Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/30

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Subject: [Leica] M7/MP only 5% of US Leica Sales...
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:25:54 -0700
References: <7568d3bd1003300040r62fad61cidc47252cdf3deb85@mail.gmail.com> <C7D72B8E.6054E%mark@rabinergroup.com> <7568d3bd1003300118l2f2dac00va67e0d131515bfe3@mail.gmail.com>

>compact size, fantastic lenses, range-finder capabilities, solid build ...
>:-)
>KM
>
>On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at 
>rabinergroup.com>wrote:
>
>>  > I am with you on this, Henning, Frank and the others who still think 
>> that
>>  > the M9 is a bit over the top. At the same time I understand the 
>> economist
>>  > logic  of Vince. The secondary market for the M9 is still very very 
>> very
>>  > small because there aren't just enough M9s on the market - or because
>>  people
>>  > are not replacing their M9s yet because there is no M10.
>>  >
>>  > Although I have been contemplating switching to an M9 because of the 
>> full
>>  > sensor, I have more often find myself convinced that I'd better get a
>>  > differnet kind of a body with a full-sensor (e.g. a Canon EOS 5D mark 
>> II)
>>  > for half the price - with a good lens at that and have two different
>>  systems
>>  > for the different uses I can make of it. And still enjoy the plethora 
>> of
>>  > greatness in the M8.
>>  >
>>  > KM
>>
>>
>>  Depends on what you mean by " plethora ".
>>
>>  [Rabs]
>>  Mark William Rabiner
>>
>>
>>



And above all great image quality that generally is hard to 
distinguish from that from an M9.

Mark, for your comments to have any relevance you will have to start 
using them.

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    *            Henning J. Wulff
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