An Ode to the Leica M9: the Best Digital Leica They Ever Delivered

The Leica M9 is one of the last digital cameras to indeed be for master photographers who are great at their craft and that were made before the selfie became super famous. At the time, it cost many thousands of dollars.

It was released around the time of the Canon 5D Mk II, the Nikon D700, and the Sony a900--all of which were innovative in their own rights. But the Leica M9 was the first mirrorless full-frame camera to really grace the market. It was plagued with a few issues like incompatibility with certain SD cards, lousy battery life, sometimes slow performance, etc. However, I'm not sure that there was a single photographer that would doubt the quality of the image that came from the sensor. True to my previous statement about master photographers, the Leica M9 harkened to the photographer that shot chrome film and gawked at the photographer who reached for negatives to try to get a better result in the darkroom. The sensor's output wasn't as versatile as the other CMOS sensors of the day, but every photographer that held a Leica M9 secretly coveted something like it. .

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