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Subject: [Leica] Problem with new to me M8
From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:49:10 +0000
References: <C78274AD.5C7C6%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Hi Mark,

Here is one from the not-very-many-thousand-yet people who have gone from M8 
to M9. True, I do not pick up the M8 when I go out, I pick up the M9, but I, 
and -everybody- I know was delighted with the M8 results. No problem from 
day 1. I will take the M8 and filters as a backup when I travel, and a 
Panasonic GH1 with m4/3 to Leica adaptor, for if I need zoom or fancy video.
Brilliant! Before, I just took the M8 and never had cause for regret.

It does seem to me you are the only person on this list, maybe the world, 
with this opinion.

Frank

On 25 Jan, 2010, at 03:05, Mark Rabiner wrote:

>> price now. They do work just the same. As far as I know you've never owned
>> one? That's fine, you can form your own opinions based on whatever you've
>> read but many thousands of owners and users disagree with you.
>> Cheers
>> Geoff
>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> 
> 
> We haven't heard from the thousand of owners who've moved from the M8 to 
> the
> M9  I think they are less blissful about they're M8 experience and am glad
> they're at 9 and would rather than think about the past so much.
> We just stated SURE as a second camera or back up camera to the M9.
> Its just not going to ever be the camera you reach for first as you walk 
> out
> the door unless you're walking into a hurricane.
> The M9 is not by far the camera of choice.
> Again the main issue being the present tense being the active one.
> Which is at least for me being able to shoot with an M9 or M9s as soon as
> possible. The M9s being the future tense. Not as active. But hopeful.
> Leica is in business in the present. And I'm a present customer.
> 
> The M9s is to me not future tense but history that just haven't gotten
> around to happening yet.
> A 12 mp full frame rangefinder M with ISO's in the ranges we've come to
> expect in modern DSLR street shooting. Shooting which wound be better 
> served
> with a rangefinder. A better street camera as I go.
> 
> 
> 
> [Rabs]
> Mark William Rabiner
> 
> 
> 
> 
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