (burst mode) of 2 FPS. The average price was 5800 €;

43 users have given it an average vote of 8.6 out of 10

Sensor
Format	Fullframe, 36 x 24 mm (image ratio 3:2, crop factor 1.0x in comparison with FF)
Resolution	18.0 megapixel (pixel pitch 6.94 μm)
ISO sensitivities	80 - 2500
File formats	RAW, JPEG
Esposure
Shutter speeds	4" - 1/4000
Exp. compensation	+/- 3 stops at 1/2 steps
Exp. modes	P, S, A, M
Metering modes	Multi-Area, Semi-Spot, Spot
Features
Mount	Leica M (click here to view all compatible lenses)
Stabilization	No
Autofocus (AF areas)	-
Continuos shooting	2 FPS
Pre-Burst	No
Live View	No
Video mode	No
WiFi	No
GPS	No
Camera body and built
Touchscreen	No
LCD	2.5", 320 x 240 pixels, fixed
Viewfinder	Optical, coverage 100%, 0.68x
Flash	No
Storage	SD, SDHC
Storage, Slot 2	not available
Battery	Li-Ion
Weather sealing	No
Weight	585 g
Dimensions	139 x 80 x 37 mm
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The following opinions have been automatically translated with Google Translate.

Maxkawa

sent on February 09, 2025

Pros: CCD unsurpassed in colors: pasty, pastel,... from painting. Trivial and repeated many times, I know, but... from film. Manageability, lightness, compactness, available lens park, build quality. Even the black and white really not bad

Cons: Some difficulty (for me and for my eyes) to "digest" the frames of the viewfinder

Opinion: The greatest repentance of my life... photographic: traded in for a Hasselblad X1Dii, for which I never fell in love, I wish I had never made that choice; but, by now... Also because finding a perfect one (including the replaced sensor) like mine will never happen again. A machine that must be liked (or disliked) for what it is and what it can offer; therefore it is useless to repeat what it is not suitable for or what - obvious - limits it has; but the color files that come out of it I have not found in any other device. For black and white, only the Sigma (Foveon) have surpassed it, among those I had. Now, overcoming the romantic "cravings" of Leica, Hasselblad and Sigma, I have fun and try my hand at a Nikon d850: all that prose and poetry of the aforementioned and "difficult" niche objects is missing but, now: point, in focus in a moment, I shoot and ... done. This too is needed

Ferorake

sent on March 04, 2024

Pros: Colors and unique CCD sensor, Leica feeling

Cons: It's a nightmare to find a specimen that doesn't turn out to be a condemnation

Opinion: Taken years ago by a "super reliable person", with a sensor replaced by the parent company, it actually arrived at home with more corrosion than mpx. After curses and other things, I manage to have it repaired by a specialized laboratory, with the result of seeing corrosion appear again after a few months. A nightmare for all intents and purposes, if I'm honest. Leica no longer manufactures the sensors, and it is not possible to determine "from which year" the sensors are actually final (apparently it seems to be possible by asking the Leica Store), as it is not possible to determine whether the repairs made above are valid or not. Given the not exactly cheap cost in which they are used, for me it would be madness to recommend their purchase, unless a SCRUPULOUS attention during the purchase phase, with painstaking search for even the smallest sign of corrosion present in the sensor. Realistically, by now, a replaced sensor, if it belongs to the faulty specimens, will have already shown signs of corrosion. You only have to shoot at f11 a sky to realize this. I don't comment on the Leica feeling, it's well known and it would be superfluous.

Ulysseita

sent on July 02, 2021

Pros: Ease of use, beauty, m glass yield, user experience, construction, grain quality

Cons: display, (machissene), slowness, addictive

Opinion: I have been prevaricating for years, I have lost years of guduria because I read on the forums of the negatives such as iso rendering, seniority of the project, display, slowness etc. well... I'm not interested in making birds, sports or anything like that. I'm not interested in shooting in the dark at night without tripod. I have a Big Mpx Sony ff with its lenses... I don't need to cover all genres. Grip, put in hand and at the shot seems to blow despite the noise, it is brass and feels, how stabilizes the shutter and DOES NOT close the vision not being the eye where the curtain goes down... you seem to be looking at the scene that shoots, ready and operational by looking much more and predicting what happens if you follow certain situations or if you want to compose differently. The manual maf, you learn immediately and, I am serious, I do not get more than 2 or 3 for every 100 shooting with a 40 1.2... Technological limitations I don't see.. indeed if I place some photos on highly rated forums abroad I receive as a comment that "the M9 still splits" or highly rated characters who after taking it, want to try it and declare "I have M9, M10R and A7R IV but keep reaching for the former! There is something about its files and camera simplicity that speaks to me. All capable of great images." It is not clear if it is the ccd, the type of ccd, or what else.. but despite having 10 years of serious digital behind me, I always prefer these images to everything else up to 800 iso.. and very often at 2500 ISO GODO for the random grain typical of ccd. ONLY what comes out of the Merrill does differently and makes you enjoy the same but we know the other limits. Optical chapter? A 28mm like the Voigtlander ultron mkii at TA smashes even at equal quality mpx (m10r) against a closed 24gm on Sony.. What do you mean? That this medium is also the richest platform in my opinion to enjoy the best lenses ever made, whether they are Leica or Cosina... the blurry quality for the very thin sensor stack and microleaches is embarrassing. If I mount a biogon I have a 3d side rendering that I dream of anywhere else. I mean, needless to say. I just regret having hesitated so much and today I am much happier with a revised M9 than I would have been of an m240 or m10.... precisely because if I look at those numbers that the new ones improve, I would be wrong having something else like Sony by my side.

Cesaremalaguti

sent on October 02, 2020

Pros: Unique quality of files. There is the essentials for great photos.

Cons: For photography: nothing!

Opinion: If we run after technological innovations, we risk neglecting the essence of photographic art. This machine with a few objectives gives us the opportunity and the opportunity to create and focus on the essentials. To capture with good results events, events, images, memories .... technologically advanced devices such as mobile phones or machines with millions of pixels. From my many years of experience I have come to the conclusion that this machine, the Leica M9, is the optimal means to get the best photographic results. I do not want to disincentivise the race behind technological innovations is certainly an interesting and in some ways rewarding activity. But to make good photographs you have to focus on much more and the Leica M9 is an extraordinary means for this. A warm greeting from an old tech enthusiast, but above all photography. Caesar M.

Michel Guillet

sent on January 30, 2020

Pros: So many if it fits our logic of photographic medium

Cons: So many if it does not fit into the personal logic of photographic means.

Opinion: I've been waiting for it to become my full-fledged vehicle. From beginning hard to understand. The habit of all the automations of the recent reflex immediately creates a dam between loving and hading it. It takes time. Now I can say it's the ultimate machine for me. Leica is marketing a megapixel-based policy with the latest M series... absurd for so many reasons, one out of all the history of this model. The M9 remains unique and will remain forever. For everything else, there are the unbridled chases to the technology.

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