Well, I for one have stopped wanting one. Mine's sitting right beside me. I actually tried actively to prevent this - by getting a Sony A7II and adapting my M glass to it for what it's worth, and it sure could be worse, but it's no Leica. Coming from the M4-P and M6TTL, the M10 feels like coming home, period. As for technical observations, time must tell; it's not that I'm now married with this camera for good or bad. I'll explore it, and I'm already liking the shooting experience, but that doesn't come as a surprise (see above). If you're unsure about the camera, buying used does the trick - it holds its value amazingly well and is sought after to some reasonable degree, though we'll see how the used market will develop. If you can justify the expense at all (and if you want one, you'll find a way, believe you me), it's not really a risky strategy to go ahead and get one.
Needless to say, I'm quite happy at the moment, but thankfully, not euphoric (I was a bit afraid of that), just enjoying what is definitely a great camera with a unique pedigree and handling experience.
M.
If one buys a secondhand m10 tomorrow and flips it on Friday, then it won’t be a very expensive mistake.
But long term digital M ownership suffers from depreciation just like all the other ditial cameras
Used M240s go for about £2500 on ebay, and they’re still being sold new for about £5000.
Sure 50% isn’t bad depreciation, better than the Fuji, the Sony etc... but equally £2500 is way more than the other cameras will depreciate as usually they don’t cost that much to begin with
Or put another way
It’s 2012.
Fred and Harry go out to buy a camera each
Fred buys an M240 for £5000 (it might have been £5500 actually?) and Harry buys an X-Pro1 for £1300
Fast forward to 2018 and it’s upgrade time for our fictitious pair.
Fred’s M scores £2500 on ebay and Harry’s XP1 goes for £250
Damn Harry’s taken a 80+% hit and Fred’s only dropped 50%
But in real money, its only cost Harry £1050 to own a camera for 6 years, its cost Fred £2500
Be vary about the value of cameras folks...
...of course whoever bought Fred and Harry’s ebay cameras are laughing, they’ve got machines that cost only a fraction of the original selling price, and someone else (namely Harry and Fred) took the depreciation hit.
When these guys or gals flip those same cameras, the hit is going to be minimal.
EDIT: I know I quoted you Matt, I’m NOT trying to rain on your parade, you sound very happy with the M10 and your film M experience undoubtedly means your digital M happiness won’t be fleeting. I just wanted to make the point that’s perfectly possibly to drop a stack of cash on a digital M.
You never lose money on a Leica is a misnomer I’ve read too many times! (I’m NOT suggesting that’s exactly what you said)