At the beginning of 2012, after using film and digital Leica Ms for years (M2, M3, M6, MP, M8, M9), I had enough of the temperamental Leica M9, its reliability issues, its quirkiness with colours, colour casts, colour corrections, 6-bits and so on; since this happened right after I closed my darkroom and stopped developing and scanning my black & white films, it meant no more rangefinder for me. I sold all my M bodies and lenses except for my Noctilux, the only lens I’d never let go, and moved on. Or so I thought. After about a year and a half, I capitulated: it appears that my love affair with the rangefinder style of shooting wasn’t over just yet. Of course, as a good rangefinder aficionado, beside my Ms (and after letting them go) I had a Fujifilm X100, a Fujifilm X-Pro 1 and even tried to make do with a Sony NEX-7; but they all got sold in the end. They weren’t bad, in fact in many ways they were technically better than any digital Leica M to date: they just weren’t the real thing, for a reason or another……..

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Leica M Vieri Bottazzini