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| sent on 29 Settembre 2021
Pros: Robust, simple, timeless, sapphire crystal, battery life, used price, low vibration, very discreet, vintage look, price holding
Cons: Heavy, you have to love the optical rangefinder, ridiculous Visioflex, the sensor gets dirty easily, ISO seal, lack wifi
Opinion: I had this M for about a year switching from analog to digital M and it made me collapse all the perplexities I had about reliability, robustness, etc. of digital ... I used it from -20 in a Baltic Sea in the middle of winter to +41 in the Maghreb in August, passing through a rainy Nuremberg at the end of January. I have been there on a sailboat as in the middle of the Sahara desert for several days and it has never disappointed me, the date of the battery is huge as long as you use the optical rangefinder and not the visioflex. The ISO seal is good up to 1600 over the noise begins to be present, but always pleasant and even up to 3200 is fully exploitable, they could be few, but in the meantime they are real (as seen with external light meter) and in any case it is not the philosophy of a Leica M photograph at 50,000 ISO. The sapphire crystal of the Display is totally scratch-resistant and makes any protective film superfluous, the battery life is enormous, even in the cold of Lithuania in January a battery lasted me a day and even a day and a half without problems, reviewing the images taken and occasionally framing from the display. The vibrations are almost absent as in the best tradition of the M philosophy and the vintage appearance combined with a good silence make it a machine that goes unnoticed. Among the defects I wrote that the sensor gets dirty easily, I think it is for the current that passes through it that captures the dust, you have to be careful and limit the optical change and blow often anyway cleaning the sensor is a fairly simple operation, but you have to know it (the M10P I have now is much more refractory to dust), another flaw is the lack of a wirelees link to directly download photos without going with SD from the computer. In essence it is a very robust and reliable machine that reflects the M philosophy destined to age little both technologically and in appearance (in the end the differences with the M10 are minimal) and with an affordable price you enter the M world, compared to the basic M240 has a buffer twice as fast, has the display in. sapphire and the lever to select the frames and then previsualize a change of optics, three things that made me prefer it for the little difference in price you have a better machine, even from an aesthetic point of view the lack of the red sticker and the only discreet writing on the roof make it an absolutely discreet machine. Personally I changed it for pure whim, I happened to have a new M10P on offer and since they are machines that do not age I wanted to celebrate my 25 years of use of Leica M (in various variations) with a new M10P that will now accompany me for the next 10 years, but also the MP240 would have lasted me another 10 years, if you ask me if the gearbox was worth it I answer that surely the M10P has something more, but it does not distort anything as I used the 240 I use the 10 and the difference in cost is important, but you know the monkeys you pay |
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