[Leica] Trade in my M9? (RICHARD MAN)

[Richard Man]

Yes, let he images speak for themselves :-)

On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi Richard,
>
> Here's what "I MISS THE MOST FROM THOSE GREAT OLD DAYS!"
>
> "KISS!" We took photos, made nice prints and it was all about "LEICA
> CAMERAS!" GOOD, BAD, OR UGLY? Rarely the last two as we were all Leica
> photographers and not the mixture of almost every crappy over techie gizmo
> referred to as a :Super whiz-bang camera machine of today? That one must
> nearly be a graduate of MIT to understand what the hell all the
> indescribable words mean?"
>
> In the good old days it was 99.9% about the QUALITY OF THE "WET TRAY
> print!"
> Or the most important??????????
>
> "THE CONTENT WITHIN THE BORDERLINES!"
>
> It doesn't get much more KISS than that?
> That's what I miss most!
>
> cheers,
> ted
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf
> Of
> Richard Man
> Sent: December-07-14 5:53 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Trade in my M9?
>
> I miss the "good ol' days" when people argue about the smoothness of the
> brass ratchet vs. the cheap metal used in M6 etc. :-)
>
> Or how some Leica M-film is 1 mm higher than the other models and how that
> ruins the experience.
>
> OK, no, I do not miss those days.
>
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Did you read my 10% reply to Sue? Basically, at best, the M240 may get
> you
> > 10% better photos. How many photos are you happy with now? Lets see it's
> 10
> > out of 100. With the M240, you get... 11 photos.
> >
> > Is it worth it to sell the M9 for $4000-$4500 and gte an M240 for that
> > extra photo? You shall be the judge.
> >
> > But there is nothing against people wanting the next best thing, so....
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Leland Deane <lmdmd at att.net> wrote:
> >
> >> OK, so I'm a fairly happy M9 guy (see attached) and it's done well by me
> >> but M9's are doing well on the used market and I have considered trading
> >> in/selling to get the M240. So....I need the honest and august opinions
> of
> >> this great group to tell me if I'm crazy. I am all about the sensor
> quality
> >> and do not in particular need 'live view' (have that on my Canon 5D mark
> >> III) or video capabilities. For those of you with both or who have had
> >> both, please give me your impressions of one vs. the other.
> >> Much appreciated.
> >> Recent photo of my kids attached---lightly processed in CC (view large)
> >> Thanks,
> >> Leland
> >>
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