[Leica] Which M to sell to get which M8?

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

I really wouldn't take it so personally Geoff.
I saw you after writing the post you traded in a M7 for an M8;
But you had other M's still left over laying around.
So if you wanted to shoot the tree in your back yard with both film and
digital blow them both up and put them side by side next to each other on
the wall you'd have that option.

I'm sorry but on the internet I cringe when I hear the same kinds of things
over and over again. Such as:
"I traded my M7 for an m8, a much better camera".
If you  loose a piece of gear which has worked for you for years by trading
it in for an unknown:
And you only then have the second camera so you can only make a much less
valid comparison:
It all becomes a bunch of internet babble.

And I'm not by the way rooting for the M7 over the M8 or the other way
around. I have no preference. Maybe I'd take the M8 over the M7 if they were
offered to me. I still have by two M6's and a complete set of mainly current
Leica glass to put on them plus a modest LTM setup.


Mark William Rabiner



> From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:39:39 +1000
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Which M to sell to get which M8?
> 
> The comparison has been done by numerous shooters, many more talented than
> I. Why are you persisting with doubts there when you haven't done this for
> yourself?