[Leica] Price of each M9 photo...

[Brian Reid]

There are at least a dozen M8 photos in the soon-to-be-released 
yearbook. They look great.

On 2020-02-18 6:57 am, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> A digital camera is good enough for ten years as its good enough for
> its first year until you compare it with the results everyone else is
> getting from their vastly improved sensors and other electronic
> components. This is used as a criticism of the digital workflow or
> system. "if digital was a worthwhile process you'd not need to buy a
> new camera every 4 years", said the guy who was trading cameras and
> not making images.
> Every day in every way the camera companies are making digital cameras
> with improved components  better and better.
> They are not sitting on their hands but working double shifts... And
> this is a bad thing!? We should make apologies for them? To whom the
> camera collectors?
> It's a bad thing if you think what makes you a photographer is your
> gear investment and your images have nothing to do with it.
> Me I have no vital need to sell my digital cameras for what I bought
> them for years later as a validation of my photography workflow.
> All what needs to happen is the images I've been making all that time
> continue to have value and will probably increase in value. And I
> think that’s happening.
> A DSLR is more than an SLR with a D in front of it. In many ways it’s
> a way more awesome of an image making tool than a 35mm film camera. It
> diminishes the need for medium format digital. A film shooter may
> mainly use 35mm but has a Rolleiflex or Pentax 67 not to far away.
> With digital we blow at least the so called full frame stuff up as big
> as the wall and it does not look like it's been stretched too thin at
> all.
> You certainly don’t hear of people doing serious work now with a ten
> year old digital camera... long gone... half that.
> As Rockwell the Nikon camera reviewer used to say: obsolete!
> As Rabs the LUG writer guy used to say: paper weight!
> A great time to be a photographer, said Rabs another time.