Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> 2010-01-12-18:34:57 wildlightphoto at earthlink.net: >> Or you could get a used M8 and use your 35mm Summiron ASPH and use the >> same >> lens on your future M9.5 >> >> 35mm x 1.33 crop factor ~46.55mm >> f/2 and be there, and be sharp. The image area you'd get with the 35mm >> ASPH on an M8 is bigger than the image area you'd get with the Nikon 35 on >> the D40 > > He's got a point there. Despite all the griping (often from people > who've never used one) the M8 is an excellent camera, and the fact > that [I feel Strunk and White twirl in the ground] the M9 is even a > bit better doesn't change that. If you buy a nice, used, > post-teething-problems M8, whichever one of us drove it off the > showroom floor new subsidizes your purchase to the tune of $3000.00, > plus or minus. And I expect it's already done the majority of its > value-losing by now, so your net cost to own it for a year or so then > sell it on to the third owner would probably be a three-digit number > of dollars. > > Probably. > > If most of your work happens at, say, ISO 640 and above, an M8 has > nothing to be ashamed of. Beautiful pictures from a compact package. > > -J > You know any photographers taking advantage of the plummeting prices to obtain one? I don't. Mark William Rabiner