More Leica M9 shots...

Ah, how I am enjoying these Leica shots...
Such a high quality... such great colors... sharpness... I should be hooked. Really hooked.
Good thing I learned to detach myself from all these earthly pleasures...

Oh, who am I kidding. Of course I'm buying it for my birthday. May be not the upcoming one, but who knows!

I was told to order it now, because apparently (even though all online shops claim it ships within 14 days) it takes months to get it (boy, I hope that was a big exaggeration!). But I know my favorite store will get it for me fast enough. They are cool that way..

So this is still in the backyard...

And from 'burbs into the city we go... one of the coolest buildings in the city - Reuters. So photogenic..

With my eyes - I was hoping he was giving ME the look, but oh well.

Just a shot of Times Square. All details very sharp when it's blown up on my screen.

Nice range huh?..

Until we meet again... have a Magical Day!

Sometimes it is all about the tool at hand...

Thanks to Unique Photo - the friendly neighborhood's camera store in Fairfield NJ - I had my greedy little hands on Leica M9 for quite a few hours (productive hours).

Like a good girl, first thing I did was to... charge the battery, yes, but also - download the user manual. What can I say. Written in German and translated to English - it became impossible for me to easily comprehend, and since I wasn't looking to do anything particularly fancy with it, I turned to a tried and true, as well as my personal favorite, method of learning - "Scientific Poke Around".
By a third day I guess I somewhat mastered it. Of course being lucky as I am, it was raining that day, so what you see is what you get from the first day or two.

I should probably write a review on it, but since I already admitted that I haven't read the user manual, and taking into account that by now so many good [reviews] are already out there, like this one here, for example - about differences between rangefinders and SLRs, so if you are curious, go ahead, give Google a try.

Just a couple of pics that actually came out worthy of showing...
Enjoy and have a magical day!

Pink and gray - my favorite color combination of all time. Green messed it all up for me.. boo. But what colors! wow..

Here I was checking for sharpness with smallest aperture available. Very cool to shoot with shutterspeed of 1/15 and still hand held sharp! That's one giant BIGGIE for me on the list of goodies..

This one's just yummy:

Truly yours...

I should really go and take a nap now. Tomorrow is a big day and this post is, of course, scheduled to run tomorrow morning, when you wake up!