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1. You got to be kidding me 🙂
   Wow..an extra $10K for a piece of leather. Just amazing..and I’m sure someone will buy it. Can’t wait to see the pictures taken with that one 🙂

   • …that was in response to D!RK’s post btw..

     • I think that ostrich leather gives you a slightly higher ISO. 😉

       • evidently not as high as the Titanium can push it 😛

2. Steve,

   Great site and thanks for the updates about the updates. This has become my favorite web site to visit each day. I just ordered some XP2 and Fuji CA from B&H for my Oly OM-4T. I haven’t bought a role of film in about 10 years and am looking forward to rediscovering film photography. Your site has inspired me and I’m sure a lot of other people to put the digitals down for a while and shoot film again.

   I love my 5D2 and 50 1.2 but there are so many menus and settings that I feel cramped. That thing has so many options to “improve” my pictures that I think it just makes them worse sometimes or I’m fiddling through the menus to get it set up and I end up missing a great shot of my kids. If everybody else’s kiddoes are like mine, they will never do the same thing twice when the camera is out. I feel like telling it “I just wanna take a picture!” In some ways I hope my film experience is a let down though……LOL, because if I love it, an M6 may follow. It doesn’t get much simpler than that. Thanks again.

   DT

3. One more link. For those that find the standard M9 to ordinary, now get your Neiman Marcus Edition for 17k. 😉
   Not sure what is different besides the leather and the engraving option. The price might just be based on the small edition number.

   http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/sitelets/christmasbook/fantasy.jhtml?cid=CBF10_O4835&r=cat33500731&rdesc=The%20Fantasy%20Gifts

4. Robert, all images on this site are SRGB. No fancy color profiles, just SRGB. I do not remove any info from any of the images. All exif should be attached. Thx

   Steve

   • Steve,

     Just FYI – NO IMAGES here have color profiles hence…

     depending on the browser they are viewed in and the color space/calibration of the viewers monitor they will be displayed with whatever the browser’s policy is for untagged monitors vs displayed with the appropriate color translation.

     I guess it doesn’t matter if you are using a version of MicroSloth Explorer that doesn’t respect color profiles but that same is not true for Safari / Firefox users or other browsers that use Webkit.

     You may want to make sure that “embed color profile” is turned on for whatever mechanism you are using to produce your JPEG’s for the web. Typically this is OFF for “Save for web” in PS due to hysterical reasons.

     As more and more web users are dragged into the 21st century and get better monitors along with more reasonable software (like Apple/Safari/Chrome, etc) this will lead to a more consistent display of images for sophisticated users while not changing anything for the worse for browsers that do not respect profile info. Heck it even makes other color spaces work the way the should if you so choose to use them for at least some web users – like me.

     RB

   • Oooops – forgot,

     I am talking about the small embedded versions not the full size versions.

     RB

     • sir, i think we (or me at least, the color-management-illiterate bunch) would very much appreciate a great guest article from you explaining all the inner workings of monitors/color profiles/etc. 🙂

       seriously.

       • I would love to do that but it will be a practical guide for photographers vs. an engineering guide unless you want an engineering guide. I’ll discuss with steve to see if it fits within his site mission.

         Meanwhile here are a couple of RANTS – excuse the cuss words. This is an old post

         http://photo.rwboyer.com/2008/04/16/color-management-and-other-stupid-internet-tricks/

         RB

5. Steve,

   Why oh why oh why do you (and many many others) insist on REMOVING the color profile from images you post on the web?

   In case you missed it we crossed into the 21st century about 11 years ago and are no longer using a 1200baud modem to access web sites. I would much rather have the color profile in tact so that the images are translated accurately on my monitor vs. displayed in the native color space. Of course I could copy them all, assume you converted to sRGB, assign the profiles myself, and then look at them but by then my interest is gone.

   Just a plea in my mission to cure photographers of dubious hopelessly outdated practices passed on to them by old people that had know idea what they were doing.

   Yours truly – Hopeless color romantic, continuing to fight the good fight against all odds.

   RB

   • I say convert them all to black & white and the problem is solved. 🙂

   • I hear you Robert. Am big on colour myself and hate to see files without proper colour profile.
     Did a quick check and downloaded one of the shots from above (last one, woman in car) and opened it in PS. Not sure whether something changed since you posted but the photo is profiled (sRGB).

     @Max … How about black & blue???

     Just kidding 😉
     Here’s a question for you … ever heard of 4 colour black & white???
     Fashion mags often use this technique to create super cool looking b&w spreads.
     I actually used the technique once for a b&w commercial. Well, let’s call it a similar technique since TV is a different medium as print. Because of it I had to go about it differently (which explains why even the guy who did the editing was flabbergasted about the result).

6. What about your Contax t2 review? 🙂

   • …and the Leica CL review 🙂

     Demanding bunch, aren’t we??!! lol

7. Gary, optics planet does not advertise with me, they are put in by google via google adsense but I will see about blocking them as I am not a fan of optics planet….

8. Steve,

   I think that you need to review who advertises on your Web Site. The ad from Planet Optics.com is bogus and mis leading. The MSRP from Leica in US dollars is $ 6995.00 and not $ 7750.00 as stated by Planet Optics.com. with a 10% discount from the real MSRP the price would be $ 6295.50. You owe it to your readers to keep this great site of yours as clean and accurate as possible. Keep up the great work.

   Gary

   • Where does it say MSRP on their ad or site? I saw on there website it says list price, not MSRP. And aren’t Leica M9’s pretty much $6995 everywhere? It’s not like they have a higher price or something. I’ve seen the same thing on J&R too.

   • I did mistake by purchasing Leica M9 with OpticsPlanet via Steve Ads Banner. OpticsPlanet shipped me look like used camera with a lot of dust and damaged package to me. For the camera costs about $7,000, everybody expects to have it in good or perfect condition.
     I was trying to support Steve website but I did a mistake by myself. Now I called my bank for dispute my purchase, and I will get a new one with Dale.
     Thanks Steve for your advice and everyone here to notice this scam dealer.

9. Love the street shot, good inspiration since I need to go do some street shooting today for a class.

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