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Subject: [Leica] Possible M8 purchase - HELP!
From: gerry.walden at icloud.com (Gerry Walden)
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 08:39:11 +0100
References: <D1C7390C.3FDB2%mark@rabinergroup.com> <A0D7034E-02CF-4E25-9E08-7AA23F79CA04@icloud.com> <DUB404-EAS371F404F776B0574921C8518D990@phx.gbl>

Thank you for your comment. Since posting the original email I have 
purchased a M9 and I am now sat at home waiting for it to arrive.

Gerry

Gerry Walden
023 8046 3076

> On 16 Jul 2015, at 08:36, j2m46 at hotmail.fr wrote:
> 
> I'm very happy with my 7 year-old M8, it produces great pictures...  and I 
> don't think I'm an idiot either !
> 
> 
> Envoy? par Outlook pour Android
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 2:33 PM -0700, "George Lottermoser" 
> <george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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