Leica Diary - Everything within Reason

Ever since the release of the Leica M9 in 2009 I wanted one of them. But, at the time I didn't have the funds to acquire such a device…. until recent.

Last week I bought myself a Leica M9 (black) along with two Zeiss lenses and an additional battery. The glass of my (second) choice was the Zeiss Biogon 2.8/28mm ZM T* and the Zeiss C-Sonnar 1.5/50mm ZM T*. These lenses were second choice, because I'd rather had the Leica versions of those lenses, but these are kinda hard to get your hands on (extremely long waiting lists).

UPDATE: In the meantime, I acquired a 35mm Summicron-M f/2, and a 50mm Summilux-M f/1.4 Asph. The Carl Zeiss C-Sonnar 1.5/50mm ZM T* is for sale at this moment.

The following posts should represent my experiences with the Leica M system camera, and I hope to address both the good and the bad things about this legendary camera system.

Note that this 'blog' holds the oldest post first. The reason for this is that you can read it in a chronological fashion. So the updates will be at the end.

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Monday

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iPhone 4S versus Leica M9

Monday, November 21, 2011 at 21:18

Today I enjoyed a small walk in (foggy) Heidestein (Zeist) with my M9. During this short break I took a couple of photos with my (new) iPhone 4S and the M9. Standing in the same position with comparable focal lengths (35mm). The (Adobe Photoshop Lightroom screenshot) results are shown below.

Mind you that the M9 delivered RAW DNG files, while the iPhone coughs up JPEG files.