Good to hear your M9 arrived!!!!! Seductive piece of kit to be sure. Wait until you take a look at the images ... other stuff in the gear box tends to just sit there.
What is cool is that unlike the M8, there is a much wider selection of ISO choices ... so rather than jumping from 320 to 640 to 1250 you can also select 500, 800, 1000. 800 and 1000 is pretty good. 1250 is also if exposed well and processed in C1.
Check which firmware is installed, there is a very recent update that improves the M9 ... especially the reformatting function and LCD views at higher ISOs.
My dealer called and a second one is heading my way just in time for wedding season. WaHoo!
Peter, don't you already have a 35mm DSLR? If you don't need really high ISO, Check out the Sony A900 and Zeiss 135/1.8 or Sony 70-200/2.8G APO.
I'd do T/S with a tech camera and MFD back since T/S a more thoughtful slow paced process anyway.
What are you thinking? Updating your ALPA? Or the Sinar?
-Marc
Thanks Son and Marc - it was a long time in coming!
Marc - the M9 is a revelation to me - I finally have the camera in digi form which I used almost exclusively in 35mm film form ...fantastic file quality in full frame form and my M glass is behaving as it should in terms of field of view..
this is my first weekend with it and I just love it! A lot of improvements over the M8.
re tech camera shooting - my Alpa doesn't do shift or tilt - in fact I think the tilt add on mechanism from Alpa is a joke. I wont sell my Alpa though for same reason as I will never sell my XPan kit - i am too attached to them for personal and historical reasons..
I bought a new 24 Nikkor shift tilt today to test ...but somehow I know I will end up with an arTec - they really are the bees knees for tec shooting...
my problem is I have too many MF systems which ( quite frankly) I dont use enough and I have now tested and retested enough to know each system's strengths and weaknesses..
Sadly I have decided I wont be buying an S2 as much as I wanted it to be the camera...it just doesn't add up for me..my Leica nut ends with M series cameras..after the R debacle I am not investing /committing to $100K worth of gear only to see it killed off or die because of lack of interest....but I am frustrated by the S2 - a lot to like a lot to like..especially the ergonomics for an SLR style shooting.
so I have quite a few white elephants sitting in my gear cabinets...a bunch of exotic glass from Rollie/Zeiss/Hasselblad/RZ Mamiya/Contax - with cameras and backs to match - most of which I hardly ever use..
time to clean up and consolidate..
I want one back I can switch from Alpa/arTec and use on one MF system whilst keeping some of my exotic Zeiss glass which I love - I Know a Hasselblad 60 will do the job but so will a P65+
this would likely be my last purchase for a very very very long time and I want to get it right...every system has its strengths and weaknesses...it is a very personal decision..