Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/07/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jul 11, 2015, at 8:20 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > The smartness or dumbness of buying a Leica M8 at this date mid 2015 would > depend solely on the price in which you are buying it. (at) > The viability of this camera as is being expressed now on the Lug is > surprising in that there are countless treads on how the camera which never > worked soon stops working altogether. > I would suggest that the people here on the Lug willing to part with theirs > to take them up on it. If the price is super low like in a couple of bucks. > And you are otherwise totally in the flush and willing to throw good money > out the window that you'd otherwise not be spending on food, shelter or a > camera which worked. > > Leica fired its CEO for suggesting that a digital Leica M was possible. > It also said that any Leica M would be full frame. > It then came out with its first out M. a cropped digital M. The M8. > It kept Leica lenses selling but otherwise was one of the biggest > disasters > in camera history. Made the Edsal in comparison seem like a success. > Its best to keep it as a historical footnote. My seven year old M8 continues to deliver beautiful digital files with all of my M lenses; and has been doing so for over 7 years. Meanwhile, you continue to throw out trash about the M8, a camera you never shot a frame with. And, to the best of my knowledge, your M glass collection has never been used to expose a digital frame. Regards, George Lottermoser http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist