Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Rabs, speaking as somebody who owns and has used both M8 and M9 I can assure you that both have been equally reliable and, unless one needs to be able to crop, or need the ultra wide angle, there is little if any reason to choose a M9 over a M8. I know you have had a MASSIVE downer on the M8 since almost day one, but I can assure you it is quite unjustified. You should try one, it seems your lovely lenses are going to waste simply because of an irrational hangup. You wouldn't regret it! Frank On 12 Mar, 2010, at 00:27, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> Yeah, old age bringing on schizophrenic tendencies. >> >> My M8 is at Leica NJ and I can't even get through on the phone. I know >> from USPS that it has been successfully delivered. >> >> No chance in h?ll I'm buying an M9 unless it is less than $2K, >> especially since part of the criteria for buying Leica is reliability. >> >> Vick > > > Except that its been plainly obvious from the get go that the M8 and M9 are > as leagues apart in reliability as they are in price. And as they are in > functionality. > Yet there are those who will say why pay five grand more for a few more > millimeters of format. And those are the guys who are never going to pull > their heads out of the sand. > One might search engine "Leica M9". > And keep an eye out in the near future for the growing body of work > produced > by the camera which will become part of our collective visional conscious > in > the next years. An effect which hardly happened with the first out M8. > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information