Leica M9 vs M240 vs M10 Review: Which One For 2024? 

Thank you :)

Ditto!

Ahh yeah, those projected frame lines are awesome!

I really enjoyed my time with the M240 too!

Haha! I’m glad it was (not) helpful 😂 yes that’s true.. practically speaking the M10 would do the most!

Thank you.. Your kind words mean a lot! Yes film photography is where my heart is 😌 more videos are coming soon.

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Thank you! :)

haha! Well right now they're cheaper than flagship some Canons and Sonys..

@@jeremy-t I just can’t afford the M side of Leica. I can’t even buy another lens for my SL2-s after the Leica 24-70. 😂so I’ll continue believing in the L mount alliance. I’m glad I started with LUMIX.

@@jeremy-t I’m happy with my ecosystem right now. Haha never was once a fan of any of those. I’m a LUMIX shooter and Leica is just the right transition. Plus, I can’t even control my SL2-s yet. Haha I need to learn how to shoot this.

​@@iKIMshuffle same with 99% here

Wow 2 M9s? Nice! Yes, those card limits..

Oh wow! Yes in low light the M10 is really nice.. :)

Awesome!

Aww man that’s a hard one!! Hmm. I think.. It’s got to be the M9P.. Not for the pictures, just for the charm

@@jeremy-t haha nice! I already have the MP-240 lol. I keep going back and forth with upgrading to the M10. I really like punchy filmic colors over everything. I feel like the mp-240 is the happy medium between the M9 and M10. And I’d have to fork over an extra $1500

@@twinspowertv1078 Yes I know the feeling.. I went from m240 to m10, back to m240 again as well!

Interesting, probably down to the way we use it, in general, I set iso in broad strokes based on the light I'm in, then fine tune exposure via shutter speed / aperture, but if you adjust ISO to dial in exposure, I can see how the dial is more annoying! Ah yes, I agree the M10 is generally cooler.

Haha!

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you very much! I’ve never had the opportunity to use the M9M before.. How are you finding it? Are the highlights difficult to tame?

@@jeremy-t My 19-year old son showed an interest in still photography last year for the first time - he does video - and I gave him my monochrom along with a Carl Zeiss 5cm f/1.5 1937 - a nice combination for B&W. Thought it would be a good way to introduce him to Photography similar to my early experience with B&W film and he’s done some good work and enjoying it. ‘Borrowed’ the camera just yesterday and going to be using it over the next week. I really miss being able to use this camera regularly. With my collection of vintage Leica lenses, it just works so well. Exposure is one of those things that takes an adjustment but is learned quickly - a start of -⅓ in the pre-set, and expose for highlights so that they are not blown out (no recovery without the color blue channel). Any shadow details are easy to bring up (even what seems to be just black) from the RAW file in post-processing. At 18MP but monochrom sensor punches more in the 30MP range [of a color sensor], with great detail (the 50mm APO was introduced at the same time because of the camera/lens combination potential, but even older lenses benefit), you could say ‘true bokeh’ without the distraction of color, RAW files out of the camera can be a bit ‘flat’ and need some work to make them pop, like being in a real darkroom and choosing paper grades and burning/dodging, but all the information is there with correct exposure. Don’t know if there is the same ‘magic’ in this CCD sensor people talk about with the color M9’s CCD sensor, doesn’t matter to me, the original monochrom just works, and except for the slow buffer I have no issues using this camera for as long as it keeps functioning (and yes, the sensor was replaced by Leica).

Another ‘advantage’ of the M9M monochrome is that it captures in full 14-bit compared to the 246 12-bit (don’t know about the M10 monochrom). Doesn’t seem to make much difference in photo quality from what I’ve seen/heard, but it is there. And the histogram is also 14-bit, which although you can only view after the capture, being a CCD, it does provide a more complete look of everything in the exposure range. Another ‘issue’ I ran into today being out in 0°C temperature, the M9 is not good, and a full battery got a “low battery’ warning after a short time out of the bag. Looking on Leica’s web site at M10 specifications, it is rated at 0°-40°C, so I’ve heard it is better, but the numbers say just maybe.

@@Hektormydog I see, thanks for the information! I've always been curious about the M9M but never got one. Wow your son sure is fortunate to have access to such beautiful gear!! Haha!

Thank you!! 🇸🇬 Depending on how much use the previous owner put through it, but compared to other cameras (like Canons or Sonys where people burst a lot more, use them for jobs) most Leica users treat their gear quite well, so my guess is.. At least a decade? :)

Awesome! The closest thing to the SL2 would be the M10.. The M240 and M9 would be a different flavour.. But it might a nice change too!

Ahhh yes, the M10 has a much sharper LCD.. The main lens was the 28mm ASPH Summicron, they were RAW and edited in post!

