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Last week my old friend and colleague Don Morley called to say he was planning a visit with two collector friends, Bernard Lockley and Keith Mason whom I have met on a number of occasions. So I determined to make the effort and it turned out to be an enlightening and memorable experience.

Don Morley was on hand to record the funeral of Winston Churchill and the electioneering of Young Winston....

While out with photo-journalist Don Morley last week I learned something interesting about power management on the M8, M9 and Monochrome. Don, who carries around two M9s and has also had extensive experience with the M8, reckons that leaving the camera switched on is the way to better power management, longer battery life and, along the way, makes the cameras quicker to use when needed.

Since my outing with photo-journalist Don Morley last week I have been doing a lot of thinking about the Leica X Vario. Sometimes I imagine I am the only person thinking deeply about it, judging by the many ill-informed  comments we read in various blogs. The chance to compare XV and the Fuji X-E2 was a lesson.

Don Morley asked what I really thought of the Leica X Vario. We were chatting about by email/ He had read my review of the XV earlier in the year and had been thinking of buying one. So we concocted a test session and decided to add a a direct competitor and an odd-ball outsideer combination of the world's only consumer black-and-white camera with Leica's equally odd-ball Tri-Elmar pseudo zoom.