Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/09

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Subject: [Leica] m9 with m8 as a back up seems out
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 13:12:48 -0700
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At 9:30 PM +0200 9/9/09, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>Well, when I was shooting Canon I was happy to be one generation 
>behind those who always must have the latest and greatest. I see no 
>reason to act differently now that I am back with Leica. In 
>addition, the 1600 ISO test pics posted on dpreview are decidedly 
>underwhelming. I really wish Leica had resisted the temptation and 
>limited the M9 to 12 or at most 14 megapixels.
>
>Nathan
>
>Nathan Wajsman

Yes, that's largely how I feel as well. FF, 12Mp, cleaner high ISO. 
Faster startup, more shots before the buffer is full, faster writing 
to card. Those would be my preferred specs for the M9.

At the moment, the M8 does fine. But I would like to be able to use 
the 21/1.4 on a FF camera :-).

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