[Leica] M9 - not much more expensive than M8?

[rgacpa at yahoo.com (Bob Adler)]

You can still buy film. You can have?film scanned?inexpensively relative to 
buying a digital back.
There is a joy in taking your time in the field with a Hassy or Rollei or 
4x5 or 8x10 or whatever.
It still works. It's still viable. It's just different.
Perhaps film will go away, but I'm not so sure. Fuji seems pretty committed 
to it. And they make good film.
As it becomes less the norm, it becomes more valuable to some.
I like both; I use both. Both have their place?for me. 
To paraphrase John? Lenon,
All I am saying
Is give film a chance

:-)
?Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.raflexions.com 




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From: George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 9:46:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] M9 - not much more expensive than M8?

I have many of my grandfather's tools.
He was a cabinet maker and only owned one power tool
during his entire working life - a tiny six inch table saw - which I also 
have.
All his mechanical tools
auger, crank drill, push drills, etc
wore out about the same time that he did.
All the planes, saws, clamps, etc. remain as useful as the day purchased.

I once thought that would be true of my graphic art and photographic tools 
as well.
I fully expected that the Linhof, Hassleblad, Leica M and R,
as well as the Leica and Durst enlargers
and their lenses would serve me for my entire professional life.
And of course they do continue to do exactly what they were designed to do.

Just fewer and fewer people wanting to do things in those ways.

The finest stat camera known to man was sold as scrap.

The oak drawing boards can't even be sold for shipping charges.
Few of us remember what a drafting machine IS, let alone own one
mounted to a steel table with matching, fully articulated lamp.

We're at a point where letting go of these beautiful tools
actually costs money to haul them away.

Sad

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist

On Aug 13, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote:

> At best, it might stretch the useful life of the gear another 2-4 years.


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