Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/21

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Subject: [Leica] If You Were Buying an M8 Today...
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:59:38 -0400
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At 12:38 AM 6/21/2009, you wrote:

>1 Cost
>2 It's electronic and I am concerned about reliability. Also 
>concerned about how well it  holds up in the presence of high 
>humidity and moisture.
>3 Cost

I live in South Carolina where the humidity is usually in the 90% 
range.  I've dropped both M8s in a river and they continued to work 
fine.  I wouldn't worry about it.  If you take lots of photos, you 
will pay for the M8 in no time in the savings on film, development 
and scanning time.

Tina

Tina Manley
www.tinamanley.com 



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