Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark is a man of strong conviction (I think I can say whatever I want about Mark now, I suspect he filters my posts :-) ). Anyway, if I have $7K? it depends on whether that $7K is on top of the other $7K I want to spend on travel fund :-) If I have $14K, I will buy a M9 and travel. If I have $7K, I will travel. And as good a M9 is, its appeal is mainly to people who are either rangefinder fan, which is a small minority in the scheme of things, or rich people who want to return to the simpler times, but not quite as simple as shooting film :-) So while Leica will sell as many M9 as it can make, but it may not mean much since it is still a small number. Taking over the pro photog market? I doubt it. If only a few pro stayed with Leica in the 50s and 60s, why would they drop their IDs and D3x now? The same arguments for and against rangefinder system still applies. It's the same ballgame between SLR vs. RF and dSLR vs. dRF. That has not changed. Take Doug Herr, he is one of the best Leica shooter around, but take his DMR and give him a Leica M9, he will probably beat you over the head with it and then trade his DMR back :-) On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Here is one from the not-very-many-thousand-yet people who have gone from > M8 to M9. True, I do not pick up the M8 when I go out, I pick up the M9, > but I, and -everybody- I know was delighted with the M8 results. No > problem from day 1. I will take the M8 and filters as a backup when I > travel, and a Panasonic GH1 with m4/3 to Leica adaptor, for if I need zoom > or fancy video. > Brilliant! Before, I just took the M8 and never had cause for regret. > > It does seem to me you are the only person on this list, maybe the world, > with this opinion. > > Frank > > On 25 Jan, 2010, at 03:05, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >>> price now. They do work just the same. As far as I know you've never >>> owned >>> one? That's fine, you can form your own opinions based on whatever you've >>> read but many thousands of owners and users disagree with you. >>> Cheers >>> Geoff >>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman >> >> >> We haven't heard from the thousand of owners who've moved from the M8 to >> the >> M9 ?I think they are less blissful about they're M8 experience and am glad >> they're at 9 and would rather than think about the past so much. >> We just stated SURE as a second camera or back up camera to the M9. >> Its just not going to ever be the camera you reach for first as you walk >> out >> the door unless you're walking into a hurricane. >> The M9 is not by far the camera of choice. >> Again the main issue being the present tense being the active one. >> Which is at least for me being able to shoot with an M9 or M9s as soon as >> possible. The M9s being the future tense. Not as active. But hopeful. >> Leica is in business in the present. And I'm a present customer. >> >> The M9s is to me not future tense but history that just haven't gotten >> around to happening yet. >> A 12 mp full frame rangefinder M with ISO's in the ranges we've come to >> expect in modern DSLR street shooting. Shooting which wound be better >> served >> with a rangefinder. A better street camera as I go. >> >> >> >> [Rabs] >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // 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