[Leica] To tempt Fuji X users?

[Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)]

Hi Mark,
You highlight the dichotomy of M usefulness here. The irony is that it is a 
small fast camera which can be used for handheld street shooting with fast 
film/digital iso and often zone focussed.
Of course in these conditions the optical quality is almost completely 
squandered.
And it can be used on a tripod with optimised focus on low speed 
film/digital iso where the exceptional optical qualities are displayed. I, 
like many other M users, use mine like that most of the time. I never go out 
at night to take pictures, and I am too introvert to take grab shots in the 
street. So the only real benefit of the M over the M9 for me is focussing my 
R lenses using an adapter. My DMR isn't bust yet.
FD

On 17 May, 2013, at 21:54, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> We can use an M like that; at its lowest isos on a tripod.
> Its just not so much its main thing.
> Its main thing is pretty much the opposite.
> Hand head at high isos getting fast breaking situations.
> To those people the new M is a very big deal.
> And the non higher iso's on the M9 a deal breaker.