Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Life is good, this must be what happened at Nikon forum after Nikon released the one-two punch of D3/D700. For the first time in years, may be since the 1953 :-) LUGgers can proudly say, "hey what these years of waiting are worth it." A machine that is so traditional to the core that no one even bothers to complain about the bottom loading anymore. Because then it will be nitpicking and whining. The original M3 designer really hit a homerun with that one. In 50+ years, the only two major improvements turn out to be auto-exposure and a digital sensor. While D3 looks nothing or operate at all like the F1, nor the SP. If you know how to use an M3, or M4, M6, M7, MP, and may be even an M5, you know how use to the M9. How cool is that? Someone just sold an M8 for less than $1700, to pay for his new M9. Even the price, as stratospheric as it is, is not that far out of whack comparing to the M3. No if I only have $6995. Le Sigh. -- // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com // w: http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/Portfolio09/ blog: http://rfman.wordpress.com // book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/745963