It is essentially a combination of previous designs and refinements put together to create another new iteration of a concept that to a great extent has been proven time and time again. On face value, there is actually very little about the M-A to get excited about it brings nothing particularly new to the table. I realise how spoiled that makes me sound, but actually being spoiled is exactly the problem. You see, I already own/have owned a Leica M3, M4-2, M4-P, M6 and Leica M7. In hindsight I realise that it’s the comparisons I made in that bustling exhibition to my M3 and M7 that entirely qualify that sense of being underwhelmed. That isn’t to say that I thought it was in some way poor, just there wasn’t anything about it that knocked my socks off. Upon picking it up, all of a sudden I completely understood this persons comment. I’d even taken along my recently serviced M3 and M7 to compare it to. But whilst I was there I wanted to have a quick go with an M-A. I found said person and after a quick chat it was decided I could borrow the review copy just as soon as it was available. My main mission for the day was to find the person at the Leica stand who was in a position to make the decision to loan me a Leica M-A for me to fondle review. I saw the Leica M-A for the first time at the Photography Show at the NEC in late March.
I hadn’t even seen a Leica M-A in the flesh at the time, so how could I possibly judge the validity of the statement? Well basically I assumed that being underwhelmed by something that’s pictures I had all but drooled over would be impossible. Of course, dismissal of this comment on my part was at best unfair to this person, but it was also entirely shortsighted. That’s pretty much the usual response to forum commentary I feel in someway doesn’t echo my own views, there is so much of it that it’s easier just to filter and disregard as much of it as quickly and effortlessly as possible. When I first read this comment I didn’t think a great deal of it, it was just another comment on just another forum I dismissed it as an empty or shallow opinion from just another naysayer. I read on a forum somewhere a comment relating to an individual’s initial response to the Leica M-A as being – in their words – “underwhelming”.
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