Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/08

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Subject: [Leica] Would you trade your M9 to go back to an M8?
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 22:36:07 -0700
References: <CAF8hL-H2nJXJqeWt1Er+_VqHhfZs+4gGHL5jqbcCczzXV17-cw@mail.gmail.com> <CBA7EC68.1CCF1%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Let me know where I can find this tens of thousands of dollars of photo
gear that I don't use. I'd sure to convert them to cash pronto!

On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> Richard I just love it when you talk about the price of ramen and eating it
> for a month when you obviously have many tens of thousands of dollars of
> photo gear; much of it never used.
>
> - - from my iRabs.
> Mark Rabiner
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/
>
>
> > From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 22:08:43 -0700
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Would you trade your M9 to go back to an M8?
> >
> > I wasn't saying the M9 specifically, I am referring to the statement
> > regarding "Leica M." e.g. an M6 is still one of the most expensive film
> > camera around but it's "only" $1000, not $7000. If I have to sell
> > everything else to pay for bills, I will try to keep my M7 and the
> Summilux
> > 35mm. That'd be one of the last things to go, even if I have to eat ramen
> > for a month. It's that simple.
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj
> > <jayanand at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> Richard,
> >> I do not agree - using a US$5 item to justify a US$7000 item boggles the
> >> imagination, at least mine!!
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Jayanand
> >>
> >> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Richard Man <
> richard at richardmanphoto.com
> >>> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Come on, it's like saying to people on food stamp that they shouldn't
> >> have
> >>> ice cream and only spend it on "important" stuff.
> >>>
> >>> What if there are joy of owning and using Leica, in additional to
> >> whatever
> >>> image quality benefits there may be.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
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> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
> >
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-- 
// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


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