Another image from Amsterdam. Again with the D300 and 24mm f/2.8. As I expected, the combination was not really much heavier or bulkier than the Leica with the 35mm Summicron, providing the same field of view, but a stop slower. With ISO 800 on the D300 being cleaner than the ISO 400 (or ISO 320) film in the Leica, speed is no different between the two systems.
By continuing to convert to Black and White by policy for these travel images, I have greater control of rendering by converting to black and white in Photoshop. So the Leica has lost it’s prime role as a travel camera to the D300 on the basis of image quality.