Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/09

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Subject: [Leica] Would you trade your M9 to go back to an M8?
From: colin at colinbaker.org (Colin Baker)
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 07:12:22 -0500
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On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 23:54:51 -0500, Jayanand Govindaraj  
<jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:

> Whatever may be the reason and justification, I agree 100% with Kay Yang
> from an economic and investment point of view. There are much less
> expensive cameras that a full fledged working photographer can use to get
> results that are equally acceptable in the marketplace.


The problem I have with advocating selling possessions to cover living  
expenses is that it's a band-aid fix.  If you sell an M8, you might be  
able to pay the bills for a month, but then what?  You don't have your M8  
(which wasn't costing you anything) anymore, and you still have next  
month's bills to pay.  Makes much more sense to go after actual expenses  
and see where you can cut back.  If not that, find ways to increase your  
income.  Selling possessions should only be a last resort.
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