Agree with you, the M240 has terrible Auto White Balance as soon as some warm lights enter the scene; tungsten WB looks pretty bad for some reason. Other than that specific case it's an amazing camera.

Awesome! What do you like about it over the m10?

@@jeremy-t the rendering and SL is easier to focus than M10 (IMO). I feel like the rendering of SL has something unique. Actually I had SL and sold it for m10 and sold m10 for SL again. I had M8 as well for a short time I don’t like it much but I wanna try M9 as well as the first fullframe sensor digital camera of Leica.

Ahh I see! When using the SL do to zoom to focus while shooting? Or do you just use the entirety of the EVF?

@@jeremy-t normally I don’t zoom for it. Sometimes for some lens I need to ensure I could get the right focus I do.

Yes!

You are so welcome!

Oh wow, two APOs! 🙉

@@jeremy-t yes, Voigtlander of course! The 🔴 versions are way out of my budget lol.

@@christopherrodriguez7223 Ah.. Yes those are great! When I first read your comment I thought you meant the two Leica APOs... That would have been a fancy car in the form of glass! 😂

They are edited!

Thank you! Yes that’s an amazing one as well!

@@jeremy-tI agree!

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Nice!

I agree!! The m10 and m11 feel much better in the hands.. Oh wow, I didn’t shoot the m246 for long but I wasn’t aware of the banding. Interesting!

@@jeremy-t I mean, banding is an issue only if you shoot even backgrounds above 6400 iso, whichever unfortunately I often do! If your shot is full of stuff going on usually it’s unnoticeable even at 12500. But that bulk is giving me an itch worth around 3.5k of price difference

Nice! Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong… 🙌🏻

Yes I haven't put anything out about that! I enjoyed it in that it gave the closest practical experience to film, yet it still missed the mark for me. One of the aspects about shooting film that I enjoy the most is the clarity of mind it brings, knowing that I"ll only make pictures that are "worth the shot". And so what no digital camera can do, is create the organic sense of scarcity which results in needing to make the shot count (I don't mean artificial scarcity we could impose on ourselves using small SD cards etc). So I bought the MD hoping to get a film with the practicality of digital, but alas, it was only a digital camera. And as a digital camera, the M9, M240 or M10 do great as well.

I believe the 262 has the identical sensor to the M240, but double check that!

thanks! @@jeremy-t

Yes. Leica is not a system you’d want to consider if technicalities matter to you. I mean… No autofocus…. Amongst many other things. There are far better spec’d cameras, for far less money. What they do, is give us analog photographers the closest possible experience to shooting film, while having the benefits of digital. I primarily shoot ISO 3200 film. Grain isn’t an issue for me.

@@jeremy-t Actually I am not concerned about auto focus, I am totally okay with manual focus lenses. I shoot film too, the idea of Leica film cameras is more appealing after looking at the data for Leica digital cameras and their sensors. For me personally speaking, film at 3200 Is too grainy for me. Although I am totally okay with modern digital cameras at ISO 3200, even 6400 depending on the camera. I can totally understand what you have said that quite a lot of people find higher grain appealing, and I do to some extent too. You are probably right that there are better cameras as far as digital sensors are concerned for someone like me that are non Leica cameras. At the moment I was just trying to understand what I would be buying into if I bought a Leica digital camera.

@@dalvinderbasi3495 Ah I see! Ok I get it now, didn’t immediately understand where you were coming from in the first comment. Yes, you definitely won’t be buying into “amazing technological performance per dollar spent”. But, you will, be getting a camera that gives good pictures, that pretty much works exactly like a film camera (if you can ignore the screen). Most tangibly, it’s about process versus outcome when it comes to a digital M vs other systems. (Though the M9 and M240 do give colours that are very unique, but that’s subjective and still down to one’s ability to grade, eg, most people might not be able to tell the difference between Ektar and Gold 200) How the object feels in the hands, how the shooting experience is.. Its main benefit cannot be measured empirically. So to directly compare output, in isolation, with numbers and charts, and conclude that it doesn’t measure up, would be missing a big part of the point. Not saying that Leica is better, in fact for most people, it’s probably not. But if you can, try to get your hands on one for a few days, and see how you find it! Hope that answers your question!

​@@jeremy-t Thank you so much for replying, that is very useful and explains a lot. I am now tempted to look at one of the M ddigital bodies.

On a beautiful day, probably the m9, on a gloomy day… Probably the m10m.. 😌

Yes indeed!

Unfortunate misunderstanding, what I meant was - if have the spending power, the m11 is a great option. Not “if you don’t care about money”. But yes, the m11 is a beast of a camera, that said, in Singapore it goes for approx 3x M240s, 2.5x M9s and almost 2x M10s :)

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Thank you (:

Wow.. Interesting!