If you've shot Leica before then the short summary of this review is: The Leica M typ 240 is the better camera.
The Leica M9 had lots of character, that special quality that's hard to describe but oh so easy to see in your photos but the M9 also had a lot of limitations and sometimes frustrating shortcomings, the look was second to none, but trying to shoot a few frames in quick succession and the camera could freeze and require you to take out and re-insert the battery. The LCD screen was good for reading menu text, but really viewing photos on it was more of a theoretical thing since the color cast and detail was horrible and zooming in to see if you nailed the focus would take seconds to render I could go on and on, but as far as the system around the amazing imaging went, it was a barely working camera.
The typ 240 changes all of that and more the rangefinder focusing is more accurate and it'll nail more shots then ever before, the sensor is higher quality, the colors are more accurate, no more green cast and blown out reds. The LCD screen is beautiful and zooming in to photos is instant, files are now usable upto 3200 ISO and it even has live view which can be quite useful when it's too dark to RF focus or when you're shooting at f0.95. Just everything about it is a huge step forward and makes for a much better camera.
If you haven't shot Leica before, then this short review won't be enough to tell you everything you need to know but there's countless resources available online to help you out there. But I will say this, the quality of the photos from the M typ 240 are far better than any Canon or Nikon DSLR can produce, the contrast, saturation, colors and sharpness the M combined with Leica lenses can deliver is out of this world and when you do nail that shot, the Leica will make it look better.
The rangefinder system is much harder to use, manual focus, a very poor exposure system, very few bells and whistles compared to most modern camera's but that's not what the Leica system is about the Leica is all about slowing down, taking photos full of intent and art. So it'll help you take beautiful photos if you're willing to take on the challenge, but if you're looking for features and something that can shoot 11fps, auto-focus, do subject tracking in sports of birding, or even has real lenses beyond 135mm or zoom lenses for that matter get a D800 or a 5D Mark III instead they'll give you 90% of the image quality for 30% of the price and give you a much wider choice of lenses. If however you want that special range finger experience with that look that nothing else can product, than this system is for you and the 240 is the best Leica made to date, by far.
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